Report: Better PDA Sales Await. " 'Shipments in 2002 for PDAs will increase about 18 percent as new manufacturers enter the market and a wave of wireless functionality takes hold in a big way,' said Neil Strother, a senior wireless handset analyst with In-Stat/MDR. 'The future will be all about making the PDA a more ubiquitous device and more useful to both the mobile business user and the on-the-go consumer.' The market will peak in 2004 with an annual growth rate of 30 percent, the report predicts." [via allNetDevices]

Do you think they're counting Cybikos and the like as PDAs? One of the biggest questions I was asked this past holiday season was, "What type of PDA should I get my kid for Christmas?" ("kid" usually referred to a high school or college student), so I think that this figure is either conservative or the projected growth for combination PDA/cell phones is higher.