NEC to exit PDA Business in Japan

Here's the story. It's kind of a shame as the device they planned to release in November 2001 would have been a market leader. I had decided to buy it as soon as it came on the market. Unfortunately the release was delayed until December and then the following March! By that time the new Genio e550G and Fujitsu Pocket LOOX had been announced and the NEC device was a generation old. It's not surprising that it didn't sell well after that. NEC are one of the only vendors to have released both Palm and Windows CE devices. They have a lot of experience with mobile phones so hopefully they will bounce back in a few years as PDAs and phones converge.