# What happened to the PDA market?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-pda-market/445029>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-pda-market/445029 "2008-04-12T14:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-pda-market/445029/21 "2008-04-14T13:29:02Z")

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I have the same cell phone plan I’ve had since 2001, for $29.99 a month. For the past year or so I’ve had a Treo, which has a Palm PDA, which I only use for the calendar, memo, etc. features. In other words, you don’t have to pay for data if you’re not going to use it.

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-pda-market/445029/22 "2008-04-14T14:36:07Z")

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PDA’s and cell phones are actually a very good synergy. Having a unified contact list is much better than having one in each.

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