IBM has delayed shipping its Windows-CE based handheld, the Workpad z50, in Europe until at least the end of the year. It believes the market is 'not ready' for this type of device.
Designed as a portable 'companion' to the desktop PC, the Workpad z50 falls somewhere between a notebook and an organiser. Currently IBM sees the US as its biggest market for the product.
Alison Mckenzie, a research manager with UK research agency IDC, believes Europeans have been reticent to buy these devices because of their high prices. 'PC companion prices are going to have to drop before they become mainstream,' she said.
Mckenzie's counterpart in the US, IDC's director of mobile technologies Randy Guisto, said that even in the States sales for PC companions have been slow: 'US vendors are having enough problems generating interest in this particular form factor in the US'. So perhaps IBM's problem is not so much with the European market as with the device itself.
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