Meet the Street: All Handhelds on Deck for 2002

After a rocky '01, mobile-phone networks could pack some punch into PDAs in 2002.

It's been a tough year for handheld-device makers, as a poor IT-spending environment and a lack of snazzy offerings failed to drum up sales. But all that could change in 2002 when new data-friendly mobile-phone networks hit the scene and PDA players begin to introduce organizers that can send emails and short messages using the networks' quicker speeds.

TSC sat down with Gartner Dataquest's Todd Kort to sort out the competitive landscape and investigate the challenges that lie ahead in what could be a watershed year for the handheld industry. ...