| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 科技管理所 === 89 === The arising of Internet speeds up the integration of the 3C industries: Computer, Consumer and Communication. In this tendency, products providing functions to access Internet emerge to be the hot items. These products feature with low price, user friendly, networking, and data accessing. Smart Handheld Devices, with particularly high growth rate, is one of the hottest products in the market. According to International Data Corp. (IDC), globally its component of annual growth rate reaches 44.9% from year 2000, 10 million units a year, to 2004, more than 45 million units a year. In this thesis, the author first approaches from the viewpoint of the consumers to find out the functions that consumers emphasize most, and then investigates the technology needed for these functions. According to consumers’ need and the technology, the author proposes the future development of the Smart Handheld Devices.
According to a market survey, the first 8 functions that consumers stress are: Speed of data transmission, user friendly, small size, data input and output manner, power consumption, light weight and portability, compatibility, and operation speed. Among the technical issues for the 8 functions, the application of the 3rd mobile telecommunication is the most difficult one. The product will be able to be commercialized during the years of 2002 to 2003 in Taiwan, about one year later than that of the other countries who develop the same product. However, the obstacles of developing the above mentioned 8 functions, in addition to the technology factor, also include cost and market factors.
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