Fujitsu Siemens confirmed that the German Japanese joint venture will leave the PDA and PNA market by the end of 2007. In a statement, FSC spokesperson Amy Flécher confirmed earlier information.

Flécher said: "We made our decision due to the usual examination of the portfolios. It turned out that the traditional handheld segment (PDA) shrank for years and also many other manufacturers leave this segment. While the wireless handheld market grows fast, the PDA market moves on a very low basis with small volume. The trend is that the traditional handhelds are replaced by other devices such as PNAs or Smartphones. We will not invest into these product ranges.
Handhelds and handheld devices with push E-Mail-push will remain a niche market. In the future these services will be taken over by Smartphones – which is not our business at all. We observe that other manufacturers, that offer similar devices, have to fight with difficulties.

A rendered prototype image of the Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Home Server prototype hardware was released today on the web by German magazine, chip.de

The Scaleo Home Server will feature headless operation under Vista Home Server, a two disk 500GB SATA RAID array, gigabit Ethernet, and Energy Star 4.0-compliant energy usage of just 50W. Price estimates are ranging from €500 ($690) to €700 ($965).