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That appeared from an investigation of Canalys. Palm sold in the first quarter of this year 347,000 hand heroes. That was an increase of 38 per cent had to give up to respect of the same period last year, according to the market investigation desk. Only in terms of market share the business grounds. The growths of Palm remains namely robust behind by that of the total market, that a doubling wanted to see. The market share of Palm went down through that of 52.1 until 41.3 per cent. De iPaq of Compaq becomes on the other hand always more popular, although the business yet far stays behind with market leader Haul. The market share of Compaq ascended from the first quarter last year till this year gladly of 2.2 per cent until 11.9 per cent. Compaq sold in the first three months of this year something more than 100,000 hand heroes, against a small 9000 in the same period last year. Casio takes on the ranking of Canalys the third place in with a market share of 9.5 per cent, on the foot followed through Nokia that with the sale of sorrow phones a share of 9.3 per cent has in the total market. Nokia sold clear away the past quarter 78,000 of such apparatuses, against almost 50,000 last year. Well the market share single per cent point walked makes back. Psion the top five around with a market share of 8.9 per cent, a robust drop to respect of the 19.1 per cent from last year. Then follows Handspring with 7.2 per cent, Ericsson with 4.6 per cent, Hewlett-Packard with 4.1 per cent and until ends IBM with 2.2 per cent. What operating systems concerned is the Palm OS good for 50.7 per cent of the market, followed through PocketPC with 19.6 per cent. The EPOC/Symbian OS of Psion has will increase a market share of 13.5 per cent. De convergentie between mobile telephones and hand heroes the coming time only, put as Canalys. Producers of the different devices operate according to the investigation desk on n market.