Palm enters low-end phone market with Centro
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Palm Inc  introduced its  smallest smartphone on Thursday, making its first push into the  low end of the mobile market in a bid to revive growth  prospects and offer a cheaper alternative to Apple  Inc's iPhone.
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Intrigued by Palm's new "smartphone companion" but not ready to bet on an unproven and probably doomed Linux-based ultra-compact computer? We've got seven attractive options for you.
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Palm Inc. will begin sales of the Treo 750v, a Windows Mobile-based 3G (third-generation) smart phone, next month. The handset is the first Windows-based Treo to be offered in Asia.
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Same design though? The wraps come off Palm's latest Euro-centric smartphone on Wednesday, and while speculation has centred on the notion the device might be the company's upcoming Centro product, Palm has claimed it isn't.â¦
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Palm announced a new, lightweight, inexpensive smart phone that has both a keyboard and a touch screen.
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Palm's presence at GSMA Mobile World Congress is pretty quiet, but rumors surface that AT&T will get the Palm Centro next week.
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PARIS On Tuesday, PalmSource, the maker of the Palm operating system for hand-held devices, is scheduled to announce its first operating system designed specifically for smart phones, mobile phones that allow you to not only make voice calls but also use
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Taking pre-orders Palm has begun taking orders from Europeans for its upcoming Treo 680 Palm OS-based smart phone. The updated stubless and RoHS-compliant version of the Treo 650 will retail for Â£329 inc VAT if you want one unallied to any specific mobile phone network.â¦
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Sprint Corp. announced it will be the first carrier to offer palmOne Inc.&#39;s new Treo 650 smart phone. The device, which will retail for $600, includes phone, e-mail, Web, organizer, MP3 player, digital camera and camcorder capabilities.
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Smart Phones &#038; Mobile Local (Mo-Lo) Search The WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) reports that Palm announced it wouldn&#8217;t hit its numbers &#8220;amid lower-than-expected retail sales of its Treo smartphones.&#8221; Hmmm . . . I wonder why? The %$#@ phones are so expensive &#8212; that&#8217;s why. By contrast the &#8220;Q&#8221; is being offered at a breakthrough price point by [...]
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PalmSource will go after the emerging smart phone market with its latest operating system, looking to grow beyond its core handheld business.
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(InfoWorld) - Palm introduced a smartphone with a new brand aimed at a younger audience on Thursday. The Centro phone will cost $99.99 and initially be available exclusively from Sprint Nextel starting in mid-October. Palm designed the phone to be cheap, small, and simple to use in an effort to expand the smartphone market, said Ed Colligan, Palm's president and CEO, during a webcast news conference at the DigitalLife conference in New York City. In the U.S. this year, he expects that of the 160 million phones sold, just 8 million will be smartphones. The mass market isn't buying smartphones today because they're big, complex, have clunky designs, and are expensive, he said. "This is not an iPhone killer," Colligan said. The iPhone, with its high price tag, appeals to the relatively small existing smartphone market, while Palm is aiming the Centro at the larger feature-phone segment. The Centro should attract people who traditionally would buy a basic feature phone but now want the second generation, he said. "It's small enough that it competes with the standard feature phone, and it gives the full power of essentially a Treo," he said. College students, young professionals, and "CEOs of households" are the types of people Palm designed the Centro for, he said. The phone runs the Palm OS and operates on Sprint's 3G network. It features a touchscreen and a full keyboard and comes loaded with instant messaging applications from Yahoo, AOL, and Windows Messenger. It also includes push e-mail from corporate Microsoft Exchange servers. While sales of Palm's Treo smartphone line have been strong, the company continues to struggle to record profit gains. It faces stiff competition from the entrenched BlackBerry, other Windows Mobile smartphones, and new entrants like the iPhone. Palm recently stumbled by announcingÂ a smartphone companion device, the Foleo, and then deciding toÂ kill the product just before it was due to ship after much industry criticism of the concept. Palm said it plans to resurrect the product in the future. Palm is developing a new operating system that it expects to unveil next year. It currently sells phones based on its existing software as well as Windows Mobile.
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PalmSource is to focus on wireless devices with its new version of Palm OS, but can it succeed against the likes of Microsoft and Symbian?
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Originally slated to debut before the end of 2007, the completely revamped version of Palm OS, which is found in Palm's Treo smartphones and PDAs, has been delayed until sometime next year. The company has reportedly been running into development slowdowns building the new Linux-based platform.
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Palm Inc.  on Wednesday  introduced a compact portable computer to accompany its Treo  smartphone, seeking to regain its competitive edge in the  crowded high-end handheld device market.
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Vodafone-free Palm Europe has released the unlocked version of its compact Treo 500v handset, previously only available on the Vodafone network.â¦
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Palm Inc  introduced its  smallest smartphone on Thursday, making its first push into the  low end of the mobile market in a bid to revive growth  prospects and offer a cheaper alternative to Apple  Inc&#39;s iPhone.