Wednesday's Palm launch not Centro, firm claims
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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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SUNNYVALE, Calif. PalmSource -- the maker of Palm operating systems for handheld computers -- plans to introduce new software tomorrow to serve as the brains for so-called smart phones.
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A GSM version of Palm's Centro is apparently on tap for the AT&T network for release next Thursday, according to reports.
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Not dead, just sleeping Palm CEO Ed Colligan has told Brighthand it won't have devices based on its own version of Palm OS until some time in 2008, despite saying two months ago the devices would be available later this year.â¦
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Facing increasing competition in the smartphone market, Palm Inc. said Wednesday that it might see a small loss in its fiscal first quarter.
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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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Smartphone maker Palm is reportedly consulting with investment bankers about a sale, investment, or other move.
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It appears the rumours of Palm creating a Wi-Fi card are true, however before you rush to your local electronics store take note that it won&#39;t work on any PDA you can find.
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TechWeb - Treo smartphone maker Palm Inc. could bring a buyer a decade's worth of digital assistant design and mobile phone know-how, but at a hefty price for a company no longer viewed as cutting edge.
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(InfoWorld) - Palm denied a recent industry report that its new Foleo mini-notebook would be delayed and said the device was still on target to launch in the U.S. "this summer," or by the end of the third quarter. The company was responding to a report suggesting that bugs in Foleo's software will delay the launch of the device from the end of August to as late as early October. The software bugs are preventing Foleo from correctly synchronizing data with Palm's Treo smartphone, according to a report posted Wednesday on Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog. The report was based on an earlier research note by a Deutsche Bank analyst. Palm unveiled Foleo in May, calling it a 2.5-pound "smartphone companion." The device will initially only be able to sync up with Palm's own Treo smartphones. Foleo allows users to read their office documents more easily on its 10-inch display than on a cramped smartphone screen and type e-mail messages more easily on its full keyboard than on a thumb-operated keypad. Palm insisted on Friday that it was still on track to meet its original shipping schedule for Foleo. "As stated on May 30, U.S. availability for the Palm Foleo mobile companion will begin this summer. We will let you know if this changes," said Jim Christensen, Palm's director of communications. Regardless of when Palm begins to sell the Foleo, any delays to the new product will not have a major impact on company earnings, one analyst said. "This is a minor glitch. If they're a year late, it's a problem, but if they're a couple months late, it's not going to make any difference -- all their money's in the Treos," said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J.Gold Associates. "I'd be more concerned if their new phones were late; then we'd be talking about tens of millions of dollars. But at best it's [Foleo's] going to be a slow burn for them; this thing's not going to take off," said Gold. Even strong sales of its Treo smartphone may not be enough for Palm. On June 28, the company reported a profit of $15.4 million for the fourth quarter,Â a 44 percent drop from its profit a year earlier. In recent years, Palm has been shifting its product portfolio away from PDAs, a market it pioneered, and towards smartphones, which offer potentially much greater profit margins because of their higher price tags. The Foleo represents another step toward larger, more expensive products. But industry skeptics are dubious about its prospects, saying that smartphone owners may be hesitant to carry a second device in their pockets or to pay $499 for Foleo to make existing features easier to use.
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Centro shipments set a company record, but Palm's still having a rough time battling component shortages and getting products out on schedule.
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PalmSource with its popular product PalmOS plans on producing a new, Linux-based version of their handheld operating system. The move towards Linux-based Operation System for mobile &amp; handheld devices is supposed
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Mobile device vendor palmOne Thursday denied a report that its executives had said the company was developing a Pocket PC version of its Treo smartphone.
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Centro due this month Palm is to bring its Palm OS-based Centro smartphone to Europe, the company announced today.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Just when Palm was expected to ship the Foleo, its controversial smartphone companion product, the company instead decided to kill it. In a blog posting, Palm CEO Ed Colligan wrote that he decided to cancel the Foleo so the company could focus all its energy on a single product platform. While Palm will continue to offer some products that use Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, going forward, all its internal work will be on a new software platform due out next year. Just over a week ago, on Aug. 24,Â Palm denied reports that the launch of the Foleo would be delayed. Palm first introduced the product in May, saying it would ship in the summer. The Foleo was a Linux-based lightweight PC that would operate in conjunction with the Treo smartphone. But because the Foleo had little processing power, it wouldn't add much more than a larger keyboard and screen, so it could hardly justify the proposed $500 price tag, said Todd Kort, an industry analyst. Palm still believes a product like the Foleo could work and plans to build a "Foleo II" based on Palm's upcoming software, Colligan wrote. He wouldn't speculate on when that second-generation product would ship. "Our own evaluation and early market feedback were telling us that we still have a number of improvements to make Foleo a world-class product, and we cannot afford to make those improvements on a platform that is not central to our core focus," he wrote. Criticism and lack of market interest may have contributed to Palm's decision to kill the product, Kort said. "There was very little interest in it from the public," he said. Palm also may have stumbled in generating interest from the developer community, he said. Developers don't want to work on products for a platform unless it's likely to be successful, and the negative response to the Foleo may have kept many developers away, he said. "I think Palm was wise enough to pull back when all the signs were indicating negative," he said. Palm isn't in the position to take a big risk on a new product category. While the company is still profitable, its sales have slowed considerably as it moves from being a PDAÂ maker to a smartphone developer. Palm's profit for the quarter ending June 1 reflected a 44 percent drop from the same quarter last year. "If they would have poured a lot of resources into this and failed, it could have dragged the company down pretty quickly," Kort said. Palm will take an earnings charge of less than $10 million related to the cancellation, Colligan said in the blog post.
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PC Magazine - With Palm&#39;s surprise release of a $600 Linux-based sub-notebook on Wednesday, the company certainly appears to be wandering away from comfortable smartphone territory. The question is: is it too far?
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Smart Phones &#038; Mobile Local (Mo-Lo) Search The WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) reports that Palm announced it wouldn&#8217;t hit its numbers &#8220;amid lower-than-expected retail sales of its Treo smartphones.&#8221; Hmmm . . . I wonder why? The %$#@ phones are so expensive &#8212; that&#8217;s why. By contrast the &#8220;Q&#8221; is being offered at a breakthrough price point by [...]