Palm Introduces New Laptop Product Line
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Aimed as a 'companion' for its smartphones but essentially a computer on its own, Palm introduced the Foleo, a Linux-powered laptop-like device.
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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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OCTOBER 05, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - PalmOne Inc. Monday unveiled a new version of its Tungsten-class personal digital assistant that is designed to protect data even when the device&#39;s battery dies.
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PalmOne's product revamp includes a Tungsten handheld that won't let data die and a Treo packed with higher-end features.
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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.
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Palm OS developer PalmSource Wednesday reported a profitable quarter on increased sales compared to the same quarter a year ago. By Mobile Pipeline News.
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MacCentral - Hewlett-Packard Co. is unveiling a broad new line of consumer electronics products and peripherals, including its first plasma and LCD TVs, new inks that purportedly print long-lasting photos, new paper, a clutch of printers and multifunction devices, and a home theater projector with an integrated DVD player.
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PalmOne launched the Tungsten T5, its first PDA to ship with 256MB of memory and the first to operate as a USB Flash drive, this morning, as anticipated.
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The following is a verbatim copy of a open letter to the Linux community issued by PalmSource. Read on for more information about the new acquisition and FAQs about how PalmSource will use the new resources and the new Palm OS Cobalt version of Linux.
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Sub-sub-notebook that's Palm Pilot for the 21st Century? Computex First Palm's Foleo, now Asus' Eee PC. Different names, but the concept's much the same: a highly compact laptop that focuses on mobile internet access rather than heavy duty personal computing.â¦
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Founder Jeff Hawkins will unveil Palm's new offering at the D: All Things Digital tradeshow on Wednesday.
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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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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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PalmOne Inc. unveiled a new version of its Tungsten-class personal digital assistant Monday that is designed to protect data even when the device&#39;s battery dies.
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The maker of Palm operating systems for handheld computers plans to introduce Tuesday its first version designed specifically for so-called smart phones.
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PalmOne will be adding a high-end handheld to its Tungsten line-up that will fashion a sleeker longer look, while offering double the storage maximum of current devices.
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Handheld computer maker PalmOne Inc. unveiled Monday a new memory-packed personal digital assistant that can double as a portable data storage drive.