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New Palm smartphone info leaks – touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard
CrunchGear has managed to get some info on Palm’s new smartphone, which they claim will be launched on Thursday. There’s no name or anything yet, but there’s some basic info. It’ll be portrait-oriented, touchscreen, and it’ll have a slide-down QWERTY keyboard.
It’ll run Palm’s new Nova OS, which is being called “amazing”. As well as your regular Palm contacts and calendar stuff, you’ll also get some media playback functionality, but there’s no word on formats or anything else yet. As soon as we hear more, we’ll share it.
Palm (via CrunchGear)
Related posts: Palm: struggling smartphone company to lay off workers | Really rather pretty Palm Treo Pro accidentally unveiled
Palm: struggling smartphone company to lay off workers
Palm has had a pretty up-and-down ride of it all, making some kickass PDAs and Palm OS back in the ’90s, and now responsible for the not-all-bad Treo and Centro smartphones, and yet struggling to do well in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Thanks to the evolving direction of RIM’s BlackBerry handsets, now firmly being targeted at consumers and not just business suits, and the user-generated furore surrounding the iPhone, Palm is losing market share.
Putting a brave face on things, a spokeswoman for the company said that this was merely a consolidation of resources in order to focus more effectively on future innovation and products. There’s a new Palm operating system planned for the end of the year (not much time left, chaps), and an unnamed device coming in early 2009…
Shiny Video: Preview of Palm Treo Pro
In the video above, Zara gets her hands on the brand new Treo Pro from Palm which we’ve covered previously. It’s the first phone from palm that really looks *good*, and on top of that it’s got a touchscreen and a 3.5″ headphone jack.
UPDATE: Palm Treo Pro full specs
Further to my post the other day about the leaked Palm Pro, here’s the full specs of the device…
Really rather pretty Palm Treo Pro accidentally unveiled
Yesterday, a couple of flash pages popped up on the Palm website detailing the Treo Pro. The pages have now been taken down, but the intrepid hunter who tracked it down grabbed the screenshot above before it died…
TouchLauncher: Turn your Palm into an iPhone
If you’re a big Palm fan but still fight pangs of jealously every time you see that pretty, smooth Apple iPhone operating system, then salver no more. For the bargain price of $6.99 you can bag yourself TouchLander or even try it for free.
TouchLander supports the same icons, wallpapers, drag ‘n drop functionality, categorization and adding of web links that you get with the Apple’s new darling…
Palm sells one-millionth Centro handset – the smartphone of choice apparently
I’ve got to be honest, I don’t know anyone who owns a Palm Centro, but maybe I’m just moving in the wrong circles, as Palm has announced sales of one million…
Shiny Video Review: Palm Centro smartphone
Most people seem to be decidedly unimpressed with the new smartphone from Palm, which claims to be the smallest and lightest amongst their range.
Take a look above for Zara’s opinion on the phone that offers Microsoft email, internet, Wi-Fi connectivity, 1.3-megapixel camera…
Palm Centro now available in the UK
After much hype and forewarning, the Palm Centro has gone on sale in the UK.
Palm throws stones at RIM for BlackBerry outage, forgets it lives in glasshouse
Palm has displayed its sense of humour and willingness to poke fun at RIM for Monday’s BlackBerry downtime, by running full-page adverts in several national US newspapers, promising ‘no nationwide blackouts’.
They even edited their Palm homepage…
