Palm, Inc. today announced that Palm Centro smartphone is now available unlocked for U.S. customers. Palm Centro is sold by Sprint, AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the U.S. Palm also announced that Google Maps for mobile with My Location on Centro is available for Centro starting tomorrow, giving customers faster access to local maps and driving directions.
The unlocked Palm Centro retains the smartphone's compact, modern design and is dressed in a new white color with grey accents. Centro offers customers more choices to stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers by using voice, text messaging, email or the web. Also available in 25 countries worldwide, Centro is Palm's smallest and lightest smartphone to date.
Google Maps for mobile with My Location makes it easier and faster for Centro customers to get mapping and direction information by approximating the user's current location on the map. This saves time and keystrokes for people trying to find where they are, what's around them, and how to get there. |  |
| Verizon Wireless today announced that the Palm Centro smartphone will be available beginning June 13. Dressed in a crisp cobalt blue, the Centro provides customers with the perfect tool to manage the busiest of lifestyles with voice, text messaging, e-mail and the Web. Centro runs on Verizon Wireless’ high-speed data network, which gives customers the ability to quickly send and receive e-mail messages and attachments and browse rich Web content. Verizon Wireless customers can also use the Centro as a modem for their laptops when they subscribe to Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess Connect service plan. The handset sports a vibrant color touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and a lightweight design. Centro’s built-in Google Maps application delivers quick, reliable directions and lets users perform local searches and view moveable/scalable maps, satellite imagery and traffic updates. Customers can also map a contact’s address directly from the contact application simply by selecting the “maps” button. |
|
AT&T Inc. and Palm Inc. today announced the availability of the Palm Centro from AT&T. Centro is designed for the expanding base of customers who want a better way to manage their busy lives. The device is available for just $99.99.
Centro offers customers more choices to stay in touch with friends, family and co-workers by using voice, text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail or the Web. Featuring a color touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard, Centro is the first Palm OS product to launch with AT&T services, such as XM Radio Mobile, Push to Talk and MusicID.
Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm product to date and works with the nation's largest digital voice and data network. Initially, the Palm Centro from AT&T is available in new "glacier white" with green keypad accents, and, in approximately one month, AT&T will debut a second color -- "obsidian black." |  |
Palm has settled a class action lawsuit that affects customers who have purchased, in the United States, a new Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone.
The settlement will provide either: (a) a cash rebate to any United States resident who purchased a Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone, experienced two or more repairs or replacements (in lieu of repair) on that device, and purchases a new Palm smartphone within a defined time period; or (b) a right of repair for hardware defects, beyond the expiration of the warranty on your Treo 600
or Treo 650, even if you did not experience two or more repairs or replacements.
Purchasers of a Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone are “Class Members” if they are a United States resident who purchased in the United States a new Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone for your own use and not for resale.
| 
|
Smartphone manufacturer Palm Inc. announced that they will be closing all but one of its retail stores over the next five weeks. Palm wants to continue cutting costs and focus on its next-generation Smartphone platform.
Palm has 8 stores in California and 26 “stores within a store” at major metropolitan airports around the country. The company plans to maintain the Palm store within its own corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Palm will continue to sell its handsets through carrier stores, resellers and other retail and online channels, including its own Web site. The closings are slated to be complete during Palm’s fiscal third quarter, which ends in late February.
Last December Palm cut an undisclosed number of jobs at the 1,200 employee company and last September unexpectedly cancelled its Foleo product, a keyboard-and-monitor accessory.
| 
|
Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Palm Treo 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue-green. Beginning today, customers may purchase the Treo 755p. The device will be in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Jan. 7.
Compared to its Treo 700p predecessor, the Treo 755p has a sleeker design with an internal antenna and a soft-touch feel. Featuring a large, high-resolution, color touch-screen for quick stylus access to applications, the Treo 755p offers a full QWERTY keyboard for easy e-mail creation, Web browsing and text messaging. It also includes features such as a 1.3 megapixel camera and built-in support for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and PDF documents. Customers can view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files, and view PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Running the Palm OS, the new Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless gives mobile professionals the tools they need to help maximize productivity. | 
|
Palm, Inc. announced the Palm Treo 750 smartphone, previously available in the United States only on AT&T's 3G network, is now available in an unlocked version. The unlocked GSM Treo 750 smartphone comes with the Windows Mobile 6 operating system, allowing an even broader customer base to enjoy the benefits of increased functionality and HSDPA (High-speed Download Packet Access) capability out of the box.
Also available from carriers around the world, the Treo 750 is a five-band world phone. It's a key asset to worldwide businesses and employees who travel internationally, as well as an effective productivity tool for any user working on the road.
Windows Mobile 6 and Exchange Server 2007 support is available out of the box and delivers a wide range of enhanced features, including the following:- Direct Push Technology connection to email, calendar, contacts and tasks;
- Email enhancements such as HTML-formatted email messages;
- Ability to set an out-of-office message from the Treo smartphone;
| 
|
Palm, Inc. and Garmin International, Inc., today announced a Palm GPS Navigator featuring Garmin Mobile XT software for the first time for Palm Treo and Centro smartphone users. Drivers using the new GPS Navigator with their Palm smartphones can rely on turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions to easily find their destinations as well as millions of points of interest, updated traffic, fuel prices, hotel prices and weather forecasts. Expected late November, the Palm GPS Navigator featuring Garmin software will be $249 USD.
The Palm GPS Navigator with Garmin Mobile XT Software is expected to attract new users to the mobile-phone GPS market. According to a report by Canalys, the mobile navigation space has maintained a frenetic pace during the last 12 months, with some vendors seeing year-on-year doubling of shipments or better. | 
|
Verizon Wireless is heading into the holidays with a roster of new personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones that give customers exciting options for both business and personal connectivity. The first of the line-up, the SCH-i760 from Samsung, is available online October 19 and in stores November 2. Also joining the portfolio of robust wireless business tools built to handle the speed of Verizon Wireless’ broadband network, are the Verizon Wireless XV6800, the Palm® Treo™ 755p and the SMT5800 smartphone.
Styled for performance, the Samsung SCH-i760 features a stylus for quick and easy navigation on the touch-screen and Windows Mobile 6 Professional for a familiar office experience in a mobile environment. Customers will be able to read and edit in applications such as Word or Excel, and read PDFs and PowerPoint presentations. In addition, the compact SCH-i760 features a full QWERTY horizontal slider keyboard, a separate dial pad right on the front of the device, stereo Bluetooth® for both speakers and headsets and a 1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder with flash. | 
|
Sprint today introduced the Palm Centro smart device. With voice, text, IM, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities, a full-color touch screen and full keyboard, Centro brings Palm simplicity and organization to customers who want to stay connected with co-workers, friends and family. Centro will be exclusive through Sprint in the United States for 90 days and is available in onyx black or ruby red. With Centro, Sprint customers can quickly and easily text co-workers and friends, manage email, keep track of their schedules, check stock quotes, watch videos on YouTube, keep current on the latest news, capture and share pictures, browse restaurant reviews on Yelp, and get directions on Google Maps; all in one small, compact phone. Centro operates on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network - the fastest and largest national mobile broadband network - giving customers a fast and flexible experience with entertainment and resources on the go. With a fun, new compact design, Centro is the smallest and lightest Palm phone to date. Centro has a modern, stylish look that feels comfortable in the hand, pocket or evening purse. | 
|
Palm Europe today announced the Palm Treo 500v smartphone which combines multiple forms of communication and multimedia capabilities with high speed 3G/UMTS mobile internet access, allowing users access to popular websites such as MySpace, YouTube and eBay whilst on the move. The new Palm Treo 500v smartphone will initially be available exclusively to Vodafone customers from October. The Palm Treo 500v smartphone runs on a Windows Mobile 6 standard platform and has a full keyboard, large screen, video streaming capability and a comprehensive multi-messaging functionality covering Instant Messaging, SMS, email and phone and personal information management software in a new design. The compact form factor is available in two colours: glacier white and charcoal grey. It will initially be available to Vodafone customers in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK and Vodacom customers in South Africa. | 
|
Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, has posted on the company's Blog that they are canceling the Foleo, originally announced on May 30, 2007. The Foleo is a smartphone companion product that was to have a large screen and full-size keyboard to view and edit email and office documents residing on a smartphone. The Foleo was be launched this summer for about $500. According the Palm's Blog:
"I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to develop products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one. | 
|
Sprint gave a sneak preview of some new phones coming to its network this fall at a recent Tech Summit in Reston, Virginia. Among the new devices included a new smartphone from Palm called the Palm Centro will be the smallest smartphone on the market.
The smartphone will still feature: - A fully QWERTY keyboard
- A touch screen
- Targeted to a younger demographic
- Support Sprint's high-speed EV-DO wireless network
- Low cost smartphone at approximately $99
- Run the Garnet OS, formerly Palm OS Garnet, not Windows Mobile
| 
|
Palm, Inc. today announced the Palm Foleo, its first smartphone companion product. (see video)
The Foleo mobile companion has a large screen and full-size keyboard with which to view and edit email and office documents residing on a smartphone. Edits made on Foleo automatically are reflected on its paired smartphone and vice versa. Foleo and its paired smartphone stay synchronized throughout the day or at the touch of a button. This powerful combination is for productivity-minded business people who want a more complete mobile solution for email, attachments and access to the web. | 
|
Palm Inc. has released the Palm Bluetooth keyboard for the Treo smartphone series (650, 680, 700p,700w, 700wx, 750), Tungsten E2, and T|X for those that need to write extended emails or edit presentations.
The keyboard is a compact yet full-size wireless keyboard folds up for portability, while giving you the benefits of true touch typing. Plus, the freedom of Bluetooth® Wireless Technology allows you to work with or without your Treo™' smartphone docked on the pull-out easel.- Features a QWERTY keyboard with five rows of full-size keys (including numbers)
- Pull-out easel provides adjustable viewing angle and a steady platform for your Treo smartphone
| 
|
PALM today introduced the Treo 755p smart device, a new Palm OS(R) Treo for Sprint. The CDMA Treo 755p is the first Treo device to offer built-in Microsoft Direct Push Technology email support; Google Maps for mobile; and the latest Treo design, with integrated antenna, slimmer form factor and mini-SD slot. Sprint is the first carrier selling the next-generation Treo 755p, which is available in two fashionable colors - midnight blue and burgundy. The new Treo 755p brings customers quick, wireless access to web, email, business, multimedia applications and instant messaging (IM) for Sprint customers nationwide (standard text and Vision charges apply where applicable). The Treo 755p runs on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network, the nation's largest mobile broadband network - reaching more than 206 million people across the country in more than 11,000 cities and 1,000 airports. | 
|
AT&T today introduced an eye-catching, dark ruby-colored version of the BlackBerry Pearl and a striking crimson iteration of the Treo 680. The red BlackBerry Pearl is the first wireless handset to be branded for the new AT&T.
Both new, colorful models are available immediately and exclusively to AT&T customers at Cingular Wireless retail stores, the Treo 680 initially at select outlets and the BlackBerry Pearl at all stores nationwide and online, AT&T's wireless business-to-business sales organization, authorized dealers and select national retailers.
Although the Palm Treo 680 and BlackBerry Pearl from AT&T now come in a choice of colors -- AT&T continues to offer the attractive original models -- the compelling looks, features and functionality that have given them a broad following remain the same.
| 
|
Nokia was recently granted a patent for a cell phone using orientation sensors to determine what orientation (held upside, on its side or right side up) a phone is in to automatically change the phone labels (keypads and screen information) (read patent). Additionally, the patent states that the phone will have embedded chips to sense velocity and direction when the phone is being moved. The patented features are similar to the popular controller for Nintendo's best-selling Wii videogame device.
What is claimed is:
"1. A mobile communication terminal having a user interface comprising: a display for showing information, a keypad including a plurality of hard keys, at least one of the hard keys being formed by at least a partially transparent key body that allows objects under the key to be seen through the top of the key, a pair of polarized films mounted, one over the other, for movement relative to one another under the keypad, labels disposed beneath the polarized films for viewing through the polarized films, |  |
Cingular has launched the Palm Treo 750 which combines the power of Windows Mobile 5.0 with Palm ease of use. The Treo 750 provides access to your personal or corporate email, mobile internet, and critical personal or business applications-all at broadband speeds. Its innovative thinner design makes the device enjoyable as a one-handed device when typing a message, or placing a call. With simultaneous voice and data technology, you won't miss a call when surfing the web or responding to email. It takes up less space sporting a new thinner design and internal antenna. With high speed data and global coverage capabilties, the Palm Treo 750 will keep you connected anywhere business takes you.
Included Features:
- Enhanced email, internet, messaging, and organizer all in one
- Microsoft® Windows MobileTM 5.0 with MSFP
- Slim style with full QWERTY keyboard and internal antenna
- Type and edit MS Word/Excel files; view PowerPoint & PDF docs
- Global coverage - Tri-band UMTS; quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
|
|
|
Phone
Finder
