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Palm Said to be the Next to Target iPhone

January 6, 2009 RSS Feed Print

It's well known that beleaguered Palm will launch an updated operating system called "Nova" at this week's electronics show in Las Vegas. It's also expected to unveil a new smartphone, one that a source at CrunchGear is calling "iPhone-like" with a large touchscreen:

The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen....The new operating system is described as “amazing” and there will be a full software bazaar on launch. It will have media playback functions along with standard Palm calendar, email, and contact functionality.

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Is that it from Palm? Just playing "catch up" to all the others? C'mon guys. In this biz you have to break new ground not just play me too!
FAIL.

grapeshot of KY 9:47PM January 11, 2009

I have owned Palm devices when they were US Robotics...to their most recent Treo Pro; but have lost faith in them ever since 3M acquired them and spun off to be their own company etc etc. This company has not come up with ANYTHING innovative since the original OS and device. Even their Treo line of phones were acquired when they bought Handspring.
Just minutes before Palm announces new products, I am predicting that it's very doubtful that the company will be able to come up with anything special that will knock off the bigger contenders in the market (Apple & RIM). Mobile OS wars have been won by iPhone and RIM. Palm is dead, Windows Mobile to die out next.
None of the companies out there are on road to make anything innovative, they all want to be iPhones.... whey not come up with something unique? .... none of the other companies could even think of putting in a real web browser in a device that has high speed internet until the iPhone came out - 'nuff said!!!!

Saeed of IA 12:09PM January 08, 2009

> Not to mention the expensive service plans the
> iPhone requires (which are between 75% and 100%
> more than equivalent Sprint plans
How much is Sprint's (awful) service for:
Unlimited data.
Unlimited email.
Unlimited software.
450 minutes.
Upto 5,400 of roll-over minutes.
Unlimited nights.
Unlimited weekends.
Unlimited cell-to-cell.
Sprint is NOT 75% less expensive.
(My iPhone bill is only $10 more than Sprint.)
(And my iPhone only cost $5 more than Sprint's phone.)
Duh.

Debbie of AR 11:36PM January 07, 2009

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