After seeing the post on Palm’s official blog about the airing of a new episode of the History Channel’s Modern Marvels featuring the Treo line of smartphones, I promptly scheduled a recording on my DVR at 4:00PM and 9:00PM (redundancy is to ensure that I would get it!).
It’s nice to see Palm products being featured [...]

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Recently, Palm’s Treo line has started to face more and more competition. With the addition of the BlackBerry Storm onto the marketplace, we can’t help but wonder how well Palm products fare when placed side-by-side with a competing product. So the question is, how does the Treo 755p compare with the BlackBerry Storm? Read on [...]

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Palm have announced that the Treo Pro smartphone is now available in Latin America from carriers in seven countries.
Apparently, Ed Colligan, Palm president and chief executive officer, said in a statement that, “I’m pleased with our momentum as we work to re-establish Palm as the leading innovator in the smartphone marketplace”. Hmmmm.
I’m hopeless at Geography, [...]

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Hot on the heals of their recently announced job cuts, according to ZDNet (UK), Palm is reporting a 41% shortfall in revenue compared to expectations for the second fiscal quarter. They announced revenue of just $198m compared to Wall Street expectations of $331.
Palm blamed this shortfall on a “reduced demand for maturing smartphone and [...]

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While we wait impatiently for Palm to do *something* (anything really, please) at least other smartphone manufacturers aren’t asleep at the wheel. Today we saw the announcement of the second Google Android phone hot on the heels of the popular (and quite awesome) T-Mobile G1. This new model will be called “Agora”, whatever that means, [...]

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