We met with Palm Europe this week in their pavilion opposite i-mate's at Mobile World Congress. Palm is making a significant investment in the continent, with a main office in the UK supported by small offices in a number of other countries. Targeted teams are focused on carrier and retailer relations.

In the display area, Palm showed off the upcoming unlocked GSM Palm OS Centro in black and white and the Windows Mobile Treo 500v. The company believes the small form factors and very low price points make them ideal mass market consumer products.

mytreo.net readers are well informed about Palm's Centro and Treo 500v. Nevertheless, we recorded a short video of the manufacturer showing off the devices. We learned that the actual release date of the unlocked GSM Centro is the end of the month, and not Valentine's Day as was erroneously reported throughout the blogosphere.

We appreciated meeting the marketing team across the "pond," and look forward to staying in contact to cover Palm's European device releases.

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