Press Release:  San Jose, California, PalmSource Mobile Summit and Developer Conference, May 24, 2005 — PalmSource, Inc., provider of Palm OS®, a leading operating system powering next generation Treo smartphones and mobile devices today announced Cingular Wireless has joined the Palm Powered™ Mobile World (PPMW) program. The combination of PalmSource and Cingular Wireless is expected to speed availability of third-party Palm OS software solutions designed for Palm Powered mobile devices.

 

Following the recent merger with AT&T Wireless, an existing PPMW mobile operator partner, Cingular Wireless joins Orange, Sprint and Telefónica Móviles España in addition to more than a dozen infrastructure and middleware partners in the PPMW program to capitalize on the growing mobile phone market. Leveraging the collaboration efforts of PalmSource and AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless will work together with PalmSource in a number of areas including:

Collaborating with the 400,000-plus registered Palm OS developer community for the development of third-party Palm OS applications tailored to the needs of the newly combined Cingular Wireless;

Engaging in joint marketing activities to identify and promote key third-party Palm OS applications and solutions to business customers; and

Collaborating to align the Palm OS platform roadmap with the product requirements of Cingular Wireless in order to facilitate the deployment of next generation of Palm Powered devices

Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless company in the United States with more than 50 million wireless subscribers worldwide. The Company currently offers its wireless customers a wide range of mobile phone offerings including the Palm Powered Treo 650 from palmOne.

 

"Joining the Palm Powered Mobile™ World program reinforces our commitment to providing our customers with the broadest selection of wireless solutions for Palm Powered mobile devices," said Abhi Ingle, executive director for Cingular’s Business Markets Group. "We look forward to our continued collaboration with PalmSource to offer our wireless customers more cutting-edge Palm Powered devices, like the Treo 650, that deliver a superior user experience."

 

"PalmSource is committed to collaborating with industry-leading mobile operators to further accelerate the growth of the Palm Powered™ economy," said Albert Chu, vice president of business development and wireless, PalmSource, Inc. "We believe the combination of Palm OS® and Cingular’s wireless data network provides Palm OS handsets vendors and software developers a truly robust environment to develop leading-edge mobile devices and software solutions."

 

About Palm Powered Mobile World

The Palm Powered Mobile World program connects mobile operators, infrastructure and middleware partners and software developers in a wireless Palm Powered economy designed to bring Palm OS software applications and solutions to market, provide increased revenue opportunities for partners and a superior experience for users of Palm Powered mobile devices. More information on the Palm Powered Mobile World program can be found at: www.palmsource.com/partners.

 

About PalmSource

PalmSource, Inc., the company behind Palm OS®, a leading operating system powering smart mobile devices, is a leading developer of software for mobile phones and other mobile devices. Its products include a wide range of software for mobile phones at all price points. More than 39 million mobile phones, handhelds, and other mobile devices run PalmSource software. More than 45 companies worldwide have licenses to PalmSource software, including Fossil, Garmin, GSPDA, Kyocera, Lenovo, palmOne, Samsung, Sony, and Symbol Technologies. Palm OS has given rise to a large community of users, enterprises, developers and manufacturers, who together make up the Palm Powered Economy.

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