SINGAPORE, Dec 21, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) — For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and SingTel Ltd (SGX:SINGTEL) today introduced the Palm Treo 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone, on the SingTel network in Singapore. SingTel customers will find the Palm OS based Treo 680 smartphone easy to use, slim and compact, yet packed full of features beyond its stellar phone capability, such as email, web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts and more.

“SingTel is excited to bring the award-winning Palm Treo user experience to our customers,” said Vicki Brady, vice president of Consumer Marketing for SingTel. “With multimedia, business, and wireless Internet capabilities right out of the box, the Treo 680 allows subscribers to leverage SingTel’s island-wide wireless mobile data networks, as well as a selection of exclusive content available on SingTel IDEAS.”

The Palm Treo 680 smartphone is easy to use because of the multiple innovations it encompasses, including the following:

• Improved phone application, which allows users to dial and navigate the phone features more quickly;

• Ability to ignore calls and send a quick text message, such as “In a meeting” or “Can’t talk right now”;
• A full QWERTY keyboard with improved buttons, making it even easier to type emails or SMS text messages; and
• A messaging application that displays text-messaging conversations as “threaded chats,” meaning users can see their entire conversations with a particular person.

“The Treo 680 smartphone is reaching new customers and markets, exemplifying Palm’s dedication to expanding both geographically and demographically,” said John Hartnett, senior vice president, global markets, Palm, Inc. “Its affordability, ease of use and style are attracting new users in the smartphone and feature-phone markets.”

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