Palm isn’t certainly doing as good as its management would like it to. That’s why the company is getting ready to fire an undisclosed number of people in an attempt to save some money. The company will go through some restructuring in the USA and in other countries. Here’s what a Palm official had so say about the whole thing:

The global economic downturn continues to dampen demand for consumer goods around the world, and the impact on the economic environment is worsened by our maturing Centro line and the length of time it is taking to ramp our new Windows Mobile products.

Will Palm get better soon or should we start using past tense only when referring to this cell phone manufacturer.

According to the image above, the Palm Treo Pro will be available from Sprint in the near, or far for that matter, future. The screenshot above shows Sprint’s website which has the Palm Treo Pro as an option in the drop-down menu. The phone is available in Europe-only at the time but Sprint might just be the next carrier to pick it up.

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Verizon Wireless and Palm have a great marketing idea for indirect Verizon Wireless dealers. You will get a $25 Visa gift card when purchasing a new Palm Centro. The Palm Centro comes with a 2 year agreement and the gift card will arrive after about 6 weeks.

The deal expires on October 31st so hurry up to get one. Although you might pick one of the cooler phones which are about to Storm in November.
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Those of you that signed up for a Treo Pro during the pre-order period should be really happy. Palm is ready to ship the Treo Pro. In fact it has already been reported that various buyers have received confirmation about this.

The unlocked Palm Treo Pro will sell for $549 and it comes in black. That’s in case you want to buy a Palm of course!

Palm will not give up the fight in the mobile world. It is going to have the Palm OS II ready by the end of the year which means we’re going to see new handsets in 2009 equipped with the new OS. Are we going to get totally new Palms?

The Nova Linux-based OS isn’t arriving anytime soon. Next year means sometime in the second half of 2009. That means we have a lot to wait for the OS II to actually surface. That means we’re going to play with Palm OS II only about two years later than initially announced!

Rogers is certainly not losing any time. After launching the iPhone 3G in Canada and after bringing the BlackBerry Bold the Canadian carrier is ready to bring more smartphones to its subscribers. The next in line appears to be the Palm Treo Pro which might be available from Rogers starting with September 17th. (more…)

Is this the new Treo that Palm is getting ready for 2009? They have been plans for the upcoming year, but if they want to sell those phones they ordered, they need some good handsets.

This is the Treo Pro, supposed to work on Windows Mobile. So there’s no Palm OS for now. The flash presentation was taken down from Palm’s site leaving us wanting for more. We need specs, prices and launch date. In the mean time enjoy the screens!

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What do you think? Is this the Palm Centro 2? You do hope this is the new Centro from Palm don’t you? Although there’s no factual fact to support such a phone yet.

All we have are some leaked photos. No specs, no prices, no nothing. Just a phone that looks, and here’s a shocker, like the iPhone 3G. Or the Thunder from RIM. Or the Instinct; or the Omnia. Not that it’s a bad thing. We are bound to give up on regular QWERTY keyboards in favor of larger screens and haptic virtual keyboard.

Waiting for more rumors to power up this rumor here!

Palm Centro is reported to have surpassed the 2 million sold units barrier. How is that compared to Apple’s iPhone sales? Who is going to win an iPhone vs Palm competition?

Provided Palm will continue to update their OS and launch better Centros, they are likely to continue to sell lots of handsets too. Maybe not as many as Apple which appears to learn more and more things about the mobile business and even reinvent it in some cases.

AdMob statistics shows that more mobile ads are served to Palm devices than iPhones, whether we are talking worldwide or USA. Of course Palm has been selling phones for far longer than Apple has but the battle is about to begin.

Looking at both phones, the iPhone seems to have a little advantage at this time, with all the buzz going around it. Palm Centro is still going to be a worthy adversary and its fans will be waiting for lots of upgrades, including touchscreens, but not only.

So congrats to Palm for now, but we’re expecting more!

Well isn’t this something? It appears that Palm Treo 800w happy customers will have a new feature available some time soon. Bluetooth voice dialing for Palm 800w will be available in the near future. Here’s what the Palm’s support page states:

Treo 800w Voice Dialing Over Bluetooth will be available soon as a download from this web page. Please return to this page in the coming days for the download and details.

There’s no specific date for the update. It hasn’t been stated either if this upgdate will be RAM or ROM-resistant yet. The Treo was just released from Sprint ad it’s rumored to be arriving at Verizon Wireless in 3 to 6 months.

Like any other company, Palm had to file their annual 10-K report. Nothing spectacular about that. What was surprising is that in it, people discovered three companies that have been acquired by Palm last year. No names have been disclosed so far but here’s what we know about the companies.
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This Palm Treo 800w from Sprint gives me headaches. Instead of a regular launch with a nice press release and all that we keep hearing rumors about release dates and prices. The Palm Treo 800w was expected to hit the stores on July 13th and therefore it appears to be available online from Sprint now.

We’ve heard about unofficial Treo Sales earlier this week from Sprint. The rumored prices were $350 for a two year contract and $600 without a plan.

Going to Sprint online you will get a Palm Treo 800w listing for $249.99. That’s with a two year agreement and after $100 mail-in rebate. That’s about exactly what we’ve heard before. If you don’t want the iPhone or the Instinct, if you’re done waiting for the HTC Touch Diamond or the new BlackBerries, this Palm Treo is a very good alternative. But otherwise it’s just too expensive compared to its competitors.

Well the schematics above are pretty clear aren’t they? They describe the Palm Treo 800w and its specs. The official release date of this Palm is July 13th but in the mean time let’s see what this photo has to say about it.
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Sprint will launch the Palm Treo 800w earlier than expected. We’ve heard that before but it appears it has just been confirmed (check out the picture). Although rumored to arrive on July 22nd, this Palm is going to arrive prematurely. Corporate version will be available even sooner than that, on July 9th. Is Sprint trying to get some attention around the July 11th day? You know, the day the iPhone will be out in stores?
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Verizon Wireless is doing everything to grow more and more while it’s aiming for being the number 1 cell phone carrier in the USA. They have recently bought Alltel out in a $28 billion deal and they will not stop there.

In the upcoming months they will roll out new handsets while upgrading network services where needed. Some of the most expected handsets are the Samsung i770 coming this fall and the Palm Treo 800w expected to be released around the same period. There are various other cell phones which will either be released with Verizon Wireless plans either be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1.
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With the WWDC coming up in less than 48 hours, people seem to forget there are other upcoming smartphones out there. Such is the case of the Palm Treo 800w which will be fully released on July 13. I think that every handset coming out in the months to follow the iPhone 2 official release will take a hit.

Why choose the Palm Treo 800w? Here are some details that might turn you into a Palm lover:

• 1150mah battery,
• 320 x 320 display,
• 100MB of program memory,
• 170MB of storage memory,
• WiFi, microUSB connector,
• 2.1-megapixel camera,
• ARM1136 processor,
• Windows Mobile 6.1 (5.2.1944),
• standard on/off switch on the top for the ringer,
• button to control the WiFi.

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Details of the new Palm Treo 850 has been released. All this information was leaked from the Vodafone Roadmap for 2008. The anticipated phone has been rumored to feature a Windows Mobile Professional OS and will be running on a 400MHz processor with 100MB of RAM.

Its a quite nice looking device, similar to the Centro but it appears smaller and much more polished. This is just the kind of design refresh a struggling Palm could really use. The phone was shown briefly during Bill Gates keynote. The Treo shown at the presentation isn’t anything of today’s available or known smartphone and it clearly sports Windows Mobile Professional logo and the Start and OK button which is another indication that this must be the Drucker supporting a touchscreen interface.
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It looks like Palm hasn’t forgotten what it’s best known for, PDAs. One&Co has teamed up with Palm to bring out a looker, the Zire 72. Focusing mainly on media-centric functions, the Zire 72 has a 1.3-megapixel camera with 2x zoom and video recording at 320×240 pixels. Along with the MP3 and video player, the device carries a 320×320 transflective screen to display bright and crisp images with its 65k colors. Running on Palm OS v5.2.8, the Zire 72 is also endowed with pretty good power with a 321MHz Intel PXA270 processor and 32MB of RAM, which may seem low but just enough for a PDA. It sports 24MB of internal memory which can be expanded via MMC, SD, and SDIO cards.

Priced at $100, the Zire 72 PDA is available on Amazon and other online stores.

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Palm has recently announced the availability of its feature laden Centro Smartphone in Columbia with Comcel and Movistar. The company unveiled that it has successfully sold its one-millionth Palm Centro in the United States. This compact cell phone lets the users easily manage emails and text messages. Stay up to date with the latest news. You can access the Google Maps to find directions while travelling.

Quick Facts:

• Fast and easy web access on EDGE networks
• With Pocket Tunes manage audio books, music, and videos easily.
• Integrated digital camera
• Full Keyboard
• Push Technology
• Instant Messaging facility

Other market fetching features of PalmCentro include touch screen, conference calling, ignore a call with text messaging, one-touch speakerphone, and Bluetooth(R) connectivity. To know more about the Palm Centro smartphone visit Palm

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In the midst of Palm’s struggles to get out of their precarious situation, an unlocked version of the Palm Centro is now available for European markets. We don’t know what colors will be available yet, although it seems they’ll start off with the basic black. If you’ve forgotten, Palm Centro features a 320×320 pixel touchscreen display, a full QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera, and runs on Palm OS Garnet v5.4.9. The Palm Centro will sell for £199 in the UK and in other European countries, for €299. It will ship on February 14, 2008.

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