It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.
So if this is for real, would a Palm Linux phone be able to run Palm apps?
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We hired a lot of people from Palm for our phone efforts.
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And that seems to be giving a big lift this morning to shares of Glu Mobile, a San Francisco-based company that provides games for the iOS, Android, Palm and Windows Phone 7 platforms.
Did any left-landed people test this phone (who would presumably have hold the phone with their palm covering the lower left edge of the phone)?
And that's why LG Electronics , Samsung's nearest competitor, also based in South Korea, probably won't follow suit with its own Palm-based, phone-PDA combination device.
Recently, a number of companies have started launching their own mobile services -- MSN Mobile now lets you get Hotmail and other MSN-based services and information delivered directly to your phone or Palm.
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Concerned that a Palm license would force its phone into a higher price bracket, LG has developed its own PDA software.
While on-scene police corroborated all her statements, a month later Barbara got her lawyer on the phone with a Palm Beach medical examiner because Barbara remained concerned she "misspoke" or "gave information inaccurately" immediately after Jeffry died.
Hewlett-Packard is said to have killed the Slate, which was to be based on Microsoft's Windows, and is now reportedly working on a tablet using an operating system from Palm, the smart-phone maker that HP recently bought.
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Instead, they will build on the work of AOL, Palm and the wireless networking and phone companies.
Motorola RAZR M packs a big screen into a phone that fits in the palm of your hand.
But pair a Windows-friendly smart phone--such as a Palm Treo 750--with a foldable keyboard, and you're almost in road-warrior nirvana.
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced that the Palm(R) Pre(TM) phone is scheduled to be available initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany exclusively on the O2 network, and in Spain exclusively on the Movistar network, in time for the holidays.
Palm blames reduced demand for its maturing legacy smart phone products, the challenging economic environment and later than expected shipments of the Treo Pro smart phone in the U.S. The company expects the trend to continue through the fourth quarter.
There are lots of question to answer here: Will a spin include the Palm business, with its increasingly valuable stash of mobile phone patents?
PalmSource also hopes to expand its business worldwide by using CMS technology to develop a new version of its Palm operating system that will run on Linux-based phone sets.
Thankfully, the latest Incredible is remarkably more comfortable to hold -- especially in comparison to the first generation -- as the beveled edges now flow into gentle curves along the side that allow the phone to fit naturally in one's palm.
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Three years later, they've got a phone on the market: a cute, palm-sized object that looks a bit like it's derived from the original Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iMac, all curves and transparent tinted plastic.
But UMPCs cost nearly twice what the Foleo will sell for, making Palm's 2.5-pound Web-surfing and phone-syncing device seem like a bargain.
It may just be an issue for right-handed people, but the buttons for power, volume and camera all lie on the lower half of the phone's right edge and are buried in the palm.
In one final negative note, the phone takes one of the worst pages out of the Palm book and put plastic doors over not only the USB plug but the microSD slot and side-mounted headphone jack as well.
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Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
Ostergaard demonstrated how a user can dial a telephone number from the keypad of a Palm and connect a cordless headset to a regular fixed-line desk phone.
That distraction (and Palm OS' failure to advance) forced Palm to rebuild in much the same way that Microsoft has with Windows Phone 7 and RIM with QNX.
With Sony's expertise in design and craftsmanship, the Xperia ZL comes with subtly rounded edges, a curvature that fits naturally into the palm of your hand, and a compact layout that optimizes the iconic phone design.
As a result, recent products like the sleek iPod nano and the bantam Palm z22 are small enough to fit in your pocket with your mobile phone (or justify their small existence in a second pocket or purse).
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Palm has been staging a comeback with its Centro, a trim little 3G phone and e-mail device aimed squarely at consumers.
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