Today Sprint and Palm announced that the much anticipated Palm Pre will be available on June 6th for $199.99 after a $100 mail in rebaote with a two year service agreement on an Everything Data Plan or Business Essentials Plan with Messaging and Data.

June 6th is a Saturday and some what of an Odd day to launch a new product but my guess is both Sprint and Palm expect long lines of people wanting to buy the phone they felt a weekend may be best, so that most of them wouldn’t have to miss work. (Just a guess)

“The Palm Pre takes full advantage of Sprint’s Everything Data plans,” said Avi Greengart, research director for Consumer Devices at Current Analysis. “The Pre has been expressly designed for multitasking among multiple web pages and applications. It also builds on Palm’s heritage in PDAs by managing your digital information – whether that’s on a corporate server or on the web.”

With Palm Synergy, users get: 
• Linked contacts – With Synergy, you have a single view that links your contacts from a variety of sources, so accessing them is easier than ever. For example, if you have the same contact listed in your Outlook(3), Google and Facebook accounts, Synergy recognizes that they’re the same person and links the information, presenting it to you as one listing.
• Layered calendars – Your calendars can be seen on their own or layered together in a single view, combining work, family, friends, sports teams, or other interests. You can toggle to look at one calendar at a time, or see them all at a glance.
• Combined messaging – Synergy lets you see all your conversations with the same person in a chat-style view, even if it started in IM and you want to reply with text messaging. You can also see who’s active in a buddy list right from contacts or e-mail, and start a new conversation with just one touch.

When the phone was first announced during this years Consumer Electronics Show many said it would kill the iPhone, while the specs and features it offers rival those of the iPhone only time will tell if the Palm Pre will actually kill it. I personally doubt it but hey ya never know.

For more information about the Palm Pre visit: http://www.sprint.com/palmpre

Today Verizon Wireless and Palm announced the availability of the Deep Blue Green Treo 755p. The phone will be available immediately and is exclusive to Verizon Wireless.

Compared to its Treo 700p predecessor, the Treo 755p has a sleeker design with an internal antenna and a soft-touch feel. Featuring a large, high-resolution, color touch-screen for quick stylus access to applications, the Treo 755p offers a full QWERTY keyboard for easy e-mail creation, Web browsing and text messaging. It also includes features such as a 1.3 megapixel camera and built-in support for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents and PDF documents. Customers can view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files, and view PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Running the Palm OS®, the new Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless gives mobile professionals the tools they need to help maximize productivity.

The Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless is available for $399.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and new two-year customer agreement. Customers who purchase a qualified voice plan along with a data plan may be eligible for an additional $100 credit making the Treo 755p $299.99 for those customers.

For more information visit Verizon Wireless.

The 755p is also available with Sprint but not in the Deep Blue Green color.

Treo smartphones on the Palm OS(R) platform:
- Treo 700p
- Treo 680, 650, 600
- Treo 300, 270

Treo smartphones on the Windows Mobile(R) platform:
- Treo 750
- Treo 700w
- Treo 700wx

For Palm OS devices: Check it out
http://News.palmnewsletters.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/epeb0PWmEv0Ijv0g3H0GA

For Windows Mobile devices: Check it out http://News.palmnewsletters.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/epeb0PWmEv0Ijv0g3I0GB

The much anticipated Palm Foleo may not be available to anyone. In a blog posting today by the Palm CEO, the Palm Foleo will not release the Palm Foleo and instead will focus on the Foleo II.

Palm says they are disapointed by having to this this so close to the release date, but plan to have a Foleo device in the future that will work correctly.

In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts. To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all our energies on delivering our next generation platform and the first smartphones that will bring this platform to market. We will, of course, continue to deliver products in partnership with Microsoft on the Windows Mobile platform, but from our internal platform development perspective, we will focus on only one.

Because we were nearly at the point of shipping Foleo, this was a very tough decision. Yet I am convinced this is the right thing to do. Foleo is based on a second platform and a separate development environment, and we need to focus our efforts on one platform. Our own evaluation and early market feedback were telling us that we still have a number of improvements to make Foleo a world-class product, and we can not afford to make those improvements on a platform that is not central to our core focus. That would not be right for our customers or for our developer community.

To read the entire blog post visit: http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/09/a-message-to-pa.html

Palm today announced the Palm® Foleo(TM), its first smartphone companion product. The Foleo mobile companion has a large screen and full-size keyboard with which to view and edit email and office documents residing on a smartphone, in essence turning your smartphone into a full fledged laptop.

“Foleo is the most exciting product I have ever worked on,” said Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm, Inc. and the visionary behind the Foleo’s concept and definition. “Smartphones will be the most prevalent personal computers on the planet, ultimately able to do everything that desktop computers can do. However, there are times when people need a large screen and full-size keyboard. As smartphones get smaller, this need increases. The Foleo completes the picture, creating a mobile-computing system that sets a new standard in simplicity.”

The Palm Foleo will work with Palms Treo Smartphones running Palm OS and Windows Mobile. Palm also says that device should work with other Windows Mobile devices with little or no modifications.

Primary Capabilities and Attributes of the Foleo Mobile Companion:
One-button access to full-screen email
Instant on, instant off
Rapid access to various applications
10-inch screen and full-size keyboard
Web search and browsing via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi
Editors for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus a PDF viewer
Compact, stylish design that fits on an airline tray table
Lightweight at 2.5 pounds
Fast, simple and intuitive navigation
5-hour battery life
Linux OS for easy application development

Palm Inc. today introduced the Treo 755p smart device runing Palm OS, for Sprint.

The Treo 755p is the first Palm device to offer built-in support for Microsoft’s Direct Push technology, Google Maps, micro-SD slot and the latest Treo design.

Sprint will be the first carrier to offer the device. It will sell for $279 with a 2 year contract.

The phone is available in two colors, midnight blue and burgundy. For more information visit: http://www.palm.com/treo755p

Other Treo 755p Features and Benefits:
• Ability to watch mobile video directly on the Treo 755p with Sprint TV, which features more than 50 channels of live and on-demand content, including CNN, FOX, ESPN, The Weather Channel, MTV, E! and The Cartoon Network;(3)
• Dial-up networking via USB or Bluetooth® wireless technology on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network for using the Treo 755p as a modem for a laptop computer (requires an appropriate service plan);
• Superior phone functionality, including one-touch speakerphone and conference calling, the ability to ignore a call with text messaging, and the option to use the touch-screen dial pad;
• Support for EvDO (Rev.0) speeds, which make streaming mobile content, such as live TV, movie clips and audio from radio stations, as well as training videos or company communications, enjoyable;
• 128MB memory (60MB user available) and support for Mini-SD memory cards up to 4GB;
• Voice-memo application, which can be used to create custom ring tones and add voice annotations to photos or simply record a quick memo;
• Threaded SMS/MMS messages in a single chat view and out-of-the-box support for Yahoo!, AOL, and Gmail;
• 1.3-megapixel digital camera and video recorder, and application to organize and share photos;
• Support for Sprint Picture Mail;
• Smart, fast web browsing using the award-winning Access browser;
• Full PDF support using DataViz® Documents To Go® Version 8.0, which also offers support for native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents;
• User-friendly and familiar Palm OS platform, including one-touch access to key applications;
• Color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard for easier email, messaging and web use;
• On-device user’s guide, giving customers access to the full user’s guide right from the device; and
• Default data transfer mode, which allows users to be notified of incoming voice calls while using data services, rather than calls automatically going to voicemail.

Palm Inc. and Orange Mobile announced early Tuesday the availability of the Treo 680 in the Dominican Republic.

The Treo 680 GSM/GPRS/EDGE(1) quad-band world phone, will run Palm OS®. With the introduction of the Treo 680 smartphone, Palm and Orange Dominicana are targeting new users in the rapidly growing smartphone and feature-phone markets. The Treo 680 will offer a simple and fun way for Orange Dominicana customers to get started and stay connected.

To order visit: http://www.orange.com.do