Palm, Inc.

From Free net encyclopedia

(Redirected from PalmOne)

Image:Newpalmlogo L.jpg Image:Palm logo.png

Palm, Inc. is a personal digital assistant manufacturer responsible for popular products such as the Zire, Tungsten PDAs, Treo smartphones and the LifeDrive. Previous product lines include the Palm Pilot, Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII. While most of their devices run Palm OS, a recent edition of the Treo runs Windows Mobile.

Palm Computing, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, later co-inventors of the Palm Pilot. The company was started to create a PDA for consumers, called the Zoomer. The devices were manufactured by Casio and marketed by Tandy, while Palm provided the PIM software. The Zoomer failed commercially, but Palm managed to survive through selling synchronization software for HP devices, and the Graffiti handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton MessagePad. The company was acquired by U.S. Robotics Corp. in 1995. In June 1997, Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com when U.S. Robotics was acquired by 3Com. In June 1998 the founders became unhappy at the direction in which 3Com was taking the company, they left and founded Handspring. 3Com made the Palm subsidiary an independent, publicly traded company on March 2, 2000, and it was traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PALM.

In August 2003, the hardware division of the company merged with Handspring, was renamed to palmOne, Inc. and traded under the ticker symbol PLMO. The software division became PalmSource, Inc.; the Palm trademark was held by a jointly-owned holding company. In April 2005 palmOne purchased PalmSource's share in the 'Palm' trademark for US$30 million [1]. In July 2005, palmOne launched its new name and brand reverting to Palm, Inc. and trading under the ticker symbol PALM once again.

On January 4 2006 Palm released the Palm Treo 700w, the first Windows Mobile-powered Treo in a partnership with Verizon and Microsoft.

Current Palm OS products come with many free programs such as a suite called Documents to Go which allows the user to view PowerPoint files and modify Word and Excel files. A premium version of this software can be purchases which allows the user increased functionality. Palm's Windows Mobile product (The Treo 700w) comes with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Mobile editions which are part of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 edition.

1 List of PDA models
- 1.1 Current models
- 1.2 Discontinued models
2 See also
3 External links

[edit]

List of PDA models

Image:Palmonesm.jpg

[edit]

Current models

[edit]

Discontinued models

The following PDAs are no longer in production.


Discontinued Model	Replacement model
Pilot 1000	Zire 31
Pilot 5000	Zire 31
PalmPilot Personal	Zire 31
PalmPilot Professional	Zire 31
Palm III	Zire 31
Palm IIIe	Zire 31
Palm IIIx	Zire 31
Palm IIIxe	Zire 31
Palm IIIc	Zire 31
Handspring Visor	Zire 31
Palm V	Tungsten E2
Palm Vx	Tungsten E2
Palm VII	Treo 650
Palm VIIx	Treo 650
Palm m100	Zire 31
Palm m105	Zire 31
Palm m125	Zire 31
Palm m130	Zire 31
Palm m500	Tungsten E2
Palm m505	Tungsten E2
Palm m515	Tungsten E2
Palm i705	Treo 650
Tungsten E	Tungsten E2
Tungsten T	Tungsten TX
Tungsten T2	Tungsten TX
Tungsten T3	Tungsten TX
Tungsten T5	Palm TX
Tungsten W	Tungsten C
Zire	Z22
Zire 21	Z22
Zire 71	Zire 72
Handspring Treo 90	Treo 650
Handspring Treo 180	Treo 650
Handspring Treo 180g	Treo 650
Handspring Treo 270	Treo 650
Handspring Treo 300	Treo 650
Treo 600	Treo 650