Hey Missing Sync users, have you received this in the mail:
As a valued customer, we would like to offer you the latest version of The Missing Sync for Palm OS for only $19.95, regularly $39.95, through February 11, 2009.
Act now and get The Missing Sync for Palm OS, version 6.0.4, with new features including:
* Full support for Palm Centro
* Enhanced synchronization between Palm Memo and Mark/Space Notebook
* Call Log archiving
* SMS Log archiving
* Video syncing to and from your Treo …read more

Whoa. I just realized that it’s been a while since I tagged something under the category of “Palm.” With Palm’s competitive absence from the mobile scene for the past three years, Apple’s iPhone has rightfully taken the place of the world’s most easy to use smartphone OS. And behind them, Windows Mobile still retains its niche as being the “geekier” trade. But Palm’s comeback looks promising, amidst the apparent infringement into how the new Palm OS looks a lot like the iPhone’s. Can’t blame Apple. But yeah, I can’t blame Palm either.
The latter has long been wanting to reclaim its …read more

With high expectations, Matias Duarte, the one famous for the Sidekick’s extremely friendly UI allegedly moves to Palm.
So it’s time to bring in the big guns. With Palm’s latest disappointment with the Foleo and the not-so-great worldwide response to the Centro, Palm plans to reinvent themselves once again starting with a revolutionary operating system. In retrospect, the Palm OS was the crown jewel in the early 2000’s because of its simplicity, common sensical approach to computing. It wasn’t a heavy developer nightmare to write for and the Palm devices were attractive to consumers. Today we have that same sort …read more

Yes, Palm OS Garnet will now work on your Nokia tablet, namely the N810, N800 and the N770. If you’re thinking that this is merely emulation software, you’re mistaken. Apparently, the move to position the Palm OS on other devices is actually a new strategy to revive the Palm operating system, as The Register reports:

The phone industry sure knows how to screw Apple around. With Nokia belting Apple for their “anti unlocking” regime, now its Palm’s turn to issue a $99.00 smartphone into the hands of fresh graduates who can’t afford a smartphone. Presenting the Palm Centro – it’s finally come. Available very soon on a 90 day exclusivity with Sprint, the Centro is basically a smaller and more hip Treo. Really interesting too – that this pegs the price of a VERY GOOD smartphone to about a hundred dollars.
Between the iPhone and the Palm Centro, I’m giving my vote to the latter …read more

The new Palm Centro looks like a hipper version of the Treo. With Palm losing market share in their business phones – and with consumer confidence dying with the announcement of the Foleo, Palm has decided to tap a new market – the youth.
The Centro is going to be offered at an insanely cheap subsidized tag price of $99.00. It features a full QWERTY keypad, touch screen. and the ol’ faithful Palm OS. So what’s Palm trying to do? With a total tag price of $600.00, they’re trying to bring back the duo device configuration which was very popular back …read more

Palm announced the Foleo just hours ago in a live webcast. The Foleo, taken from the business “folio” accessory we carry under our armpit is supposedly the future of mobile computing. It is meant to become an addendum to the Palm Treo smartphone, but will work as well with other Windows Mobile devices and other smartphones like the RIM Blackberry and the upcoming Apple iPhone.
The Foleo is the “future of mobile computing.” It looks like a friggin laptop that is lighter, smaller and has a 5 hour battery life. It supposedly pairs very well with any smartphone and acts like …read more

This makes perfect sense to me for the following reasons:
1. Palm has been developing on an open platform with Access and so has Motorola with their latest line of open sourced smartphones such as the Motorola Ming A1200.
2. Palm’s success has been mostly due to the Treo handheld, a platinum award winning phone. They’ve canned their other devices such as the Lifedrive in Asia. They need a refocus in terms of manufacturing strategy and it takes a fierce competitor like Motorola to give them back this break. Motorola has been rather fierce in several world markets with campaigns stretching …read more

What a fitting name for Palm’s next secret project. There have been a few predictions about what this device will have but its almost a no brainer that this device SHOULD be a smartphone as the PDA is dead – long live connectivity!
My guess is something along the lines of the following:
1. Simply an upgraded version of the Treo 680. Maybe more memory. Maybe WiFi. Maybe HSDPA compatibility. Based on Palm’s track record, I’m not surprised if it disappoints.
2. Something more grand, like how Nokia made the 700 Internet Tablet, bit this time upgraded for the times to have a …read more

Here’s a “dark side” approach to the Palm platform. With the release of the antenna-less Treo 680, Palm has kept its new commitment to churn out similar devices with a Windows Mobile operating system. It’s sorta like how The Force always has the Dark and Light sides …
The Palm Treo 750v comes with similar features as the
Specs include:

240 x 240 screen
1.3 MP camera (no dual cameras for this one, although it has 3G capabilities)
Bluetooth 1.2 and IrDA
128MB / 60 MB of nonvolatile flash memory with miniSD expansion options

Main selling points:

Windows Mobile on with a Palm OS interface
Aesthetically pleasing design …read more