New Palm phone rumored to be a QWERTY slider with a touchscreen
Just prior to its big unveiling at CES later this week, a few additional details have been leaked about Palm’s upcoming flagship phone. The new handset will supposedly be a slider with a full QWERTY keyboard and a portrait touchscreen. It will have full PIM support, email support and media playback capabilities. Production of the new Palm will most likely be outsourced to HTC and will launch with a full complement of applications. With the phone being described as “iPhone-like” and the new OS as being “amazing”, we cant help but start to get a little bit excited about Palm’s new offering. Maybe that $100 million equity investment by Bono and company may turn out to be money well spent and we sincerely hope we’re wowed on Thursday. Palm’s efforts leading up to and following the announcement this week will likely end up making or breaking the company as it simply can’t continue much longer on the same track.
The only thing that’s going to excite me is if Nova is heads above iPhone’s offering and the whole shebang is “cost-effective” relative to what’s already out there. Sliders as phone hardware are “old hat” and not exciting in the way Palm needs “exciting”.
That fact that some Palm guy calls a Palm to-be-introduced product “amazing” is not exciting either.
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I also hear that the palm is going to be blackberry compatible what they mean by that I am not sure this is according to the NEW YORK DAILYNEWS
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read: iPhone killer
This will put a serious dent into iPhone sales. hopefully Apple announces upgrades to its existing 3G product to spur sales.
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This looks to be a really old HTC phone with treo shaping. COME ON! They need the newer HTC form factor. Then we’re in business.
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How is that, news of Jobs not the best and insanely delayed but exciting news of Palm’s upcoming OS and device, can someone freeze me until CES, its so close its starting to hurt.
Please Jon, blow us away, dunno how you’re gonna do it but PLEASE do it - OUT.
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NOVA = Just another entertainment phone platform just in time to meet a market that is retracting and leaving such indulgences behind. The market is the adult in this relationship. Bono’s new friends won’t allow such economic foolishness to be further wasted upon additional rounds of financing. Palm, you just signed your own death certificate.
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@ avremele, come on don’t be silly… it’s a mock up for the news article, no doubt the device will be entirely different.
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Ive yet to see a slider phone that excited me. Either too big or too thing! Thats what she said!
LOL…anyway, NOT HOLDING MY BREATH!
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Lets just wait backbeat, I don’t think anyone would be stupid enough to invest in a device like you describe… well almost anyone. There have been many people who have left Palm because the innovation they loved had shrivelled and it had but like I said let’s just wait and see what comes out of the smoke on Thurs.
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Can we say too little too late.. well their new OS can’t be worse than WM. But let be honest, they are currently so out of the game for the long time they sleep even the best supporter have loosed faith.
My guess is by the time we can buy the new Palm OS Apple will have rolled out 3 new iphones, Blackbberry 5 smartphone, and HTC will be selling Android on most of their phone.
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Arm-chair punditry at it’s best…
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WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG> THIS IS NOT WHAT THE PHONE WILL BE LIKE
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@donnie: Shameless self-promotion at the price of dignity, at its finest.
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Come on…who buys Palm anything anymore?
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@brum
I hope you’re right. For palm’s sake.
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@brum- If the purpose of this blog post was to “wait and see”, it would not be appearing now. Now would it? Judgments will be made, pre- and post- release which is the _really_ bad news for Palm. They just cannot give themselves a break! Their version of “innovation” should have been to completely redefine the Treo smartphone line, but just like the Foleo, this effort is far too short and WIDE-right.
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Aw damn, a slider? Not interested…
The email offering better be damn close to Blackberry’s setup of true push.
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People who criticize Palm typically say that the OS is “creaky” or “old”, or that it lacks “innovation.”
I have never heard anybody say there was actually anything wrong with it functionally.
My only gripe with it is that it doesn’t multitask (it freezes apps when you switch, so it looks like you are multitasking. The exception is the phone, which you can run while you are doing other things.)
Otherwise I love the Palm OS. Solid, stable, easy to navigate and tons of third-party software.
And the hardware is fine. My Centro can do everything the iphone can do, except for the GPS stuff. And it was free with a new contract from Verizon. And it has a keyboard.
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I’m with you. Can you use the Iphone as a modem? Although Palm is dated, I’m still amazed at the things it can be made to do. Many are talking about the physical form, but the real thing to watch is its OS. If the OS is garbage I agree Palm is done, but if they hit a home run with the OS, I think Palm still has breath.
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@backbeat - fair point. I don’t think the hundreds of millions couldn’t be just going nowhere. Ruby too couldn’t be just wasting his time either and the rest of the entourage have surely got to pull something significant together.
Is it just me or are the people thinking the above image is indicating detail dead set lost?
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Blow us away,yeah right! I hear it comes with a DRM free version of “Elevation” by U2 in the mediaplayer.
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