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- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25They call it the iPhone. Where have you been?
- BxBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18R.I.P "the once great" Palm.
You will be missed! - spindrift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I don't care who buys it as long as I get my Treo-sized thumb-board device with *modern* specs and *without* Windows Mobile.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18RIP? My Palm III is still going strong!!! Long live the B&W PDA!!
- kingace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Does you forget your grammars?
- mikester540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Me (Palm 700p)
I've used the 600, 650, and now the 700p... Long live the Palm!!! - PoodleMomma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Let me tell you something guys and girls, I started with the Handspring (remember the days when the phone attachment was in the top and you had to choose between using the phone or the camera feature???). Anyway, I have really turned thigs around for myself because this OS (Palm) is so darn user-friendly (especially when you are driving down the road). Recently I chose (wrong) to bite the bullet and go with the 700w instead of the 700p; afterall it would make life much easier with my contacts and so forth (I have 1500+). To make this long story short today was my 14th day (14 day trial is over) and I just left Fedex without a phone. I can't wait for the end of the week when I expect my new 700p to arrive. This has been 2 PAINFUL weeks,
The scheduling functions are SO limited in the Windows OS. I don't know how Linux would be, but I can assure you it would be better than that P.O.S. called Microsoft OS. There are a lot of other fans out there too if you do a seach comparing 700p to 700w you will see. "700W=POS" - griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I don't care who buys them as long as I get $20/share!!
- dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They are selling the patents. Everyone will lose their jobs, but the patents will remain.
- jayhawk88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So 6+ years of "Company X is going to buy Palm" rumors might actually come to fruition? What madness is this?
- nakani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Palm is only selling for 2 Viacom->Google lawsuits' worth? What's that, like... 2 paper bills?
- etandrib, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7What is amazing about this is that it is only going for 2 Billion. YouTube went for 1.6 Billion. So YouTube is worth just slightly less than Palm? Wow… we are in a bubble or Palm must really suck now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hope nokia gets them, i just wanted a plam phone with wifi, blue tooth, qwerty keyboard, and a good camera (without windows mobile) i really enjoyed the palm os, but each phone just seemed to fall short.
- doshindude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hope Palm can get back to its former glory, and have it make something better than that dumb iPhone.
*still has a Zire 31 and currently uses a Tungsten E2* - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What makes you think the buyer will not move wholesale to WIndows Mobile?
Even the makers of PalmOS are switching to Linux and don't seem to care about the Palm part.
I love the Palm software too, but it's dead or close to it. - snotrokit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At last!!!!! I have been eagerly awaiting this for years. Palm is still a great thing, the product has sucked for the last several revisions, but there was always hope that the once great Palm could find it's knight on a white horse to pick it (and it's patents) and do SOMETHING with it.
Good luck Palm, and do yourself a favor and run like hell away from Windows Mobile. It blows - spindrift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't care about the Palm part either. Granted, it's amazingly intuitive and quick, but I'd much rather have Linux on it anyway.
Nokia and Motorola both sell "Treo-killer" devices (the E61 and Q, respectively, and probably others); the Q already runs WinMo, so maybe Nokia wants to pick up a brand to push WinMo on without tarnishing their Symbian line. That would suck. - deltree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2chalk this one up to stock manipulation -
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9310/palm-takeover-rumors-talked-up-yet-again/ - adikt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm using the Treo 680. I'm just waiting for Netfront 3 to become available for the unit. Blazer sucks. Other than that it's a kick ass little device.
- Bootes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The Palm OS is separate from this Palm. The OS was already sold to a Japanese company. This is why we now have a Windows Mobile Treo.
- Oobitsa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry, sport, but at least in Washington, DC, the bulk of people use Blackberries if their office bought them or Palm OS Treos if they spent their own money. Windows Mobile? Symbian thingies? Nowhere to be found.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I've used the 600, 650, and now the 700p... Long live the Palm!!!"
My 600 just died two weeks ago and I'm now on a Palm 680 (no Windows thank you). Palm's equipment is just damned durable, and I would keep buying from them if they kept going. But, everyone knew this day was coming (for about, oh, 6 years?), and I just hope they get sold to someone who won't run the company into the ground. - KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2as long as the upcoming treos don't suffer from this it's cool
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Palm Stopped innovating with Palm OS 3. My Kyocera 61whatever fisher-price sized cell phone does most everything that a modern palm device does, just in grayscale. Nothing compelling has been added to the Palm OS in years, and their devices have evolved at a snails pace. Good riddance.
- jsg7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Apple wanted to buy them once upon a time. That day is long past. And frankly, considering how Palm fell on hard times, Apple was better off not doing it.
Apple has managed to develop a better handheld OS (apparently) all by themselves based on OS X. We'll have to wait and see how much of a success it end up being, but it looks like it will be a hit. - haggie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3By Palm now cheap because when the iPhone flops and people realize how well the Treo works TODAY, its going to be worth alot more...
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Apple wanted to buy them once upon a time. That day is long past."
You people do remember that Palm was started by employees who left Apple, right? Apple buying Palm back would be quite a coup for two reasons: one, the ex-Apple employees would rub it in Apple's face that they succeeded without Apple's guidance, and two, Palm's incredible gesture software and experience with phones could go miles towards helping Apple's cellphone venture succeed.
Not to say that Apple will drop $2 billion on them; hell, it's more likely Google would pay that much than Apple. Apple's got the money, but they're frugal, they don't go willy nilly spending billions on an otherwise uninspired company. - BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12 billion? who knew palm was still worth so much.
I do suppose all the Treo have helped keep them alive. - mikester540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"My 600 just died two weeks ago and I'm now on a Palm 680 (no Windows thank you). Palm's equipment is just damned durable, and I would keep buying from them if they kept going. But, everyone knew this day was coming (for about, oh, 6 years?), and I just hope they get sold to someone who won't run the company into the ground."
Nice.. Yes I've dropped, kicked, even had the 600 in the rain and that thing held up!
650 wasn't as durable but it held up!
Whoever buys Palm will probably keep the Treo-- they are very popular (in business at least) and the Treo probably saved Palm. - palmdoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, if there is a sale, a potential high value item might be the secret "third arm" to the business Jeff Hawkins has been hinting at and will be announced at the Mossberg D conference in May
Here's the link to the Palmaddicts Interview with Jeff Hawkins:
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/03/jeff_hawkins_is.html
Long live Palm! - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pinkert11: "If apple bought them, it would ruin them! The best thing about a real Plam, not a windows one, is that it is open. [...] Long live palm, long live the open device!"
Long live the linux-based PDAs, the really open devices that aren't lame. Maybe the iPhone will be cool, I am somewhat of an Apple fan, but no 3rd party apps? Even Nokia phones run 3rd party Java apps that is just a bad move in my opinion. I understand their reasons for doing so (simplifying the OS by a significant amount, obsessively controlling the device's operation) but I think the benefits of 3rd party apps on a device like that would be more valuable. 2¢ (canadian pennies)
@geminitojanus: "You people do remember that Palm was started by employees who left Apple, right? Apple buying Palm back would be quite a coup for two reasons: one, the ex-Apple employees would rub it in Apple's face that they succeeded without Apple's guidance, and two, Palm's incredible gesture software and experience with phones could go miles towards helping Apple's cellphone venture succeed."
You do remember that NeXT was started by an employee who left Apple, right? Apple buying Palm back would not be a coup for one reason: the ex-Apple employees would relate to Jobs who didn't even succeed after leaving Apple (till they bought NeXT of course).
And Palms suck anyway. Sorry, just never liked Palms or Windows Mobile devices much. Apple has their stuff with the multi-touch and everything nearly ready to go. They don't seem to need the leftovers from the failed Newton anymore. - flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Apple would never buy Palm. For one thing, Palm products look like horse-drawn buggies next to the Bugatti Veyron that is the iPhone.
My fanboyism aside :-) , Palm was founded by ex-Newton people from Apple. Newton was great, but it was a John Sculley project. When Steve returned to Apple, he shut down the unprofitable Newton group. Steve would not touch them now with a cattle prod. Use a Newton 2000 or 2100 for a while, then look at a Palm product. The Newton is still amazing today. Pity, really.
Palm is a corporate zombie, a walking dead thing. - juliocgrajales, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its a waster of money Nokia should not buy Palm, it should work with Open Source Java and create something themselves that is better, Palm will always suck, Blackberry has a better software, Nokia Don't Buy Palm, Come on they came out with handspring and the treo are more expensive than ipods and a blackberry combined makes no sense to me, so good luck Nokia, $2 billion dollars OMG they can invest 10% of that in Open Source Product and they will get a higher investment than purchasing something that is old, software old, nothing good about it $2 billion dollars look at Digg $200 to a single programmer started the phenomenon of Digg, If you get what I am trying to say
- pinkert11, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9If apple bought them, it would ruin them! The best thing about a real Plam, not a windows one, is that it is open. Apple would lock the palm down and ruin it.
I have used Treo's since Handspring, and I just moved up from the 650 to the 680, gota love them!
Long live palm, long live the open device! - Arctirus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Flukes, you fail.
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/5316/1174329819failrs1.jpg - NerdcoreFalling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now if only they could make tech support better. (Having repeated technical with my TX.)
- longterm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Having owned a Treo 650 and then a 700p, I can say from personal experience, that there's nothing incredible about the Palm OS. I sold my 700p last month because I had nothing but problems with a phone that has yet to be updated to fix glaring problems with the OS.
Motorola can buy it if they want, they can wrap it in gold leaf, but when it comes down to it, a turd wrapped in gold is... still a turd. - gquaglia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I guess you don't know too much about the Moto Q. Its no Treo Killer by any means...
- spindrift, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1How many shares do you own now, and how much were they when you bought them?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Owning Palm's OS strikes me as more of a liability than an asset.
- gadgetboy32, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Who uses a Palm anyway? Very few.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Does Palm still worth 2 billion?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -35/+2Why can't Apple buy them; I want a multitouch PDA!
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