Despite a promise last week to elaborate on its plans, Palm Australia is keeping its shutters closed tightly when it comes to revealing whether Australia will be included in the company's aggressive push to capture the mass-market.
The industry leader will launch the latest editions in its Tungsten and Zire product lines this month, and they'll pack features never seen before in a Palm, sources say.
Palm will buy rival Handspring for approximately US$169 million in an effort to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices.
The next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will be available to licensees at the end of the year, according to a PalmSource executive.
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Palm's entry-level handheld now has more memory and a faster processor.
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