Palm, Inc.
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Palm, Inc. manufactures the Palm OS-based Zire, Tungsten PDAs, Treo smartphones and the LifeDrive. Previous product lines include the Palm Pilot, Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII.
Palm Computing, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, later co-inventors of the Palm Pilot. Its first product was 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 September 26th 2005, Palm announced a partnership with Verizon and Microsoft, to create the first Windows Mobile-powered Treo known as the Palm Treo 700w.
Contents |
List of PDA models
Current models
Discontinued models
The following PDAs are no longer in production.
| Discontinued Model | Replacement model |
| PalmPilot 1000 | Zire 31 |
| PalmPilot 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 T5 |
| Tungsten T2 | Tungsten T5 |
| Tungsten T3 | Tungsten T5 |
| Tungsten W | Treo 650 |
| 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 |
