The 700p also marks Palm's return to its traditional Palm OS operating system.
There's no denying that PalmSource, which handles the Palm operating system, has been hurting lately.
Gaming and industrial measurement are the two latest ideas for putting the Palm operating system to use.
Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
And this time it's putting the Palm operating system into a device no bigger than a digital watch.
As recently as a year ago, the Palm operating system was still on top of the mobile software market.
The two-year life of webOS, the operating system Palm created for its first Pre smartphone, has been marked by uncertainty.
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Any device it unveils is expected to be based around the Palm operating system after it bought the company earlier in the year.
The new OS will allow manufacturers to choose from a greater scope of processors and radios, but still use the Palm operating system.
PalmSource also hopes to expand its business worldwide by using CMS technology to develop a new version of its Palm operating system that will run on Linux-based phone sets.
The company said businesses and schools were buying more Palms and the company is sticking to its strategy of embracing wireless technology and licensing the Palm operating system to competing device makers.
The second was the news from the team working with the open source elements of WebOS, who have the former Palm operating system running on another Nexus device, the Nexus 7.
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However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
The PDA pioneer sought to take advantage of its dominance in handhelds, and stave off rival Pocket PCs powered by Windows CE, by licensing the Palm operating system while continuing to use it.
When released, the handheld, which once carried the code name of Helix but now will apparently be called the Zodiac, will run on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system, and from the bare specifications the company has let slip so far, it looks impressive.
Atlanta-based EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ), the No. 3 Internet service provider in the U.S., is now offering wireless Internet service to not just Blackberry and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) pagers, but also to devices based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) operating system and Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) PocketPC platform.
"Koefoed also noted that the operating system from Palm and Research in Motion both have their own set of development challenges, " Barnicle writes.
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Hewlett-Packard is said to have killed the Slate, which was to be based on Microsoft's Windows, and is now reportedly working on a tablet using an operating system from Palm, the smart-phone maker that HP recently bought.
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There is no doubt that HP is getting a large patent portfolio, a strong team of engineers, and a proprietary operating system in Palm webOS, and it is reasonable to assume that HP did not have other ways to acquire such assets for less than the price it is paying for Palm.
Palm licensed its operating system to Nokia and Handspring, cutting Microsoft Windows CE off at the knees.
To help share development costs of webOS and expand the market for its developers, HP has warmed to the idea of licensing the Palm-developed operating system.
In the coming months, HP hopes to roll out consumer and business devices with wireless connection to the Internet, thanks to the operating system acquired with Palm.
There were none in the call, but here is the vision last Thursday, before Hurd left: HP is about to roll out a number of Web-connected devices, using the operating system acquired with Palm earlier this year.
Like its predecessors, the newest PalmPilot, the Palm III, is one of the best-designed bits of consumer electronics ever made. 3Com's proprietary operating system, the Palm OS, is amazingly intuitive and perfectly adapted to a device that most users turn on for mere seconds at a time.
The world already knew that HP planned to release a tablet PC running webOS, the operating system it acquired when it purchased Palm.
Palm wants to bring its WebOS operating system to other U.S. carriers, which means Sprint has a limited monopoly on what makes the Pre special.
Palm makes its own, well-received operating system, webOS, which competes directly with Android.
They have already endured a series of disappointments as the mobile operating system ran into obstacles under its creator, Palm, and then under its acquirer, HP.
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