Written by Peter Murphy on Monday, January 5, 2009

Palm, CES, Thursday, The Rumour Mill!


palm_keyboardPalm have made no secret about a big announcement, scheduled for this Thursday, they’ve even held a contest, so that excited, expectant, loyal Palm users could win a look at their next big thing.

What is expected, is at least the unveiling of an updated OS, the rumoured Nova? A post from TechCrunch today though, seems to be offering us a little bit more than just the OS.

We have information from a trusted source that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will be launched Thursday. The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen. We’ll have a mock-up shortly.

Yes they have a mock up for us, and a bad one at that, but their sources also make iPhone comparisons, to the OS not the form factor of the phone.

Anyone remember a show, “Ripley’s Believe it or Not”.

Exclusive: New Palm phone to have slide-down keyboard, large touchscreen

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Wayne Schulz
Jan 5, 2009

I sure hope they have more than this to show. Also the operating system is going to be key to the success of this device.

Listening to the GDGT podcast yesterday I am 100% in agreement with their comments. If Palm doesn't hit the stage Thursday with some carrier/vendor support then that may be a good indication of things to come (aka failure).


pedah
Jan 5, 2009

@ Wayne, if hadn't read Ryan's tweets on this today, I wouldn't have even considered posting on it. A new device from palm won't deliver without an OS update, what about a Centro running Android, with a capacitive touch screen and an app store! full QWERTY Keyboard, built in bottle opener and TV remote :)

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