Verizon Wireless, owner of the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced the immediate availability of the Palm® Treo™ 755p smartphone in exclusive deep blue-green. Beginning today, customers may purchase the Treo 755p online at www.verizonwireless.com
Compared to its Treo 700p predecessor, the Treo 755p has a sleeker design with an internal antenna and a soft-touch feel. Featuring a large, high-resolution, color touch-screen for quick stylus access to applications, the Treo 755p offers a full QWERTY keyboard for easy e-mail creation, Web browsing and text messaging. It also includes features such as a 1.3 megapixel camera and built-in support for Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint® documents and PDF documents. Customers can view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files, and view PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Running the Palm OS®, the new Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless gives mobile professionals the tools they need to help maximize productivity.
Built-in Support for Direct Push Technology for E-mail
The Treo 755p offers VersaMail® 3.5.45 with built-in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® support for Microsoft Direct Push Technology that delivers e-mail and calendar updates from a home or office PC using Outlook®. Businesses connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server get fast, automatic wireless updates of e-mail, calendar and contact information with added IT security and remote manageability.
Treo 755p users also have the option of using Verizon Wireless’ Wireless Sync for quick and easy access to personal or corporate e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks from their home or office PC. Customers can sync up to 10 POP3 or IMAP e-mail accounts, including AOL®, Yahoo! ® Premium and more with their Treo 755p. Wireless Sync supports Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino®.
Fast Speeds with Verizon Wireless’ Broadband Network
Verizon Wireless customers using the Treo 755p have the benefit of Verizon Wireless’ EV-DO high-speed network to send and receive data. Verizon Wireless’ broadband network is the most reliable national wireless broadband network in the country and available from coast to coast.
For customers interested in using their Treo 755p smartphones as modems with a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess Connect service plan to send and receive data from notebook PCs, the Treo 755p can easily take advantage of the 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps typical download speeds of the Verizon Wireless EV-DO network. The Treo 755p comes with built-in 60 MB of user-available memory and can be enhanced by using the miniSD™ slot to add separately purchased memory cards of up to 4 GB for storing data, photos, music, and video.
Integrated Google Maps for Mobile
With Google Maps™ installed right out of the box, Verizon Wireless customers using the Treo 755p can get directions; perform local searches; and view moveable/scalable maps, satellite imagery, and traffic updates while on-the-go. Customers can also map a contact’s address directly from the contact listing simply by selecting the “maps” button.
Pricing
The Palm Treo 755p from Verizon Wireless is available for $399.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and new two-year customer agreement. Customers who purchase a qualified voice plan along with a data plan may be eligible for an additional $100 credit making the Treo 755p $299.99 for those customers.
Verizon Wireless Nationwide E-mail plans for the Treo 755p begin at $79.99 for 450 anytime voice minutes and unlimited e-mail. For more information on any Verizon Wireless product or service, visit www.verizonwireless.com .
Creative Algorithms, developer of award-winning Trip Boss(TM) travel manager, is pleased to announce the release of Trip Boss 3.0. Trip Boss 3.0 adds a checklist feature for multiple task lists and access to wireless travel information such as real-time currency exchange rates, real-time flight status, real-time weather forecasts and radar, and much more. Plan itineraries, track expenses, organize with check lists, log mileage, budget vacations, keep a journal, rate places, access live travel info and more with this essential all-in-one travel manager for Palm OS®-based handhelds and smartphones.
Organize Trips with Check Lists
The new check list feature was designed for usability. Easily create and edit multiple lists for packing, tasks to-do, gift lists, shopping lists, sightseeing lists—anything where you need a list. All lists are carried over from trip to trip—no need to recreate the list each time. “…Trip Boss is the perfect companion, and the best in its class.”–Palmtop User Magazine
Access Travel Information Wirelessly
Use Trip Boss’ Travel Aide wireless feature on the Palm® Treo(TM) smartphone or wifi-enabled PDA, such as the Palm® T|X, to access real-time travel information such as real-time currency rates, real-time weather forecasts and radar, real-time flight status, maps and directions, and much more, directly from Creative Algorithms’ Mobile Travel Aide(TM). “Trip Boss is brilliantly implemented…”–Handheld Computing Magazine
About Trip Boss(TM)
The award-winning Trip Boss is a complete travel manager, designed for both business and personal travel. Plan, organize, track, record, and report all your travel data in one convenient package. Trip Boss 3.0 supports any device using Palm OS version 3.0 and higher, including the Treo, Tungsten, Zire, and LifeDrive lines. Awarded a 10 out of 10 from Palm Addict in early 2007, Trip Boss was a finalist in the 2006 Handango Champion awards, recipient of the Palm Addict Award of Excellence in 2005, and named Software of the Year in 2004 from PDA247.
Pricing and Availability
Trip Boss 3.0 can be downloaded for a 30-day, fully-functional, free trial and purchased from http://www.creativealgorithms.com for $34.95. Registered users can update to the new release at no additional cost. For more information on this powerful travel management tool for the Palm® Treo(TM) smartphone and Palm OS®-based PDA, please visit Creative Algorithms’ website.
Palm keeps on using that old and tired Palm OS in newer and sleeker looking skins and todays announcement with Sprint is no exception. The new Treo 755p still sports the Palm OS (does it matter what version number anymore? How ’bout just v5 YO — 5 Years Old) but it’s the case that brings some appeal to the eye. Now with an integrated antenna, the Treo 755p won’t jab you in the side anymore. You’ll also notice two new colors, Midnight Blue and Burgundy, shown here. Oh yes, it’s also lost some weight and is now slimmer at the belt line.
Inside this CDMA, this becomes the first Treo device to get Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology e-mail support built-in. You’ll also get Google Maps for mobile to help you navigate about. Unfortunately, the 755p still only has EV-DO Rev 0, not the newer and much faster Rev A. In a nutshell, that’s about all that’s new here.
The Treo 755p is priced at $279.99 with a two-year contract and is exclusively offered only with Sprint.
While SplashData has long been known for organizing important records – such as passwords, photos, checking account transactions, and shopping lists – with its popular SplashWallet suite for mobile devices, the company has now set its sights much higher.your thoughts. With its new SplashNotes, announced today, SplashData offers a software tool aimed at helping people outline and organize everything from work projects, meeting agendas and speeches to class notes and event plans.
SplashNotes is a powerful note taker, list manager, outliner and information organizer for Palm handhelds and smartphones, including Treo, Zire and Tungsten models. It comes with companion Windows software that enables users to enter their notes on a desktop computer and then synchronize the notes with a Palm handheld to take with them wherever they go.
“There are so many practical uses for SplashNotes, both personal and professional,” said Morgan Slain, SplashData’s CEO. “Businesspeople can use it for meetings, projects, and collaboration among teams. Teachers can use it for lesson planning, and students can use it to take notes. Pastors can use it to prepare sermons. Little League coaches can use it to plan for practice and record the progress of their players.”
“SplashNotes is already one of my must-have applications on both my laptop and Treo,” said Mark Nemens, a San Jose-based real estate developer. “I use it for taking notes in meetings, tracking prospective deals, helping manage my properties, and on and on. Its usability really is only limited by your imagination.” Read the rest of this entry »
Have you ever wondered just how many days it will be until a certain event? My kids ask me daily how many days it is until Friday, Saturday, or Sunday for church. Fortunately, those are easy amounts to figure out, but if you have something a bit further down the road, then you may wish to check out Date Wheel 3 for your Palm OS PDA or smartphone. With just three sections to press and enter data into, you’ll know in an instant how many days it is until you get an extra hour of sleep when we fall back. See our review for more details.
In order to celebrate Valentines Day next week, Astraware and PopCap Games have introduced a Valentines Day version of Bejeweled, the bestselling game for handheld devices. This special version combines all the fun and excitement of the original Bejeweled with a few special editions, including red heart shaped jewels and a ‘Valentines Special’ option so you can bejewel your Valentine with special personalized messages.
Current owners of the original Bejeweled can download the Valentine’s day special for free. If you don’t have the original you can purchase it at a special Valentines spot on Astraware’s site.. If you purchase the Valentines day special, your code will also work for the original game, so either way if you purchase one, you get the other for free. It will only be available for a couple of weeks so get yours today!
The new version of this classic game is available for several new devices, including Smartphones (including landscape screens) and Windows Mobile users with 240×240 screens.
When I checked in to CES yesterday, I couldn’t believe my eyes. They were scanning my card through a reader attached to a Handspring PDA. A black and white model, even!
When I was at one of the manufacturers I was interviewing, I asked for details on the legacy hardware use. I was told that all the vendors are forced to rent them at a couple of hundred dollars a day and they have to pay for the data at the end of the show! Now I did see other booths with the more modern readers, so when the word “forced” was used, I suspect that’s if you don’t bring your own fancy new bling version. Still, funny to see Handspring living after all these years of being absorbed by Palm, Inc. Grand.
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced it has signed an agreement with ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. (formerly PalmSource, Inc.) to license the source code for Palm OS Garnet, the version of the Palm OS used in several Treo(TM) smartphone models and all Palm(R) handheld computers. Under the agreement, Palm has a perpetual license to use as well as to innovate on the Palm OS Garnet code base. Palm will retain ownership rights in its innovations.
The new agreement also provides Palm flexibility to use Palm OS Garnet in whole or in part in any Palm product, and together with any other system technologies. The company plans to ensure that applications now compatible with Palm OS Garnet will operate with little or no modification in future Palm products that employ Palm OS Garnet as the company evolves it over time to support Palm’s product differentiation strategy.
In addition, Palm has secured an expansion of its existing patent license from ACCESS to cover all current and future Palm products, regardless of the underlying operating system.
For all of these rights, Palm will pay ACCESS a total of $44 million, which will be paid in Palm’s third quarter of fiscal year 2007, and will be recognized as an expense over the next several years. This single payment eliminates the requirement for Palm to pay ACCESS continuing royalties of 10s of millions of dollars over the coming years.
“This agreement gives Palm increased ability to innovate on the Palm OS Garnet base, and to effectively differentiate Palm products long into the future,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development at Palm, Inc. “We value the Palm OS development community, and are very committed to our loyal base of Palm OS customers, all of whom will benefit from the agreement just concluded with ACCESS.”
Just as it will continue to enhance Palm OS, Palm will continue to support and further innovate on its implementation of Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition, which it licenses from Microsoft. By supporting both operating systems, Palm gives its customers — from carriers and enterprises to consumers and small businesses — a choice of operating environment.
Astraware(R) and Sandlot Games are excited to announce the release of Glyph for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) for Pocket PC and Smartphone.
Save the dying world of Kuros by reassembling ancient glyphs hidden beneath layers of rock and glistening stones. Using stylus or buttons, clear groups of like-colored gemstones to break through the layers of rock and reveal the glyphs. Several different types of powerup will aid you in your task. Progress through 5 elemental areas and 125 levels to complete Quest mode, or explore the simpler challenge of over 100 levels in Action mode.
“Glyph is, in a word, gorgeous!” said Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware. “A fun game with a simple premise, but with an incredible depth of atmosphere that draws you in to keep on playing!”
Glyph for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) is based upon the highly-acclaimed PC game from Sandlot Games. With its beautiful graphics, ethereal soundtrack and atmospheric sound effects, Glyph is the perfect game to enjoy through the Holiday Season and into the New Year.
“Glyph is a game which works extremely well in a handheld touch-screen environment,” said Daniel Bernstein, CEO of Sandlot Games. “We are once again excited to have Astraware as a partner to deliver this quality game to the handheld market.”
Glyph is available now for devices running Palm OS(R) 5.0 with high resolution screens, Windows Mobile(R) for Pocket PC 2003 and higher with QVGA, VGA and 240×240 square screens, and Windows Mobile(R) for Smartphone 2003 and higher with standard 176×220, and portrait or landscape QVGA screens. Glyph is priced at $19.95 with a special release discount for Club Astraware members.
The Holiday Season is upon us and if you’re searching for the perfect gift for your favorite Palm OS(R) or Windows Mobile(R) user, why not get them an Astraware Gift Certificate? It’s the ideal way to buy games for your friends and relations without having to know device IDs, and also allows you to give Astraware games to people who don’t have a credit card.
Buying a Gift Certificate is very simple – you only need the recipient’s name and email address. Astraware even offers a choice of gifting options: either buy and print the Gift Certificate so you can hand it to the person directly; or buy the Certificate and send it via email – ideal for those last minute gifts or long distance friends and relations. Astraware Gift Certificates are available in a range of values from $15 up to $100. For more information, visit the Astraware website: http://www.astraware.com/giftcertificate/.
What’s more, if you’re a Club Astraware member, you can earn points from any Gift Certificates you buy, and those points can be used to treat yourself!