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Alexander Turcic · 07-31-2005, 11:16 AM

C|Net grabbed a few minutes from Palm's Asia-Pacific VP Paul Blinkhorn and asked him why the company recently changed its name back from PalmOne to Palm and how they perceive the future of the PDA market. Basically, Palm is convinced that it carries a "tremendous brand equity around the world" worth spending $30m in cash for and that the PDA market is still dominant thanks to - and that is a new spin to me - GPS (apparently Europeans love to carry GPS devices around helping them to find their way back home). At least we have a strong statement from Palm here that, despite the strong growth in smartphone sales, the company is not planning to abandon the PDA sector any time soon. Good!

Although Blinkhorn refuses a direct answer, he also makes it seem less likely that Palm is going to release Windows Mobile devices any time soon.

07-31-2005, 11:16 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Palm: PDAs still important because of GPS C\|Net grabbed a few minutes from Palm's Asia-Pacific VP Paul Blinkhorn and asked him why the company recently changed its name back from PalmOne to Palm and how they perceive the future of the PDA market. Basically, Palm is convinced that it carries a "tremendous brand equity around the world" worth spending $30m in cash for and that the PDA market is still dominant thanks to - and that is a new spin to me - GPS (apparently Europeans love to carry GPS devices around helping them to find their way back home). At least we have a strong statement from Palm here that, despite the strong growth in smartphone sales, the company is not planning to abandon the PDA sector any time soon. Good! Although Blinkhorn refuses a direct answer, he also makes it seem less likely that Palm is going to release Windows Mobile devices any time soon.