Palm and HP

In case you didn't hear, we just announced a merger with a little shop down the street called HP. That little shop happens to be the world’s largest technology company, and certainly one of the most revered companies in all of tech-land. Can you say "webOS acceleration"? We’re pretty excited, and pleased we surprised the world again. Go here for more information. 

Jon Zilber

Important Information for Palm Stockholders

In connection with the proposed merger, Palm will file a proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER PROXY MATERIALS THAT PALM FILES WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE MERGER AND RELATED MATTERS.

Palm and HP and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the proposed merger. Information about Palm’s directors and executive officers is set forth in the proxy statement for Palm’s 2009 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on August 13, 2009. Information about HP’s directors and executive officers is set forth in the proxy statement for HP’s 2010 annual meeting of stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on January 27, 2010, and in HP’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2009, which was filed with the SEC on December 17, 2009. Additional information regarding these persons and their interests in the merger will be included in the proxy statement relating to the merger when it is filed with the SEC. The proxy statement, any additional proxy materials and Palm’s other SEC filings are, or when filed will be, available free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, by going to Palm’s Investor Relations page on its corporate website or by contacting Palm’s Investor Relations department by e-mail at teri.klein@palm.com, by phone at (408) 617-7000, or by mail at Palm, Investor Relations, 950 West Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94085. 

Comments

[Jose Lozano]

I Love Palm Products and have to confess that I was really worried for their future, great news for all the Palm addicts, I waited months for the Pre, and can´t live without my smartphone and TX, I can hardly wait for the new releases that expect to include also powerful new PDAS.

[Daniel Toro]

Hola...saludos atodos.

A veces las buenas ideas necesitan un empujoncito.....PALM es la "Idea Genial", y HP tiene la capacidad extra para conformar un producto de siguiente nivel.

Felicidades.

p.d. WEBOS es el mejor OS que he probado.

[James Rice]

I've been a Palm user since the US Robotics Pilot 5000 in 1996. I graduated to a Palm Pilot III, Palm Pilot Vx, Treo 650 and to a Treo 700P. I've actually been buying used 700P's on eBay because I use a mission critical app that only runs on PalmOS. I've been holding off upgrading to a Pre because I was concerned about the survival of Palm but after the HP news, I upgraded yesterday to a Palm Pre+ and found my app runs great in Classic. Long Live Palm and WebOS. BTW, my contacts that I migrated to the new Pre are from the same database I have been building since 1996 and it migrated to WebOS seamlessly! Try that with an iPhone or Winblows 7.

[Jeff]

As a long time palm customer I am still waiting for the GSM version to come to Canada

This is Cool, so the Pre Plus is the iphone killer and now they can come up with a WebOS tables to be a ipad killer

[Ledgerline]

As most of us here I think this is a great move and better hardware would be greatly appreciated. My question though is what of us die hard Palm fans that bounced from Treo to Pre, will HP honor us with some nice discount on the new evolution or are we going to get sucked into the typical "Thanks for the support but you need to pay full price to get the future enhancements?" Just a thought.

Lates

Are they gonna make a pocket comp.

[etude]

pre is the best!!SMASH the iphone! SMASH the droid and SMASH the blackberries! if pre can put an external card in and run smoother then i dont need much more! oh except 4g!! i love the perfect size and form to my hand. i show people all the time i can run anything i want with just a swipe or so. make 2 versions! one same size and one larger! think this is incredible merge if they keep it the palm! palm was is and always the best!! F the iphone! thanx palm for everything!!been user for 10 years and will remain faithfull if you continue the best!!

[etude]

LOVE THE SLIDER! IF POSSIBLE DO THAT AS WELL AS FLIP THE PHONE OPEN WHERE 2 SCREENS ARE SHOWING AND HAVE ONE GINOURMOUS SCREEN FOR VIDEOGAMES SURFING THE WEB AND PICTURE VIEWING..WELL EVERYTHING! I DONT WANT A BIGGER PHONE IN MY POCKET!

[Peter Harbison]

Please may i buy a palm / hp pad that takes palm script (block writing) ;
and with Cory Doctorow as copyright advisor

[Gary L Bowers]

I've been a Palm user for a long time.....no more This palm pre plus...why is palm even on it . You can't sync with palm desktop. It's useless. Wish I'd never started with palm. Phone with Verizon is nice it's the damn palm part that stinks!!

[Anthony]

My wife and I both have the Palm Pre smart phone and have been very happy with them. The lack of applications is a negative, but neither of us have time to play with billions of applications. I am hopeful that the backing of HP will allow Palm to rebuild and become a solid company. HP is a powerhouse corporation and this may be a play to silence Palm for good a.k.a the Microsoft acquire and kill tactic.

[Andrés Febres-Cordero]

I still have a Treo 680, I've been waiting and waiting for the Pre to become available in Venezuela, and was very close to switch to iPhone because I've seen no further innovations in Palm but in other brands. Now I'll keep waiting for the Pre to become a developed powerful phone which will without doubts in a short period of time.

[qiu kang]

Congratulations HP - Palm is the Business mans OS phone, easy use, functional etc in 1 or 2 clicks unlike the the others. Please bring Palm OS back to Asia - Target the business man - I assure you it will work for you.

[nyla]

I'm happy that palm is coming out with a new phone. However y is the palm 2 coming out with verizon. Sprint has been loyal 2 palm for years. Sprint should have been bless with the palm 2 first or created this special palm 2 just 4 us. I'm not happy about the decision palm choose to make. Then I begin 2 think is there beef between palm and sprint??? Just wondering

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