Palm extends its Zire and Tungsten lines with three new handhelds

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Palm Zire 71 Handheld Features and Benefits
New Design Includes Integrated Digital Camera
The Palm Zire 71 handheld's innovative new design features a slider that reveals and activates the digital camera, providing the opportunity for fun, impromptu digital images. A bright 320 x 320 display that supports more than 65,000 colours acts as the viewfinder, and snapshots can be saved within the 16MB of memory (13MB usable) or onto expansion cards that go beyond 256MB. The camera automatically activates by sliding open the device. With the touch of a button, users can instantly capture the photo.

Media aficionados also will enjoy listening to MP3s,(1) watching video clips and carrying their personal photo albums wherever they go.

Other new Zire handheld features include a fast, ARM processor that boosts power and speed for video clips or games, and 5-way navigation with an all-new joystick-like button for one-handed operation.

The Zire 71 handheld is available worldwide.

Palm Tungsten C Handheld Features and Benefits
New Design Includes Built-in Wireless Connectivity
The Tungsten C handheld debuts several innovations in design and technology to address what business professionals want most in a handheld. It is Palm's first handheld to ship with integrated Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, for wireless connectivity.(2) It offers 64MB(3) of memory to manage data-intensive applications; 400MHz of Intel processing power to drastically reduce wait times for almost any query or application; a 320 x 320 transflective TFT display (Palm's sharpest screen to date for indoor and outdoor viewing); and integrated, full-featured business applications, such as VersaMail(TM) 2.5 for email, and DataViz(R) Documents To Go(R) for efficiently managing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint compatible documents.

The Tungsten C handheld is available worldwide.

Palm Tungsten W Handheld Features and Benefits
New Design Includes Integrated Triband GSM/GPRS
Palm will launch the Tungsten W handheld in the UAE working with Etisalat. Palm will provide an Etisalat network configuration card with the Tungsten W handheld, which will allow users to upload Etisalat network settings for ease of use and carrier activation. With GSM/GPRS activation, the Palm Tungsten W handheld is a data-centric handheld providing a sophisticated combination of wireless email, SMS messaging, phone functionality, business applications, and Palm's classic Personal Information Management (PIM) software.(2) The Palm Tungsten W handheld is built with one of the fastest radios available today for the GSM/GPRS network, the most widely supported wireless technology used by hundreds of operators worldwide.

'The configuration card is key to the ease of use for which Palm is famous,' commented Maughan. 'You just need to slip the SD Card into the expansion slot and with a simple interface load the applications and all the settings needed for EWAP and MNET services [WAP and WEB browsing]. Customers are looking for products that are easy to use out of the box -- they want to be able to switch on the devise and start using the features without lengthy and complicated configuration. That's what we're providing.'

About Palm, Inc.
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Please see today's related releases from Palm, Inc., 'New Palm Tungsten C Delivers Uncompromising Wireless Power and Speed.', 'Palm Introduces the First Multimedia-capable Zire Handheld.' and ' Palm Introduces New Integrated Wireless Handheld with Built-in Keyboard and Colour Screen.'

(1) Listening to MP3s requires the use of an expansion card, sold separately.
(2) The Tungsten W handheld will be available only in the UAE at launch. A GPRS MNET Internet service account is required for Internet and email; these services need to be purchased separately. Separate purchase of airtime contract is also required for voice functionality.
(3) Actual free memory is 51MB.

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