Palm brand will officially be resurrected

[winb83]

Early smartphone pioneer Palm is making a comeback—at least in name. Chinese multinational TCL Communication, which produces smartphones as the Alcatel OneTouch, recently announced it would relaunch the Palm brand as a U.S.-based company. TCL acquired the rights to the Palm name from Hewlett-Packard.

Although the name Palm will return, the original company won't be resurrected. The last remnants of the original Palm are distributed across LG, which now owns the webOS platform after purchasing it from HP. In January 2014, HP also sold off Palm's patent portfolio to Qualcomm.

HP acquired Palm in 2010 for $1.2 billion after the handset maker struggled to compete against Android and iOS with webOS.

The impact on you at home: TCL says it plans to recreate Palm as a Silicon Valley-based company that will put a high price on innovation. It seems unlikely, however, that TCL would have Palm create its own smartphone platform--a strategy that was the original Palm's undoing. Based on what TCL does with the Alcatel OneTouch brand it's likely Palm is about to become another Android smartphone vendor. That's just speculation, however, as TCL has said nothing about its product plans.

When will we see it?
TCL isn't saying when the new Palm will open its doors or when the company will have its first device ready. The new Palm will have access to TCL's various assets around the globe, including its seven R&D centers, manufacturing facilities, supply chain, and the company's sales, marketing, and technical teams.

TCL says it also hopes to rebuild the Palm community as an effort to reignite the Palm brand. TCL CEO George Guo recently told Phone Scoop it will look to Palm fans for suggestions on new devices, operating systems, and apps.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/2866276/palm-lives-tcl-to-revive-the-classic-brand.html

So it's basically RCA now. A defunct brand somebody bought the name rights to.

 

[scarlxrd]

First Blackberry and now this? Mother fukkers never learn.

 

[el_oh_el]

 

[HookersandIceCream]

First Blackberry and now this? Mother fukkers never learn.

One is not like the other

 

[Tunez]

R.I.P. Palm

 

[scarlxrd]

One is not like the other

Both are deceased but companies refuse to let them RIP

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Both are deceased but companies refuse to let them RIP

I dont know where you been but blackberry is still generates 11 Billion in reveue. Palm is dead not because it failed but because it was integrated into HP.

 

[scarlxrd]

I dont know where you been but blackberry is still generates 11 Billion in reveue. Palm is dead not because it failed but because it was integrated into HP.

You want to Blackberry, huh?

http://internet2go.net/news/data-and-forecasts/blackberry-posts-fiscal-q1-loss-it-all-over

BlackBerry posted a "suprise loss" (based on analyst forecasts) in fiscal Q1 of $84 million. The company announced that it had shipped 6.8 million smartphones**. However of those only 2.7 million were BlackBerry 10 handsets (Z10 and Q10).

The much-touted Z10 all-touchscreen phone seems to be a complete flop. The more "traditional" Q10, with its hardware keyboard, may wind up being more successful; it has only been on the market a few months.

These phones, it now seems clear, won't save the company. And BlackBerry is becoming increasingly marginalized in the smartphone and tablet world -- even in the enterprise it's traditional stronghold.

**That's shipped meaning stores purchased, not sold through meaning consumers purchased and of those, the top seller was a flop.

http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-market-share-falls-just-1-5-182055866.html

Not recently enough? lemme know, I'll

Just for some seasoning --

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/blackberry-may-finally-hit-rock-bottom-u-s-market-share/

All of that from 10 minutes on Google. Now

 

[HookersandIceCream]

You want to Blackberry, huh?

http://internet2go.net/news/data-and-forecasts/blackberry-posts-fiscal-q1-loss-it-all-over



**That's shipped meaning stores purchased, not sold through meaning consumers purchased and of those, the top seller was a flop.

http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-market-share-falls-just-1-5-182055866.html

Not recently enough? lemme know, I'll

Just for some seasoning --

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/blackberry-may-finally-hit-rock-bottom-u-s-market-share/

All of that from 10 minutes on Google. Now

All that proves is that its far from dead

 

[licktheballs]

palm

 

[scarlxrd]

All that proves is that its far from dead

2.3% of a 100% market share where Symbian phones

holds 0.1% at the bottom and android holds 52% at the top is FAR from dead? Alright. We're done here.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

2.3% of a 100% market share where Symbian phones

holds 0.1% at the bottom and android holds 52% at the top is FAR from dead? Alright. We're done here.

Yes 11 billion in revenue is still far from dead
I dont think you know what dead means
They will be dead in a few years though

 

[ThiefyPoo]

Palm the goat everyone stole from them yall new nikkas disgust me not knowing your roots.

Compeition is always good i wish you fukk boys would understand that .

 

[Jone2three45]

Heard it may not even be Palm OS, it will be based on Android. Is that true?

 

[Tunez]

Heard it may not even be Palm OS, it will be based on Android. Is that true?

They can't do webos, LG bought it, some webos devs work at google, LG, and Pebble.

Alcatel uses android os, windows phone os and Firefox os