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Palm today boosted its commitment to China with a three-tiered advance into the rapidly growing market. Palm has announced new plans to extend Palm's presence in China and advance the company's goal of worldwide geographic and demographic growth. Palm has established a new Pacific R&D and Operations center in Shanghai, announced cooperation with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator, with more than 240 million subscribers and the Treo 680 has been launched in cooperation with CEC Telecom Science and Technology Co. and distribution partner, Beijing Riverwill Communication Technology Co. Ltd.

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Just positioning themselves to...

SeldomVisitor @ 3/6/2007 1:29:42 PM #

...be bought by ACCESS!

I mean...who else!?

Giggle.

RE: Just positioning themselves to...

hkklife @ 3/6/2007 2:32:33 PM #

Twrock suggested this as something he heard through the grapevine (remember he resides in Japan currently) about a month ago. And let's not forget TVoR "suggesting" Palm was going to be bought out by a company with 6 letters in their name.

I also threw out the possibility of NTT DoCoMo snagging Palm and/or Access a while back, if for no other reason than for the Palm/Treo trademarks/name clout/domestic carrier agreements.

Another thought:

Palm gets "split" down the middle, with Hawkins & co. taking the legacy PDA line & the Palm name over to Numenta but with Access taking the Treo line/branding/carrier agreements for use for a big US push.

At THIS stage of the game, with people still equating "Palm" to "PalmPilots", I'd wager that the Treo brand has about as much equity/clout/recognition as "Palm" itself does!

That thought is, quite possibly.....worth a "giggle".

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: Just positioning themselves to...

twrock @ 3/6/2007 7:19:46 PM #

Small correction: I'm in Taiwan, not Japan. "Taiwan, the world's OEM."

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RE: Just positioning themselves to...

twrock @ 3/6/2007 7:20:36 PM #

Oh, and as much as I'd like to just let that completely groundless "acquisition of Palm by ACCESS" rumor just hang out there, I was only blowing smoke. (At least that's what my sources told me to come back here and claim in an attempt to cover for them.)

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RE: Just positioning themselves to...

SeldomVisitor @ 3/6/2007 7:28:21 PM #

> ...Taiwan...

Hey!

Ask HTC when they're gonna acquire PALM!?

RE: Just positioning themselves to...

ballistic @ 3/6/2007 7:40:04 PM #

GOOGLE has six letters...

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RE: Just positioning themselves to...

SeldomVisitor @ 3/6/2007 8:06:57 PM #

HTC, INC has 6 letters!

RE: Just positioning themselves to...

SeldomVisitor @ 3/6/2007 8:07:18 PM #

DOCOMO has 6 letters (and thus we have gone full circle back to ACCESS! Life is good.)

reinventing the wheel...

LTH @ 3/6/2007 2:36:53 PM #

rather than "establishing a new Pacific R&D and Operations center in Shanghai", they'd rather ask GSPDA to do the job

RE: reinventing the wheel...

twrock @ 3/6/2007 7:11:38 PM #

While they are at it, why don't they either "fix" or just plain shut down their current Asia-Pacific headquarters. My dealings with them over the past year were frustrating beyond measure!

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