The palmOne online store is currently offering a number of specials and free bonuses on handheld purchases. Read on for a comprehensive list and special offers.

PalmSource has released version 1.5 of thier PalmSource Installer developer tool. It is a significant update that address a number of key developer issues.

A listing for a new Chinese Palm OS Powered smartphone has been posted. The GSM Smartphone is due out for the Chinese market around June this year.

Celebrating more than 1 million Treo 600 smartphones sold worldwide, palmOne, today is giving away a Treo smartphone every 5 minutes for 12 hours, from 9 a.m. PDT until 9 p.m. PDT.

Aerodrome software digital music player AeroPlayer has been updated with a new AAC audio plugin. This enables support for Apples Itunes format by adding playback of AAC encoded audio.

Today, Handango, announced the finalists for the fifth annual Handango Champion Awards, which recognize outstanding mobile software developers and their applications. The 2005 Handango Champion Awards finalists were determined by customer votes on Handango's Web site, and Handango partner sites.

Brighthand has published new details about the rumored palmOne "LifeDrive". According to their source high end model will actually be named the Tungsten X and will be announced around mid-May.

In this quickies update, The TE 2 is launched at the same price as the TE in Canada, Village Sim a new real-time strategy game, a wireless version of Harrison's Manual of Medicine, PalmSource has started a new blog, "easy" iambic products and a new free open source video player for the Palm OS and much more.

invivodata, an industry leader in electronic patient reported outcome (PRO) solutions for clinical research, has plans to deploy between 5,000 and 7,000 Tungsten E2 handhelds from palmOne for use in worldwide clinical trials during the next 90 days.

Building on the popularity of the Tungsten E handheld, which has sold nearly 2 million units worldwide, palmOne today announced the Tungsten E2 handheld. Some of the additions include a brighter color screen, flash memory, Bluetooth wireless technology and a more powerful battery.

Chapura has released Pocket Favorites, the first application that makes use of Palm Powered handhelds to synchronize the list of Web sites in Internet Explorer Favorites between multiple computers and lets customers launch these favorite Web sites automatically in their mobile Web browsers.