Live from the Palm press conference at DigitalLife

Well folks -- we're here at the Palm / Sprint press event at DigitalLife, so get ready to have your heads go popping off your neck in a matter of moments. We're going to be liveblogging the whole nasty affair -- so keep your browser tuned in for the action.

12:34PM EST - Ed Colligan is about to take the stage, and we get a video! Very emotional video being played -- quite a few people in tears. Just kidding.

12:36PM EST - Ed Colligan is talking about the video. Blogging and emailing from a Treo he says. Colligan just said he didn't know what Twittering was until today.

Ed is talking about the market, says a billion phones will be sold this year. Says the market will grow 56 percent over the next few years.

12:39PM EST - Now he's talking about the size of smartphones and how they're too big and too complex.

12:40PM EST - Here it goes -- the Centro!

12:41PM EST - Nothing we didn't know. Touchscreen, little keyboard, new form factor. Palm OS.

12:42PM EST - Okay, he's talking features now. Great phone first, he's boasting about its address book features... we're not impressed with the address book Ed. Now he's talking about messaging, saying it's how a lot of people communicate now -- discussing threaded messaging. All old tech so far. Talking about AIM and Windows Live.

Push email built in -- pretty standard Palm fare -- go figure.

12:46PM EST - Ouch, just burned the iPhone by saying "this is not some EDGE phone" while talking about broadband speeds... uh, what about all your GSM Palm phones, Ed?

12:48PMEST - Sprint's point man on stage now -- talking about how amazing Sprint is -- go figure. Now talking about Sprint TV which has been "optimized" for the Centro. It'll cost you.

12:53PM EST - The phone will be $99.99 -- only for Sprint. He just used the phrase "special sauce."

12:55PM EST - Ed is back! That's all for the show -- no surprises -- at all. Question and answer time...

Stay tuned for a hands-on and possibly some painful, hardball questions for the Palm folks, plus a slew of photos to feast your eyes on.

[YetANOTHERusernameREALLY Posted Sep 27th 2007 9:48PM]

Palm... Sponsored by Namco?

(I'll buy another Palm after they fix the browser on my Tungsten C)

[wl80 Posted Sep 30th 2007 12:20PM]

Not bad for the price, but i don't know why palm has take the approach in recent years of dumbing down there phones, they've been dubbed smart phones for a reason, I'm sure there is a market for phones like this, but some people want more advanced or "complex" features on their phones as well, so I'm hoping palm really does have a Treo 800 on the way.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sprint/palm-treo-800w-details-leaked-wm6-wi+fi-ev+do-rev-a-267549.php

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2007 3:45AM]

Considering that they're stuck with garnet for the time being (granted a totally new OS will take time) the least they could do is make the interface a bit shinier than it is now, which is very 1999.

Also, they would do well to have an actual decent well-optomized java runtime. Because at the rate they're loosing developers that's their best bet for having ANY content for their phones.

Also Wifi... yes... I'm not even sure why I'm bringing it up YET AGAIN. But remember how everyone groans with each and every palm device that has come out since the treo 650 at it's lack of wifi?

The fact that palm doesn't have wifi on their phones is such a joke. They said in the past that it was being "investigated." Yeah... investigated by Duke Nuken Forever in his Moller Skycar.