New Palm handset teased by Bill Gates himself

Not much to say about this new Windows Mobile-based Palm briefly flashed during Gates' CES keynote... yet. Stay tuned.

In slightly less blown-up form:

[Ben @ Jan 6th 2008 10:16PM]

they always look ugly to me :S though this is the nicest from most of the palms tho

[gfunk @ Jan 6th 2008 10:30PM]

I dislike the look. A better development of graffiti would have been better than adding qwerty to a palm... These dumb decisions are what brought the company down.

[Dorv @ Jan 6th 2008 10:59PM]

gfunk: I'm not saying they're not down now (I've finally traded in my long line of Treos (600,650,700p,755) for an iPhone), but I think that their use of the keyboard and phone integration was what has kept them (barely) afloat the last several years.

[gfunk @ Jan 6th 2008 11:16PM]

Dorv: Yeah, I agree with you about the phone integration. But I still get angry about lack of innovation by the company. Putting windows mobile on palms wasn't innovation, it was desperation. I remember the palm Vx's days...

[RD @ Jan 6th 2008 10:21PM]

I just want one...please? I've been waiting for the next iteration of the Palm Treo for months...my 700wx is getting tired and tempermental. Yes, it's no iPhone in terms of design, but it'll be an intuitive, dependable phone (for about 12 months).

[hickhamt @ Jan 15th 2008 8:01AM]

be happy you have the wX!!! i have the w... im constantly having to reboot my phone!! only 1/2 the operating memory your's has! it's rediculous.. god forbid i surf the web with my unlimited data plan too.. i get through 2 or 3 pages and it locks up .. REBOOT!!... sucks bigtime! if nokia made an n95 for cdma for verizon (work phone) then i'd drop this trash like a dirty habit and happily plop down my 500-600 clams for one!!

[drsilverworm @ Jan 6th 2008 10:23PM]

What is there to tease here?

[abraham.estrada @ Jan 6th 2008 10:41PM]

I changed from 5 years using Palm to Blackberry and I really miss the simple OS. I love Palm but now I'm using a BB Pearl and I can't wait the hour to change to a new device.

[Side9 @ Jan 6th 2008 10:41PM]

Ya that's the new new AT&T Treo called Hobbit :P

[Udayan Tripathi @ Jan 6th 2008 10:42PM]

Looks better than the Centro. So, that's something.. right?

[Mark @ Jan 6th 2008 10:48PM]

better question: what was that phone that was behind bill for so long that looked like it was about the thickness of a credit card and appeared to be full touch screen smartphone?

[PeterF @ Jan 6th 2008 10:59PM]

a mockup

[Salam Zebian @ Jan 6th 2008 10:58PM]

I like it better than the centro, and it probably has a bigger keyboard. Maybe Palm isn't dead after all (they haven't made any very "New" devices until the centro)

[Dinh Phan @ Jan 6th 2008 11:02PM]

Could that be the Palm Drucker?
http://solsie.com/new-palm-device-behind-bill-gates-keynote/

[Paul @ Jan 6th 2008 11:28PM]

Maybe, but it certainly doesn't have a "Flush screen" as the BGR slides indicate. This one clearly has a bezel. Still, it looks to me clearly to be a replacement for the 750 and I really doubt Palm has the resources to have two winmo pro treo's, so perhaps the picture is pre-production and will have a flush screen at launch, perhaps the BGR slides are fake or faulty, or perhaps both (or neither).

[Paul @ Jan 6th 2008 11:54PM]

Hmm, or perhaps this is the CDMA replacement for the very long-of-tooth 700wx (the 800w?) and the Drucker is the replacement for the GSM 750 (the 850w?). Seems silly to have different form factors, but I suppose it would follow precedent. It does, in fact, look quite a bit like the 800w pics we saw a while back, just perhaps tweaked (for better or worse?):

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/24/palm-treo-800w-revealed/

[Hellion @ Jan 7th 2008 12:20AM]

I really don't like them Palm devices at all.

[Garrett @ Jan 7th 2008 12:23AM]

/me has a palm IIIxe. :D

[digitallysick @ Jan 7th 2008 1:29AM]

its to bad it runs windows mobile, i wish they could fix up the palm os, and bring it back out. I loved it

[mark01 @ Jan 14th 2008 10:16PM]

i have a centro, and i've enjoyed the palm OS since the IIIc. i never understood putting windows mobile on a palm device. it's like qualcomm's snapdragon prototypes that don't run snapdragon... lol!!!

[Mpaper @ Jan 7th 2008 1:59AM]

Yep, this is the same device we posted back in July 07, Sprints roadmap. It will have Wifi and GPS.
http://morningpaper.typepad.com/morning_paper/2007/07/possible-pic-of.html

[mark01 @ Jan 14th 2008 10:09PM]

yeah, but does the camera have a flash yet????