Palm Eos on track for AT&T release second half of 2009

The Palm news just keeps coming today. Looks like Centro successor Eos might be coming sooner than expected, with this purported AT&T powerpoint slide listing a second half 2009 ship date, along with a "new Palm OS experience" tagline that we're gonna take to mean webOS for now (still no 100 percent confirmation, unfortunately), all the specs listed were the same as we heard before: 2.63-inch, 320 x 400 capacitive touchscreen, 4GB storage, POP3, IMAP, and EAS support, integrated IM client, Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS, and a sexy thin and light form factor. Keep an eye out for this one, we think it might go places.

[rob.m26 @ May 24th 2009 5:56PM]

I just made a stupid comment

[Hashbrown Hunter @ May 25th 2009 1:54PM]

...good for you?

[nerdtalker @ May 24th 2009 5:57PM]

Wow, this is definitely big news for AT&T. I wonder how it will stack up as a direct carrier-level competitor to the iPhone.

[jakem @ May 24th 2009 5:57PM]

How many phone stories are we going to get today and what is the point of Engadget Mobile?

[Ian @ May 25th 2009 2:03AM]

Nobody has been able to figure that out yet.

[wrabbit @ May 25th 2009 10:12AM]

Well I think Engadget Mobile is suppose to be for all cellphone/mobile related stories, while Engadget proper publishes only the big ones. It just happens to be a time for a lot of big cellphone stories - which is good because it means there's a lot of cool new handsets coming out and choices are becoming harder and harder. (I just wish the plans were becoming cheaper and cheaper ;))

[Epsilon-Not @ May 24th 2009 5:58PM]

Hm, "new Palm OS experience"- maybe it's webOS, or perhaps Palm bought the rights to TealOS? :P

[Freakin Ijit @ May 24th 2009 8:15PM]

I see no reason whatsoever not to assume it's PalmOS.

[Zorque @ May 24th 2009 10:35PM]

PalmOS has been decried as old and broken and in need of a replacement for ages, if they were releasing a new revision (that's obviously not it on the screen) it would almost certainly have been announced alongside the Pre. This phone is most likely just a non-slider Pre with lesser specs, seeing as how it was given no introduction at CES.

[Epsilon-Not @ May 25th 2009 11:05AM]

There's actually a very good reason to assume it's not Palm OS- Palm OS can't handle voice and data at the same time, yet this is a UMTS/HSDPA device, which means it would have that capability.

[The Observer @ May 25th 2009 12:02PM]

Old Palm OS did not support capacitive screens.. It is 100% WebOS.

[Anthony Zeng @ May 25th 2009 8:33PM]

it has a gesture area so its runs webos

[Kelly @ May 24th 2009 5:59PM]

where is wifi? =\

[Timmay @ May 24th 2009 10:26PM]

It's on the Palm Pre

[M. @ May 24th 2009 6:01PM]

We're getting an overdose of Palm news today and I LOVE IT!

[M. @ May 24th 2009 6:05PM]

Ontopic: I'm really excited about this phone, I was planning on getting an iPhone this summer to compliment my E71. I'll be selling my E71 for this for sure when it drops on this side of the Atlantic (European side that is).

[sr @ May 24th 2009 6:14PM]

I was a Nokia boy too, but it is evidently clear that Nokia doesn't do anything right these days vis a vis the competition. I want this phone. Or the GSM Pre. No more Nokia for me, their era is over.

[*Just some girl @ May 24th 2009 6:07PM]

but it's so ugly :/

[PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts) @ May 24th 2009 11:41PM]

tell that to your puppy.


oh yeah im that evil.

[AmaaR @ May 25th 2009 2:01AM]

hahahahahahahahaha

[Justin B @ May 24th 2009 6:07PM]

Unfortunately*

[Mitch @ May 24th 2009 6:10PM]

I was expecting a much cheaper price tag -- like something NOT 100 dollars more than the Pre.

... But like I'd buy a smart phone from ATT and pay twice for data anyways. Unlocked is the way to go.

[sr @ May 24th 2009 6:15PM]

When it actually arrives it would have to be cheaper. There's no way they could ask for $300 for this. Maybe $150-200 at best (subsidized).

[Epsilon-Not @ May 24th 2009 6:19PM]

Yeah, I'm not sure how a $349 phone is supposed to replace the $99 Centro... (And the Centro is only $29 at at&t today, it seems)

[Greg @ May 24th 2009 6:38PM]

That's the unsubsidized price, making it $200 less than the Pre. The take home price will almost certainly be $99 or less.

[Epsilon-Not @ May 24th 2009 6:40PM]

Does at&t typically include a mail-in rebate with unsubsidized phones? I'm asking honesty, I'm fairly certain VZW doesn't, but I'm less familiar with the policies of Big Orange.

[Scottastic @ May 24th 2009 9:19PM]

@Epsilon-Not

Yes, you can get the rebate on non subsidised phones with AT&T as long as the IMEI is registered onto a phone number, and any rebate prereqs (like $30 data for a PDA, or unl text and data for a quicktext phone) are met.

[Jimmy Jones @ May 24th 2009 6:18PM]

Weekend posting of Palm new gadgets is good cuz that'll get some folks' blood moving ......... up n down.....

and at least I haven't seen a damn fruit on any of the images posted thus far......keep 'em coming...

[Beau Giles @ May 24th 2009 6:20PM]

Nifty little trick by AT&T announcing this before the Pre debuts to limit switchers to Sprint.

[Zorque @ May 24th 2009 10:37PM]

Yeah, it worked for me. I don't want to have to get rid of my current plan, so I'll be excited.

[atm @ May 24th 2009 6:21PM]

I wonder if I'm the only one that thinks this doc is fake.

[Gregorian @ May 24th 2009 7:32PM]

The lcd screen on that picture hasn't been photoshopped on properly.
It's not lined up right.

Folks are getting more adventurous with their fakes nowadays.
Maybe someone should send in a fake Cease and Desist legal notice on this report.

[Alan Strangis @ May 25th 2009 2:37PM]

I think it's fake as well. The spell check squiggly under 'microUSB' is kind of a hint.

[L @ May 24th 2009 6:21PM]

Why does Palm apparently hate memory cards? Seriously, not even 4 GB of user memory? That's pathetic.

[sr @ May 24th 2009 6:28PM]

Also, please correct the article, this isn't a slide.

[sr @ May 24th 2009 6:28PM]

Sorry did not mean to reply to you. Was meant for the writer.

[digitallysick @ May 24th 2009 6:25PM]

Give it web os and wifi and its a deal

[Jason @ May 24th 2009 6:50PM]

The biggest thing holding this back is the lack of expandable memory.

[AlexD @ May 24th 2009 7:41PM]

So ATT owns iPhone and Plam

[AlexD @ May 24th 2009 7:44PM]

I'm confused about all QWERTY 9xxx bb models with similar look :S

[kobioshi @ May 24th 2009 8:38PM]

I think Palm is about to make the most epic comeback of this decade... Their stocks have been rising ever since the announcement of the Pre/WebOS and with slick devices like this being spit out, I think the sky is the limit for the grandfather of (popular) PDA's / smartphones. RIM and all the "other" (winmo) devices have a new contender.

[dcoaster @ May 24th 2009 9:35PM]

Is it just me or does that picture look awfully familiar (and mockup-ish)?

[Darwin Smith @ May 25th 2009 12:03AM]

It needs wayy more than 4 GB of storage. That is so weak. I'm excited and will probably own one anyways, but not very happily.

[Amon @ May 24th 2009 9:54PM]

If this is real (not unlikely), then it better have wifi and (alteast or) 3g!

[lurker @ May 25th 2009 12:02AM]

Epic comeback? Please. This should have been released 3 years ago, and it still doesn't do WiFi, unlike the Dash which really was released 3 years ago. Palm users have been asking for ages for something slim and modern that didn't run Windows. How difficult can that be? When Palm refused to deliver, a lot of us switched over to the iPhone. I haven't yet, but I will be as soon as my Centro contract runs out. It's too late for Palm to start a developer community from scratch when the iPhone already has every piece of software you could possibly want, many of them free.

[*Just some girl @ May 25th 2009 12:22AM]

b**** please.

[*Just some girl @ May 25th 2009 12:24AM]

@PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts)

[Buis @ May 25th 2009 1:40AM]

320*400 screen? 4:5? Really?

[tnkgrl @ May 25th 2009 2:25AM]

No WiFi? Fail.

[gerrrg @ May 25th 2009 4:40AM]

I think this will help Palm much more than Pre on Sprint's network.