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Sprint is all out to confuse us, with the Treo 755p smartphone. So far all the 75x series Treos have been Windows Mobile versions. However, the Treo 755p is the successor to the Treo 700p, which runs Palm OS and supports EVDO wireless networks.
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Palm has announced that they will be doing an update for the Treo 750 series smartphones to run Windows Mobile 6. Microsoft took a while to come up with a good mobile operating system, and I believe that Windows Mobile 6 is a progressive step in the right direction. What’s really surprising is the fact that Palm is offering this update at all. In the past, Palm has never made available a major OS update for any of their smartphones or PDAs. I guess this is an indication of how closely Palm and Microsoft has worked together. They probably had early versions of Windows Mobile 6 running on the Treo 750s even before they were released with Windows Mobile 5.
It’s all around good news for Palm. Palm Inc released their latest financial results, which are very positive. Palm sold 738,000 Treo smartphones in 3 months, a 30% increase over the same period last year. They were also granted a stay of proceedings in the patent infringement litigation brought against the company by NTP. NTP successfully sued RIM for the same patent infringement last year, but Palm is fighting it all the way.
It’s been a long road for Palm, Inc — its history is full of acquisitions, mergers and demergers. Palm CEO announced last year that “companies don’t get sold, they get bought” — which probably meant that Palm would sell if the right buyer came along. Speculation has been rife lately as to who would buy Palm, with Nokia being most mentioned. The latest news is from Unstrung, which says that four parties are currently in the bidding for Palm. Going up against Nokia are Motorola and two private equity firms, Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners.