Palm will introduce Nova OS at CES 2009

The company Palm Inc., Having dominated the market for PDAs and smartphones for the first time, is now facing a severe competition from players such as Research in Motion, or more recently, Apple and its iPhone.

There’s a lot of hype stirring in the rumor mill for Palm - this time it has been confirmed and comes in the form of a new OS and a device on which it will be featured (based on the rumors, it will be the first of a family of devices). As Engadget Mobile puts it as “a lock for CES” is coming from a BusinessWeek’s article:

“The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January’s CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap”

“People’s work and personal lives are melding,” Palm CEO Ed Colligan says, adding that Palm is aiming for the “fat middle of the market.”

Speculations and rumors are beginning to pile up as Palm teased all of us with the “New-ness” invitation spread across the blogosphere. Palm will show “a new OS, new user interface and probably new hardware” at CES 2009.

(Palm) Executives won’t be specific about Nova, though Palm is not looking to go toe-to-toe with the iPhone or BlackBerry. The general idea is to create a platform that’s flexible enough to support a wide range of customer desires. No single product can satisfy all the unmet needs of today’s digital consumers, Silicon Valley financier Roger McNamee says.

Frankly speaking, it’s not easy to put the incoming Palm device on the smart-phone market map today, since there are many other fierce competitors out there: Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, just name it…

However, Palm believes they can grab 2% of the market. Above all, let’s wait until they unveiled their next-gen OS and device at CES 2009.

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