engages in development, marketing, and sale of a family of handheld computing and communications solutions.
The company’s products include the Zire, Tungsten, and Treo families of handheld computing and communications devices and related add-ons and accessories.
Its products contain standard software that provides an address book, date book, clock, to do list, memo pad, note pad, and calculator.
The company’s products feature wireless communication capabilities, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, CDMA and GSM/GPRS, to enable messaging, email, and Web browsing; multimedia features, allowing users to capture and view photos, capture and view video clips, and listen to MP3 music; an infrared port for exchanging information between devices; a secure digital/multimedia card, slot for stamp-sized expansion cards for storage, content and input/output devices; data synchronization technology enabling the device to synchronize with desktop applications such as Microsoft Outlook; and productivity software, such as DataViz’s Documents to Go, which allows users to create, view, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files and view and share PowerPoint presentations.
PalmOne sells its products to distributors, retailers, resellers and wireless carriers, and to end-users.
The company was founded in 1992 as Palm Computing, Inc.
It changed its name to Palm, Inc.
in 1999 and to palmOne, Inc.
in 2003.
PalmOne is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
