Press Release
Palm and Orange Dominicana Offer Palm Treo 680 Smartphone in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, May 07, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and Orange Dominicana today announced the availability of the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 smartphone in the Dominican Republic. The Treo 680 GSM/GPRS/EDGE(1) quad-band world phone, running on the Palm OS(R), boasts Palm's hallmark ease of use. Packed with features beyond its stellar phone capability -- such as email, web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts and more(2) -- the Treo 680 will keep any user productive.
With the introduction of the Treo 680 smartphone, Palm and Orange Dominicana are targeting new users in the rapidly growing smartphone and feature-phone markets. The Treo 680 will offer a simple and fun way for Orange Dominicana customers to get started and stay connected.
More information about the Palm Treo 680 smartphone is available at www.palm.com/Treo680.
About Orange Dominicana
Orange Dominicana is a subsidiary of Orange Group, which broke into the Dominican Republic market in November 2000. Orange is a leading brand of France Telecom. Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with over 147 million customers in five continents. Orange Dominicana offers a wide range of international voice, data and communications. Since its third year of operations the company has ranked second in the competitive Dominican market. At present it has 1.5 million active customers and a coverage reaching 95% of the Dominican population. Both Orange and any product or service bearing this brand included in this material are registered trademarks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited. For more information about the company visit Orange web site at www.orange.com.do.
About Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., a leader in mobile computing, strives to put the power of computing in people's hands so they can access and share their most important information. The company's products for consumers, mobile professionals and businesses include Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphones and Palm handheld computers, as well as software, services and accessories.
Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels throughout the world, and at Palm Retail Stores and Palm online stores (http://www.palm.com/store).
More information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palm.com.
(1) The Treo 680 is designed to be compatible with networks implementing GSM/GPRS/EDGE standards, but may not be available or operate in all countries.
(2) Within wireless service coverage area only. Availability and coverage depends upon carrier and the geographic scope of international roaming agreements. Email, messaging and web access requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost. Email account not included. EDGE service not available in all areas.
Palm and Treo are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
SOURCE: Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc.
Jimmy Johnson, 408-617-7456
jimmy.johnson@palm.com
or
A&R Edelman for Palm, Inc.
Kristine Boyden, 650-201-8830
kboyden@ar-edelman.com
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