Palm Inc. Introduces Palm IIIxe™ Product For Versatile Handheld
Computing
New addition to market-leading product family maximizes investment;
Collapsible keyboard enables email and writing on-the-go
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - February 22, 2000 - Palm, Inc., a 3Com company
(Nasdaq: COMS), today introduced the Palm IIIxe™ handheld computer, a
flexible and customizable addition to its industry-leading family of
products. Ideal for professionals and enterprise customers working
with many applications or large data needs, the Palm IIIxe product
features a new dark-slate case, 8MB of memory and a low estimated
retail price of U.S. $249. Based on the award-winning Palm III™ form
factor and Palm OS® software, the Palm IIIxe product is ready
immediately to take advantage of nearly 5,000 software applications
as well as snap-on solutions from more than 500 hardware
developers.
The company also announced today shipment of the highly anticipated
Palm™ Portable Keyboard, an ultra-portable, collapsible full-size
keyboard that enables easy data entry from any Palm, Inc. handheld
computer. The Palm Portable Keyboard is now available worldwide for
an estimated street price of U.S. $99.
The Palm IIIxe product is ideal for customers seeking to maximize
their technology investment by adding hardware capabilities like the
new Palm Portable Keyboard, modems, voice recorders, digital cameras
or global positioning systems (GPS), or software applications such as
large databases, maps or games. The product provides
software-upgradable flash-ROM memory for compatibility with future
versions of the Palm OS software. The Palm IIIxe product is available
immediately for U.S. customers only.
"The versatile nature of the Palm IIIxe product takes full advantage
of the richness of options that our developer community has brought
to the Palm economy," said Byron Connell, vice president consumer
markets for Palm, Inc. "We believe the new Palm IIIxe product offers
an ideal combination of functionality, flexibility and value for
people regardless of whether they're using it for business or
personal use."
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About Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., a 3Com company, is the leading provider
of personal companion products (IDC, May 1999), including the
best-selling Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII series of handheld
computers. The Palm Computing platform is the premier handheld
development environment and is the foundation for the market-leading
handheld computers from Palm Computing as well as products from Palm
Computing's strategic partners such as IBM, QUALCOMM, Franklin Covey,
Handspring and Symbol Technologies. Designed to support the
increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed nature of
information management, the company's handheld solutions allow people
to carry their most critical information in their pockets. For more
information, please visit www.palm.com.
About 3Com Corporation With over 300 million customer connections
worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people and organizations to
information and each other in more innovative, simple and reliable
ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers e-Networking
solutions through information access products and network systems to
enterprises, small businesses, consumers, and service providers. For
further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at www.3com.com
or the press site at www.3com.com/pressbox.
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and Palm, Palm III, Palm IIIxe, Palm V and Palm VII are trademarks of
3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other brands and product
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