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Omagus

Mar 5, 2007, 12:04 PM
Am I the only one who thinks that this is a pretty big deal? I mean, just a few years ago Palm OWNED the smartphone market in the US.

I can see Nokia and Dell emerging as the front-runners. I wonder what Nokia would do though. I mean S60 is huge outside of the US. Would they try to integrate the two platforms? Use Palm in the US while maintaining S60 everywhere else? Just use the Palm name while essentially replacing the platform with S60?

Dell, on the other hand, probably wants to follow Apple's lead. Microsoft has already acknowledged that mobile devices are a much more lucrative market than PCs. With Dell losing market share to HP last year, they'd be very interested in seeing where this could take them.
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cremz

Mar 5, 2007, 12:44 PM
It really shows how volitile the smartphone/PDA market is right now, and how the right venture and push could make a huge profit. I wouldn't be suprised to see Dell step in and pick this up to expand their divisions and give them a share in another product they could excel in. The only issue would be training and hiring more staff to their service centers, because of how Dell stands by their products with 24 hour service. I would like to see if they could compete with HTC and Apple.
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muchdrama

Mar 5, 2007, 1:37 PM
I can see Nokia snapping them up just to get rid of a competitor.

But Dell could gain serious headway into the market immediately with this type of acquisition.
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pauldg

Mar 5, 2007, 2:28 PM
I can't see Nokia buying Palm. Why would they? Not for the OS, that's for sure. Designs? Nokia has their own QWERTY designs.

Dell makes a lot of sense because Inventec designs them, M$ loads an OS on 'em, some1 else produces it, then Dell slaps their name on it and calls it a day, likely sucsessfully entering the PPC phone market from scratch.
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