Palm Exploring Strategic Options
Wow
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.
But Dell could gain serious headway into the market immediately with this type of acquisition.
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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