PalmSource and Sprint Collaborate to Drive Growth of the Smart Device Market

Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PalmSource and Sprint today announced that Sprint is the first mobile operator to be signed as a charter member of the Palm Powered MobileWorld program. The program, announced separately today, will enable Sprint to offer their Palm Powered PCS Vision Smart Device customers the most comprehensive selection of enterprise and consumer applications.

According to IDC (2002), the converged mobile device market is the fastest growing, revenue-producing segment of the phone market. The Palm Powered MobileWorld program is designed to enable mobile operators, infrastructure providers and software developers to take advantage of the increased revenue opportunities created by Palm Powered converged mobile devices.

As a charter member of the Palm Powered MobileWorld program, Sprint will collaborate with PalmSource in several areas including cooperative marketing and leveraging the more than 275,000-strong Palm OS developer community to meet the needs of key vertical markets. This collaboration effort will enable Sprint to offer their customers one of the largest and most user-friendly catalogs of mobile applications for Palm Powered PCS Vision Smart Devices.

"I am delighted to welcome Sprint as the charter member of the Palm Powered MobileWorld program," said David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource. "Sprint has been a long-standing supporter of Palm Powered smart devices, and we look forward to continue innovating with Sprint in order to deliver the industry's best and most user-friendly wireless products and services to our joint customers."

"With the launch of highly successful Palm Powered PCS Vision Smart Devices such as the Treo 600 by Handspring and the SPH-i500 by Samsung, Sprint has extended its leadership in innovation and integration to the smart devices category," said Phil Bowman, vice president of business marketing, PCS division of Sprint. "We look forward to leveraging PalmSource's strength in key vertical markets and platform innovation to help meet the need for custom-tailored wireless solutions on smart devices that allow our business customers to be more effective and more competitive."

More information regarding the Palm Powered MobileWorld program can be found at www.palmsource.com/mobileworld.

For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

More information about PalmSource is available at www.palmsource.com , http://www.palmsource.co.uk/ , http://www.palmsource.fr/ , http://www.palmsource.de/ and http://www.palmsource.com.cn/ .

Source: PalmSource, Inc.

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