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Palm CEO Ed Colligan spoke to investors in Palm’s new Pre recently, and made several very illuminating comments.

First and I feel most importantly, he lowered the level of rhetoric with Apple over any patent suits connected to multitouch. He made clear that Palm has more then enough of it’s own patents (1500+) to be able to innovate without infringing on Apple and clearly inferred that Palm would rather not get into a long legal battle, always preferring compromise and settlement over patent infringement and litigation. This is a great change from the saber rattling between Apple and Palm as recently as last week. What’s changed? That is not clear..perhaps the lawyers on both sides decided that there are no good grounds for a suit, perhaps some settlement money or agreements have changed hands between the two companies. Perhaps both Apple and Palm realized they can benefit more from at least passive cooperation then they can from PR battering lawsuits. Time will tell.

Other interesting news from Corrigan included the following:

• He confirmed that there will be a Pre-focused App Store, as already announced, up and running at launch. More importantly, there will be ways to load third party applications on the Pre that don’t come from the App Store…in short, the phone will be effectively Jailbroken right out of the box. Good call Palm!
• International carriers for the Pre are already lined up, with Sprint exclusivity in the US apparently running out sometime in 2010.
• Despite Sprint’s well-documented problems, Palm went with them for the first release since they have 50 million subscribers and the largest concentration of PalmOS Smartphone users
• Important Palm based applications will have Pre versions ready at launch, including the medical favorite Epocrates.

And lastly and most bittersweet, the much beloved and previously believed to be immortal PalmOS is dead. Colligan drove a stake through it when he announced Palm will not be releasing any more devices for it. Instead they will release consumer products with WebOS and business devices with Windows Mobile. PalmOS was what first turned me onto handheld devices and I will certainly miss knowing it is around. I am now sorely tempted to go out and buy a Palm Tungsten E2 or T|X while I still can…just for old times sake.

I wonder if my Tungsten C will still charge?

Oh, by the way, sorry about the title, but you will have to get used to it. Pre-posterous titles are this years iPuns.

(Source – PreCentral)

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).