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The latest move from Palm indicates that the company is working heavily to respond to the “iPhone challenge”. The maker of the Treo smartphones hired Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, to help them out with the new line of products.
Mercer, 39, began working for the Palm three weeks ago, along with two employees from Iventor, the independent design firm that he headed in Palo Alto, California. His recent successes include a job for Samsung, where he worked under contract to design the Z5, the best-selling MP3 player in South Korea.
If Palm is smart enough, its next products would dump the Palm OS (Garnet) and would be based either on Windows Mobile or Access Linux Platform (ALP), which has the Garnet Virtual Machine built-in.
Who knows, maybe Mercer will be working on the rumored WiMAX-enabled ultra-thin smartphone… (via: New York Times)
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
