Palm (device line)

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Palm is a discontinued line of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones that were marketed from 1996 to 2011, developed by California-based Palm, Inc., originally called Palm Computing, Inc. and briefly as palmOne, Inc. Most of Palm's products ran the in-house Palm OS software, which was later also licensed to other OEMs. Palm devices are often remembered as "the first wildly popular handheld computers," responsible for ushering in the smartphone era. The first Palm device, the PalmPilot 1000, led a growing market for portable computing devices when it was released in 1996, where previous attempts such as Apple's Newton failed or others like Hewlett-Packard's 200LX only serving a niche target market. Several generations of the Palm were released until, after the Palm VII, the line was split in 2002 into a high-end enterprise product (Palm Tungsten) and a budget-friendly product (Palm Zire). A year later, cellular phones were also started to be marketed (Palm Treo) as a result...

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