14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Palm has announced recently that it plans on focusing solely on the development of new handsets that are based on its newly launched webOS mobile platform. The operating system, which is currently present on the market only on the company's Palm Pre smartphone, is considered both intuitive and fun, and it seems that the phone maker is confident in its success.
Moreover, Palm CEO Paul Rubinstein stated during a financial results call on Thursday that the company would move away from Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, which has been used to powered some of its devices, along with the Palm OS platform, already announced to have reached the end of its life cycle.
“Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future development resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, our roadmap will include only Palm webOS-based devices,” is what IntoMobile says that Paul Rubinstein has stated. As many of you might already know, the Palm Pre will be shortly followed on the market by another webOS-based handset from the company, namely the Palm Pixi, which will also reach Sprint's airwaves when made available.
Palm's focus on the development of webOS is not something we are strangers to, yet it is only now that the company is announcing its full commitment to the platform. Moreover, it seems that the maker is rather content with the performance its Palm Pre device had on the market since launched in June this year, and is rather optimistic as regards the future.
The launch of webOS was already expected to prove Palm's salvation. The company managed to sell around 810,000 smartphones during the first quarter of its fiscal year 2010, ended August 28, 2009, which does not sound like a very bad figure when compared to the previous quarter. Moreover, it seems that it also plans on bringing more enterprise features to the webOS, which means that its handsets should appeal to more market segments, an opportunity to regain more of the market share it has lost during the latest quarters.