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Is a Palm Deal at Hand?

Palm Inc., longtime maker of hand-held devices that are actually easy to use, is reportedly up for sale, with either Nokia or Motorola as the presumed buyer.

This has been an interesting space, with Microsoft getting better and better at making smaller and smaller operating systems, and Apple set to get into the market with a phone that comes stocked with all the hand-held computing basics.

What is your hand-held or smartphone of choice, and which devices stink on ice? Let us know at [email protected].

Posted by Doug Barney on March 22, 2007


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