Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Palm Corp. has exposed itself on sale

Palm phone

Palm Corp. has exposed itself on sale and has already begun gathering of demands, informs Bloomberg. With search of buyer Palm help Goldman Sachs Group and Qatalyst Partners.

HTC VS Lenovo Group

According to Bloomberg, among interested in purchase — Taiwan corporation HTC and Chinese Lenovo Group.
Market capitalisation of Palm makes about 870 million dollars. The corporation makes smart phones Palm Pre and Palm Pixi which basic competitors are devices Apple iPhone and mobile phones on the basis of OS Android.

Vain hopes

In February management of Palm recognised as unsuccessful sales of phones and has assumed, that in the third quarter 2010 the gain will make all 500 million dollars. Analysts predicted three times the big indicators.

In the beginning of April of stock quote Palm have grown for 32% thanks to hearings about preselling preparation.

Monday, January 11, 2010

In Ireland it's sold only 220 smart phones Palm Pre

Palm Pre

For three months in Ireland 220 smart phones Palm Pre have been sold only. About it writes edition Mobile Industry Review.

The marketing miscalculation

From the moment of start of sales on October, 16th, 2009 at the Irish division of British mobile operator O2 bought on 2 smart phones in day. Absence of demand on competing with iPhone press phone has explained marketing miscalculations of the company.

For the first time Palm Pre has been presented at an exhibition of electronics CES 2009 in January. It is the device equipped with the 3,1-inch touch screen, the put forward qwerty-keyboard, and also modules Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS. As operational system Pre platform Palm webOS has been chosen. Outwardly operational system is very similar to interface Apple iPhone.

Palm Pre in the USA

Since June, 6th, 2009 operator Sprint has started to sell Palm Pre in the USA. At purchase of phone with two-year-old contract Sprint the smart phone price made 200 dollars. According to analytical company Charter Equity Research, for the first month of sales in territory of the United States of company Palm it was possible to sell more than 300 thousand smart phones Pre.

In the meantime direct competitor Palm of company Apple for the third quarter 2009 managed to realise the 7,4 million iPhone 3GS, that has exceeded last year's indicators for 7 percent. On June, 21st the company has reported about sale million iPhone 3GS. Sales of this version of smart phone Apple have begun on June, 19th. One million smart phones iPhone first generation Apple has sold for 74 days. One million realisation iPhone 3G needed all couple of days.

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