Palm introduced Treo Pro, an effortlessly usable smartphone for businesses that want to simplify their IT infrastructures and lower costs, and for users who want to stay on top of their professional and personal lives. With its streamlined design and Palm shortcuts layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Treo Pro is a unique combination of sleek simplicity and robust productivity - including email, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities - that meets the needs of businesses and end users alike. Treo Pro, which will be available from Vodafone and O2 in Europe and from Telstra in Australia, also will be available in an unlocked version in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Designed for individuals and traditional mobile phone users looking for a better way to manage their professional and social lives, Palm, Inc. and Sprint introduced the Palm Centro smartphone, at $99.99. With voice, text, IM, email, web, contact and calendar capabilities, a full-color touch screen and full keyboard, Centro brings Palm simplicity and organization to customers who want to stay connected with co-workers, friends and family. Centro will be exclusive through Sprint in the United States for 90 days and is available in onyx black or ruby red.

Powered by the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional software, the Treo 750 provides Canadian mobile professionals with an exceptional world-phone experience. It offers broadbandlike download speeds and global roaming capabilities on a colour touch-screen that replicates desktop applications to make navigating online and through multiple applications quick and easy while on the go. The Treo 750 combines the world-class Palm experience of a multifunction mobile phone with a new, powerful Windows Mobile 6 Professional software for email, messaging, web browsing and Office Mobile that lets users review and edit business documents and access corporate data.

Palm, Inc. and MobiTV, Inc., invite filmmakers to submit their made-for- mobile films to compete in the first Treo Mobile Comedy Film Festival which runs from Sept. 18th through Oct. 18th exclusively on the MobiTV service. A one-month free trial of MobiTV is available to Treo smartphone users. The film festival will award thousands of dollars in cash and prizes to the aspiring filmmakers from the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom, who come up with the funniest made-for-mobile comedy films. Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and John Henson (TV Guide network, Talk Soup) will co-host the Treo Film Festival awards show on Oct. 18 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm, and Micheál Martin TD, Ireland’s minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, announced that Palm, a leader in mobile computing and a provider of smartphones, has opened a Research and Development Centre at Swords, Co. Dublin, with the support of IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency). The centre will develop custom software applications for Palm Treo smartphones for the mobile operators in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Palm Europe announced the Palm Treo 500v smartphone which combines multiple forms of communication and multimedia capabilities with high speed 3G/UMTS mobile internet access, allowing users access to popular websites such as MySpace, YouTube and eBay whilst on the move. The new Palm Treo 500v smartphone will initially be available exclusively to Vodafone customers from October. The Palm Treo 500v smartphone runs on a Windows Mobile 6 standard platform and has a full keyboard, large screen, video streaming capability and a comprehensive multi-messaging functionality covering Instant Messaging, SMS, email and phone and personal information management software in a new design.

Palm Europe Ltd. and Turkcell Communication Services PLC, a Turkey-based, leading cellular communications provider, announced the availability of the Palm Treo 750 smartphone for Turkcell’s network. The Palm Treo 750 smartphone is available now at Turkcell stores and authorized dealers. Supporting GSM Edge and UMTS/HSDPA, the Treo 750 smartphone on the Turkcell network comes with a full Turkish overlay, enabling local language support and translation of menus.

Palm announced the Palm Treo 750 smartphone in the Dominican Republic, the first Windows Mobile based Treo smartphone with GSM technology to take advantage of the Orange and Claro networks. The Treo 750 offers the world-class Palm experience on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system. The Treo 750 combines a multifeatured mobile phone with email, messaging, web browsing and organization software all in a compact design.

Palm, Inc. and Pelephone Communications, Ltd., an Israel-based, leading cellular communications provider, announced the availability of the Palm Treo 700wx smartphone for Pelephone’s CDMA/EV-DO network in Israel. The Treo 700wx smartphone is available now at Pelephone stores and authorized dealers. The touch-screen enabled Treo 700wx smartphone combines broadbandlike speeds on Pelephone’s high-speed network with wireless email and rich media capabilities all in one device - bringing Palm’s world-class ease of use to the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform.

Opera and Palm, Inc. announced that the new Palm Foleo mobile companion will use the Opera web browser to provide customers a user-friendly web experience. Based on Opera 9, Opera for the Palm Foleo offers intelligent navigation features and support for advanced Web 2.0 applications using Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). Opera’s Software Developer Kit (SDK) proved to be a quick-to-market solution in tailoring a browser suitable for the cutting edge of mobile technology.