{"id":74721,"date":"2015-01-20T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:30:42","slug":"palm-now-a-chinese-mobile-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/palm-now-a-chinese-mobile-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Now A Chinese Mobile Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Palm<\/a>Let’s take a trip on the way-back machine and visit the first cool – gotta-have-it tech toy, the Palm Pilot<\/a><\/strong>. I had several versions of the Palm Pilot, The Palm V<\/a> was the best version, but the\u00a0 PalmOne-m515<\/a>\u00a0had a color screen. The oft traded PDA builder moved from Palm to modem<\/a>-maker US Robotics<\/a>. Which was later purchased by 3Com<\/a>, and then Handspring. Next, it was PalmOne\/Source and finally purchased in 2010 for $1.2 billion by HP, where many tech firms go to die.<\/p>\n

\"Palm<\/a>Now ChinaTechNews.com<\/a><\/em> reports that the Chinese consumer electronics group TCL<\/a><\/strong> recently announced that they will acquire the Palm brand. HP is selling Palm as part of Meg Whitman’s<\/a> struggles<\/a> to right the floundering<\/a> HP<\/a> (HPQ<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Li Dongsheng, chairman of TCL Group, claims the Palm acquisition is different from their purchase of Alcatel’s<\/a> mobile division. According to the Chinese firm, Palm has its fans in America and its operating ideas are similar to Apple<\/a> (AAPL<\/a>). They believe this type of fandom can give Palm strength. Li said the Palm brand still has value in some of the global markets and people expect its re-emergence to continue to offer innovative products.<\/p>\n

\"China\"<\/a>According to the article, TCL will launch new Palm products<\/strong> at the end of 2015. TLC plans to position Palm as a high-end smartphone brand<\/strong>. Maybe in China, the Palm name is an innovative mobile terminal brand, which will be closely related to users and fans.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/em><\/a> reports<\/a> from CES that TCL said that it will re-create Palm in Silicon Valley<\/a>. In the statement TCL claims:<\/p>\n

Palm has always carried a lot of affect and emotions … That\u2019s why TCL has set the direction to rebuild the brand involving Palm\u2019s very own community, making it the largest scale crowdsourced project ever seen in the industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

The firm will back the crowdsourced development of new Palm products with 5,000 engineers and seven research and development centers around the world.<\/p>\n

Guo Aiping, CEO of TCL Communication<\/a>, told\u00a0ChinaTechNews.com<\/em> that this acquisition is limited to the Palm brand and it does not include other assets such as employees.<\/p>\n

rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

First, another US company sold to the competition. Just saying.<\/em><\/p>\n

I agree with ArsTechnica<\/a> they hypothesize this move could be seen as TCL\u2019s attempt to break into the U.S. smartphone market<\/strong> under a well-known brand. Other Chinese companies such as Lenovo<\/a>, which now owns Motorola<\/a>, have a similar strategy of operating in America under a well-known brand.<\/em><\/p>\n

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