Palm One introduced Palm One 680. Customers will find the Palm One 680 smartphone easy to use, slim and compact, yet packed full of features beyond its stellar phone capability, such as email, web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar, contacts and more. In the coming weeks and months, carriers around the world will announce additional product details, availability and exact pricing. Palm believes this product will appeal to price-sensitive feature-phone owners who want a more capable mobile-computing device. With the introduction of the Palm OS based Palm One 680 smartphone, Palm is targeting new users in the rapidly growing smartphone and feature-phone markets.

Market research firm In-Stat, estimates that 25 percent of all wireless handsets worldwide will be smartphones by 2011. Research conducted by Palm suggests a substantial population of feature-phone users have not purchased smartphones, fearing they were too expensive and too difficult to use. The Palm One 680 will offer an affordable, simple and fun way to get started and stay connected.

The Palm One 680 smartphone has an internal antenna and slim form factor, making the device smaller and sleeker than its Treo predecessors in the United States. It has a full, easy-type keyboard, perfect for writing SMS messages and emails, and an optimal 320x320 vibrant color screen for viewing web pages, photos, media and more. The Palm One 680 smartphone has a unique phone user interface that further simplifies Treo innovations, such as the ability to respond to calls with a preset text message and add new phone numbers to existing contact information, and three-way calling.

The Palm One 680 also has integrated email and web capabilities, so users can stay in touch with colleagues and friends. The messaging application on the Palm One 680 displays text-messaging conversations as "threaded chats," similar to IM, so users can see their entire conversation with a particular person. The Palm One 680 smartphone also can be used as an MP3 player and has an integrated digital camera, camcorder and video player. Please purchase online www.phoneandbeyond.com