
8.2 Palm handhelds
Palm Computing Inc., a subsidiary of 3COM, manufactures PalmOS-based devices, together with
companies like Symbol, IBM, Sony, Handspring, Acer, Alphasmart and Kyocera, which have
licensed the Palm OS operating system.
In 1998, the Palm III was launched, which had 2 MB of memory, infrared-based communi-
cation and ran the Palm OS operating system. This was followed by the PalmIIIx, which had
4 MB of memory. Subsequently, the Palm m100, m125, m130, m500 and m515 were made
with 8 MB of memory. Palm i705 has Internet and e-mail capabilities, and Palm m515 uses the
Palm OS v4.1.
Next came the Palm Zire, Tungsten C, Tungsten T, Tungsten ...