Is Android Palm’s best chance for consumer smartphone success?
28 December 2007 - 22:00
As 2007 nears its end, speculation about the upcoming developments of the Android platform - and, more importantly perhaps, which OEMs and developers will adopt the OS for their hardware - grows. In a podcast discussing Palm’s next-quarter roadmap, J. Edward Rutkowski and Tadd Rosenfeld (of msmobiles.com and mytreo.net respectively) put forward the case for the somewhat ailing smartphone company to add a gPhone to their line-up. Given the recent news that the low-end Palm Centro is outselling company expectations, especially compared to the higher-end (and less consumer-focused) Treo series, the unsurprising fact that Palm’s profit margin on the handset is relatively low would be a reasonable incentive to adopt open-source Android.
