After recently announcing the sale of its one-millionth Palm(R) Centro(TM) in the United States, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today introduced its popular smartphone in Colombia through Comcel and Movistar.

With a fun, new compact design, Centro is Palm’s smallest and lightest smartphone. Centro helps users manage email and text messaging, keep track of their schedules, stay up-to-date on the latest news, capture and share pictures, and get directions on Google(TM) Maps — all in one small, fun compact phone. Its full keyboard also makes it easy to quickly type text messages and emails with complete thoughts and ideas. Centro has everything a person needs to stay organized and connected with everyone who is important to them, whether it’s family, friends or co-workers, and it’s particularly attractive to users who are migrating to their first smartphone.

Easy to Use and Highly Customizable

Running on Palm OS(R), Centro offers Palm’s unrivaled ease of use and organizer functions, making it the perfect solution for users who are looking for a smart but compact mobile phone to help them manage increasingly busy lives, whether it’s juggling business meetings or keeping track of social engagements. Centro is also highly customizable with thousands of applications available to help users with everything from maintaining a healthy eating plan to keeping track of golf handicaps or personal expenses.

Additional Centro Features and Benefits

– Superior Phone – Centro’s touch screen and full keyboard, combined with the simplicity of Palm OS, make it easy to use, with key features such as one-touch speakerphone, conference calling, ignore a call with text messaging and Bluetooth(R) connectivity.

– Easy Messaging – Centro’s full keyboard makes typing complete messages fast and easy when sending text, pictures, audio and video clips. Plus, Centro keeps all conversations in a chat-style view, just like Instant Messaging, so users can see the entire conversation unfold.

– Personal and Work Email – New users to the smartphone world now have an easy mobile email solution. Personal email, such as Gmail and Yahoo!, is simple to access right out of the box. And, if users have to check their work email, Microsoft Direct Push Technology gives users access to their corporate email, as well as the ability to automatically update work calendars and accept or decline meeting invites, all on the go.

– Web Browsing – Fast and easy web access on EDGE networks. The full keyboard and touch screen provide quick access to online information.

– Multimedia – Pocket Tunes on Centro lets users manage music, audio books and videos easily.Users can also shoot pictures or videos with the built-in digital camera and share them with friends.

Telefonica Moviles Espana, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced the availability of BlackBerry(R) Connect(TM) software for the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 650 smartphone in Spain. With BlackBerry Connect, movistar’s enterprise and multinational customers will benefit from a wider range of devices compatible with BlackBerry(R) services from movistar.

“Demand for wireless email solutions is driven by the need for increased productivity amongst movistar’s enterprise customers,” said Luis Ezcurra, general director of market development and marketing for Telefonica Moviles Espana. “Movistar believes that working closely with Palm and RIM to provide the feature-rich Treo 650 with BlackBerry Connect functionality will address this demand, as enterprise customers are very interested in investing in solutions that support their business, operational and IT objectives.”

With this expansion of the “BlackBerry from movistar” portfolio, Treo 650 smartphone customers can now benefit from many popular features of the “push”-based BlackBerry architecture via BlackBerry Enterprise Server(TM). For corporate customers, BlackBerry Enterprise Server software tightly integrates with Microsoft(R) Exchange and IBM Lotus(R) Domino(R) and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data.

The Treo 650 smartphone with BlackBerry Connect supports the following features:

— “Push” Corporate Email delivers messages automatically — and wirelessly — to the Treo 650 smartphone’s inbox. Changes to the inbox, including read/unread status and deletion, can be automatically synchronized between the user’s email account
and the Treo 650.

— Wireless Calendar Synchronization keeps the Treo 650 smartphone’s built-in Calendar up to date remotely, allowing users to receive, accept or decline meeting requests on the go.

— Attachment Viewing lets users view Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents in original format.

— Remote Address Lookup (RAL) allows users to search their corporate directory wirelessly for email addresses without the need to download every name to the Treo 650.

— Enables centralized device management, including support for IT policies such as over-the-air device disablement and password device lock, as well as end-to-end security with Triple DES encryption.

“Providing email flexibility is one of the key features that makes the Treo 650 a tremendous asset for business customers,” said John Hartnett, senior vice president of worldwide sales and customer relations, Palm. “The addition of an enterprise strength email solution like BlackBerry Connect for movistar customers reaffirms Palm’s commitment to meet the needs of mobile professionals in Europe.”

“BlackBerry has been embraced by millions of mobile professionals around the world because it is a scalable, secure, and proven wireless solution. The Treo 650 with BlackBerry Connect delivers more choice for mobile customers by offering the combined power of the BlackBerry architecture with the feature rich Treo 650 smartphone,” said Charmaine Eggberry, vice president, EMEA at Research In Motion. “We are pleased to work with Palm and movistar to offer BlackBerry Connect on the Treo 650 smartphone to corporate customers in Spain.”

O2 and Telefonica Moviles, the two mobile arms of Telefonica, on Thursday announced their latest roaming charge tariffs.

Timed to arrive less than 24 hours before the EC accepts final consultations on roaming this Friday, the new tariffs, dubbed ‘My Europe’ include a 35p per minute pan-EU flat rate for UK customers. There is also what the pair claim is the “first-ever” package to remove charges when receiving calls abroad.

O2 and Telefonica said in a statement that they plan “to abolish charges for receiving calls when abroad” for customers on a new ‘high roamer’ service, one of two offerings under My Europe.

The second tariff, aimed at European holidaymakers, will give all O2 and Telefonica customers simplified, reduced flat-rate voice roaming rates across the EU regardless of the mobile network used, the companies said.

Peter Erskine, chairman and chief executive officer of O2, said: “Today’s announcement underlines our promise that the deal with Telefonica would rapidly bring real benefits to customers. We have designed the service to make it as easy as possible for customers to understand by not penalising users who roam onto other networks, by offering the same in-country call rates across Europe and, for high roamers, scrapping the charge levied by all operators in the past for receiving calls when abroad.”

The free opt-in service will be marked by a large summer marketing campaign, backed by a Euro8m plus advertising push. It will be available from 18 June 2006 for Movistar customers in Spain and from July 1 for O2 customers.

All O2 customers in the UK who opt in to the service will pay 35p per minute for calls anywhere within the EU. Previously, post-pay subscribers would have been charged between 58p and 85p per minute, while pre-pay subscribers would have paid between 69p and £1.49.