Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM), a leader in mobile computing, and O2, a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK, announced that the award-winning Palm(R) Treo(TM) 650 smartphone is now available in the O2 business portfolio.

The agreement with O2 strengthens Palm’s position in the UK market with the goal of continuing to expand Treo smartphone presence in Europe and providing the best mobile-computing experience with the Treo family of products.

“We’ve had great success with our line of Treo smartphones in the Americas, and we’ve set our sights on Europe,” said John Hartnett, senior vice president of worldwide sales and customer relations at Palm. “This announcement reflects our latest step toward fulfilling a key corporate objective of expanding Palm’s geographic reach.”

With carrier activation, the Palm Treo 650 smartphone combines a compact, full-featured mobile phone with email, a Palm OS(R) organizer, messaging, web access and digital camera, allowing users to organize and simplify their business and personal lives all in one device. The Treo 650, awarded “Best smartphone in 2005″ by Mobile Choice magazine, comes with advanced features, including Bluetooth(R) wireless technology and extensive multimedia capabilities, such as an MP3 player and video capture and playback.

With its high-resolution screen, QWERTY keyboard for easy text entry, non-volatile memory and user-replaceable battery, the Treo 650 is an ideal platform for enterprise email and vertical market applications. When deployed with enterprise email solutions, such as GoodLink by Good Technology, the Treo 650 enables users to send and receive email, meeting invitations, and updates to contacts and to-do lists.

On May 17th, SK Telecom announced the launching of a WCDMA Automatic Roaming service in Germany’s major cities such as Frankfurt, Hannover and Leipzig. This was accomplished through a joint effort with O2 and E-Plus, which are mobile service providers in Germany.

This WCDMA Automatic Roaming service recently opened in Germany is the third in Europe, and it follows service openings in Italy and France. To date, SK Telecom is offering the service in a total of seven countries jointly with ten local service providers. SK Telecom subscribers traveling to these countries can now send and receive WCDMA cellular calls while using the same number and handset they used in Korea. This service also allows for video telephony roaming.

Service rates range from KRW2,444 to KRW2,826 per minute when users make international voice calls to Korea. If they make video calls to Korea, KRW5,829 per minute will be charged. When making local calls, voice call rates range from KRW1,322 to KRW1,567, and the video call rate is KRW3,153 per minute. When receiving calls from Korea, voice call rates range from KRW366 to KRW402, and KRW 3,720 per minute will be charged for video calls (based on the 1 Euro= KRW1,260).

SK Telecom plans to stretch its service area to Asia (the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia), as well as to the area in Europe that includes England, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark.

The number of SK Telecom’s Automatic Roaming service users reached about 2 million in 2005. The number is expected to exceed 2.65 million in 2006, as the number of overseas travelers is expected to grow during the summer vacation and the 2006 World Cup Soccer Games in Germany.

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.