Palm set to unveil mysterious 'third product'

By Simon Aughton

Posted on 6 Mar 2007 at 12:28

Palm founder Jeff Hawkins has intimated that he is poised to unveil the company's mysterious 'third product' that he has been working on for at least two years.

In an interview with Palm Addicts, Hawkins strongly hinted that an announcement would be made at the Wall Street Journal's 'D: All Things Digital' conference in May.

'We're going to be announcing something, but I won't tell you what it is,' he said. 'We will be launching this year, not in the distant future. I'll give you a much bigger hint: I'm going to be speaking at Walt Mossberg's D Conference in May. It's a high-end industry conference. Anyway, I'm going to be giving a talk there, and that would be something for the Palm fans to keep a close watch on.'

Hawkins has continually declined to give anything away about the device, saying only that it was a response to 'a world where everyone has a super high-speed Internet connection in their pocket and many gigabytes of storage, super-fast processors, audio, visual and multimedia?'

Hawkins founded Palm in 1994, in the process creating the Palm Pilot, the first mass market PDA. He then left to set-up Handspring which produced the first smartphones before being absorbed by Palm.