The length of the new Palm agreement with Spanish telecoms giant,

Telefónica, has not yet been revealed but the main countries will be UK, Germany, Spain and Ireland.

 An October launch will maximise Christmas orders and Matthew Key, Head of European business, states that this will serve to strengthen O2 market share in Germany, principally.

 

Palm webOS needs lots more killer applications before it can take on the might of the Apple iPhone, even with an impressive 1.8 million downloads to date - it will need 100 times this amount to compete in the App Store league.

Palm also needs to gain the confidence of the development community and opinion is divided in developer perception of the new webOS so far.

 

Some say the platform has arrived with too little too late whereas others say a more intimate store environment is a pull … But this will only be the case if the device sells many, many millions!