Handmark® Pocket Express(TM) News and Information Service Packaged with New Palm Treo 680 Smartphone
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KANSAS CITY, MO - (22 November 2006) -Handmark® today announced its award-winning Pocket Express(TM) mobile Internet experience will be shipped on the in-box CD included with the new Palm® Treo(TM) 680 smartphone from Palm, Inc.
"Pocket Express is a great way for consumers to get the most out of the Treo 680," said Mark Bercow, senior vice president, business development, Palm, Inc. "Palm and Handmark have a history of working together to provide the most robust mobile experience possible. This is an extension of that relationship into an exciting new market."
Pocket Express delivers free news, sports, and weather, plus 14 additional subscription services including 411 directory search, maps and driving directions, an Oxford dictionary, and more. Treo 680 users can take advantage of all 14 services Pocket Express has to offer for two weeks. At the conclusion of the trial period, users can subscribe to all services for $6.99 a month or keep news, sports, and weather at no charge.
"Treo 680 is the perfect platform for the Pocket Express experience," said Douglas Edwards, Handmark cofounder and chief marketing officer. "Whether it is stocks or sports, maps or movies, Pocket Express helps Treo users avoid the painful task of mobile browsing with a clean, crisp and intuitive PageOne interface that offers a faster, better, and free mobile Internet experience."
About the Palm Treo 680 Smartphone
The Palm Treo 680 smartphone is a full-featured mobile phone that offers consumers and business customers everything needed to stay organized. Designed to appeal to new users and businesses that want to deploy an affordable, all-in-one phone to their mass workforce, the new GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone(1) is easy to use, slim and compact, yet packed full of features beyond its stellar phone capability, such as email, web browsing, messaging, multimedia, calendar and contacts.(2)
For more information visit www.palm.com/Treo680. For information on Handmark Pocket Express visit www.pocketexpress.com.
About Handmark
Handmark is a global leader in the development and distribution of mobile content solutions. Pocket Express wireless on-device portal service offers consumer-friendly access to news, reference and infotainment content on mobile phones as well as BlackBerry, Palm Treo, MOTORAZR, motorola Q(TM) and other Windows Mobile wireless handhelds. The company holds key mobile content distribution patents including Java-based push technology for wireless devices; has technology and distribution relationships with CNN International, The Associated Press, Oxford University Press, Hasbro, MobiTV, TV Guide, JAMDAT Mobile and Zagat Survey as well as all major U.S. mobile operators; and dominates the market for mobile software sold through retail channels. Handmark has R&D facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden; Kansas City, Mo.; and Dallas, Texas, with sales offices in Kansas City; San Francisco; Stockholm, Sweden; and London. For more information, visit www.handmark.com.
(1) Designed to be compatible with networks implementing GSM/GPRS/EDGE standards, but may not be available or operate in all countries.
(2) Within wireless service coverage area only. Availability and coverage depends upon carrier and the geographic scope of international roaming agreements. Email, messaging and web access requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost. Email account not included. EDGE service not available in all areas.
Erica Wells
Public Relations Manager
O: (816) 268-2956
F: (816) 421-6618
C: (913) 707-8486
ewells@handmark.com
