New Report Says Palm Eos Is On Schedule for this Fall

A market analyst made news yesterday with a prediction that the second smartphone running Palm's webOS will be significantly delayed. Today, however, a leak from the manufacturer says that the Palm Eos will hit the market on schedule.

According to unconfirmed reports, Taiwan's Compal Communications will be manufacturing the Eos (AKA the Pixie). The Commercial Times said today that Compal expects to to begin full production of this smartphone in October.

The version that will allegedly debut this fall will be for AT&T and other GSM carriers, and will have support for 3G (HSPA).

A CDMA version for Sprint will reportedly go into production from Compal early in 2010. This will offer the mobile broadband standard EV-DO.

An Overview of the Palm Eos
According to a leaked list of specifications, the Eos will have a keyboard mounted on the front, below its 2.6-inch, 320-by-400-pixel, capacitive touchscreen.

This device will have 4 GB of internal storage rather than a removable memory card slot. Other features will include a GPS receiver, a 2 MPx camera, and a 1150 mAh battery, giving it up to 4 hours of talk time.

The Eos will be noticeably slimmer than the Palm Pre because it won't use its predecessor's sliding keyboard design. Overall. it will be 4.4 inches tall, 2.2 inches wide, and 0.4 inches thick  (111mm x 55mm x 10.6mm).

As mentioned earlier, this will supposedly be the second model running Palm's webOS, a multi-tasking operating system able to wirelessly synchronize a wide variety of data with online services like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Exchange. It will come with a highly-capable web browser, email software, and multimedia player. Additional third-party applications will also be available.

The Eos won't replace the Pre -- rather it will be a lower-priced option.

Source: DigiTimes