No more Palm OS and fewer devices in the future

Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm has revealed that there will be no new Palm devices designed to run the current Palm OS.

According to comments reported on Pocket-Lint.com, the company's direction lies with the new Palm webOS that caused quite a stir when it was unveiled at CES 09.

Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system will be employed in place of webOS for Palm's Enterprise handsets.

Colligan also indicated that customers shouldn't expect a new handset every other week as Palm want to introduce fewer but more striking handsets.

“We want to create a product line, but I think we are also very focused on less is more making, lets make fewer really breakthrough products that make people really go wow.”

Palm seems to be on the right track with this as the first handset to use the webOS platform will be the Palm Pre which has been announced as arriving in the first half of this year.

A twitter message from a tech journalist suggested that it will launch in the US in June, and Colligan reassured European customers that it would be coming to Europe later this year; whether that “later this year” is within the “first half of this year” as previously thought is not known right now.