Handmark Pocket Express Wireless Services Bundled With Palm Treo 700p Smartphone
Handmark, a global leader in mobile media, today announced that its award winning Pocket Express wireless services will be included with the new Palm Treo 700p smartphone. With totally free News, Sports, and Weather, plus 2-week free access to 14 additional subscription services, Pocket Express leverages the power of the Treo 700p to deliver essential information for both business and individual users.
As the first Palm OS based Treo smartphone on EvDO, the Palm Treo 700p smartphone uses its fast data connection to speed email, messaging, large attachment downloads and web browsing. The speed also allows for streaming multimedia content, and the Treo 700p smartphone ships with Palm's first built-in streaming application. Treo 700p users also can take advantage of broadbandlike EvDO speeds on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth wireless technology. By using SD memory cards, currently available with 2GB of storage (sold separately), in addition to the 128MB of built-in memory (60MB dedicated user storage), users have plenty of room to download and carry important documents and multimedia content.
Pocket Express provides Treo 700p users with indispensable information including news, sports, weather, stock quotes, street maps and turn-by-turn directions, movie reviews and show times, an Oxford dictionary, 411 directory search and more. Winner of both a PC Magazine Editors' Choice award and the PalmSource Powered Up Award for best over-the-air wireless application, the personalized Pocket Express experience is more user-friendly than web surfing, and the intuitive PageOne interface serves up content with a fraction of the clicks required by mobile browsing.
"Pocket Express makes an ideal companion for our new Treo 700p smartphone," said Mark Bercow, senior vice president, business development, Palm, Inc. "Customers will choose the Treo 700p because they want fast, easy access to the information that is essential to their daily lives. Pocket Express further extends that functionality by keeping subscribers in touch with even more real-time, real-life information on the go."
"Treo 700p continues the Palm tradition of raising the bar for functionality and value," said Douglas Edwards, Handmark co-founder and chief marketing officer. "Pocket Express will become the preferred wireless service offering for this excellent next generation device."
As a special bonus, installing Pocket Express provides easy entry to the Handmark "Win a Porsche" sweepstakes for the chance to win a 2007 Porsche Cayman S. The signup for the entry is found within the Pocket Express BLOG channel. Additional entries can be earned via SHARE.
SHARE encourages other smartphone users to try Pocket Express and increases chances of winning the Porsche sweepstakes. With one click, Pocket Express users can send an SMS text message that lets the recipient access the service. When a recipient downloads and launches Pocket Express as a result of a SHARE invitation, the sender is entered again into the drawing pool.
The Handmark "Win a Porsche" sweepstakes ends on December 31, 2006. Complete details including sweepstakes rules and alternative ways to enter to win are available at the company's Web site, http://www.handmark.com/.
Pocket Express is priced at just $6.99 per month for all fourteen services. After the 2-week free evaluation period, users can choose to continue at the normal monthly rate, or keep the free news/weather/sports features, at no cost whatsoever. To learn more, visit http://express.handmark.com/ or http://www.handmark.com/.
More information about the Palm Treo 700p smartphone can be found at http://www.palm.com/Treo700p.
About Handmark
Handmark is a global leader in the development and distribution of mobile content solutions. The company's flagship Pocket Express wireless service bundle offers consumer-friendly access to news, reference and infotainment content on mobile phones as well as BlackBerry, Palm Treo and Windows Mobile wireless handhelds. The company also 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, Missouri; and Dallas, Texas, with sales offices in Kansas City, San Francisco, Stockholm, and London. For more information, visit http://www.handmark.com/.