Palm handhelds were Personal Digital Assistants which ran the Palm OS. Palm devices have evolved from handhelds to smartphones which run Palm OS, WebOS, and Windows Mobile. This page describes the range of Palm devices, from the first generation of Palm machines known as the Pilot through to the latest models currently produced by Palm, Inc including their new Palm Pre line of consumer smartphones. On 28 April 2010 it was announced that Hewlett-Packard would acquire Palm for around US$1.2bn. Although HP kept the Palm brand initially, all new PDA devices announced at press announcement on... February 9, 2011, were branded as HP devices, not as Palm devices. Pilot was the name of the first generation of personal digital assistants manufactured by Palm Computing in 1996 . The prototype for the first Palm Connected Organizer was called "Palm Taxi". The first two generations of PDAs from Palm were referred to as "Palm-Pilots". Due to a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the Pilot Pen Corporation, since 1998 handheld devices from Palm have been known as Palm Connected Organizers or more commonly as "Palms".
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| NASDAQ symbol: | PALM |
| Headquarters: | Sunnyvale, California |
| Annual revenue: | $735,870,000 |
| Net income: | $-732,190,000 |
| Operating income: | $119,600,000 |
| Market cap: | $680,000,000 |
| Industries: | Computer Terminal Manufacturing |