See also: Palm, a Silicon Valley soap opera Shortly later, HP bought Palm for an all-cash $1.2 billion deal, and shortly after that, HP proceeded to take all things Palm out back of the barn, and shoot it dead. Palm stopped selling Palm OS devices around 2008-2009, with the introduction of the Tungsten TX, Treo 680, and small Centro phone marking the final generation.Īs we all know from recent history, Palm decided to move to a completely new operating system, webOS, taking none of its ecosystem or thousands of enthusiastic developers with it. The last version of Palm Desktop was updated about four years ago. All it had was an address book, calendar, to-do list, and note/memo fields, but it was so much easier entering data using a full-sized keyboard on the Palm Desktop, and knowing that once I pushed the Sync button, it would be with me, everywhere. Palm Desktop was the desktop application that made using the Palm devices so smooth. See also: Why old people still like their PDAs I livedoff my Palm device, from the very earliest PalmPilot to my once beloved Treo phone. Heck, I started PalmPower Magazine, way back in 1997. There was a time, not so long ago, that I was a dedicated Palm user.