3 Italia Offers First HSDPA-enabled Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 750 Smartphone in Italy

3 Italia Offers First HSDPA-enabled Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 750 Smartphone in Italy

Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and 3 Italia, the Italian UMTS market leader with more than 7.2 million customers, today launched the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 750 smartphone, which enables 3’s customers to benefit from the Palm experience on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system with High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) capability.

The Treo 750 combines a multifeatured mobile phone with email, messaging, web browsing and organization software. Users can view and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files and view PowerPoint and PDF files. The touch screen makes surfing websites, gathering data and navigating forms and applications much easier. More information about the Palm Treo 750 smartphone is available at http://euro.palm.com/europe/en/products/treo750/index.html.

About 3 Italia: 3 Italia is the Mobile Media Company controlled by the Hutchison Whampoa Group shareholder of 95.4%. Its other shareholders are: NHS Investments S.A (San Paolo IMI), RCS Media Group, Gemina and 3G Mobile Investments (Franco Bernabe Group). 3 Italia won a UMTS license in Italy in 2000, commenced offering of its services in 2003 and is now the leader of the UMTS market in Italy – with 7.19 million clients on March 21st, 2007 – thanks to a wide offer of multimedia, video communication and internet services, besides entertainment, music, information, cinema, sport and Mobile Digital TV (DVB-H).

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