Tcl buys Palm brand or resurgence

Beijing time, January 1 morning News, Hewlett-Packard in 2010 to 1.2 billion U.S. dollars to buy the legendary smartphone and PDA Palm, a year after the removal of the Palm brand, and the acquisition of 1.5 after the completion of the deal to completely stop the production of webOS devices. But today, the brand may revive.

Palm.com has recently stopped transferring visitors to the Hpwebos.com Web site and started to boot it to the Mynewpalm.com Web site, which displays a circular playback video of a palm logo with "Coming Soon" and "Smart move ".

A subsequent document revealed that the Palm trademark had been transferred by HP to a company named Wide Progress Global 2¥q (hereinafter referred to as "Wide Progress"), but that the company should be just a shell company designed to conceal genuine buyers. The man who signed the wide progress was named Nicolas Gibert (Nicolas Zibell), who holds the title of the President of the Americas and the Pacific region. In addition, "Smart move" is the slogan of the Alcatel Touch, so the real buyer of the Palm logo is obvious.

The Alcatel Touch is TCL's smartphone brand, which ranks 25th among global consumer electronics manufacturers and the third-largest TV producer after Samsung and LG. TCL's business in the United States is small, and it may be easier to move into the market through a well-known American brand, as Lenovo acquired Motorola.

Industry insiders point out that while there is no news about how the Alcatel-one touch is taking advantage of the Palm brand, its acquisition of the brand should not be a matter of concern, and may use the brand to launch new smartphone products in the future. The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is about to take place, and TCL will usually attend the show with a fanfare, perhaps at the meeting. (Tangfeng)