PalmSource Launches Palm Powered Mobile World in China - China Unicom NewSpace Joins Program as Charter Mobile Operator Partner BEIJING, China, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PalmSource, Inc. (NASDAQ:PSRC), provider of Palm OS(R), a leading operating system powering next generation phones and mobile devices, today launched Palm Powered Mobile World(TM) (PPMW) in China and welcomed mobile operator China Unicom NewSpace, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Unicom Limited ("China Unicom") (NYSE: CHU; HKSE: 0762) to the program. PalmSource and China Unicom NewSpace, along with Samsung Electronics, today also announced that the Samsung SCH-i539 is now available on the CDMA network in China through China Unicom NewSpace, and is the first Palm Powered smartphone to be available in mainland China. With over 112 million wireless subscribers, China Unicom is the world's second largest CDMA operator, third largest GSM operator, and the provider of paging, long-distance, broadband data and mobile communications services. China is the world's largest and one of the fastest growing markets for mobile phones, with about 330 million mobile phone subscribers and about 240 million handsets manufactured for domestic use and export in 2004 (source ARC, MII). China Unicom joins existing PPMW mobile operator partners Orange, Sprint and Telefonica Moviles Espana, in addition to more than a dozen infrastructure and middleware partners in the program designed to capitalize on the growing market. As a member of the Palm Powered Mobile World Program, China Unicom NewSpace will work together with PalmSource in a number of areas including: -- Collaborating to align the Palm OS platform roadmap with the product requirements of China Unicom NewSpace in order to facilitate the deployment of next generation Palm Powered smartphones; and -- Engaging in joint marketing activities to identify and promote key third-party Palm OS applications and solutions that meet the needs of China Unicom NewSpace wireless customers. "We are pleased to join Palm Powered Mobile World and bring our expertise in wireless voice and next generation data services to Palm Powered(TM) devices," said Song XiaoBing, CEO, China Unicom NewSpace. "We look forward to our continued collaboration with PalmSource in the PPMW program to offer our customers a wide variety of Palm Powered(TM) devices and solutions that take advantage of our high-speed data service and also deliver an enhanced user experience." "We are committed to providing customers with an industry leading platform that includes our partnerships with leading mobile operators such as China Unicom NewSpace," said Dr. David Nagel, PalmSource president and CEO. "As a charter member of Palm Powered Mobile World China, China Unicom NewSpace is enabling us to provide a strong foundation for the Palm Powered Economy in China." About Palm Powered Mobile World The Palm Powered Mobile World program connects mobile operators, infrastructure and middleware partners and software developers in a wireless Palm Powered economy designed to bring Palm OS software applications and solutions to market, provide increased revenue opportunities for partners and a superior experience for users of Palm Powered smartphones. More information about the Palm Powered Mobile World can be found at http://www.palmsource.com/partners. About PalmSource PalmSource, Inc., the company behind Palm OS(R), a leading operating system powering smart mobile devices, is a leading developer of software for mobile phones and other mobile devices. Its products include a wide range of software for mobile phones at all price points. More than 39 million mobile phones, handhelds, and other mobile devices run PalmSource software. More than 45 companies worldwide have licenses to PalmSource software, including Fossil, Garmin, GSPDA, Kyocera, Lenovo, palmOne, Samsung, Sony, and Symbol Technologies. Palm OS has given rise to a large community of users, enterprises, developers and manufacturers, who together make up the Palm Powered(TM) Economy. More information about PalmSource is available at http://www.palmsource.com/, http://www.palmsource.co.uk/, http://www.palmsource.fr/, http://www.palmsource.de/, http://www.palmsource.com/es and http://www.palmsource.com.cn/. CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements related to the Palm Powered(TM) Mobile World Program (PPMW), the collaboration between PalmSource and China Unicom NewSpace, the smart mobile device market, the growth of the Palm Powered Economy and the features and benefits of Palm OS(R). The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, our ability to successfully implement the PPMW and to collaborate on multiple marketing and product planning activities with members of the program to realize the anticipated benefits from the PPMW; China Unicom NewSpace and PalmSource's ability to work with the Palm OS developer community to create Palm OS applications and solutions optimized for the China Unicom NewSpace Wireless network; China Unicom NewSpace and PalmSource's ability, if at all, to timely align the Palm OS platform roadmap with China Unicom NewSpace's device and network requirements to cause device manufacturers to use the Palm OS platform to produce Palm Powered products that operate on the China Unicom NewSpace network and that meet end user demands; the ability of the China Unicom NewSpace network to deliver the anticipated speed and reach that will stimulate development of new Palm Powered devices and Palm OS applications and solutions optimized for China Unicom NewSpace networks; the success of the Samsung SPH-i539; the ability of the smart mobile device market to grow as we anticipate and our ability to benefit from any such growth; our ability to support, maintain and grow our application developer community; our ability to compete with existing or new competitors, our ability, and that of our licensees and developers, to timely introduce new products to the market, general economic conditions in the U.S. and abroad and other risks and uncertainties contained in our public announcements, reports to stockholders and other documents filed with and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the periods ended August 27, 2004, November 26, 2004, and February 25, 2005. 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