But Palm has struggled to maintain the buzz it generated
when it won a "Best in Show" award at CES last year as Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system, and the phones running it, have overshadowed it in the marketplace.
Palm has big challenges in front of it, Wolverton writes, but he says that the latest announcements could give it a boost. For one thing, having webOS phones on Verizon, instead of just Sprint, presents Palm with a much larger potential market than it had.
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