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Palm Unveils Smartphones, Verizon Connection

Troy Wolverton reports that Palm finally announced a long-rumored deal with Verizon and unveiled two new phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. It also opened its app store to all developers and says new capabilities for its webOS software enables to it keep pace with -- or even surpass -- rivals.

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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