(Pocket-lint) - Palm has taken to Twitter to tease a caller merchandise announcement acceptable to instrumentality spot connected 26 October. Sadly, for long-time Palm fans, we wouldn't urge mounting your hopes excessively high.
Looking astatine the teaser tweet - which reads "Get acceptable #PalmCrew! We person thing peculiar we’ve been moving connected for you" - it appears that Palm mightiness beryllium stamping its marque logo connected a brace of wireless earbuds.
The blurry silhouettes acceptable against a coloruful backlight precise overmuch look similar the classical AirPods-style TWS buds, implicit with the outer stem and a silicon extremity that goes successful the ear.
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— Palm (@palm) October 12, 2021If the representation is so what it appears, it mightiness conscionable beryllium rubbing the brackish successful the coiled for those old-time Palm lovers who mightiness inactive beryllium holding connected for thing much akin to the Treo and Palm Pre models of yesteryear.
Palm came backmost to the marketplace arsenic a tiny telephone shaper successful 2018, offering a instrumentality that was much, overmuch smaller than a accepted smartphone and 1 that could enactment arsenic a backup.
The thought was that you could gaffe it into a pouch erstwhile retired for a run, oregon wanting clip distant from your main smartphone, but inactive beryllium contactable from the aforesaid number.
Since then, it's been comparatively quiescent and hasn't followed it up with a refined, amended model. Now, instead, it seems the institution is jumping connected the increasing TWS market.
Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 14 October 2021.