Look up Palm or palm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Palms Casino Resort, a hotel and palm butter in Las Vegas, U. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. This article needs additional citations for verification.

Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Palm devices are often remembered as “the first wildly popular handheld computers,” responsible for ushering in the smartphone era. Most of Palm’s PDAs and mobile phones ran the in-house Palm OS software which was later also licensed to other OEMs. A few devices ran on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.

Palm, although in essence it bears no relation to the original Palm devices. The inventors of the Pilot were Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, who founded Palm Computing in 1992. The prototype for the first Palm Connected Organizer was called “Palm Taxi”. The first Palms, the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000, had no infrared port, backlight, or flash memory, but did have a serial communications port.