Palm gossip was right! Palm introduced a color version of the Palm III in time for their IPO.  The name is Palm IIIc.

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June 2001

The Palm IIIc is only $299 now. Plus you can often get an extra bonus HERE!

12/6/2000

11/1/2000

The Palm IIIc Price has Dropped.  Get it HERE!

2/22/2000

Palm Released their new Palm IIIc ($449) and the Palm IIIxe.  Sign up for our free mailing list so thta we can notifiy you when it is available online at a discount.

2/20/2000
Rumor has it that the Palm IIIc will be introduced later this week in Germany. Apparently, Palm wants it to be in the stores by March 2 when the Palm division of 3com is going public.

The Palm IIIc will also have 8 mb of RAM, a rechargeable battery, be 1 cm bigger than the Palm IIIx, and the color black.

2/7/2000 -UK post from yahoo re IIIc. (Submitted by David E, San Antonio)

Palm Computing will release a new device with a colour screen at this month's Cebit trade fair in Hanover, Germany 

The Palm IIIc will support colour by taking advantage of the capabilities in the newest version of Palm's operating system, Palm OS 3.5. 

Priced at £349, the Palm IIIc will be slightly larger than the other models in the Palm III range. It will ship with 8MB of RAM and will use a rechargeable battery, said sources familiar with the launch. 

At Cebit, the company will also release the Palm Vx and the Palm IIIx in Europe. Both models, which are more upgradeable than standard
models, have been available in the US for some time. 

Until recently Palm officials resisted the move to colour, despite competition from Windows CE devices. Monochrome screens have not hurt
Palm ­ it dominates the PDA market, far ahead of often more powerful Windows CE devices with colour screens. 

1/27/2000 Thomas S. submitted the following

The Palm IIIc occupies a form factor similar to that of the existing Palm III organisers but will feature a colour, backlit screen and the latest Palm OS release, version 3.5. ... The devices will be priced at $449 and $249 respectively.[...]

The company recently invited developer's to submit applications which utilised the colour technology for preview at a special event to be held in early February 2000 and possible inclusion in a promotional advertising campaign." 

1/21/2000

CNET Reports 'Ostensibly an opportunity for third-party software and hardware developers to play around with the new color-enabled operating system, the letter hints that a Palm licensee will show a device with a color display for the first time. "In the spring of 2000, one of the hardware manufacturers that makes products based on the Palm OS will release a device with a color display!" the letter states. "This licensee is interested in showing some of the stable, useful, quality, color applications that exist at the time of the product launch." But rather than a new device from a licensee like Handspring, TRG, or even Sony, as some developers are guessing, sources say the Palm event will actually be the debut of the Palm IIIc, a color device from the soon-to-be-independent 3Com subsidiary itself. '
1/5/99: 

There are currently rumors that 3com will release a color version of the Palm III early this year ( the Palm IIIc).  At least two developments support this guess.  1) last fall Palm lay out the specifications of the new Palm OS which will be enabled for color. 2) A new version of the processor has been released which supports color.

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