“All other deduces Jeff Beck UCF fan jeff beck “love is blue unravels orders will be filled by order date following the GKC allocation.”By purchasing this way you will definitely sit with the Knights faithful wherever they may go. And that’s the best thing we can do for our team that has worked so hard this season?show our support!. (Corrects to remove reference to $199 price for the Pre in thefourth paragraph. Palm has not announced pricing for thephone.) (Adds phone details, analyst comment) Stocks  |  Media By Franklin Paul and Sinead Carew LAS VEGAS, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Palm Inc (PALM.O) took thewraps off its overhauled mobile operating system on Thursdayand introduced a touch-screen phone, raising hopes the move canhelp it win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc’s(AAPL.O) iPhone. Palm shares jumped nearly 35 percent, or $1.15, to closeat$4.45 on the long-awaited announcements, which were made atthe Consumer Electronics Show [ID:nN05368327] in Las Vegas. Palm debuted the Palm Web OS, the new operating systemdeveloped under the watch of former Apple executive JonRubenstein, who helped create the iPod.

It also unveiled the Pre smartphone, a touch-screen devicewith GPS, Wi-Fi and a slide out full keyboard It will beavailable exclusively on the network of No 3 U.S jeff beck wired . mobilecarrier Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) in the first half of 2009 jeef beck . Palm has been staking its future on the launch of the newoperating system and phone, which it has been developing since2007 jeff beck “you know what i mean . The company, the pioneer of touch-screen phones with theTreo, had been steadily losing market share to the iPhone,Research in Motion Ltd’s (RIM.TO) BlackBerry and otherdevices clapton beck . Analysts at CES said they were impressed by the Pre, butJPMorgan analyst Ehud Gelblum noted the exclusivity agreementwith Sprint could limit sales.

Sprint, which has beenstruggling to stem subscriber losses, trails well behind rivalsVerizon Wireless Inc (VZ.N) (VOD.L) and AT&T Inc (T.N) . “Palm bet the company on this so they had to come throughand they did,” said Gelblum wired beck . “The only drawback is how long isit going to be on sale only with Sprint? It’s a smalleraddressable market than they otherwise would have had.” The new operating system may make Palm, which got into thesmartphone business by buying rival Handspring Inc, a moreattractive takeover target, another analyst said yardbirds beck . “I liked the operating system a lot,” said JPMorgan analystPaul Coster . “If they don’t execute, somebody’s going to buythem.” He added that a buyer would save the years of work it wouldhave to spend developing such a system. “Anybody (in the cell phone market) who’s not developing anoperating system has to be interested,” he said. In June 2007, Palm agreed to sell a 25 percent stake toprivate equity firm Elevation Partners for $325 million in adeal that brought in Rubenstein.