PalmSource, Inc. has begun shipping the final version of Palm OS 5 to licensees and developers. The release of Palm OS 5 is designed to enable developers and licensees to accelerate the introduction of innovative mobile products while maintaining compatibility with today’s Palm OS based software and Palm Powered hardware. Palm OS 5 will bring the flexibility, innovation, and ease of use of Palm OS to a new generation of mobile devices through powerful ARM-compliant processors. Licensees can now choose from a full range of processors, starting with the ARM 7 CPU and scaling to the highest-performance ARM chips from Intel, Motorola, and Texas Instruments, effectively broadening the market. In addition, the operating system will deliver an enhanced user interface that enables increased personalization, security, multimedia, and wireless networking, as well as compatibility with existing Palm OS software programs. Palm OS 5 offers licensees and developers greater market opportunities, enabling them to create new classes of devices and software.