Palm most likely wasn’t a reputation you have been anticipating to listen to from once more, however to the shock of many, the corporate just lately posted some teasers on Twitter foreshadowing a brand new gadget popping out later this month.

While Palm hasn’t formally revealed detailed data about its upcoming launch, the teaser pics in its tweets make it fairly clear that Palm is prepping to launch a brand new pair of wi-fi earbuds. And judging by the silhouette of the machine within the background, it appears Palm has taken some inspiration from Apple’s ubiquitous AirPods.

For an organization that’s most well-known for making telephones and PDAs (bear in mind these?), the choice to maneuver into the audio market may look like a wierd pivot, particularly because the final time we noticed one thing from Palm was in 2018 with the tiny Palm Phone. Unlike different smartphones, Palm mainly bucked each fashionable cellphone development when it made the Palm Phone, which was designed so that you’d spend much less time taking a look at your cellphone so as to focus extra on the world round you, whereas nonetheless offering the important smartphone performance.

However, it appears in its quest to make a comeback, Palm is taking a barely extra conservative strategy by launching a less complicated and cheaper machine in its upcoming earbuds. This is a technique we’ve seen just lately with OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s new firm Nothing, which equally launched wi-fi earbuds earlier this summer season as the corporate’s first product.

In selecting wi-fi earbuds, Palm can set its sights a bit decrease by making a considerably easier and cheaper product that doesn’t require Palm to fret about issues like OSes or supporting particular 4G or 5G bands. And if Palm’s new earbuds are profitable, Palm can take any income generated by gross sales of its earbuds to develop its machine portfolio from there.

That mentioned, I nonetheless have a few questions, because the Palm model is at the moment owned by TCL, which makes me surprise if Palm’s new earbuds shall be borrowing any tech from current TCL earbuds. Additionally, again when the Palm Phone got here out, NBA famous person Stephen Curry was listed as both an investor and an advisor to Palm, so it is going to be attention-grabbing to see if Curry has any enter on Palm’s upcoming earbuds.

However, the actual problem for Palm shall be making an attempt to penetrate the wi-fi earbud market, which is already utterly saturated by a number of choices from established manufacturers like Apple, Samsung, Google, Sony, and others, to not point out smaller (however nonetheless influential) gadget makers like Nokia, Motorola, and extra. It’s a crowded panorama, which implies Palm’s earbuds will must be actually particular, lest Palm dangers the model occurring hiatus for an additional few years.

And whereas one of many teasers strongly means that Palm’s new earbuds will assist built-in ANC, that alone doesn’t look like it is going to be sufficient to make Palm’s earbuds actually stand out. Regardless, with Palm’s announcement date set for October 26, we received’t have to attend too lengthy to search out out for actual.