KANSAS CITY, MO — 15 May 2006 — Handmark®, a global leader in mobile media, today announced that its award winning Pocket Express™ wireless services will be included with the new Palm® Treo™ 700p smartphone. With totally free News, Sports, and Weather, plus 2-week free access to 14 additional subscription services, Pocket Express leverages the power of the Treo 700p to deliver essential information for both business and individual users.

As the first Palm OS® based Treo smartphone on EvDO, the Palm Treo 700p smartphone uses its fast data connection to speed email, messaging, large attachment downloads and web browsing.(1) The speed also allows for streaming multimedia content, and the Treo 700p smartphone ships with Palm’s first built-in streaming application. Treo 700p users also can take advantage of broadbandlike EvDO speeds on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth® wireless technology. By using SD memory cards, currently available with 2GB of storage (sold separately), in addition to the 128MB of built-in memory (60MB dedicated user storage), users have plenty of room to download and carry important documents and multimedia content.

Pocket Express provides Treo 700p users with indispensable information including news, sports, weather, stock quotes, street maps and turn-by-turn directions, movie reviews and show times, an Oxford dictionary, 411 directory search and more.  Winner of both a PC Magazine Editors’ Choice award and the PalmSource Powered Up Award for best over-the-air wireless application, the personalized Pocket Express experience is more user-friendly than web surfing, and the intuitive PageOne interface serves up content with a fraction of the clicks required by mobile browsing.

As a special bonus, installing Pocket Express provides easy entry to the Handmark “Win a Porsche” sweepstakes for the chance to win a 2007 Porsche Cayman S.  The signup for the entry is found within the Pocket Express BLOG channel.  Additional entries can be earned via SHARE.

Pocket Express is priced at just $6.99 per month for all fourteen services. After the 2-week free evaluation period, users can choose to continue at the normal monthly rate, or keep the free news/weather/sports features, at no cost whatsoever. To learn more, visit http://express.handmark.com/ or www.handmark.com .

Thanks to Belinda Banks for the contributed news.