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In an interview with Palm Addicts, Hawkins strongly hinted that an announcement would be made at the Wall Street Journal's 'D: All Things Digital' conference in May.

'We're going to be announcing something, but I won't tell you what it is,' he said. 'We will be launching this year, not in the distant future. I'll

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give you a much bigger hint: I'm going to be speaking at Walt Mossberg's D Conference in May. It's a high-end industry conference. Anyway, I'm going to be giving a talk there, and that would be something for the Palm fans to keep a close watch on.'

Hawkins has continually declined to give anything away about the device, saying only that it was a response to 'a world where everyone has a super high-speed Internet connection in their pocket and many gigabytes of storage, super-fast processors, audio, visual and multimedia?'

Hawkins founded Palm in 1994, in the process creating the Palm Pilot, the first mass market PDA. He then left to set-up Handspring which produced the first smartphones before being absorbed by Palm.