Palm handhelds were Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that ran the Palm OS.

On 28 April 2010 it was announced that Hewlett-Packard would acquire Palm for around US$1.2 billion. Although HP kept the Palm brand initially, all new PDA devices announced at press announcement on February 9, 2011, were branded as HP devices, not as Palm devices. TCL Corporation announced in January 2015 that it had acquired Palm's intellectual property from HP at the end of 2014, announcing plans to restart the company with crowdfunding being a key element in the development of new Palm smartphones.