Handspring, Inc., a leading innovator in handheld computers and personal communicators, today released a beta version of Treo Mail, its new wireless email service, available exclusively for Treo communicators. Treo Mail provides mobile, secure access to desktop email. This beta software is available today at www.handspring.com for a limited time. Handspring expects to begin selling subscriptions for the commercial version of Treo Mail in mid-2002.

“Treo Mail enables owners of our Treo communicators to stay in touch via email while on the go with a small, compact device that excels as a mobile phone, organizer and Internet browser,” said Joe Sipher, vice president of product marketing for Handspring. “The flexibility of Treo Mail’s delivery options means that mobile professionals and individuals have convenient access to their existing work or home email inbox when they want it.”

Treo Mail, powered by Visto, provides tight integration with a Microsoft Outlook/Exchange or POP3 email inbox, enabling users to maintain the work or home email address that they already have. With Treo Mail, customers can send and receive email from their Treo communicator as if they were at their desks. Additionally, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange users enjoy the benefits of wireless inbox synchronization, so that messages read, sent or deleted on Treo will appear as such on the desktop.

Handspring’s Treo communicator works on the GSM network, the most widely used digital network in the world with 80 percent of the global market. Because GSM coverage is available in 4,000 towns and cities in the United States and in 135 countries, Treo Mail customers can access their email throughout much of the United States and in countries around the world. Treo Mail does require Internet access and wireless data services which are not available in all geographies or with all carriers and may be intermittent depending upon the coverage area.

Flexible Delivery Options
Treo Mail offers flexible, customizable delivery options to fit a variety of personal preferences that let users control when and how they send and receive email while on the go. Customers can choose to have email automatically delivered to Treo at scheduled intervals that they define. Email can also be delivered at anytime manually with the touch of a button. They can select filters to exclude messages that they do not want forwarded to Treo, thus keeping out spam and other unwanted email. Also, a customer may choose to retrieve only unread, recent messages or all messages from the last week. Customers can access, read and compose email on Treo while offline, which allows the user to view email while talking on the phone. Treo Mail can also forward email attachments.