Palm.net was a wireless data communication service enabling limited wireless access of the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

, provided for certain Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

 Personal Digital Assistant

Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...

s. Connectivity was provided through the Mobitex

Mobitex

Mobitex is an OSI based open standard, national public access wireless packet-switched data network. Mobitex puts great emphasis on safety and reliability with its use by military, police, firefighters and ambulance services. Mobitex was developed in the beginning of the 1980s by the Swedish...

 network. Web Clipping applications made use of the network to process data. The cost of service was $14.95 per month, and allowed a limited number of web pages to be viewed. The initial Palm model to be capable of using the service was the Palm VII

Palm VII

The Palm VII was a personal digital assistant made by the Palm Computing division of 3Com. The device featured an antenna used for wireless data communication, a first for a Palm device. Connectivity was provided through the Mobitex network, under the now defunct Palm.net service...

, which made it the first standalone PDA to be capable of wireless internet access. Later models included the Palm VIIx

Palm VIIx

The Palm VIIx was a personal digital assistant made by Palm, Inc.. The device featured an antenna used for wireless data communication. Connectivity was provided through the Mobitex network, under the now defunct Palm.net service. Web Clipping applications made use of the network to process data...

 and Palm i705

Palm i705

The Palm i705 was an upgrade from the last series of Palm PDAs to use the now discontinued Palm.net service to access the World Wide Web from Palm devices. It featured 8MB of onboard memory and SD/MMC slots...

. The service started in 1999 and was discontinued on August 31, 2004.