Sprint’s Motorola Q2 to rock Palm OS?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! What is going on here? Sprint’s holiday phone guide online lists the usual phones we know about like the Palm Centro, BlackBerry 8130, and all that jazz, but what in the hell is a picture of the Motorola Q2 running Palm OS doing in there? Anyone up for a Palm-powered Moto, ’cause we’re not…Would you actually buy this?
Thanks, Marc!
UPDATE: As our sneaky readers pointed out, the full specs on the Sprint page for the Motorola Q2 list Windows Mobile. Looks like one of their web guys got extra excited with the screen shot!
On Nov 10, 2007 @ 10:59 am, marc Said:
wow, thanks boygenius for post my tip! Anyway, i don’t know what to think of this, wishing it’s a type-o of some sort.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:00 am, Lizzy Said:
Wow! This is so cool but I so wouldn’t buy this!
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:20 am, Roman411 Said:
Nice gaff Sprint. Did they not think that the all mighty BGR NOT somehow pick up on this? Silly silly corporate fools. Time for Sprint to hire a continuity expert.
Keep up the amazing work BGR. Brooklyn, NYC is looking to you to for the usual top coverage you provide.
P.S. For those who like the music in the latest TV ad: Detektivbyran is the band.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:39 am, Andy Said:
Yeah, that phone is not money at all, Palm OS are you kidding me? I though they discontinued that! J/K. Anyway, when is the Pearl going to be released? How much will I have to pay for it outside of a contract??
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 11:55 am, Nino Said:
I posted this over at SU. If you go to this link
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_15
you will see a closer shot of the Q2 with Palm OS and a price of $149.99 o and it says WM6 on it as well.
Nino
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 12:00 pm, Nino Said:
@ Andy
I think the Pearl is coming out on Black Friday. Not sure what full retail would be but its $199.99 with 2-year.
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_16
Nino
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 12:07 pm, Sean C. Said:
No Palm OS on this. Check the link, it states WM6:
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_15
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 2:03 pm, argonnj Said:
As old as Palm OS is, It is still 100% better then Win Mobile.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 2:05 pm, JJLO Said:
I still prefer palm os over win mobile.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 3:06 pm, rosegold Said:
typo most likely i mean its coming from sprint
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 3:18 pm, cm Said:
No way this thing supports palm. Some graphic designer just re-used the centrino screen shot on the moto. Ads like this are composites, they never use the actual image of the os that was taken by the photographer. They super impose a higer res version after the fact. In this case they just used the wrong one.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 3:42 pm, k Said:
omg the device is called the palm centro, not centrino! centrino is the name of a processor made by intel. i’m sorry but i swore if i saw it called that one more time i was going to explode. i always keep my promises.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 4:14 pm, hill Said:
obviously a mistake by Sprint graphic designers.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 6:22 pm, Juke Box Hero Said:
@k
Actually, Centrino isn’t a processor either. Centrino was a platform label that Intel applied to notebooks with when the hardware met a certain approved power-saving criteria. That criteria was largely dependant on the processor (the Banias and Dothan Pentium M cores) but it also included the system and network chipset.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 6:31 pm, herman manfred Said:
Probably just some advertising bozo cut-n-pasting via Photoshop some screens he/she thought looked good onto whatever was the phone-du-moment.
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On Nov 10, 2007 @ 7:40 pm, Jeff B. Said:
Not only would anybody with brains not buy this but nobody would buy this. I mean c’mon it’s Palm’s OS on a WM6 device. How stupid is that?
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On Nov 11, 2007 @ 9:02 pm, k Said:
thanks for correcting me juke box hero. like i said it just drives me crazy when people call the centro the centrino. the poor device has to overcome an insanely small keyboard, it doesn’t need people calling it by the wrong name.
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On Nov 12, 2007 @ 3:44 pm, sola Said:
I would buy it if it was a 3G phone (HSDPA at least).
I don’t buy any WinMob product as long as it is possible.
Palm devices sync with my Ubuntu without any trouble. Not many other phones do that. They sync perfectly with Windows/Outlook as well (in the office).
Treo keyboards are similar and they are quite adequate (I have been using one for almost 2 years)
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On Nov 13, 2007 @ 1:59 am, Nino Said:
if you go to the link again
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_15
it shows WM6 now.
Nino
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