Comments on: Palm Pro now available from Bell Canada

By: Johnny Raptor

Johnny Raptor — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:14:23 +0000

so when is Bell bringing/launching the Pre in the Great White North? Anyone know? Anyone heard? Time to upgrade my Treo… I’d wait if it wasn’t a longgg wait.

By: Linus

Linus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:19:17 +0000

Pre’s buzz died about a week after CES. It is a revolutionary device for Palm, but only because Palm was considered dead. In the broader market it isn’t a game changer.

It is kinda like saying Mickey Rourke got some “buzz”. All right, he did. Doesn’t make him the leading man he once once.

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:51:14 +0000

jw, Palm has this device coming in a few months that is getting some buzz, heard of the Pre

By: backbeat

backbeat — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:47:40 +0000

^Not really. They’re actually in business as ‘Elevation Partners’. Palm, the company which sold its rights to the OS it created, has been a dead-company-walking entity for years. Hope that helps.

By: jw

jw — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:35:12 +0000

Palm is still in business?

By: Don Louie

Don Louie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:13:32 +0000

Bell is a CDMA carrier as of right now so that may be a good sign the Pro is ready to have the wraps taken off in the U.S.

By: Vince Lawry

Vince Lawry — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:51:11 +0000

Palm must have a good presence north of the border, they are mostly GSM so it makes sense

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:57:56 +0000

“it’s kind of like looking at a car when the sexy redesign for the new model year has already been announced but isn’t yet on the road.”

For power user who like this form factor this is as good as it gets. It will be a couple of years before there are the body of powerful applications you can use on Window MObile today, available for the Pre and its OS. Pro even has a storage limit of 32GB, the Pre is 8GB.

I am more curious about the Pre2 than about the Pre. Pre’s screen is small compared to the space they made available with the slide and that, memory, and a OS that has some user testing will make me wait for Pre2 in early 2009 rather than Pre1 in June or July 09.

Everyone I know with one of these Pros out on GSM is loving it I think it will do well for Sprint.

I would not buy any Palm in the first few months and this one was very well received already.

By: PandaBàr

PandaBàr — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:24:26 +0000

Been messing around with a cdma Treo Pro and will confidently say if I weren’t an HTC fanboy and *had* to pick up a Treo, the Pro would be it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:54:44 +0000

The Treo Pro is an excellent phone. It’s under the radar in the US because, to this point, it’s only been sold as an unlocked GSM model and AT&T hasn’t picked it up. Hopefully Sprint has worked out the well-publicized kinks and the upcoming launch goes smoothly. I picked up the GSM version a few weeks ago and I really like this phone. Like others have said, it’s not the Pre, but a lot of us arent’t looking for the Pre.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:35:41 +0000

Ah… Bell and their stupid 3-Year contracts. I will have to wait until Sprint or AT&T. Rock on Palm!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:19:48 +0000

I love the typo in the screenshot. $99.95 with a 3-year contract, or $49.95 without a contract.

Boy, that’s gonna require a little thinking, is the contract worth spending that extra $50?

By: backbeat

backbeat — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:10:09 +0000

Why is Palm killing this baby in its cradle … is the question I’d like to see Palm directly answer. Possibly the price to be paid for, once again, becoming a 1-trick pony company …

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:48:40 +0000

I think this looks pretty nice actually. But as you said, its definitely no Pre.