Comments on: Palm Pre gets caught taking a walk in the park

By: TIM THOMAS

TIM THOMAS — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:06:52 +0000

In my opinion Sprint has the best plans. You can get an everything data plan for around $70 and that’s unlimited everything except anytime minutes but your unlimited night minutes start at 7pm. I researched every other company and they suck. Their plans are super expensive for garbage services. For att the least expensive will run you about $75-80 for 5000 minutes and that’s including weekend minutes then you have to pay extra if you get an iphone for the data and extra for text messaging. And let’s not talk about T-mobile garbage plans. Sprint has the best plans to date. Compare them for yourself.

By: ijerk off

ijerk off — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:13:23 +0000

are you serious? sprint is the cheapest service provider.. the iphone plan is something like $140. sprints unlimited everythin is $99 which includes phone as a modem, gps, and other things u dont get with at&t or tmobile.. Tmobile is unlimited text and talk for $99 but that doesnt include internet. I know i sell Sprint and Tmobile.

By: Roadster

Roadster — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:51:56 +0000

Walk around Sunnyvale and you can see a lot of Palm employees with their Pres.

By: Uriah Duffy

Uriah Duffy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:51:13 +0000

I don’t know who puts their treo through more paces everyday for the last ten years (starting with Palm Pilots) than I. I been waiting and need this Pre, yo.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:59:25 +0000

^Thank you for representing Sprint users everywhere. Your honesty is refreshing.

By: Corelle Williamson

Corelle Williamson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:02:03 +0000

Ok it is official!!! The Pre is Out MAY!!!!!!!!!! I went to the sprint store to get a new touch pro..so let me spill the beans I had the touch pro since it came out and then I heard the Per was coming out in may so somebody gave me tip on how to get a new phone(Touch Pro) from sprint with out using your insurance HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS! he said put it in the microwave for 3 sec well it worked got me a brand new one in the box and already sold it for what ever the Pre will possible cost!! Well my point is i have a sero account and only the managers can access my account so as he was setting up my phone i said ” SO Pre March 17?” he laughed because he didn’t expect me to say that and said ya they told us may but no exact date!!!!!

By: backbeat

backbeat — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:24:32 +0000

@Maritza who said: “I HATE it when ppl compare networks but don’t take into account the phone they had. With my sprint service I went to a town with an older phone and couldn’t get any signal at all. New phone go up there and wam works like a charm no dropped service at all. There’s going to be a huge turn around with sprint and that’s just a matter of time”

As do I, in that *every* carrier is challenged with handset-integration prior to its release. However, it is up the infinitely lazy and/or poorly-informed phone-owner to insure the phone maintains pace with network updates. The same issue applies to every carrier equally.

By: Maritza

Maritza — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:17:09 +0000

I don’t think that’ll be too much of an issue honestly.. It’s going to be easier and more practical to use that keyboard and the instinct vs the pre is a total different universe. You won’t look back!

By: Maritza

Maritza — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:10:41 +0000

ALSO, I WORK for sprint and I can pretty much get that phone to anybody on here whether it’d be shipping it to them when it comes out or coming to the store to see me.. =) (single mother and struggling I need help here!) I honestly haven’t had any training on the Pre as the article states but I’ve been getting some info on my own and haven’t heard anything on a release date but May sounds VERY realistic to me. From what I hear since palm just came out with another phone (the pro) they wanted to give it some time before the next release with the Pre. Hopefully I win whatever contest our store has so I can be the advocate for the pre… =)

By: Maritza

Maritza — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:56:09 +0000

Maybe I’m the ignorant one here but sprint offers more services for less than At&t not to mention way better network and coverage than tmobile. Yes main difference is that AT&T is GSM so it has the worldwide capabilities but truth is most users are not traveling worldwide and cdma service tends to withstand more here in the us and Puerto Rico. It also depends on the device you have and its capabilities.. I HATE it when ppl compare networks but don’t take into account the phone they had. With my sprint service I went to a town with an older phone and couldn’t get any signal at all. New phone go up there and wam works like a charm no dropped service at all. There’s going to be a huge turn around with sprint and that’s just a matter of time.

By: LeftClick

LeftClick — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:52:55 +0000

well said LJ…

and now i’m impatiently waiting!

By: Odirty

Odirty — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:03:42 +0000

hmmm y is everyone looking one way and these two are looking the other way….seems staged and suspect lol

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:21:50 +0000

Yes I did. I wrote it above.

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:50:53 +0000

“I really didnt even consider the pre until i saw what it could do. it works the way i think.”

I will be getting the phone as soon as it is available. Am I a fanboy? no. What I am however, is a Sprint user that is sick of their phones. I too hate sprint, but I also hate EVERY cell provider. We all need to understand they ALL suck & try to get as much $ as possible.

If it is no where near to what I imagined it to be, Sprint will take care of me. I need a new phone period -why not try this? If it’s that bad, I will make Sprint bend over backwards to redeem my experience with them – aka I will get a few perks out of it & the next best phone they have available = I win.

How short minded some of you iPhone users are. The next generation iPhone is supposedly capable of ‘cut & paste’. This is a DIRECT response to palm’s Pre. Be thankful it is coming out, because in the end it will make YOUR iphones better. Any buttons Palm Pre pushes for iPhone, they will improve and compete harder. In the end, we all win with better working devices… right?

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:50:27 +0000

Palm has said they are not going to make a virtual keyboard for the Pre, but 3rd party developers are free to do so. I would expect one would be available shortly after the release of the phone.

By: Qwerty

Qwerty — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:23 +0000

As a current Sprint user and am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Palm Pre. Through the years I have remained a Sprint customer primarily for their competitive service plans and the coverage has always satisfied my needs.
Last year, I eagerly anticipated the arrival of the Instinct and was pleased that I could at least experience an some features like web surfing and texting within a touchscreen environment. I use my iPod touch daily but when my kid wants to use it as a game machine I have been able to somewhat satisfy my needs on the Instinct.

I am hoping that the Palm Pre will allow me to put the iPod touch away and lessen the load that I carry in my pockets everyday.

I have one main concern with the Palm Pre that I am hoping one of the intelligent posters to this website might be able to address. The slide down keyboard is fine but I truly enjoy the touchscreen keyboard that I enjoy with both the iPod touch and the Instinct. I especially appreciate the opportunity to type messages in landscape mode, I need the extra room for my big fingers.

Does any think that Palm will also provide a touchscreen keyboard that will allow for landscape touchscreen input? It seems that this should be easy enough to implement into the software either right out of the gate or sometime in the near future. I spend so much time typing on my iPod touch that a touchscreen landscaped keyboard would be greatly appreciated ok the Palm Pre. I am currently ready to give up the Instinct and move forward, but the only thing that the Instinct does have that the Palm Pre doesn’t is the landscape keyboard.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:55:17 +0000

no, those are palm employees most likely. i’ve seen the kind of people that work at apple, palm, and the like.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:33:06 +0000

Rumors are that those are the Palm employees kids.

By: Norm Walker

Norm Walker — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:11:01 +0000

They seem kind of young to be beta testers. I wonder if this is a photoshop job?

By: PedroTheGoat

PedroTheGoat — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:55:27 +0000

Blake » It’s not just contacts and info that it pulls from the cloud.

Any type of sync will have to be done through the cloud. Also, it’s said that to back up your contacts, databases, etc. you’ll also have to put them to the cloud.

There is a highly legitimate concern about this. I don’t think smart enterprise users will be willing to take that kind of plunge. Personel users will also have to be wary of what they do on their Pre.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:37:33 +0000

I never said anything about knowing anything about threaded pim, not that it would matter, but I also don’t see from their website what PI can do that palm os can’t do natively besides synching with google and toodledo.

How does having your phone pull down your info and combine and organize it make it any less secure? It is as secure as the service that stores it is, but that is an internet security issue, not an issue with the os. Any phone will have that same problem. So your quip about Palm supplying a Lifelock subscription just doesn’t make sense.

By: PREpaid

PREpaid — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:18:17 +0000

Throw out a catchy name and market it as the next big thing/ iphone killer and watch the masses kill each other over it. THe phone will be a hit but the 1st batch will be just as iffy as the iphone. I’ll get one, but only when it’s 100.00 bucks….

By: backbeat

backbeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:17:05 +0000

^Besides not having a clue of what a threaded PIM is, you clearly know nothing about PI.

Anywhoooo …

The same unsecured cloud that contains your personal data, bank account data, ACH data, company data, pricing data, competitive data? That cloud?

At least I can buy movie tickets and have it show up on my calendar after I tell the phone to do that.

Is Palm supplying a free lifetime subscription to LifeLock?

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:04:22 +0000

Pocket Informant doesn’t seem like Synergy. Synergy is phone-wide connection between apps and the cloud. Pocket Informant is just a copy of PalmOS PIM with connection to google calendar.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:38:12 +0000

“better” data? Compared to what, in specific terms?

“better” voice? Compared to what, in specific terms?

See http://www.gotreception.com for comparative analysis of coverage and network strength. Hope you live in Kansas City, Mo. Without coverage, you’ve got nothing.

“fair” price? Since when did application subscriptions become a ‘better’ alternative to license [Not including Palm's perspective of a much higher subscription profitability, that is ]

“warranty”? I can walk into a Palm store and get an instant exchange? Damn! Thanks for the tip!

“insurance”? See above.

“multitasking”? When was the last time you were doing 2 things at the same, immediate moment? (Drooling and wanking don’t count, for the record)

“PalmOS”? You mean you can emulate/run like on WinMo? Welcome to the 90s!

“Java”? See above just in case you’ve never heard of RIM.

“homescreen”? Like one that tells you what appointments are upcoming / Missed Calls / Voicemails / Unread Emails or Texts? Again, see above.

“synergy”? Is -that- the new term for a threaded PIM, such as PocketInformant, available on WinMo, iPhone, and Blackberry platforms? Thought so.

“removable battery”? Maybe you can supply the maintenance records which verify its problematic nature. I couldn’t locate any.

So … again … How is *new* making itself “better”?

By: celz

celz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:48:18 +0000

it was mainly to the iphone i think the n97 will be great to just like the iphone is.. the main diff between the two would be the n97 having a huge library of software ready and the pre looking more polished and being more user friendly.. the pre will be able to do just about anything the n97 can save for hi level game and a weaker cam.. the only diff is joe blow might be more limited.. the big guns will have more to work with when it comes to developing and i think thats evident with the palm emulator being done already.. im staying with wm for now i doubt the pre will be better out the box but you have to admit the os is slick as hell.. it flat out beats anything by a long shot.. wm and symbian are pretty old, but personally its the programs im after so id take wm over an iphone or pre now.. even tho the pre is a contender for my next phone i will admit its strong points and try it out.. jus like i did the iphone and android..

By: celz

celz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:37:26 +0000

your a funny guy backbeat you talk facts with the name callers and resort to name calling when confronted with any amount of sense.. none of my points are subjective they are all facts and are all points of weakness made by iphone lovers and haters.. you havent gave any reasons why the pre isnt going to be a good phone.. you have never gave a reason why sprint isnt a good network.. all you do is use big words to masturbate your ego.. you argue non points and never state simple facts.. the funniest part is you think all the nonsense you spout makes you seem smart or gives credence to your opinions.. it doesnt is your life so uneventful that you cry out for attention by being a troll, really lets grow up.. so unless you have anything to say about the pre not deserving hype shut up

By: jonnybruha

jonnybruha — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:09:15 +0000

@celz, I was going to start responding to your list of “pros”, but they seem to be focused much more on the iPhone rather than the N97. Or at least I hope they are since the US version will offer most of the things you mentioned and plenty more.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:52:26 +0000

^No “mobile expert” has had the phone in their personal possession for any length of time sufficient to perform “testing”, whatsoever.

Gotta luv all the -extremely- subjective “betters” you list. [HINT: It's -always- better to take the time to collect your thoughts before your stupidity takes advantage of the opportunity. ] What a congenital SprintPimping troll! You’d cheerlead 2 tin cans and a spool of string if it was Sprint-branded. Thanks for the laugh!

By: celz

celz — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:04:03 +0000

and what does a mobile expert testing a phone for an extended time and writing his thoughts into an article constitute.. well whatever it is i bet you couldnt find one tech site that said it was bad