Palm Pre now available in Canada
You’ve waited long enough Canada, and now your time in the sun has finally arrived — the Palm Pre is now available in Canada from Bell. Palm’s first webOS-powered handset is now on sale for $199.95 on a 3-year contact (seriously, Bell, what the hell is the deal with this nickel fetish?). Bell is also willing to sell the Pre to those who fear contracts for $599.95, although contract-free purchasers will still be forced to subscribe to a data plan that has a minimum data bucket of 500MB. So what are you waiting for? Head on over to your nearest Bell dealership, Future Shop, Best Buy, WIRELESS etc., T Booth, Wireless Wave or just hit the read link and get your webOS freak on. You know you wanna.
> …Inset cricket sounds here eh…
Truly.
I’m really looking forward to this new HSPA+ network in anticipation for LTE. I wish Telus/Bell followed Verizon’s route by going LTE. Oh well life goes on.
so… will this work on AT&T in the states?
ya they’re all over the eaton center as i walked through there cause i haven’t been inside in like three years. And i noticed that the sprint demo booth was packed but the palm booth was empty haha. not one customer. sad. and u can see the palm booth from the sprint booth which is even funnier.
@ the arguing peeps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP
“3GPP specifications are based on evolved Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) specifications.”
The 3GPP specs include everything from the original GSM specification, to LTE, including HSPA.
“The 3GPP specs include everything from the original GSM specification, to LTE, including HSPA.”
Yes that is true but as others have said how then do you explain to those for example who have Motorola Razrs (still widely used and popular) or any other GSM phone that doesn’t have HSPA that after porting over, why can’t their phones all of a sudden not work?
Why? because its and HSPA only network. No GSM, just HSPA.
Also to clarify, GSM is TDMA based, (time division multiple access) UMTS/HSPA is W-CDMA based (wideband code division multiple access) and LTE is OFDMA based (orthogonal frequency-division multiple access)
as far as I can see TDMA is long gone as in GSM.
Bellus is switching to GSM.
What flavour of GSM?
Legacy GSM? No.
HSPA GSM? Yes.
It’s still GSM.
You can say that it is best to clarify what type of GSM, but to rant about it not being GSM it is HSPA is just wrong.
3 years contracts. Ughhh.
Wow! More confusion Legacy GSM, HSPA GSM heck what about just plain old GSM?
Geez what is the world coming to? Average people as far as I know only know GSM, 3G, CDMA and sim card.
to confuse them more by saying Legacy this, legacy that is just more BS.
Just call it what it is. HSPA then when LTE comes around, call it LTE
I’m with the others who call it what it is to prevent bull s h i t confusing acronyms.
No matter how you see i,t a GSM phone that does not have HSPA will not work on an HSPA/LTE only network. And that’s the huge majority of Fido Rogers people. Millions of handset without HSPA.