Back in the day when Palm was king of the hill the knock on the devices was that, although the OS was good, the hardware sucked. This is what allowed the BlackBerry to knock Palm off their pedestal as RIM put out devices with both a stable OS and and a stable operating system and stable hardware.
It looks like Palm still hasn’t figured the hardware thing out yet.
I hope that history doesn’t repeat itself… I am actually pulling for Palm.
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This ish is happening with my Pre that I stood in line to get at 4:00 a.m. to get Saturday. To make matters worse, I ported my number over from my SideKick on T-Mobile so I can’t even go back to using it so i am forced to use a broke phone until my replacement arrives hopefully by tomorrow.
Robb, I am leaving this comment via a new Palm Pre. Check your visitor logs…
RIM should be much more concerned about this than they ever should be about the iPhone.
Hopefully the BlackBerry Tour will be the real deal…
I am with Norman R. on this one. The Pre, in my opinion, poses a much greater threat to RIM than does the iPhone because true business users will like it.
I am setting up the Pre I picked up over the weekend of testing on my corporate network sometime today so I will let you know how it goes.
One of my coworkers just told me that they had a hardware issue with their Pre but they figured it out in the store and was able to get a working model before they walked out.
He said that you didn’t even have to slide out the keyboard to make it reboot. You just had to shake it and it would freeze.
I think your first paragraph is a bit redundant.
“with both a stable OS and and a stable operating system.”
Good catch Dave…
I meant both a stable OS and stable hardware…
I’m typing this from my Pre as well. I don’t have any of the hardware issues that I’ve seen posted on the web. Guess I’m lucky. The only complaint I have so far is the weak battery and slight sluggishness at times. I’m sure it will be corrected with a software update (the sluggishness).
Palm with the Pre shows it’s not up to the quality which is expected in the smartphone market. The Pre is looking to be a niche device at best, no where near what Palm was able to accomplish with the hugely successful Treo devices.
What a drag with the hardware issue lol the phone dies when you close it.
Don’t you just hate when things go wrong with a launch!
But it seems that the features are outweighing the hardware issues which is a good sign meaning that people are not giving up on it completely.
This could be a lifesaver for Palm.
@Ted, I think that it might be.
RIM so should have bought Palm back in December when there stock price was down to like a dollar.
Does anyone else dislike the keyboard on the Pre? I think it stinks compared to my Bold or Curve. When you first open it and see that tiny keyboard it seems way too small. Maybe this will prevent BB users who are used to great keyboards from switching?
I love my palm pre.. No glitches so far.
Well I only had one problem with my pre. when i closed it the phone would shutdown. i took it to the sprint store and they got it fixed in a jiffy sure there isnt that many applications, but it is a new product, and there is the update app. so were not stuck with what we have theres more to come. go to the palm pre site and go to bulletins and blog lots of info