Comments on: A Lot Of Palm Pre Devices Suffering From Hardware Glitches

By: Baflowers1

Baflowers1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:39:00 +0000

I love my palm pre except for when the touch screen goes buggy. I think when I can upgrade I may try an htc arrive. I think what I love about the palm pre is a charachteristic that I’m sure to find in other smart phones. It’s only when I go back to a basic messaging phone that I decide to go back to the palm pre. Fast on the internet is what makes the difference to me. And the palm pre is fast when it’s working good.

By: Corey Chambers

Corey Chambers — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:08:08 +0000

The Palm Pre is also very fragile. Mine has a short in it that affects call audio, and the two halves can easily break apart from one another, causing total disctuction of the phone.

By: Corey Chambers

Corey Chambers — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:04:39 +0000

As a Trading Assistant on eBay with a Drop Off Store Location in Santa Ana, CA, I rely on my Palm Pre to look at eBay.com and other websites, and send and receive emails and text messages. Of course I rely on a good phone connection with Sprint, and GPS to help me get to my customer’s house on time to pick up items to sell on eBay.

The Palm Pre most certainly has many glitches that range from annoying to down right troublesome and time-wasting. The most common problem is with everything on a dynamic touch-screen, and a somewhat slow operating system, by the time you push a button on the screen, it has already changed to something else, thus you press the wrong thing. Very frustrating. The phone is sometimes so slow that by the time it recognizes that you want to answer the phone, either the answer button disappears or something else happens and actually makes you miss your call. Sometimes the touch screen fails to react — you try to push a button or scroll and it does nothing. Sometimes it goes into la-la land or tries to think for a moment. This is particularly a problem when a call comes in and you can’t aswer the call because the phone is still busy thinking. There are many other glitches which I don’t have time to cover, nevertheless, I have not found a good alternative. I won’t use the iPhone because AT&T is less reliable than Sprint for my phone calls.

The Palm Pre is the only choice. I have not seen any other phone that works with Sprint with a multitouch screen for each web browsing, Youtube, camera with flash and GPS turn-by-turn navigation. Glitches and all, the Palm-Pre is still the phone for me. Corey Chambers on eBay — coreychambers.com

By: A.B.

A.B. — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:40:36 +0000

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

By: flwr28

flwr28 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:02:28 +0000

I love my palm pre.. No glitches so far.

By: cricketylugs

cricketylugs — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:00:20 +0000

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?

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:53:21 +0000

@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.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:01:20 +0000

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.

By: The Rock

The Rock — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:07:38 +0000

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.