The Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog
If you’ve read more than 2 or 3 posts here on RIMarkable, you’ve probably gathered that I am a pretty big fan of the BlackBerry. Some would even call me a BlackBerry Fanboy… That being said, I recently bought a Palm Pre Plus from Verizon. I’d be willing to bet, however, that it was for reasons other than what you are thinking…
To make a long story short, if you are at all interested in a Verizon MiFi 2200, strongly consider the Palm Pre Plus or Palm Pixi Plus as an alternative…
Palm reports today the COB and it is expected that they are going to have a pretty big miss on earnings… $0.43-$0.48 per share. Normally you would see companies stock price in this situate tank, however, Palm has been on an upward journey most of the day. The reason for this, I’m guessing, is that Palm is a prime takeover target about right now and the rumor mill is churning.
This is the latest TV ad from Palm . It’s actually pretty good. Unfortunately for Palm, they didn’t launch the Pre with ads like this.
Instead of a little Mos Def and a hot young lady walking down the street showing you what webOS can do, the marketing geniuses at Palm decided to freak you out with this spot.
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All the rumors about the Palm Pre coming to Verizon have been confirmed. Earlier today in a conference call with analysts Verizon stated that the Palm Pre would be coming to their network “early next year“. This is not good news at all for Sprint.
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It looks like now that just about everyone who was willing to spend $200 on a Palm Pre has, Best Buy has lowered their price down to $99.99 on a 2-year contract hoping to capture those consumers that couldn’t see spending twice as much as they would on an iPhone 3G.
Sprint should probably think about lowering their price as well. They really need to do everything they can to keep from churning customers over to AT&T and Verizon.
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Even though the Palm Pre has been available for well over a month, believe it or not, you were not able to order the device online. That was the case, at least, until today, as the Palm Pre is now available through Sprint’s website.
The Pre will cost you $199.99 on a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. You still are going to have to shell out 300 bucks up front to get yourself one. This is kind of unfortunate seeing how the Pre’s biggest competitors, the iPhone and the BlackBerry, can be yours for $100 or more less out the door. At least those who still really want a Pre will probably be able to get one.
Can’t say that we didn’t really see this coming, but, Apple has released iTunes 8.2.1 that apparently nixes the Palm Pre’s ability to sync your library. Fortunately, drag and drop still works or you could always use a third party utility like doubleTwist.
I wonder if Palm and Apple will get into a cat and mouse game of updates that allows then prevents Pre/iTunes syncing?
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I just read an article that quoted analysts that stated Palm has sold 150,00 Pres since it’s its launch. Other hearing that the keyboard is way too small, the screen and case are a scratch magnet, far too few applications are available, and not being able to get your hands on one until mid July, reviews of the Palm Pre have been mostly positive.
The question that I want to toss out is can Palm actually sell enough Pres to truly contend with the likes of the BlackBerry, the iPhone, and even Adroid and, dare I say, Windows Mobile devices.
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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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We’ve been hearing the Best Buy stores wouldn’t have many Palm Pre devices on hand June 6th, the date the Palm Pre launches. It looks like those rumors were correct…
Some stores will be lucky enough to have a dozen or more devices to sell, however, the overwhelming majority of them will only get a handful.
If you really are tying to get a Pre from a Best Buy store this coming Saturday I strongly suggest that you get their ridiculously early.
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