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01-08-2009, 06:03 PM
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#1 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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| Comeback Kid's Power Play: Palm Drops the Pre
Today's the day I've been waiting for. I'm a huge Palm fanboy, and seeing the company struggle with lousy leadership, bad detours and stagnant product growth really sucked. They just announced their new phone and new OS, and even though I can already see it's flawed, I still want one.  http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/the-palm-pre/    - High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)
- 802.11b / g WiFi
- Integrated GPS
- 3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display
- Dedicated gesture area below display
- Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard
- Exchange email support in addition to POP and IMAP
- IM, MMS, and SMS messaging
- High-performance browser
- 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and "extended depth of field"
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP
- 8GB of internal storage
- USB mass storage mode
- MicroUSB connectivity with USB 2.0
- Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face
- Light sensor to automatically dim display
- Ringer mute switch
- Removable rechargeable battery
- 59.57 x 100.53 x 16.95mm closed
- 4.76 ounces
My favourite feature so far? Wireless charging. WIRELESS FREAKIN' CHARGING. LOVE that dock...it's magnetic!!!  The OS is freakin' nuts, Linux base but everything else is built on HTML, CSS, that sort of thing. It quite literally is a webOS. D-pad? The black bits under the screen is where you do gestures, so it's multi-touch on and off the screen so you can do things like....copy and paste.  
UMTS/HSPA version to come. EDIT: Whole crap of edits due to me being incapacitated by a geekgasm. Do watch the videos...it's awesome.
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01-08-2009, 06:13 PM
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#2 | | God of Unce
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Wow wireless charging? o.O
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01-08-2009, 06:20 PM
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#3 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Originally Posted by 5enses  Wow wireless charging? o.O | Induction charging, like, say, my electric toothbrush. Nothing new, but not seen on many gadgets yet, let alone phones! PALM'S BACK, BABEEEEEE | |
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01-08-2009, 09:06 PM
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#4 | | RS controls my life!
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I fucking love it! the OS looks awesome, hardware isnt bad either. Competition is finally heating up.
09 is looking to be an awesome year for phones
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01-08-2009, 09:28 PM
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#5 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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This is definitely going to be interesting. I've never used a Palm device before but it looks like it that might change!
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01-08-2009, 09:29 PM
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#6 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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I  palm! they hit the right nail on this phone.
squeezing in on the very crowded smartphone war. they're back after long hiatus!
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01-08-2009, 10:00 PM
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#7 | | Media Officer / MOD
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reminds me of a touch dual...................
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01-08-2009, 10:17 PM
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#8 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Me too! But shaped like a banana.  | |
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01-08-2009, 10:18 PM
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#9 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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I hate to admit it but this is what the Blackberry Storm should've been... Great come back with the Pre, Palm!!! I'll be watching the progress of this phone very carefully.
The interface is just smooth smooth smooth! Are you watching, RIM? Go back and fix the Storm's OS. lol
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01-08-2009, 10:23 PM
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#10 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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i like it.
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01-09-2009, 12:24 AM
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#11 | | I don't get it
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i can't stop looking at the pics and the videos!
never would've thought that palm would have the best answer to the iphone.
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01-09-2009, 10:55 AM
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#12 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Originally Posted by for the nguyen! i can't stop looking at the pics and the videos!
never would've thought that palm would have the best answer to the iphone. | lol the Engadget vids crashed last night and I was almost done the last one.
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01-09-2009, 02:02 PM
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#13 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Palm FTL
after going through 2 different Treo's i'll never even touch one again, worst phones i've ever used
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01-09-2009, 02:12 PM
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#14 | | SFICC-03*
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palm's stock price jumped like 30% in one day yesterday
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01-09-2009, 06:26 PM
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#15 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Originally Posted by unit palm's stock price jumped like 30% in one day yesterday | 35% actually. Told my dad to buy some but nooooo... Quote:
Originally Posted by Hondaracer Palm FTL
after going through 2 different Treo's i'll never even touch one again, worst phones i've ever used | Loved the Treos. My first phone that I actually bought was a Treo 650. Went through that, then the Black Tie Treo 650 and an orange Treo 680 and loved them all. | |
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01-09-2009, 07:08 PM
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#16 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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I used a Treo 650 and thought the interface was very easy to use and intuitive... and it had quite a lot of features for its time as well. Then Palm started to slack off and let RIM and WM take over compeltely and died off the scene.
If they can get this phone onto as many networks as possible they will have a very good chance or making a dramatic comeback... beating RIM or Apple? nah, it'll still take some time to do that, but man is phone is VERY VERY impressive.... makes me wanna quit being a crackberry head and move over lol.
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01-09-2009, 07:44 PM
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#17 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Sprint (CDMA EVDO Rev. A) in the States first for most of 2009 with an European HSPA version coming within half a year. Not sure if the Euro version will have tri-band HSPA like the old Treo 750v did, but it better damn well have it.
I will sell a kidney to get a Vodafone-branded Pre.
OK, maybe not, but speaking of "Pre," doesn't it look like Pré? Like pronounced, "pray?" Because damn, praying is what Palm's doing right now lol Such a huge gamble.
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01-09-2009, 10:20 PM
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#18 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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This device won't sell. They are too late into the market right now.
In Canada, people are already into 3-year contract when the iphone/bold released. How many people are willing to fork over $300+ for a Palm phone upgrade? Palm might has some nice features, but it's not going to sell.
Most likely only Telus will carry this phone as well, since nobody currently carries Palm's phone except Telus.
Will you pay extra penalty to break your contract and move over to Telus to get this phone? I doubt it.
I shorted some Palm shares this morning at around $6.20. Looked like a easy profit due to hype.
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01-09-2009, 11:05 PM
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#19 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by McDick This device won't sell. They are too late into the market right now.
In Canada, people are already into 3-year contract when the iphone/bold released. How many people are willing to fork over $300+ for a Palm phone upgrade?. | umm yeah right. MWC is coming next month. so do you think all those phone that will be announce won't sell as well?
how exactly are they late on market? if you're talking about android, that thing is still unfolding, apple is closed system, Symbian Foundation wont be arriving till 2010, WM7 according to eldar will be late again for atleast 7 months aswell as WM6.5 for 4 months.
so palm is on time in the market. the set of features, hardware and UI basically outdue apple which other manufacturer are trying to do but fail miserably. (ok maybe not on cam/vid part)
also palm is releasing a GSM version so for those ppl who doesn't like to be locked with thier carrier can opt for a gsm unlock version.
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01-10-2009, 03:04 PM
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#20 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Palm always sells an unlocked GSM version of their GSM-capable phones. Of course, this is WCDMA/HSPA too. Even better.
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01-11-2009, 01:09 AM
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#21 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Too early to tell still. Looks good, but then will it really deliver?
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01-11-2009, 11:51 AM
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#22 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Too early to tell for sure, but it sure as hell is a good start in the proper direction. I believe!!!! Palm Powered for lyfe!  | |
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01-11-2009, 01:27 PM
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#23 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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wow i just saw the live demo video and some pictures of the Pre..
and it looks amazing! the UI looks really simple yet so fresh and new
and the quick launch wave is pretty impressive!
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01-11-2009, 03:56 PM
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#24 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Originally Posted by Levitron | well its running TI OMAP 3. that alone say ALOT. it will be much smoother than iphone thats for sure.
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01-11-2009, 04:30 PM
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#25 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Although the hardware itself is kinda me, watch the live demos and notice how they thought about the user experience and their philosophy behind that. It's the original zenith of Palm shining through here, brought into the 21st century lol
DAMMIT I want my banana-pebble phone NOW.
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