Comments on: Say it Ain’t So Rich, a Palm Pre?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:25:12 +0000

Well, if Kevin Rose says so, it must be true I agree Palm botched the Pre. With all the buzz that came out of CES back in 2009, they had a real shot at being the #2 horse in the smartphone race. Oh well.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:25:12 +0000

By: Teo Hernandez

Teo Hernandez — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:44:10 +0000

Hi Kuramoto,

Sadly Palm is Dead Hey is not only me, check at Kevin Rose video about the Palm is Dead, he just posted it a few days ago and it is like he was or I was reading his mind… check at what he said… it is the same thing I said about their operating system and their Mojo SDK … they took too long to release it to developers, there are no applications our there and it is not sexy enough to compete with the iPhone or Nexus One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3LE-es1hhA

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:00:03 +0000

I'm pretty sure you can jailbreak to any network, including Sprint.

By: manalang

manalang — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:35:44 +0000

It is Apple's fault for not allowing their phone to be on another network… and no, T-Mobile is just as sh*tty as AT&T which is why I don't get why people want to jailbreak for that.

Re: the Touch, it's on my desk gathering dust. I'm a one gadget man. I'm not into switching devices as much as I used to. Re: the apps, my wife still has most of them on her phone so I have no regrets.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:11:02 +0000

Too bad they had such a bumpy history of acquisitions, spin-offs, IPOs, more acquisitions, talent loss (and return). Wonder what they could have accomplished otherwise.

By: davidhaimes

davidhaimes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:58:20 +0000

I had the same two Palm devices, the original Palm and the Palm V, I cam across both recently when I was sorting out some boxes in the garage. I used to synch My Yahoo from my desktop at work and read it on my palm on the train home – it was indeed way ahead of it's time.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:53:11 +0000

I felt a disturbance in the force. Now I know why.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:18:24 +0000

Heh, according to ComScore, it's not a smartphone, not even listed in their metrics.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:17:55 +0000

Dude, totally unfair, the “iPhone is not a good phone” argument is AT&T's fault, not Apple's. I guess it's not cold turkey though, especially wrt to your app purchases. Don't you still have the Touch?

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:13:21 +0000

I don't like the device. Why do you need both a soft and tactile keypad? Having a keypad limits the screen size and adds more moving parts.

The OS and apps look sharp, but the device is a killer.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:49:02 +0000

Somebody please show some love to the Nokia N900

By: manalang

manalang — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:23:47 +0000

Heh… nice post Jake. I'm growing fond of my Pre. I had to exchange the Touchstone today though… defective. Anyway, the Pre bests the iPhone in a few categories and one of them is the phone feature. It's a really good phone… not one dropped call and most calls are crystal clear. My iPhone dropped calls left and right. Just a tip for Apple, if you're going to put the word “phone” in the name of your product, make sure that that feature works well.

Ok, maybe that's not fair. AT&T is mostly to blame in the iPhone's lack of a perfect 10. Regardless, my Pre is pretty darn sweet. The touchstone charging dock rocks. It's significantly faster than my iPhone 3G. Multitasking is super nice… something that's refreshing to have after coming from an iPhone. As for the apps… most of the ones I care about are there… yelp, twitter, nytimes/latimes (the LA Times app kicks ass), pandora, and a few others. I've spent a lot of money on iPhone apps… I should tally how much, but I know it's a lot. Apps on the Pre aren't exactly cheap. Most are over $.99. So far, I've only bought one app… a Netflix app that allows me to manage my queue (which I used a lot on my iPhone).

So, all in all, I'm happy. And more importantly, Mrs. Manalang is happy now that she's a proud owner of an iPhone 3G — yes, call me cheap… I even got the Pre for free through the Oracle/Sprint plan. Times are tough man.

By: Teo Hernandez

Teo Hernandez — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:22:05 +0000

Rich traded his iPhone for a Palm what…? … I think if I ever trade my iPhone would be for a Nexus One … I think Palm Pre went to the market with lack of support of an App Store like Palms or Android… It seems the device is cool and the main differentiation was the multitask feature… which Nexus one has it and even iPhone has it for Apple's apps…

I personally got annoyed with Palm's process to become a member of their Mojo SDK developers network… Palm wanted to charge a fee of 20 dlls and it took them forever to rollout their SDK to the public… by the time they offer me an account I was turned off… Palm even waived their 20 dlls fee…

Mojo SDK had a smilar sad story as Google Wave and their process to roll out Wave Sandboxes … Wave nowadays is some kind of a Ghost Town… I think Palm needs to figure what would be the next big killer element in their platform to even try to compete with Android and the iPhone…. maybe a killer iPad Pre? Cheers