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ZitZot: Palm Pre – great phone, but hard to get

Posted on 25.05.2009 at 08:36 in Tech News by Martin

It’s hard not to root for the Palm Pre. First, the iPhone needs a real competitor, or at least one that doesn’t cause a third of its users to return the phone. And there’s the nostalgia for Palm (PALM), a company that was once so promising and has fallen so far. (Techies of yore will remember learning a whole new language to input text into the original Palm Pilots. Knowing that the letter ‘a’ was actually two diagonal lines in Palm-speak gave you a secret-society kind of thrill. And by you, I mean just me.)

But here’s the thing: Palm might be botching the Pre before it even launches. A while back Bloomberg reported that Palm may only be releasing 400,000 Pres at launch, 16.4 million fewer than the number of iPhones floating around. It appears to be a purposeful strategy, meant to limit the supply to drum up buzz once the Pres are sold out and (Palm hopes) people rave about the device.

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  1. dave
    May 25th, 2009 | 09:43

    need a rival for the iphone??? What about the nokia n85?

  2. wickido
    May 25th, 2009 | 12:06

    Palm? Multitouch? Storage? GPS? Wifi? HSDPA? Quad band? Camera? Friendly to use keyboard? Video conferencing? The thing looks crap. With all (over)due respect.

  3. davelol
    May 25th, 2009 | 12:10

    LOL @1

  4. xumix
    May 25th, 2009 | 12:37

    Nokia n97

  5. QuadrupelQ
    May 25th, 2009 | 12:45

    Palm = Dead

    This phone looks like crap, while the Iphone IS crap but looks extremely good. Eye-appeal is buy-appeal gentlemen, remember that!

  6. Samuel
    May 25th, 2009 | 14:21

    Blueberry Storm all the way….

  7. name
    May 25th, 2009 | 14:45

    This is not ZitZot.

  8. Emm
    May 25th, 2009 | 14:58

    Yeah… they also said not so sell to the "wrong customers":

    http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/25/sprint-doc-implores-reps-not-to-sell-pre-to-the-wrong-people/

  9. wakeup
    May 25th, 2009 | 15:12

    Capacitive multitouch, dances circles around the ancient touch technology Apple used.

    So many people are new to touch technology, they have no idea they got suckered into buying Apple's touch system that was outdated tech (by 8 years) that Apple bought rights to and simply added multitouch modules to.

  10. Rob
    May 25th, 2009 | 15:25

    I'd be getting one for $99 after rebate if it worked on Sprint's SERO plan. I guess that's "too cheap" for a $549 phone. Any got a ESN/MEID of a HTC Touch Pro? ;)

  11. Ron
    May 25th, 2009 | 22:50

    @9: iPhone was the 1st mainstream multi-touch device. Apple holds a patent on that technology which they may enforce once the Pre starts selling big. There is a good engadget article on the issue, google: apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis

    Oh, and you are talking nonsense.

  12. Hmmmm
    May 25th, 2009 | 23:42

    I'm on Sprint didn't know of or see a SERO plan on the site but this phone looks alright to me but i'm not too press to get it.

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