m505 Drops to $400
Palm has officially dropped the price of the m505 by $50 to $400. This is the first time this handheld has had a price cut. The new price has already taken effect.
The company is also offering a mail-in coupon for a free 16 MB SD card to all purchasers of the m505, m500, and m125 between now and January 7.
When a price change like this happens it can be quite difficult to assign a reason. The m505 has been available for about six months and a price cut after that amount of time isn't at all unusual.
At the same time, Palm is in a price war with its competitors and the m505 has been under a great deal of pressure from lower-priced but comparable models. Sony's N610C has a very similar feature set and a better screen and it has been $400 since it was released this summer.
Also, the slowing U.S. economy has lowered demand for handhelds and cutting the price for Palm's flagship product should help increase interest in it.
In September, Palm dropped the price of the m500, the grayscale version of the m505, to $330.
While it is true that the m505 has been available for a while from some webstores for this price and even lower, many such stores peg their prices on the suggested one. A $50 drop in what Palm' charges will probably lead to even lower prices elsewhere.
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RE: Let's Applaud Palm for this
RE: Let's Applaud Palm for this
The $399 price tag is still too much money. Palm needs to knock it down to at least $325.
RE: Let's Applaud Palm for this
RE: Let's Applaud Palm for this
RE: Let's Applaud Palm for this
That is OK, I still got my CLie 760 for even less money
I am a happy Clie owner, and will never go back to the m505.
RE: That is OK, I still got my CLie 760 for even less money
RE: No More Dell
How about us loyal Palm folks that already bought the M505?
Missed the Point
RE: How about us loyal Palm folks that already bought the M505?
A Palm in hand is worth two in your pocket.
RE: How about us loyal Palm folks that already bought the M505?
I would have to concur. BestBuy have a "30 day" policy, whereby if you find an item cheaper (even at their own store) they will honor a discount for the difference.
This will be interesting...
RE: How about us loyal Palm folks that already bought the M505?
RE: How about us loyal Palm folks that already bought the M505?
WIreless
RE: WIreless
RE: WIreless
RE: WIreless
RE: WIreless
It gets better if you buy at CompUSA
As for the screen, I would argue that resolution isn't everything. Sony's have come under criticism for having "squishy" screens, and that's what I've noticed on the models I've checked. What's more, the fonts on the Sony look "too thin" at times, if that makes sense.
Not that I'm bashing Sony--it's a great screen. But to each his own, and I prefer the value of the deal I just received, in spite of the single backlight setting, low res, etc. Every handheld has trade-offs--value matters. I think this is a great value.
Release schedule for m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
Who in their right mind would but the m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
But since I have my M505 for almost 5 months I guess I can't complain. BUT, if Palm doesn't improve quality and get moving on new units with faster and better options I will be forced to go elsewhere. I will just wait and see what hapens during the next six months.
RE: Release schedule for m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
I'm actually delaying the upgrade from my Vx until it comes out. The sooner and the better, the better.
RE: Release schedule for m525?
- They have no "tricks up their sleeve".
- The color Treo, color "Edge" and color T415 will all be released in the next 6 - 7 months.
- The color T415 is not significantly bigger than the monochrome model. (Maybe I've actually seen the prototype, or maybe I'm just guessing...)
- Sony seems to have gotten serious about taking over the PDA market and is able to produce three new models in the time it takes Palm to make one. In an industry that moves as quickly as this, within a year, Palm's products will soon be so far behind the curve it's laughable. Palm brand name loyalty is the main reason that the m505 is selling at all. But even Palm loyalists will be unable to justify paying for substandard Palm hardware in the near future. I believe the next six months is going to show us all how ill-equiped Palm is to compete with its own licensees.
RE: Release schedule for m525?
> over the PDA market and is able to produce three
> new models in the time it takes Palm to make
> one.
6 months ago, Sony didn't have any decent handhelds. Ever look at the first gen Clies? They stank and were really expensive. But Sony got their act together and made a complete line of handhelds out in a 6 month period. Kudos to them. But they now *have* a complete line of handhelds. Their pace of new handhelds is going to slow tremendously. I don't expect ANY new handhelds from them in the next 6 months. They might bump their current handhelds up to more memory, but that doesn't qualify as new models in my book.
p.s. The color T415 is a fantasy.
RE: Release schedule for m525?
RE: Release schedule for m525?
Get serious.
Palm has been reheating the same basic designs - (1000/5000/Personal/Pro/III/IIIe/IIIx/IIIxe/IIIc; V/Vx/m500/m505; m100/m105/m125) for so long, they're now unable to innovate to save themselves.
At least we'll be getting more Claudia Schiffer, Michael Jordan, Madonna, Scooby Doo and Fred Flintstone special edition Palms as the company becomes increasingly desperate...
RE: Idiocy LIVES!
I know there are rumors of an m525, a color Edge, a color T415. But they are just RUMORS at this point, or at least figments of your imaginations.
"I have 4 COLOR T415s in hand. Trust me."
Yeah, you know, an anonymous person makes a claim on the internet and says "Trust me." I'm Sold! It must be true! Please...
We've got people quoting timeframes for the color Treo, etc. Do you work for Handspring? How about Sony? Then why not identify yourself?
Sony this, Handspring that. "No one in his right mind would buy a Palm." What you're really saying is you wouldn't buy one, and that's fine. But please stop acting as though people who do are somehow intellectually inferior just because they don't have a "high-res" screen (seriously, in a 3" square, does resolution matter that much?) or they can't play mp3s while they're supposed to be working.
Sometimes I wish you people could just meet in a room, whip your units out, and decide whose is bigger, so at least some of you would shut up!
RE: Release schedule for m525?
Handspring says the color Treo will be out mid-2002 on their site.
http://www.handspring.com/products/communicators/index.jhtml
Open mouth, insert foot, chew vigorously.
m525?
What the latest speculative buzz about its updates?
The promotion runs through Jan. 7, 2002
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Let's Applaud Palm for this
>Sony's N610C has a very similar feature set
>and a better screen
Well, that's a matter of opinion. I liked the m505's better myself. I hate the fonts on the Sony models.
That said, I sure would like Palm to include a brightness setter -- or to make all models of equally bright screen. I've seen several m505s and the brightness varies pretty considerably.