Seidio 2600 mAh Extended Palm Pre Battery

i got mine with a touchstone for $270 from Radio Shack

not everyone buys from a sprint store. nor should they if they can avoid it. $100 MIRs suck

SeldomVisitor wrote:
Why ask when you know?

I think the hope was that you had a better reason for using the $370 number. You would've been on more solid ground had you said "costs $270-$370 out the door", although I think you've misspoken there. The "charging-gimmick-free Pre" actually costs $300 from Sprint, and $200 from Best Buy. (I'm assuming that the "gimmick" in question is the Touchstone charger, after all.)

IMHO, if this technology is that attractive to you, then you're the kind of person the technology is for, and it's probably worth the extra money. For me, that wasn't the case.

I just couldn't justify spending $70 on a piece of technology that didn't really add anything to the equation, as far as I could tell. Using the USB charger (or the wall charger) isn't enough of a burden that the Touchstone enhances charging. It arguably looks better, but I can't think of anything else it does.

Does anyone here have one and see a benefit over the standard charging scheme?

SeldomVisitor wrote:
Actually, it costs $100 out the door at LetsTalk.com...

Actually, it's still $200 out the door, for at least two reasons:

1) The additional $100 "rebate" is a mail-in.
2) The "rebate" isn't a rebate at all. They don't knock a dime off of your initial $200 investment. The $100 is a credit, which can only be used towards merchandise and service, in the form of a pre-paid card.
3) You don't even see a dime of that until 4 months of service have passed.

Always read the fine print! :)

Seido, hope you are listening... Larger capacity battery that is TS compatible = bigger sales! Surely making a battery/cover combo that is TS compatible can't be that technically hard and/or cost that much more.

P.S. Seido, good on ya this time for making a cover that doesn't make the Pre look hideously pregnant - this cover doesn't completely destroy the smooth contours of the phone. The old covers were definitely more function over form.

Maybe they have already but they should really talk to Palm about licensing the technology... Surely they could work out some sort of agreement acceptable to both parties - if past experience is any guide, Palm isn't likely to produce any large capacity batteries. AFAIK, they've only ever sold stock replacements. Though Palm is making money on selling extra batteries, licensing the technology would only help sell more Touchstones and they're really making a killing on those margins-wise.

I wish Palm would return to the little solution they had in the 90s where the batteries were "hot" swappable and the device did not lose memory. That would be a nice feature to give the user about thirty seconds to replace it before it required a reboot. Unfortunately, WebOS boots like molasses in winter, from the tests I've seen. This would make battery swapping very nice.
Pat Horne