Sprint Stores Will Open at 8AM on June 6th
The Boy Genius Report has just posted documentation that Sprint stores will be opening early on June 6th for the launch of the Palm Pre. Stores will close early on Friday, June 5th at 4pm presumably to prepare for the Pre onslaught.
On launch day Saturday, June 6th, Sprint retail stores will open at 8am. As noted before Sprint will sell the Pre for $199, after a 2-year service agreement and $100 mail in rebate. It's unclear at this point if Best Buy or Wall-Mart locations offering the Pre will have any special hours or promotions for the launch as well.
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RE: Is it necessary?
RE: Is it necessary?
We won't know how well they've reached the masses until launch day of course. But Palm has definitely stolen a big chunk of mindshare in the press.
RE: Is it necessary?
palm shouldn't need to ride the iPhone's coattails for publicity. that makes the pre look (rightly) like an iPhone wannabe.
jeez, you really are a hack!
RE: Is it necessary?
freak aka "bababooey" strikes out again - keep exaggerating!
RE: Is it necessary?
Taken yesterday afternoon on my Eee when I made my post. (Because I just knew that some horrible Internet person like you would take issue.)
RE: Is it necessary?
Anyway, the Pre doesn't have to beat the iPhone. Comparisons really are silly. It just has to sell enough to keep Palm around and innovating.
RE: Is it necessary?
Uh, that would be 942 articles. Just to be pedantic. :P
Anyways, totally agreed on the "no need for competition". I was just observing that the iPhone is no longer really thought of as the perfect "jesus phone".
RE: Is it necessary?
>is the fact that you can't hardly read a story about the iPhone anymore
>that doesn't mention the Pre as well.
>Uh, that would be 942 articles. Just to be pedantic. :P
So all of those articles that mention the iphone also mention the Pre? Not at all - please stop exaggerating. We'll see in a few weeks if the Pre can be something more than a third rate iphone wannabe.
Palm may be looking for cheap press by releasing the Pre so close to Apple's WWDC, but it could blow up in their faces...
RE: Is it necessary?
It goes without saying that the Pre is going to lose its halo too, as soon as people have real world experiences with it. Right now a Pre has never crashed, the battery lasts forever, syncing works perfectly, there's never any lag, the interface is free from annoying quirks, and the chicks dig 'em. The day after release we'll be whining about every tiny detail.
RE: Is it necessary?
> soon as people have real world experiences with it. Right now a Pre has
> never crashed, the battery lasts forever, syncing works perfectly, there's
> never any lag...
There are a few posts starting to appear on TreoCentral, for example, that suggest the halo, while not going away, might be getting a little tarnished here and there. Of course, maybe those posters are simply lying.
Help please
PALMSTYLE
RE: Help please
RE: Help please
Yeah, so was the March 15th American release.
I'll go with official words, thanks.
'30,000 Pres for the first shipment' rumor is TRUE!?
5 Pres per Best Buy, 5-10 per Sprint store, certainly no more than that per "select" Walmart.
That's approaching 30,000 real quick.
And not much more.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/21/best-buy-stores-only-getting-4-palm-pres-for-launch-day/
RE: '30,000 Pres for the first shipment' rumor is TRUE!?
and if you end up with one of the 10% - i mean 1% - defective units - good luck getting a replacement.
RE: '30,000 Pres for the first shipment' rumor is TRUE!?
It'll be interesting if someone somewhere shoots this down - sure are a LOT of folks piping up with "I called and they said..."-type comments, though, that are more confirming than anythign else.
I just visited a mall this weekend that had a real Sprint et al store and there's a BestBuy real close to there, too. Maybe I'll give'em a call for some first-hand datapoints.
RE: '30,000 Pres for the first shipment' rumor is TRUE!?
RE: '30,000 Pres for the first shipment' rumor is TRUE!?
IMO, for too long Palm has looked away from the community that built itself around their product and joined the cold corporate perspective that "customers are commodities too"..
End of Contract with Sprint- to become a "Pre-vert" or go Android?
New Palm? Old Stupidity!
http://prepoint.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/new-palm-old-stupidity/
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
I can't even say honestly that I hope Palm succeeds, they turned their back on most of us forgetting that we helped make Palm. Personally, I developed the flashing indicator light (talelight, even gave Jeff one;) before palm incorporated it, the vibrating alarm (talevibes) before palm incorporated it, emergency charger (for V & Vx) before the whole industry started making them ;-)
I can't say I ever made more than 50 bucks from writing Palm software but now I get a few deposits a month from apple and they treat me a hell of a lot better than palm ever did. Palm had a lot of rules for hardware developers but I never signed any of their agreements or I would have been very limited in what I could do.
I still follow palm's progress(?) on PIC but it's kinda like watching the band play on the Titanic.
Gary
Tech Center Labs
Tech Center Labs
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
Huh? Apple wasn't founded until 1976.
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
Tech Center Labs
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
Not so.
I *still* want a Pre and I'm hoping this crap can be resolved before Launch Day.
I have my LifeDrive data to rescue -- and an iPhone is no damned lifeboat for it!
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
1. On Verizon and/or in a non-phone device
2. Removable memory card slot
3. Better battery life
4. A 3rd party Hotsync type non-cloud synchronization tool is available
The first 2 are must-haves. The other 3 are the typical Palm aggravations that I could work around like I do now.
Why are you so worried Mike? It's been stated repeatedly that Palm is going to have a one-way Palm PIM data import tool for your legacy stuff. Of course, knowing Palm, they might do something ridiculous such as excluding memos & tasks and just have calendar and contacts entries transferred to the Pre etc.
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->?
RE: New Palm? Old Stupidity!
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Listen, you guys need to get this straightened out. And given the crap Palm served us in the past, you have a Very Bad Rep to overcome here. I won't believe what *you* say. It has to come from the three guys who *founded and then resigned* from PreDevCamp.
Fix that, and I'm go again to buy a Pre. And I won't even be mad if I wind up waiting a month or two due to shortages, OK?
http://prepoint.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/new-palm-old-stupidity/
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Is it necessary?
I for one am waiting for a GSM version, or the Centro replacement that has been rumored.
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