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Tuesday May 12, 2009
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Palm must be enjoying itself. The company is gearing up to launch the Palm Pre, its biggest product in recent memory, and everyone (well, everyone in tech) is treating the thing with the sort of pomp and circumstance rarely seen outside an Apple product launch or season finale of American Idol.
The latest rumor surrounding the smartphone isn't an actual release date so much as a date for an announcement of the release date. One of Boy Genius Report's endless parade of anonymous tipsters is saying that the May 19th issue of The Wall Street Journal (next Tuesday) will finally clue us all in to when the Pre is actually launching.
So I suppose May 12th will go down in tech history as the date we found out the date that we would find out the date of the Palm Pre's release. I remember exactly where I was...
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May 13, 2009 12:16 AM
So what is all the hype? What makes the Palm Pre so special?
May 13, 2009 1:57 PM
By Genius has heard from a reliable anonymous source(some guy whose brother used to work for sprint) that the official Pre launch will take place on star date 5943.7.
May 14, 2009 6:15 AM
uh mike its actually star date
5944.7....
sorry to call out yur mistake like this mike
butt...lol...
its giving me a hedache with all this maybe crap about when the announcement for the release of this phone will happen if i culd i.d choke out a palm/sprint exeutive for the info...its just annoying is all..i will have the pre..n i.m gonna give this line/phone i have (palm pro) to my brother and get another line I WILL HAVE A PRE
the iphone/blackberry is the top two fones but the pre is a chance for sprint users to have sumthing unique and good..unlike the instinct and different from windows mobile which wm is good but there really is NO differrnce between sprint touch pro n palm treo pro are relatively the same fone. i like the treo pro but i feel i really don't have a new fone just a new shell...n the pre gives sprint users the chance at a phone that is more than a fone it'll become a lifestyle phone....i cant wait..i literally cant wait
May 16, 2009 8:37 PM
The Pre will not be released until end of 3rd quarter/ beginning of 4th quarter. Palm was not able to secure enough flash memory and processor chipsets to manufacture enough units to fill expected demand. They are addionally short on capital for such a production as well. Apple, RIM, Nokia, etc., all have phones launching this summer and have taken too large a chunk of the available flash memory. While chip manufacturers are scrambling to fill the demand, there will not be enough for Palm to fill its initial supply until later this year. Definately before the holidays.
May 18, 2009 10:28 PM
dave,
you're an idiot for wasting everyone's time. i just toasted a few brain cells by reading that stupidity