Archives for the ‘Palm Pre News’ Category

Palm Pre’s Mysterious Sales Trends

Palm’s stock price has soared in the last 6 months. Early January’s price was around $3, which exploded to over $7 by the end of the month after the Pre was shown off at CES in Las Vegas. Today it’s lingering around $15. This is all occurring while Palm keeps the public [...]

Palm Pre’s Politics will be it’s Salvation

A thought provoking article from a friend’s blog about the Palm Pre caused me to change a lot of my views on the way the computer world works today.
Let’s imagine that the computer world can be compared to today’s political climate, where on one spectrum you have an autocracy (or rule by one man or [...]

Mail In Rebate: 10 to 14 Weeks

I went ahead and sent in the mail-in rebate last week ($100 rebate), and got an email confirming that they received it.
The psychology of mail-in rebates are quite interesting. I mean, 10-14 weeks? Do they need the time to figure out where their financials fell before they actually go and pay out the [...]

Palm Pre Chopshop Economics

Imagine your Palm Pre is a high-tech luxury car that gets jacked and sent to the chopshop. How much would your average assailant gross? Around $170 according to some estimates.
This estimate doesn’t make much sense to me. If you gave me a Vtech engine, a steering wheel, and all those other thingies under [...]

Palm Pre Sprint Plans

One thing the Palm Pre currently has over the iPhone is that you can ring every single bell and/or whistle on the Pre including full GPS capabilities, unlimited texts, and unlimited data in an individual plan for as little as $69.99, and that is with 450 anytime minutes with night time free minutes starting at [...]

Palm Pre Release Date: June 6

Palm and Sprint have announced that their much anticipated handset, the Palm Pre, is set to hit Sprint stores and the warm pockets of tech-loving, Sprint-patronizing geeks, such as myself. We’ll be in Chicago for an Adwords conference, but don’t think that won’t deter us from hitting the Sprint store.
I will be required to [...]

Palm Pre Beats iPhone in Pre-Release Poll

iPhone Killer?
The online pollster Poll Daddy has tabulated almost 3500 votes with the Palm Pre winning with a 3:7 ratio of votes.  You can see the results by following the link above.  It’s a little difficult to take this kind of poll seriously while very few people have had the opportunity to touch and play [...]