Comments on: Live blog: Palm keynote at CES

All eyes are on the handheld pioneer to see if it can pull off a comeback.

[mikeburek]

It's sounding like exactly what I want.

[AlanHub]

looks cool as long as it isnt an iphone, though it is strangely reminiscent of one

[mikeburek]

What would be non-iPhone? Is everything with a touch screen iPhone-like? Is everything that is all screen and no buttons iPhone-like?

[lmasanti]

What were doing all that people two years ago? (Other than in Mexico.)
Why they did not think of this "before" the iPhone?
("Necessity" --a.k.a. less sales-- is the mother of all inventions!)

[sreejithr]

this was developed by an ex-apple employee...so that was why

[wiseguy6789]

When'll it be available on sprint?? I'm stoked! Great replacement for my already defunct Treo 800w!!

[meisenburger]

Already have an iPhone 3G - I don't need to downgrade to this...

[celsius0010]

Downgrade?? reread the specs on this real quick.. lol funny how you guys think the appstore is a "feature" palm and whindows literally have at least TEN times the apps available... My touch pro beats the crap outta your iphone.. I love pulling up web pages in skyfire and seeing peoples faces when videos play on youtube lol... The iphone is nice but its not even the best phone on At&t.. Jus because its the best phone for you doesnt mean for me or anyone else.. My touch pro can do twice as many things and Id rather have a small samsung m520 for making calls and quck texts.. I have MORE minutes when you add BOTH phones for LESS than ONE iphone plan... and my m520 is just as feature rich.. You might have to make some trade offs like multi touch or multi tasking.. But my free ninety nine phone has alot of stuff the iphone DOESNT..

[Rants&Raves]

Can I sync my Palm Desktop stuff with (or... sigh.... to) it or is it just a web-and-Outlook thing ?

[haub123]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[baisa]

Will it support older phones like the Treo 650? Or is it only for new phones?

[ittesi259]

They are advertising a new phone, the new WebOS isn't going to be offered for other phones.

[TMU1006]

No price point . . . I smell big $$$$$. If they don't undercut the iPhone on price, they've got another problem. I love the look of this toy, but I'm not happy about Sprint (hey, AT&T's got the other Palms, right?).

[steel36]

I had my fingers crossed when I saw the CDMA specs, but it all fell flat w/ the Sprint announcement. One day, somebody's going to get a clue and make a non-Windows Mobile phone for all of the people out there who actually require a phone that can get a signal. It's unbelievable: Verizon has hands-down the best service, but is now the last and only of the major carriers to not have a non-WM OS. Maybe we'll have an Android option before the year is out, like that powerhouse, T-mobile. It's like releasing the latest HDtv in a 3rd world country: it looks great on the showroom floor, but what do you do with it when you get it home?

[ittesi259]

Since when is the BlackBerry Storm a Windows Mobile phone?

[celsius0010]

Verizon doesnt like phones they cant control.... Android is open, Palm is pretty open, and apple wants to be a full fledged partner.. Verizons corporate policy is VERY stuffy and is not attractive to smart phone makers at all... They have a terrible history with palm.. Sprint has always had the best relationship with Windows, Palm, and HTC.. Thats why sprint got the centro 700wx, touch, mogul, touch pro, touch diamond first... Verizon never even got already dead 800w, and Palm converted the Treo Pro to cdma for sprint before At&t could even get the version thats already gsm..

And sprint might suck for you but for America as a whole it is MUCH better than At&t.. Here in so cal JD Power rated sprint as the best network.... And AT&t has been having alot of outages lately.. Sprint and Verizon DONT get those...

[Omachka]

Ummm, you should go on into your Verizon store. I've had my Palm 700P through Verizon for a couple of years now and there are several others that aren't Windows Mobile based in there as well.

To celcius 0010 maybe I missed where Verizon had problems with Palm or that smart phone makers steer clear but I've had great service and I love my Palm that I have through them. So far no problems with Verizon or Palm at this end.

[snessnyc]

Am I missing something? What do you think my Verizon Palm Centro is running on? And BTW - I love it! The Palm OS might be old, but it still does some things, like appointments, better than anyone else. I don't mind the tiny keyboard (it helps keep the overall device small and pocketable) and the browser is adequate for most things, especially on the VZW 3G network. And in my experience, Palm and VZW seem to play very well together.

[cottonrohrscheib]

I am pretty excited about the launch of this product, unfortunately I am w/ AT&T, wonder how long it will take them to get this device or one similar?

[Hep Cat]

LOL@the wireless charger and Sheryl Sandberg. Partners? Does that mean an App Store? Thos 20 million mobile FaceBook users are all on iPhones!

The wireless charger is a great idea with laughable execution - who wants to put that oddly-shaped thing in their bag? Obvously, it is bigger than the phone...and there's no indication it can use conventional chargers. At least the iPhone can use every single one of the billions of iPod USB chargers in existence.

[mikeburek]

It uses their new OS?

[linuxgeek90]

I'm stoked.

All looks great, except it'll probably be $500.

[ozznom]

2 years too late to be groundbreaking, 12 months too late to save them. :(

[alexacker]

As a former treo 700 user on VZW, I 'm now am an iPhone user. Nonewithstanding, thing new Palm is awesome... Too bad, I won't switch back to verizon tho. Palm, you came out with something great but two years too late.

[iBuzz]

This is exactly who I want to see in this space: Apple, Palm, and Google. RIM and Microsoft with their out-dated OSes and interfaces can go home.

[osantosg]

I used to be a Palm user since Palm V, went thru 5 models, I can say that for years Palm was the head runner, but after the iPhone even with this new Pre it's still going to be another want-to-be iPhone killer. I got the iPhone this december and even with it's actual flaws (fixable in future updates) it has enormous potential, just take a look a the 10,000 apps and growing in less than a year. I have a feeling that Apple will let us have new features like video in future updates little by little. By the way, for iPhone users out there, there's a free app called Vringo, that let's you sync your iPhone contacts with your facebook contacts so that you can get the photos you need to complete the profiles. Here's the link:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288710418&mt=8

[CRACKnberry]

finally sprint gets something hott, i was at ces and the os is jus plain sick, what andriod was suppose to be.

[AppleSuxLeo]

I fully agree. Android looks half-baked compared to this.

[ace10134]

WOW I want this!

:( Don't have Sprint :(