Palm Pre rumor of the day: June 7 release date
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What's a day without a Palm Pre story, right? Uhh, right. The latest rumor making its way across the Internet tubes comes via SprintGurus, which says the Pre will launch on June 7 and not May 17 as originally thought.
This is based on an internal document posted by the owner of SprintGurus, who goes by "Coal," that shows all the devices that are in alpha/beta testing with Sprint. In the forum, Coal states, "For those asking about the Pre, there are 2 release windows, one is around 6/7/09 - the other I cannot say much on." We're not entirely sure where the June 7 date came from as it's not listed on the document.
However, PreCentral.net seems to think the timing appears about right since it falls within the timeline of a viral video Palm may be working on for the Pre. The video will supposedly show a man refusing to leave his apartment until Palm releases the Pre, and in the casting ad for the video, the shoot dates are April 29 to June 5.
If the June 7 release date turns out to be true, the Palm Pre would make its debut just one day before the start of WWDC 2009 and presumably the introduction of a new iPhone. Is the tech world ready for this? Am I ready for this? *Gulp.*
Bonnie Cha is a senior editor for CNET, covering smartphones and GPS. When she's not testing the latest gadgets, you can find her chasing after her crazy lab or surfing in the chilly waters of Northern California. E-mail Bonnie. 
Think about it. Pre's specs are pretty much spoiled already, in such a short period of time, it's almost impossible to make any drastic change.
And from what we know, it's basically on par with the current iPhone 3G, the only advantage would be a faster CPU & QWERTY keyboard ( hardware wise )
But put its release date just one day before iPhone 3Gen launch, undoubtedly any well respected gadget reviewer will put it up against the new iPhone.
But with the 3.0 OS update, software wise Apple had addressed most major complaint except multi-tasking. So when Apple announce the next incarnation of the Jesus Phone & surprise us with a killer new feature or more. It will almost certainly leave Pre between a rock & hard place.
Of course that assess all depend on Apple do deliver us yet another full swing state of the art mobile device. But seriously, who is gonna bet against Apple's ability to awe ?
If there isn't a hardware release but just the wide release of 3.0 you will have the story completely backwards where the Palm Pre will be the only thing anyone can talk about which will definitely overshadow the release of 3.0.
I dont think that Palm is releasing the Pre this year, Im sure that they are trying to catch-up Microsoft's strategy on to keep their loyal costumers waiting until they got board and purchase another else (just like the release of vista and now windows 7).
Assuming arguendo that they are releasing their product this year in leiu of the competition on the release of the 3rd gen Iphone, I would still choose the latter for there are no software avaiable in the market for Pre (like saying "you've got a Pre but you're all alone) unlike Iphone whcih beats PalmOS and WinMo regarding 3rd party apps (it used to be Palm as the winner of the coolest apps, what happened to you?) and besides Iphone has the most coolest software available in the market.
now they are saying no pre until June goodbye sprint and plam tomorrow i will buy me an iphone and sprint or palm if you decide you want this loyal customer back you pay my early termination fee with att contract that i start tomorrow and trade me a palm pre for the 16gb iphone i will have and i will come back.
sbcjr77@live.com
I was with Sprint for a couple of years. Their customer service is terrible. His comment is dead on when it comes to dealing with Sprint. They act like they don't want to hear your problem.
@elektrik_star: You sound like you are a rep from Sprint! Are you?
seems like one sure way to generate a lot of traffic these days it to be representing yourself as an insider giving a release date.
Search for my posts on the forum and you will see I do a lot more than just "represent myself as an insider."
~Coal from SprintGurus
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To see more you must be a premium member of SprintGurus. To become a premium member you either need enough points to purchase the subscription or donate 10.00 or more to the forum. (NOTICE: You are not buying access to any of the information posted, just supporting the site and I give you, as a gift, premium access)"
They will get overshadowed 2 days after their launch with the new iPhone - Apple is the master of product launches... I thought this phone was supposed to save the Palm company and give them a new lease on life... instead they're going to need to get CPR!
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in my opinion, they should just realease at the orginal rumored date(may17th) or the following sunday.
they should start showing pre only ads right now.
this will give the pre time to sell and get some extra hype. then when the iphone(gay :) is released people will have already have bought the pre and not want(or be able) to buy the ipphone beacuse they have already have bought the pre.
message to palm...
if i were you, once you have enough pre's produced, release the pre as soon as possible to try and throw off people from buying the iphone.
think about it. lets say you are waiting for 2 phones... you don't really care which one you get.... then one comes out. which would you get? the one that came out first of course.
if the new iphone can multitask the pre is screwed. so release the pre now to secure some customers.
<3 pre
Someone was shopping for Sprint phones and I went "what about hte Palm Pre???" and they looked confused.
Palm needs to you know....promote this "iphone killer"
It doesn't make sense to to any big advertising until it is about to be released at a confirmed date or else it will just cause confusion.
I am sure there will be plenty of advertising from Sprint when it is about to be released and after the release.
- by Sonettech April 29, 2009 8:36 PM PDT
- I have such a hard time believing that the Palm Pre has a slide out keyboard. Why didn't they just an on-screen keyboard. What a mistake.
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