When is Palm Pre Release Date - Sprint Official Launch
January 8, 2009 by John
The official word on when the new Palm Pre for Sprint will be released is first half of 2009. My guess is that the Palm Pre release date will be in March. Come on, this thing has been in the making since the first iPhone came out. The earlier the release date, the better chance Palm can catch up with Apple and Blackberry. Expect the launch date to be no later than March, Palm may have something even more interesting for you in the Summer of 2009. Sit back and relax. Check out our other posts, we will post the info once we get the official release date from Palm and Sprint.
Your thoughts are welcome. Leave a comment below and let Sprint and Palm hear your voice.
Update: March 15th is the rumored date. May or early June is our best bet since Sprint has to move Treo and Centro out of the way and make room for this iphone killer.
Update: Palm Pre Plans are official now. Unlimited data are included.
Update: Check out the new Palm Pre Commercial. I think we are actually getting closer to the release date.
Update: Looks like May 17th is a “solid” rumored date for the Palm Pre release. Sprint retail employees are not allowed to take vacations during that month. Anyone planning to camp outside Sprint stores? At least you don’t have to take a day off from work - 5/17 is Sunday.
Update: IT’S OFFICIAL. June 6th is the official launch date. See Sprint press release here.
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The device will most likely be around $200 with a two year contract. the nice thing is that it would be on sprint which will definitely be a huge advantage for it since iphone is on crappy att. you can get unlimited everything for $99 and if you have a business account you will get a %25 discount as well where as with att same thing would cost you something around $160 a month. the keyboard would also be a huge thing for us email users.
Do you expect the Palm Pre to be available on the Verizon network in the future?
I cant wait! Ive been a Palm junkie for over 10 years since I had my first PDA. I wish they wouldnt tease us like this and just release the phone now.
so what is this interesting thing you say coming out in summer? more memory? a different palm phone? i really want to know what you mean by “Palm may have something even more interesting for you in the Summer of 2009″
I don’t care how much it cost, I just want it to come out asap
sprint get exclusive rights for six months to sell 1 million copys only in the united states but it will have a gsm version in europe that will work on gsm phones so there will the phone that could be unlocked.. so dont get your hopes up sprint already has 374 thousand calls in the month of jan. to find out wha or when it will come out. stop by your sprint store salesman say it will be around $700 with out a contract but there is no official word on that but that is the sum of what they have said remember this isnt a exclusive deal like blackberry storm or iphone. sprint only gets six months. Iphone only sold 1 million phones in 3 weeks when it came out. Know that apple employies have moved to palm to make the PRE. lets see how it does since the main techs that built the iphone are know with palm
i read on one of the sites that it might be out february 18th, but since sprint has notified anyone of a release date, i’m suspecting later. i’ve heard either february or may
$399 without a new contract, that’s for existing customers and $199 or $149 for a new line of service
I wouldn’t expect AT&T to get their hands on the Pre for quite some time. With AT&T spending plenty on the iPhone exclusivity deal, and Verizon locking up the Blackberry Storm, Sprint has finally come to its senses and went with Palm’s new rockstar mobile instead of pouring millions into good press for the Instinct (unbearable crap).
Plus, given the Pre’s position in challenging the storm, and iPhone; we should see the exclusivity agreement lasting no less then a year.
Sprint needs it.
The palm pre will be released for Sprint on February 15th (speculated). No official price on it yet. My guess is probably around $199 after $100 mail in rebate. Dont expect any release for a GSM version anytime soon.
yuk… on AT&T.. no thanks…
Um….Who ever said the pre was gonna be carried by ATT??? SPRINT EXCLUSIVE!!!! Look it up!
May. Not March.
A friend of mine who works at a Sprint retail store heard through her superiors that the potential legal mess with Apple could delay the Pre until July of 09, which would be absolute buzzkill for all the hype Palm has going right now. I spoke with a Sprint CS rep today, and while I know they don’t know anything for sure, he told me that Palm and Sprint execs were keeping mum on details about the phone but we could expect a release date anywhere from tomorrow to March.
Palm will release the Pre as scheduled and just let the legal team deal with Apple.
@John:
A spokesperson for the Palm-Sprint deal reportedly stated that the Pre will release “as scheduled” DESPITE the potential legal issues with Apple. Of course, that release is still unknown but Palm would be smart to make it before the end of March.
here is my chat with a sprint csr on feb 4th 09
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13:54:27 Ronny
Any Palm PRE info. Price or release date.
13:54:53 Judy
I will be more than happy to answer your questions today.
13:55:23 Judy
I apologize, I do not have a release date or pricing for the Palm Pro.
13:55:52 Ronny
Im looking for the Pre not the Pro.
13:56:43 Judy
I apologize, you may go to the following website: now/sprin.com/pre for information on the pre phone.
13:57:28 Judy
I have a tentative data of Feb. 15th as a release date.
13:57:42 Judy
I do not currently have any pricing information.
13:57:48 Ronny
for the “pre” not the “pro”
13:57:58 Judy
Yes for the Pre.
13:58:53 Ronny
k, Thanks. Hope thats pretty close cause Im about ready to get an Iphone if sprint does not get some better phones. The pre could be the phone to keep me from switching.
13:59:04 Ronny
thanks for your time and info
13:59:14 Ronny
have a great day
13:59:38 Judy
Thank you for using Sprint Web Chat. Sprint Web Chat is available Monday - Friday from 9AM - 11 PM EST and Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM - 7 PM EST. Have a great day.
iphone killer…come on. I am a sprint windows mobile user so do not take me as a biost apple person. With the Sprint Palm Pre only having 8GB of onboard storage memory and no memory card expansion slot, this phone will have to learn a thumbs down for me. The iphone is already at 16GB and rumored to release a 32GB version. Palm will need to do some serious catching up in this area. My other concern is in dealing with Palm as a company. In my experience they have been incredibly sluggish and limited with releasing updates for other products I have owned in the past. If this thing has numerous software bugs when it comes out, Palm better be prompt and complete with fixing the issues or people will get fed up and go elsewhere. I will admit that the GUI looks really cool but I need the storage space for all of my other stuff!
The word is the pre will be launched on march 15th pricing is not known at this time. As we can see apple is trying to sue palm already they must be worried about the real competition coming out.
Why only Spring! Arghhh. I have Verizon (and am locked into a long-term contract) and have been looking forward to the Pre. Is there any chance that it will eventually be carried on Verizon?
Of course, I meant, “SPRINT.” (Fingers too fast for brain…)
Why do you keep saying Iphone Killer? Have you not heard Palm’s people stating they are only competing to get a share of the market? Iphone is too good a product to get Killed. I have been a palm user for 10 years and I have to say that i’ve loved all the phones I’ve had… 350, 600, 650, 700 and 755… and as happy as I was with the phones I was beginning to feel a bit left out seeing the Iphone out there and then the storm. Palm needed a new interface, faster hardware, a better camera and a better screen. AND i was surprised to not see any kind of hint on a new product with those features, i was seriously thinking about switching to a blackberry storm or bold (I personally think Iphones are for girls, LOL) … ANYHOW…. i am glad that the pre has been announced and it sure looks like it will become the best phone out there.
I just think it is silly to think that the Iphone can be replaced anytime soon. Bare in mind that Apple should also be working on a new phone.
Bottom line… I hope that the pre will come out soon and that it will keep Palm afloat and around for a good while ;-).
I think it’s good only sprint will have the PRE because at&t has the iphone, verizon the storm and sprint will have the pre and t-mobile they just dont count. It is not fair to give the other companies the phone when they don’t let sprint use their so its exclusive to sprint.
I went to the sprint store today because I was looking to get a new touch screen phone. The rep told me it would be the beginning of next year for the pre. Which is it. Next month or next year? The only reason I got told anything was right as I was going to get the HTC, I asked when the current deal was ending and if they would match price if it fell in 9 days. Was told no, I would be stuck so I asked then if any new phones were planned anytime soon. He said not for months, showed me pics of the Palm and said next year on it.
@mike SPRINT EMPLOYEE, the Palm Pre will definitely be a phone that can compete head to head with iphone. But I doubt Sprint will have the exclusivity for long since Palm needs to sell the new Pre as many as they can to catch up with Blackberry and iphone. In the past, all Palm Treo and Centro became available to AT&T and Verizon just a few months after the initial release with Sprint.
they are phone sales person for a reason, b/c they can’t get another low end job
and yes i know. they can make a lot of money doing it… kind of like a used car salesperson… how far can you trust them
@Jen:
You were lied to. Although no official release date has been given, Sprint and Palm would be a) suicidal and b) insane to wait until 2010 to throw the Pre our way. They announced it almost a month ago, and now they’re to wait a year before they let anyone have it?
That rep doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
I spoke to my Sprint Executive services rep that I only deal with for all of my phones being a 10 year customer. She told me that as it stands today it has a release date of the 15th of feb. She has been very good on her facts. I got the HTC Pro when it came out and kinda went through the same wondering steps as to when it would be released. I got a call from her the morning she could send it out and had it in two days. She couldn’t confirm for sure if it would be that day but she hasn’t heard anything to make her think different. If so I will have mine by Wednesday the 18th. I had the HTC Pro and gave it back. I my opinion horrible device, good in theory but lacks the umph to keep everything running. I hope palm has there stuff together.
I’m not sure the 15th of February is a great release date, given the fact that it falls on a Sunday.
Well people keep saying feb. 15th. No way! That is way too soon. This phone was announced at ces 09, a month ago. They would not have it out that fast. Feb 15th is the supposed date for the Palm Treo Pro. So @Marcus, I think your rep is wrong. Maybe she is confused about the Treo Pro. From what rumors I see that it is a tentative date for March 15th for the Palm Pre. I do hope it is then but even that seems early. If it were Feb 15, I’d be as giddy as a school girl.
OMG! My first Palm was the Centro…and i love it. Of Course i will purchase the Palm Pre…looks good so far.
I just spoke (via online chat) with Leah at Sprint and asked about a release date. she said it has been postpone and she doesn’t know until when, but she can’t imagine it being much longer. When I asked her if that meant a week longer or 6 months longer she said she really couldn’t say,
@ Chris C. Postponed from what? They haven’t posted an official release date for the Palm Pre’. Palm said first half of 09. So I’m sure they will have it out in the next month to 3 months.
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Been a Palm junkie for over 10 years. Palm Pilot to palm Treo to Palm Centro. Been complaining that Palm has been behind in the Smart Phone category for soem time now. It’s about time. When i saw the video, I was having palm”gasms” all over my work area! I am still debating whether getting on line Day 1 or waiting out for this surprise in the Summer of 2009. Either way, KUDOS for Palm and Sprint to finally catch up.
It’s coming out February 15th. Let’s put it all together. Searching on google, websites say it’s coming out first half of 2009. Going through forums, they are saying February 15th. I personally was told from a sprint rep over the phone that it was coming out February 15th. Even Sprint account managers for sprint retailers are saying that it is coming out February 15th.
Unless something goes horribly wrong, plan to visit your local Sprint store on this day to be the first in line to grab it. I already went ahead and cleared up any upgrade eligibility issues that was going to be in my way (from Sprint making stupid mistakes) just so I can be obstacle-free.
Truthfully, I should be saying other dates that it would come out on and make up lies just so I won’t have any competition, as this is the first link that pops up when you type” palm pre release date” in google.
THE RELEASE DATE FOR THE PALM PRE WILL BE MARCH 15TH according to websites one would be phonedog and was leaked by boygenius who ever that is but they are saying march15th guys the other website i have is at my work so i dont know what it is but go to http://www.phonedog.com and it shows all the sprint phones that are going to come out.
You are a moron! There is no possible way the pre is coming out on the 15th of feb. That’s in like a day and a few hours. Don’t be stupid can’t wait to laugh at you!
You are a Moron! There is no way that this phone is coming out Feb. 15th. I can’t wait to laugh at you!
Sorry for double post. Didn’t realize first one posted. I was posting from my phone.
Hey Jeff?! Its feb 15th! Hope you had fun going to the Sprint Store this morning! I told you that the Pre wasn’t coming out today.
lol damn. Instead I just seen that i didn’t receive my notification from Palm via e-mail. Guess we wait.
Hey everyone check out http://www.PalmPreForum.org
Great forum for the upcoming Palm Pre
Take a look!
i have the Palm Treo and if it werent for the fact that it uses the stinking Palm Centro battery ( of which is not even close to being compatible ). I see that storage space capabilities being the one of the problems here along with battery life and strength.
I have learned a valuable lesson with this latest Palm Treo 800W. The battery needs to be as strong and the Blackberry if not STRONGER. Palm please hear our concerns on this, because if you dont i am definitely jumping ship. I had to buy extra freaking charges for home, office, car and one for traveling.
We’ll whoever guessed Feb. 15th and March 15th, you are wrong…Sprint does not release phones or receive phones on Sunday and those are both Sundays….good try!
Hey rachel. Too bad my curve for sprint was released on a sun. Lots of sprint users know they release phones on sunday. Why do you think all the rumors are for sundays too. Feb 15th, mar 1st, mar 15th. Sundays.
The contact I have in Sprint Corporate said that the projected release date is mid March 09. As far as price and actual release date they will not be sure till Palm tells them they are ready to be ordered. She said that Sprint may only have I week notice before they tell the public about when it is available for order.
I think that the feature set looks very good for the Pre but I am concerned that it does not have a memory card slot and only has 8gigs on board. What will the upgrade options be, if any?
I tend to keep my phones for too long so it would be a disappointment if I got the Pre and found out 8 is not enough. Is any one else concerned about the lack on memory?
As we can all see, it its past Feb. 15 and there is still no Palm Pre. The Pre is definitely an Iphone killer, the IPhone is wack, it lacks the simplest of things such as video recorder. Really i feel that the BBerry Storm is better than the Iphone and the HTC G1 is better than both of those. I feel that the Palm Pre is going to be either as good or better than the G1. People say that because the Iphone offers more gigs than the Iphone is already better, but in my opinion 8 gigs on the Pre is more than enough for common people and business savvy people. Enough to carry around 1000 songs a few documents and watever else u need. I have used the Iphone, Storm and the G1 and just by watching a video of the Pre at the CES show i can tell that it is going to be better than those faithful Iphone users expect it to be.
any new news in release date
The palm pro was scheduled to be released on feb 15th, obviously it didn’t get released, it is not currently available to order, the palm pre we don’t have an official release date but we have been told second quarter. hope this info helps.
on another note, lots of reps were confusing the pre and the pro, especially bc alot of ppl are not referring to the pro as a treo, and for Rachel our release date are on sundays, that way we process the orders on sunday and the phones ship out on monday.
i think sprint needs to speed the process up for all the customers who are trying to get a upgrade or new plan so please get this by march 10th
The release date is March 12th per my niece who works at Sprint. She just didn’t have the price yet. Can’t wait!!
Anybody know if this thing will have legit email push like the Blackberry? Palm’s current system is really archaic?
Also, will it have a stylus? I really like it for some games.
Thanks!
I manage a cell phone store and there’s no official release date and anything out there at this point is just rumors. The closest thing to a definitive date is the first half of 09, meaning anywhere from now until June. The current rebates forms don’t expire until April 18th so I have a feeling we’ll all being waiting until atleast April 19th before the Pre is released.
As for concerns over the 8 gigs of internal memory thats more than enough for the majority of cell phone users. To put it into perspective a single gig will hold about 12 or so hours of music in mp3 format. I still hope they have expandable memory for those who need a WHOLE lot of space on their phone and leaving it out would be an oversight with how cheap micoSD’s have become but unless you routinely deal with extremely large files through your phone its not something I would be too concerned about.
I just got done activating my wifes new Blackberry and the tech confimed the March 15th release. She also stated that the original release was Feb. 15.
She told me she beta tested the Pre and it was by far the nicest phone she has ever used.
I can’t wait!!!
I guess we will findout in less than 2 weeks?
For what it’s worth, I spoke with a sprint online chat agent today who gave me the latest update on the Palm Pre release:
Sprint Customer I have a question about a phone product.
3:15:05 PM Tamilia sure.
3:15:13 PM Sprint Customer Could you assist me in finding out the release date for the Palm pre phone?
3:16:25 PM Tamilia I apologize we do not yet have the information. However I can tell you it will be available this month.
3:16:40 PM Sprint Customer ok.
Just spoke to a sprint rep and was told the Palm pre was scheduled for launch on February but its now moved to May. And the approx retail price is $399.99.
Man for the last few posts it sounds like the Pre/PRO shuffle. The pre was never slated for a feb. release.
the release date is march 15 so yall quit fighting. dang
I’m so dumb
Geez Sprint is flip flopping with the information on the pre. Can’t wait to get. I
Maybe Sprint will like to lose a lot more customer before they relaese a phone that people want.
Hey you can get ur palm pre in specially marked boxes of captin crunch! LOSERS……… Boost mobile rulezzzzz
@rathen- How do you know the phone is coming on march 15th. Cause it sure doesn’t seem like it…..
No way it’s March 15th IMHO
Well, if 3/15 is dead, and it sure seems to be, how about April Fool’s Day?
Hate to break it to everyone but it was announced that the treo PRO (not the pre) will release March 15th with Sprint………and the wait continues……
@JohnM: LOL “April fools day?” it seems to me those waiting for the release to be March 15th should sit on a block of ice. LOL Also @ Disel Dan “Boost Mobile rulezz” wow exciting phones they have wooo hoo.
HMMMM….. Palm is losing money because the old handsets are not selling. Then get rid of them and get the Pre out to save your butts.
Palm is targeting June since that’s the 2-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone - June 29th to be exact. The timing is critical. Releasing the Pre too early or too late will have a huge negative impact on Palm’s bottom line.
I hope the new Iphone is not anounce by June or before that time. Palm big bet might go up in smoke.
I have seen and read so many dates for release of the Pre. I am a current Verizon customer (uggggh) and can’t wait to switch to Sprint. Their plans seem so much better and fair in price. The only problem is that I don’t know when to switch. I am on a month to month with V b/c I had an existing phone. I contacted Sprint, and they do not offer a month to month if you have an existing phone. I wanted to sign up with a phone, an old flip one) with a month to month, and then sign up for a contract when the Pre came out. I don’t know what to do now since I am stuck. All of these release date mumbo jumbo is getting annoying! Please can anyone, anyone tell me when a release date is for sure? I also have had the Sprint reps get the pro and pre mixed up.
10:36:34 AM System Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Nancy. How may I assist you today?
10:37:37 AM Sprint Customer i was wondering if you have info on the new palm pre release date
10:38:49 AM Nancy That is a very good question. I thought it was going to be March 1, but, alas, no. What we hear from Palm is “soon”
10:39:21 AM Nancy They are also coming out with a new software package and I think both will come out at the same time
10:39:31 AM Sprint Customer o ok how about the new palm treo pro
10:40:29 AM Nancy Again, I do not have a firm date. Actually the news will be on the Sprint and Palm sites before the agents will hear about it
10:40:59 AM Nancy You can also check buzzaboutwireless.com
10:42:43 AM Nancy Thank you.
It is official the long awaited palm pre will be released the second quarter of the year(june) so if you are a hardcore fan grab a stress ball and squeeze away until then but if you can’t wait the apple iphone and rims blackberry storm are available. sprint and palm are messing up in my opinion.
ok guys lets get over it. obviously its not coming out in march so your best bet to aim for is may or june. believe me, i want this phone as much as anyone else in this world. i have a rumor and its broken about 5 times. i just need to switch phones. i NEED this phone D:
3:25:29 PM Customer Devane
First when exactly is the Palm pre coming out? I have heard March 15th
3:25:35 PM Agent Shanna
I will be happy to assist you with this today.
3:26:29 PM Customer Devane
Okay
3:27:01 PM Agent Shanna
Yes, the palm pre is coming out on 3/15.
3:27:13 PM Customer Devane
For sure?
3:28:01 PM Agent Shanna
Yes, that is the only data available
It’s march 15th.
Palm Pre releaese date……………..May 11th
This date from a Sprint management employee, and quoting him “we have never recieved word of any release date relating to the Pre for February or March”.
This is reliable information from a high volume sales region. Trust the advice.
The Instinct is a huge disapointment, and sprint knows it. It can not even compete wit the Iphone. Pre is their best bet, and from what I have seen The pre will do very well. As far as realease date On march 12 sprint and palm will be hosting an event at 11am pacific time, So they no doubt be telling us the cost and date of the Pre.
Ps I doubt it will be comming out this month, but u never know. My guess is April, May or June. Hopefully April, i am excited about it.
And no The Pre is not comming out on March 15, The Palm Pro is comming out on march 15. Don’t Mix the Pre with The Pro.
i just spoke to a sprint representative on a courtesy call and she informed me that her information for the “palm pre”, yes pre not pro, is that it will be released on march 15.
i really hope she was right.
may 11th
I’ve have been a big fan of the Palm devices since my first Palm III and a Sprint costumer for the past 8yrs. I’ve had the Treo 650 and now the Treo 755p. I waiting for the Palm Pre , so please release it already. Sprint should not wait to move out all their Treo and Centro cuz sad to say some costumers are not ready for the Pre. And some costumers won’t give up their Treo or Centro. Stop wasting time, steal these Iphone and Blackberry users. I got ur back.
I can tell u without a doubt that the Pre will not be out on the 15 of this month. The Pro is schedule however to come on the 15 of this month.
that sprint rep was wrong. Sprint and palm are hosting a web cast tomorrow the 12
in which they will gave more info like price and release
Pre is still not ready, unless they tell us otherwise tomorrow, we might have to keep waiting
ok this the second time sprint cs has told me this i hope its true,that they will be both released on the same day 3/15
this from today 3/11/09
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4:57:57 PM Customer Sprint Customer
hi i was wondering if you have the official release date for the palm pre and the palm pro
4:58:13 PM Agent Chantera
I will be more than happy to help you with that.
4:58:53 PM Agent Chantera
The Pre is set to be released on 3/15.
4:59:45 PM Customer Sprint Customer
ok and the palm pro is also going to be released the same day
4:59:58 PM Agent Chantera
That is correct.
5:01:01 PM Customer Sprint Customer
ok so 2 new phones coming out on the 3/15 they will be available for online purchase
5:01:28 PM Agent Chantera
They will only be available for purchase in a Sprint store. I’m sorry.
5:02:04 PM Customer Sprint Customer
ok thats fine also ,well thanks chantera for all your assistance today
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You’re welcome.
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Have a nice day.
Has anyone heard anything yet? I really hope it’s released the 15th. I thought I was going to be able to purchase it online because a Sprint online agent said I could, however, the person before me, the agent said it only can be purchased in the store. I wonder which person is correct?
If Sprint has exclusivity for the Pre for 2009 one would think the sooner it was released the better, especially for Sprint. If the Pre lives up to all the hype than it would be advantageous for Sprint sales and an increase in its customer base but the longer they wait the bigger the chuck other companies will take away from them once other companies get their own versions. It’s foolish on Sprint’s part to prolong the release date to mid-year. Oh well, that’s Sprint.
I have gotten a pre a few days ago. what are yall waiting for? a great phone? stop waiting! the pre sucks and I mean suck. it freezes up at least three times a day to where I have to take the battery off. it loses all my data everytime it freezes up. PALM NEEDS TO FIX IT!!!! or palm will crash. I got a centro lol it works well but I still like the idea where palm was trying to go with the pre.
umm.. yeah. that Sprint rep that said the pro would be only available at sprint stores was 100% wrong, you can get it at Best Buy Mobile right now. I would think I would know since i work there. Not sure about the pre though.
Just had a web chat with Sprint. Pre will be offered online on the 15th of march
I just contacted Sprint customer service and confirmed that the Treo Pro will release on March 15, 2009. There is NO release date as of yet for the Palm Pre. I also had to remind the customer service rep that I was inquiring specifically about the Pre not Pro. They’re getting the names mixed up.
I guess by the time Palm releases the Palm Pre, I will already have spent the money I’m holding for the Palm Pre on another phone! I’m tired of my Blackberry Curve right now and feel it’s over-rated. I need a phone which allows me to view my email in html. I’d also like a phone that actually allows me to view web pages, and not words and images all scrambled everywhere. The Blackberry is okay, but way too much thumb work for me.
@ rathen: dont play with my emotions i have been calling everyday to sprint asking for this phone.
@chuck: same here had a chat with sprint rep and they said march 15th online only. so keeping my fingers crossed.
yes i thought it was coming but no they had the pro mixed up with the pre BUMMED again
@Nyah- You can view emails on the Curve in html. You need to get 4.5os and you can do just that. And try opera mini for a browser.
@Chuck- You have the Pre mixed up with the Treo Pro. Please get it right.
@dgbfdeng2- Just the Pro coming on Mar 15th. Sorry.
And to everyone thinking it is March 15th. Get real! That is now 2 days away!! Not going to happen. Sorry folks.
Thank you Matt!!! Finally someone with some sence, the launch date has not even been announced yet, so how can it come on the 15, prolly its months away, yall just gotta be patient.
okay, huh im not sure if its true, n i hope its nott, but i heard som1 that works for sprint n told me that the release dat will be not march 15, but june 15…
ohh n i was talkin about the palm pre
i really hope thats not true that would be a a bad move on sprints part seeing that apple’s iphone anniversary is in that month.if it’s the true date then ill switch to apple
I know that it may not satisfy the itch to know RIGHT NOW what the release date for the Pre is but I signed up for notifications from Sprint to tell me the instant that the Pre is available for order. You can go here:
http://now.sprint.com/pre/?id9=vanity:palmpre
FYI - I have used nearly every smartphone platform that has has been released in the last 5 years and nothing has excited me like the possibilities of the Pre. Not even my beloved iPhone.
okay, i work for sprint…there is no release date for the pre, the only palm phone we have information on is the palm pro to release on march 15th, i am just as anxious as the rest of you guys, but no word to even us, manager says they are testing and double testing and triple testing the device so it won’t have many issues when the device comes out….
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I just want palm to go bankrupt now. All their employees and administrators need to lose their jobs. I’ve owned a palm since the first palm pilot has come out and they just keep falling behind the times. By the time they release this phone it will be obsolete. They think their generating interest, but their just generating disgust with their company. There’s a reason their stock has dropped over the years and the games their playing now may just break them.
Guys I am a Sprint Manager and here is the scoop. The pro is already out we have been selling them for almost a month now. Se all this talk that both the palm pre and pro are coming out on the same date makes me laugh. I have not been given a date. This means at LEAST two weeks from now becuase stores get a two week heads up. From what I am hearing about and they are only rumors look for the pre in mid may to early june. They test them out in our normal test market and there were some serious problems that need fixed hence the delay
@Zachary Gray- You sir are full of it. The Treo Pro is being released tomorrow on Sprint. So out for a month…. , I dont think so.
the Palm Tre Pro is here NO Pre the waiting is still on Looking forwar for May/June.
Anyone think the Pre will be sold at Best BUY? I have so much store credit there and I figured Id just get it there. They had the Touch Pro from HTC practically when it came out and all the other sprint smart phones are sold there…I mean they even sell the I -Phone there, too. You would think they would be wanting to push these phones everywhere since the release date keeps getting closer to June than May. Ive had Palm products sine I can remember. I always loved the whole touch pad idea. And now this thing is just crazy and FINALLY a new OS. I have a 755p and don’t have any major issues, other than Google maps makes my phone restart when I try to open that application. I tried the HTC touch Pro for 2 weeks and I just hate the Windows Mobile Op Sys…I hate it. Other than it had a slide out text pad which is perfect for driving and looked cool, it was just flawed in so many ways and returned it and just kept the 755 till this comes out. Im not settling for anything else, and I can deal with the waiting a bit, I just hope they sell it at Best Buy to save a buckaroo. Ive had sprint forever and have a great plan and am due for the upgrade and figure in this economy and about $400in store credit, why not save a few on the coolest thing sprint has had to offer since forever and get some new i-tunes cards while I’m at it..Oh and my opinion on the date will be either May 15, which is a Friday, or June 15, which is a Monday. Also, a Sprint guy I know @ the Sprint Commack, NY store and said things were pushed back for testing and it was def coming out before the summer (June 21), but not April.
So…any word on Best Buy anyone….and, separately do you think they (sprint or third party) are going to release a bunch of cool apps that are fun like Apple does? Apple is toting 10,000..Whats Sprint got? Who’s on the ball on that one?…Opinions please if you could…Thank you!!
Well here it is March 16, 2009. No Pre. Idiots!
This phone is scheduled to be released in June. Trust me I am anticipating the release of the phone as much as anyone else is but we will just have to wait a few more months. This information was provided to me by a rep and the store manager at the Sprint store that I always visit, they are both very good friends and I have known them for many years so they gave me the same information they received from their corporate office. I have reserved one for myself already so as soon as they get them in they will have one on the side for me, all I have to do if wait for them to call me and tell me they have arrived.
@player 1- kind of long for a comment there. You have so many questions that you need to search of them. Try http://www.palmpreforum.org and yes best buy has exclusive on the Pre. So only sprint stores and best buy will be carrying it for a while.
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/03/16/sprints-q1-q3-2009-device-roadmap-leaks/
HERE IS AN INSIDE LEAK OF ALL THE PHONE PALM PRE IS KNOWN AS P100
Basically you have to go to the source, instead of speaking with sprint i called Palm inc. The rep. said the phone would be out between march 19 - june 29. When i asked him was it going to be out before apple releases the new iphone, he replied, the palm pre will be out before the month of may, so expect it in couple of weeks.
Yeah but how reliable is that. I would love for the Pre to be out in the next few weeks. That would rock. But I just can’t see it.
I was reading the new Maxim and the Pre was listed as something to look forward to in April……..keep your fingers crossed.
Yeah the pre is coming out april 1st. lol. and u can find them now in specially marked boxes of captin crunch!
I got the HTC Touch Pro today just to tie me over until the Pre is released. The sales rep told me that there is a very good (really good) chance that the Pre is coming out within the next 30 days. They’ve started getting promotional stuff, and he said that is usually a sign that the release date is coming soon. As soon as it comes out, I am taking the HTC back, it is an OK phone, but nothing like the Pre.
@ Some Dude. I hope you know that if the Pre doesn’t come out within 30 days you are screwed and are stuck with the Touch Pro. Unless your willing to pay full price for the Pre.
Well its Saturday, March 21, 2009 and the Palm Pre is still not out. This is why and what I was told by a Sprint Rep….Palm is in a possible battle due to the Palm Pre being so similar to the IPhone and one of the persons that helped designed the Palm Pre use to work for Apple so now we know why its taking sooooo long to come out because of all the legal battles right now and no set date as of now they are really trying to get it out as soon as they can
@Maria- They said first half of 2009. So we haven’t reached that yet. And any legal situation that Palm is in with Apple is not slowing down the release of this phone.
@Matt. Matt, yes, i am aware that if it doesn’t come out in 30 days I am screwed. That’s why I chose the HTC Pro, it is a really nice phone, I wouldn’t mind getting stuck with it, but I really want the Pre. If the pre hasn’t come out on by day 25th in to my 30 days, I am taking it back and if they can’t give me an extension until the pre comes out, I’ll return the HTC and buy a cheap ass phone until the PRe does come out.
@Some Dude- Thats a good idea. Cause I do think that the Pre is goin to rock. I’m also not a big fan of WM. If you want to try for an extension you should just email Sprint and explain everything to them and ask them for an extension. I had 4 phones in 3 months waiting for the Curve to come out.
[...] that Tethering will be available if the new iPhone can run on higher speed HSDPA. Keep in mind that Palm pre release date will also be sometime in June. This is going to be a very interesting time. Let the fight begin! [...]
Ah forget the new iphone. Pre all the way!
well lets just hope it gets released soon…a june release would really suck
I am excited to get my hands on the new device, just to try it out, however, whenever it’s let loose, may be too late. They really shouldnt be playing this hype game, because humans repond emotionally and therefore, just out of disappointment not purchase them. Now as far as the iPhone killer, I have played with the iPhone and even the idea of giving up on Sprint, but honestly my service wouldnt be any better, because I have had all the services at one point(and even know those that have all the services), and really, it’s not worth me switching yet. Now if the Palm Totally fails me, then yeah, I probably will, just because like others, I’m kind of ticked at how all the other guys keep getting all these exclusive phones.
How is it that the iPhone is still only available on 1 network? or any phone for that matter? How can Apple afford not to put it on all using the same logic for Palm? Why dont we just leave it only for Sprint and see how it does? sprints service is actually cheaper, I looked into it already and the numbers dont lie.
i spoke to a buddy of mine who just got laid-off from Sprint and he used to work in the tech. department, according to him Pre has many kinks that they must clear before it gets released, the biggest problem according to him was the short battery life ..!! he guesstimated another 3 months or so before those issues were resolved and Pre would be ready for launch..!!
take it for what its worth, but my strongest guess is at least a 2 month from now before we see Pre up for sale..!!
my current phone is pooping out and i dont think i can wait that long, i was kinda set on getting that BB curve, but now i dont know if i should opt for the PRO at $100 more..??
My treo 800w sux. I just went to upgrade and the sales guy actually talked me into waiting for the pre! Imagine that. But I’m excited and don’t know how long I can wait. I’ll probably be one of those jack@ss’s parked outside of the store at 12am the nite before.;) Also any word on how much the wireless charger is gonna cost? Desiree
Anyone have anymore news on the release date? Seems like everyone is pretty tight lipped.
nothing man….ive been googling like crazy everyday….getting tired of it man…and i dont find anything!!!
Another rumor or speculated date (from sprint users web forums)
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Palm-Pre-to-debut-on-Survivor-article-a_4544.html
Read it there
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Whats with the advert? LAME! Go away.
My bad thought it was another site advertising.
Yeah, today my phone broke, i had the Rumor LG, and it’s so cheap. Im thinking about getting a new phone. I want one within next weeek, but im afraid if the Pre Palm isnt out by then ill make a huge mistake by getting a suckish phone when it comes out.
Guys, there is a new rumored date. That is May 17th. Leaks say it’s supposed to appear in a Survivor episode on the 14th of May. I really really really do hope this isn’t just a rumor, and is reality (no pun intended). I have an LG Rumor, and it’s broken. I’m gonna risk it and live another 2 months hoping this phone will come out at soon as possible. If I have to live another 2-3 months without a QWERTYless phone (the ‘broken’ part of my Rumor), then so be it. I hope the Pre is really as good as they say it is.
@ Jennifer - and oh, it’s not gonna happen. sorry :[ i’m just as disappointed as you are. i literally NEED this phone
actually there’s a new rumored dat for april 30th…
http://mypre.com/palm-pre-price-leaked-on-twitter-by-jim-van-ceo-of-logicomm-200928990
this is where i got the info…
@ Dean
L2 Read prior posts, i put an article up about that 2 days ago. Old news.
@ Juan
Ya according to a twitter post of palm and the pre “testers” a tweet rumored the date to be then so your “rumor” is accurate
Read it here
http://www.i4u.com/article23889.html
After further reading that article and link’d pages to that some people on the mypre.com and a few other websites are discussing how that if this man is who he say’s he is ( the fact that he is or isnt aside ) that he is in serious breach of NDA. Breaking this nda would have his pre revoked off of him and possible legal action along with tarnishing his name. Now i dont think a ceo would really want that to happen.
Now im optimistic about any date for this phone because im hurting for a new phone atm. So as much as i want his rumor’d date to be true i dont think it is. Along with that he also has said the price w/ 2 year contract would be 299. If this is also if true is a terrible marketing idea. I understand palm is hurting but Iphone 3.0 will be 150 to 200 w/ contract. ( i dont know i dont keep up with that ). If they dont have competitve pricing they are done also. So i find his 299$ rumor bs also.
Aside from that they are the only 2 rumor’d dates with any (logical or not) backing.
For all those not keeping up the 2 current dates are
April 30th and May 17th
We shall see
well i hate to burst everybody’s hopes or dreams of the release date palm pre of april 30th but the guy on tweeter is a fake here is some info i found on mypre.com
http://mypre.com/sorry-folks-twitter-rumor-is-false-pre-is-not-launching-on-430-2009301017
w.e we still gotta w8…
As ive said above i thought it was fake, but that aside, we still have the date of may 17th with the survivor rumor. Hopefully CTIA will reveal a more specific window of launch or even maybe a friggin price w/ contract.
ctia is tomorrow till 3rd right?
Yup that it is. 1st-3rd.
http://www.ctiawireless.com/
(website to the convention and what not)
ALSO EVERYONE BEWARE TOMORROW IS APRIL FOOLS DAY!
EXPECT THE FOLLOWING
Fake release dates ( probably hinting on any time in April )
( most likely the first 2 weeks )
Fake pricing, Fake new details, Fake news saying features have been added or removed from the phone or OS.
Also im expecting a few fake articles or rumors on how apple is legally halting palm from production the pre because of copy right infringement.
You have been warned
F#@king Pre come out already! It is starting to piss me off! Turns out my htc pro is a really nice phone, but the freaking thing freezes alot. Also the back of the phone gets really, and I mean really hot after using for like a 20 minute phone calll. I am thinking of returning it and going with the pallm pro instead. What do you guys think? It is a shame though cause the HTC PRO is such a cool phone, I love the keyboard.
@ Some dude
My friend got it, he said the keyboard had some lag also, alot of problems flipping the screen when pulling the kb out, The battery life (aside from the fact its a smartphone) is freaking horrible. We modded it (OS wise) for days with upgrades and homebrew and the phone was good just lacked hardcore in the build department. He returned it for the Instinct. ( for anyone who cares i think the instinct mini’s rumor date is april 19th)
@hazy…..
is the instict mini better than the original?
Well hopefully CTIA will shed more light on the “differences” the mini has from the original instinct. I mean im sure its alittle better in ways but i think its a marketing thing from them to rake in some more PR and customers. But like i said im sure its an improvement over the current.
At the moment it is smaller (rounded edges) (smaller by 5% i think) weight is unknown so i dont know if its lighter. They have said to improved the “touch interface” and touch responce by 50% ( that being more accurate and more responcive). Other than that i have no idea whats different internally or interface wise.
Prelims of it (pre CTIA) here
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Samsung-Instinct-S30-phone-pa_3558.html
OK so the Q2 is just about here so that means we should be hearing a little more about the Palm Pre right? Wrong basically the guys a Palm inc. are keeping the price and release on a tight chain and lock, rumors about it appearing on Survivor and releasing on may 17th is false, plus the release on April 30th false, what the are doing is they are going to release the phone with the price and everything that comes with it all at one time, Why do you thing at sprint and palm.com they ask you to leave contact info so when its out they contact you. Just think about it why get contact information from you when they give you a date when its coming out????? Basically when they release it, it’s gonna be one those things were it creeps up on you were your gonna be ready for it or not. Just my opinion but look at the facts, Nobody knows except them, LONG STORY SHORT APRIL 1ST - JUNE30TH be ready.
i hate waiting…its like i want a new phone already…im dying to get the pre but i also want the instinct but i want the pre…but i dont wanna wait…this sucks
@ malcolm
You didnt really have to recap what ive said the past week.
@ everyone reading
In all honesty if palm doesnt put out the pre at least 1 month before Iphone 3.0 its going to bomb and palm will go bankrupt.
@Hazy- I don’t think that Palm will go bankrupt nor the Pre will bomb if they don’t release it 1 month before the Iphone. Granted its not a smart move. I’m sure they will lose some customers. There is already an enormous following for the Pre. It will be a big success I am sure of it.
Lets put it this way, palm has been declining every quarter for the last year. No gains at all.
Now with the hype of the pre, they actually are hindering sales of all there other phones, along with creating huge manufacturing (supply vs demand) problems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/31/AR2009033101238.html
http://mypre.com/no-one-wants-a-treo-palms-revenue-plunges-before-pres-release-2009301027
Both links support that, now your right i may have overstated the bankrupt part. But i also ( was at work when i posted ) forgot to mention something else.
If they don’t release it with even more PR than it has now, and don’t put it out on the right schedule, 1 more or so before 3.0 ( i still strongly believe that) they will drop sales again by an estimated 20% more. Now this is the part where i lean to word the bankrupt part (still far fetched). But has anyone ever considered maybe the phone suffers from a fatal design flaw, bombs, and expectations are left on the floor? ( now i don’t think this will happen with the amount of time put into this thing ) But there is always that possibility, Just unlikely.
Furthermore no matter how bad any phone is there is always people and fan boys who will buy it. But with the article above they have to sell 5.5 million units to justify share prices. If they don’t, down go the share prices, down goes revenue and they are one step closer to being bankrupt.
Lastly i can only hope for my self and palm that they get this phone right. For them so they dont bomb, and for me because i need a new damn phone and my 2 year contract has been expired since jan…
hey guys looks like the phone is finally out!
uhhhh april fools..
srry couldnt help myself
but in all seriousness its time for this phone to come out.
Hopefully the phone is not to far away…
I just checked my email and in my sprint monthly newsletter, there was a small blurb about the Palm Pre. I got happy when I first saw it, b/c I thought they were announcing something.
My fingers are crossed
Is everyone positive that Sprint only releases new phones on Sundays? If so, I would say May 17th, not May 24th cause its Memorial Day Weekend….or June 14, cause the week next is the 21st and that would be the start of the 3Q…(I heard before the end of the 2Q so thats were Im coming up with that)…Does anyone agree?…. Hazy?…. Matt?… Juan? Anyone? Also, Palm is teetering towards bankruptcy, and is one of 35 major companies that are at risk of bankruptcy in the next 2 yrs..google it, you will see Im right at least about that…
@ PLAYER 1……….yeah i agree with u lets just hope thats the truth
@ Player 1
I agree fully. Its funny now that i think about it, Palms at a catch 22.
If they release it to soon it might now make the grade (aka iphone killer) and the software and internals blow and it sucks. Bankruptcy follows. But if they take to long Iphone 3.0 will have the markets attention and there goes pre’s sales. Then following the announcement of palm trying to get the government to bail them out. ( im almost positive they will try if that happens, but i hope it wont). Im sure theirs a “right” time to release it but if its not in May (if not first week of june) i dont see them pulling through.
Ya i know about the teetering bankruptcy tho i pointed that out and was shot down
Anyways i can only pray that its May 17th. ( before i die of anticipation and my old shitty Fusic ( that that’s right i have that hunk of junk ) I had an HTC TP but it was fail.
So the Pre- looks cool for sure but what do you think about the QWERTY keyboard…? I have owned a Palm Centro for almost 2 years and although im no teen texting nut, I would have to say that the qwerty keyboard is way to small. The slide out keyboard on the Palm Pre looks just as small if not the same keyboard layout….
Comments please
@ KybdPlr……i think it looks perfect
I was just on the Sprint website and they were advertising the new Instinct, with the whole “click to see when available” button, just like the Pre. So if this new Instinct is coming out soon too, they should hurry up with the Pre or some people might just get sick of waiting and opt for a different upgrade. I’ve been waiting for the Pre for way to long, and I would love to say I’ll wait for it to come but May is just too long to way. Sprint/Palm needs to step their game up and get this phone out asap.
@kybdPir- the pre’s keyboard looks nothing similar to the centro. Maybe the gel like keys. But that’s it. The centros is straight a cross, the pre’s is curved. The centros buttons are pressed against each other, and the pre’s have space between the keys. Plus the pre’s keyboard does appear to be a little larger too.
@ Anyone who is skeptical about the keyboard
http://mypre.com/my-hands-on-with-the-palm-pre-2009011068
Mypre is fully dedicated to the palm pre. This guy if you look at the website sells his soul to get a better look at the pre than any other site out there. Check it out for CTIA stuff, He updates alot.
palm pre is gonna be releasing soon, right now they are trying to get third party companies to make the pre apps store more succesful, so as soon as the store is good the phone will be out
The pre keyboard is nothing like the centros. The keys on the pre are more spaced out and curved. Where as the centro’s are right next to each other and straight.
just got my beta version p100 palm pre, phone is sick, way better than the i phone. if anyone is familiar with the smart phones tophiba put out a windows based phone with sprint that was a screen and folded down for the keyboard i had this phone my pre is just like that but the screen is crystal clear.
still playing with it and the charger is awesome you just stick the pre to the charger nothing to plug into, pretty space age.
will take some pics and post it.
cheers
matt your right there is a lot more room on my pre keyboard than the centro and the back light is a a lot brighter too,
so seriously whats the most realistic date this unicorn is coming out…its disappointing getting absolutely no news from palm or sprint…just let us know whats going on…
@james- Who do you work for? Send us a link with some nice pics of it, thats if you actually have one….. : )
esn dec 09546225495
esn hex 3671960F
im a beta tester, for multiple companies.
will load a few hot pics.
my review of this phone is due may 13th and phone should be out a month after that in which other items that i have reviewed do that like the i phone etc.
Ugh that means its sometime and June : ( I want it earlier.
haha, and June….. I meant sometime in June. I’m silly
Remember, Fathers Day AND the end of the 2Q is June 21st, and also the start of the summer…I am expecting a June 14th release…maybe the 7th…They are the only dates and chances in June to drum up much needed sales for Palm and hype before the new iphone comes out…I would live the 31st of May…Just sounds good..but I keep hearing June…
love not live…
@ James
If you take any pics, and not that i don’t believe you but in a picture with the pre have a hand written sign that says the current date and time. After you do 1 picture with that, then take w/e else.
Did it come with a user’s manuel? or a box? If so take pics of that also.
I just noticed sprint updated it’s website…
@jeff- Would you care to enlighten us how…..
i dont c a difference in the website….unless u havent gotten there in a yr or so lol
ummm… I just checked again, and it’s reverted back to normal. It did show all the plans with the pre and it in a list of smart phones… but still no price or release date. Sorry. Maybe it gives us hope?
I don’t think the phone is coming out in june, why do they keep saying it will be released in the 2Q if they are just gonna release it in june? plus i think the pre may get released later in april or the first week in may, but mostly an april release. money is the focus right now if they dont have enough to do marketing they will just release it, build their money then the tv ads will come pouring in. its just a suggestion. long story short i will be ready for it to be released in april will you.
I was ready in January, and this phone wont come out until the earliest of May 10th. …Third parties aren’t all lined up yet and its still going through Sprint Testing.. it’ll be another month for sure
All is quite on the Pre front at the moment, mypre.com show’d off the pre’s gps and navagation’s at CTIA (last thing to be said about it) and as i search the web and forums. I see nada.
i hope there’s a date leaked soon somehow
I’m hearing April 30th — a tester leaked the info on another website
Hey, my 2 year contract expires mid-April, and I really wanted to get this phone, but i guess its not comming out until late april-early june. Should I wait for it or just go with another phone?
I worked in the cellular industry for a few years. I do not claim to be a business or marketing genius but here is my humble opinion. Palm / Sprint are really dropping the ball on the Pre. They need to at least give a more refined if not exact may be released by date. people are beginning to feel abandoned by the lack of information. The buzz has been created but they are now letting it die away. I know they want to have “all of the bugs worked out” by release but I would not mind at all if I got the Pre tomorrow and next week and the week after that there were a few O.T.A. updates. Does anybody else feel this way???
@KCS7272- I agree with you. I wouldn’t mind updates. They could do it simply. I just want this phone. Whatever bugs are on it cannot be that bad.
Yes i agree. As long as they phone’s keyboard works. The touchscreen has no bugs. Calls, txting and the internet work. I would be more than happy if there where bugs aside from the above things working. Apps could be completely not working, the universal search not work, ext. I would rather have the phone now, hardware permitting, and have fixable bugs via updates.
@Randi
Link the website with the leaked info
@ Randi
Never mind about linking that, its 2:30 am here and im not thinking.
Your and the website “leak” for april 30th is wrong. The twitter’d date of april 30 is a lie. May 14th is the earliest they will release it.
i could not wait for the pre so i got the pro!! it been about a week, and i just found out my pro is defective!! i am extremly upset!!! At tis point i hae jad it with sprint they took over 6 days to ship it to me (the mail it to the wrong address) i had to go to ups to then pick it up. >:(
I will be at the sprint store on 86th @ exctaly 10am to return this crap!! and try to undo my 2 year contract! sprint is really falling off!
@ Scotty G!
My contract is up mid April too. I am just going to wait for the phone. Sprint does not have another phone that I “REALLY” want right now, but I have been looking at the iPhone. I’m going to give the pre till June, then make a choice.
@KCS7272
I would like to have the phone and the software updates push out as they come.
Hey If anybody wants to see the new sprint commercial, the palm pre gets a brief appearance towards the end, go to youtube and type in palm pre teaser commercial or whats happening sprint.
My bad just go to this url link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGet0p65fvo&feature=player_embedded
Actually, if you take a careful look you can also see the business man texting with it under the table
I really want to know when the palm pre comes out and how much it will be, I now several people have asked this but i want to know because if it isn’t soon I might just buy a different phone. right now I have what seems like the oldest black berry ever brcause my rumor broke and im really tired of this phone.
Check out the new website from sprint showcasing the new palm pre at http://www.sprint.com/nownetwork
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/?id9=vanity:nownetwork
Couple of things here.
1. Howard Stern chooses BB Bold over Palm Pre
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Howard-Stern-makes-Bold-decision-article-a_4661.html
My 2 cents. Palm you fLSJDKDJed up that PR stunt. They really just wanted cheap PR and didnt look into what Howard liked and what he wanted.
2. New rumored date of april 15th or 16th
(Im at work so ill post the site and forum that has the rumor or in when im home at 10)
My 2 cents. Yes we all discussed how sprint doesnt release phones on other days than sunday but who know’s atm. They are following the complete opposite of a textbook phone release.
i saw the forum that it was posted….its just some guy that supposedly called a CSR and they told him its due on april 15th but i wouldnt trust those reps
Spoke to a rep this morning and she said June. Sorry for those waiting for it in April and May
Watching an episode of house on fox and sprint’s new ad featuring the palm pre was shown, so it is soon for the pre to released.
@ Gisselle
Speaking to a sprint rep on anything “palm pre” is like asking a deaf person if they heard what the people across the street where talking about. ( no offense to deaf people, my grandmother is deaf). Its simply unreliable is what im getting at. I bet i can ask a sprint rep online or via phone every hour, for 1 whole day. I bet i get at least 5 different answers, and at least 1 for each month up till june.
Not knocking on your info but its simply worthless asking sprint.
@ Juan
I didnt look into the rumor just saw something while searching at work at decided to keep everyone posted so ya, i didnt know it was a sprint rep who said april 15th. I wouldnt of bothered to let everyone know if it was a rep ( like i said above)
@ Malcolm
Ya ive started to see sprint actually putting the pre out there. Like someone posted above, theres one on youtube. Ive heard at least of 3 new things on TV that have the pre in it. Lastly the new website on it from sprint.
Its starting to look more promising but sprint has this launch ass backwards
found this website….http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131176&intsrc=news_ts_head
I dont thing it will be released on april 15 even though i would love if it came out and so does everybody else.My reason is this because on april 15 the new samsung instinct s30 is going to be released so i think a month from that sunday may 10th the palm pre will be released,just my 2 cents thats all.
@ hazy
i couldnt agree more with you on the fact that sprint got the whole marketing thing ass backwards, they should have just promoting it since the announcement at CES, plus having celebrities holding the phone isnt gonna gain alot of marketing i mean think about it would you buy the most powerful phone known to man and michael jackson was promoting it. (no offense to the MJ fans)
@dgbfdeng2
I see what you mean talking about the samsung instinct, but sprint has phones to be launched in april, may, and june. its just the inevitable the palm pre is gonna crush any other phone sprint releases if it isnt a smartphone or a device the excels beyond the pre, but we will just have to wait and see.
@ Juan
Ya that’s the website i stumbled on when i saw that April 15th date. So thanks for that so i didn’t have to find it
@ Everyone reading
April 15th is a week and some away so if it really is that date (doubt it will be) im sure in the coming 7 days you will see adverts skyrocket.
( i can live with the may 10th or w/e date early in may )
First, The new Instinct is not being released on the 15th it is coming on the 19th.
I was watching Heroes tonight because they use nothing but Sprint phones and they make sure you see them. I am not saying for sure but i think I saw the Pre, the Instinct S30 and another phone which i have not seen before, REMEMBER I SAID I AM NOT 100% SURE. If I am right though I think the Pre may come in April. Also as I remember there really was no real Instinct ads out until after it launched, so maybe with the new Sprint commercial I saw with the Pre in it (it was the only phone in it) and the new web site and a few other things this means we are close. I hope.
As for customer service LOL it’s either we have no info except by the end of first quarter or no info at all. Best Buy told me several times on line it was coming out on March 15 or 2 weeks after the Pro now they keep saying June. I think it will be sooner if at all possible or Sprint would just say June.
@KCS7272 y u think it might come out in April?
@ Hazy
what you have said is true i was getting April May and now they told me June. i cant take it i have the rumor and i dont like it turns off when ever it feels like it LOL. But i know they would say anything just to get me off the phone LOL.
@ Gisselle
See told you
(again not knocking you just joking)
They see it doesn’t pertain to any of the “usual” things people call for (ie service problem or ordering a new phone) so they will and i guarantee say anything to get you the hell off the phone so they can get onto another called.
At this moment in time, Ive just noticed a hell of a lot more sprint adds than usual, and the new “now network” website for sprint is drawing an assload of traffic according to web traffic trackers.
Other than that nothing new. If you start seeing on tv that the ad’s have increased in frequency its a safe bet it will be out with in 1 month for now ( IF they ramp up the ad’s this month )
@ Hazy
Yea i just want them to get it over with and launch it. Need a new phone and i would hate to wait so long 2 months for it to come out. And also hopefully i wont get disappointed in the quality with all this hype about it. i ask sprint reps every other day about the release. LOL
I was watching 24 on FOX last night, they showed the new Instinct. Not only did they show it, but they used it taking a video phone call. The guy made a call, turned the phone screen out and it was showing himself on the video, the whole time it was a phone call made to another person watching the video during the call!! Can we all say 4g? Then just before that shot there was sprint comercial up, at the end of it busting out the 1st 4G service and right after that a shot of the Pre. I know people are saying that the Pre wont be 4G but how can they know for sure sense the phone is not even out yet! It keeps falling more and more behind, wouldn’t it be cool the reason why the date keeps backing up is because it will be 4G!!!
@ Pound
Thats not the case at all, they would have to redo alot of the internals to run with 4g especially all of the data ends.
Also sprint wont have 4g out till mid summer at earliest. Pre has to be out at the latest by the first week of june. ( i pray it wont be held back till then).
With all the adverts going on now its going to be the end of this month or mid next month by my bet.
Also i forgot
Palm Pre doesnt support video ( at the moment ) it might get it in a firmware upgrade but i dont see how.
Palm Pre does support Video. it Supports MPEG-4.
“Media formats supported
Audio Formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV
Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264
Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP”
That is directly from the Palm Pre website.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/#tab2
Hey all!,
Checkout CBS tonight because they are running a new commercial from Sprint that’s talking about what people are googling, tweeting, etc. on the net as we speak and how many hits are actually happening. In the middle of the commercial there is a black guy in a suit at a meeting with the Palm Pre in his had searching the net and at the very end of the commercial the “NOW NETWORK” appears and mentions 3G and 4G and a suspended Pre appears shuffling the deck of cards feature and then the Sprint log appears!! LOOKS LIKE THE PRE WILL BE HERE SOON AFTERALL!!!….
@ Patrick
I didnt mean support playing video, its camera does not take video’s. Hence you cant call and show your face over the cam’s video and talk. You didnt really read what i was talking about from the post above.
New Palm Pre commercial link here http://www.icellphonedeals.com/palm-pre-commercial/
I believe that’s the one Barry mentioned.
I have been seeing the palm pre in newspapers, and commericials. They are really throwing the product out there to all of us who are begging for it. It can’t be too much longer till we hear a release date.
@Austin, I agree. There is no way Sprint will promote the ad for the next 2 months without selling us the product, right? People won’t get excited anymore and will get irritated or maybe angry if they can only see but not able to “touch” the Pre.
hmmm… I made a comment about this yesterday before that new commercial came out… they had one during 24 that said 4G and then showed the Pre after that… I asked about it and people on here said there is no way because they would have to change the phone and bla bla bla… well the way I look at it, the phone is not out, it wont be out for a while, why wouldn’t palm make it a 4G phone? I think its funny that people an here say “no they can’t do that” or “no they wont do that”, almost like they work at palm or something! The phone is not out yet and anything is possible!
and for they guy that says 4G wont be out for a little while… umm, its already out… its in Baltimore, up and running as we speak! Not on phones but it is out for data for laptops!
@ Hazy
good point.
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/
hey i dont know if anyone has seen this but i just got this from chatting with a sprint rep.
@ Pound
I never said 4g wasnt up, nore did i ever say it wont be around soon.
Laptop 4g has been out for a good no crap, but the phones need updated OS’s and even hardware to run 4g. So lets recap
Pre doesnt take video’s
Its due out in 1 month and 4 weeks ( max time they can delay it )
They started designing the phone just as 4g TALKS where going around not development and implementation to PHONES.
There is no way they could have even started redesigning the pre mid way thru with the OS to make it 4g capable. Maybe a future version of it or maybe the hardware is 4g capable but the programs, OS and apps sure as hell arnt.
Its a completly different and faster way to communicate so everything needs to be up with that. Its like trying to stick a square block in a circle hole.
If they delay the pre past Q2 there reputation will take a huge blow, along with any promises they made or make, and the outlook on the pre will go down.
The hype may stay the same but they will guarentee take a huge sales blow because Apple will no doubt release 3.0 info in june.
Im @ work so thats all i can say now, ill update anyone on info around 7pm tonight or one of my buds above will im sure
@ Hazy
I don’t really know if it will be out in April I am just hoping. As far as 4G i would almost be certain that the newer high end phones coming out for Sprint would be able to access 4G if not out of the box then with and OTA update. As for the Pre if it is not launched by the first week or so of May I think Sprint and Palm will be shooting themselves in the foot. I really feel they have taken to long already. I had an Iphone when they first came out then I tried almost every cool new phone on every carrier since then. I now have an Iphone 3g. Point is say what you want Sprint does have the best plans and I am willing to pay an EFT now that they have a phone coming that I really like but they need to act soon because there are a ton of great phones coming in the next 3 months to other carriers! My best friend’s girl friend’s dad is the head of Sprint in PA where we live so I put the call in today for Pre info, He is always hooking us up so when I learn anything I will let you know.
@ Hazy
These are your words my friend :
“Also sprint wont have 4g out till mid summer at earliest. Pre has to be out at the latest by the first week of june. ( i pray it wont be held back till then).”
so go ahead and come back and say I didn’t read it right or you mean something else… this is what I read and thats why I commented.
All I’m saying is wouldn’t it be cool if it were 4G? I can’t help the fact that in that commercial they use “nations 1st nation wide 4G” and then zoom out to the Pre and then the commercial ends! would be cool!
@ Hazy
also read about your time table… Q2 ends June 30th. Palm only said it will be out the 1st half of ‘09. So your 1 month and 4 weeks is a little early if you go to the end of the 2nd quarter it would be June 30th… your 1 month and 4 weeks puts us at the 1st week in June, Q2 wont end until 3 week after that … I’m sure you have an answer for that too but just making sure we are clear and on the same page
spoke to a csr from sprint and instead of asking about the pre i asked about the samsung s30 and the reaction was that phone my be coming out in april or may but their is no date (apr. 19) picked for it as of right now. Also i, of course, asked about the palm pre and the reaction was the same between april and may but before june. Then i call pam inc. to see what their answer was about the release and what do you know the same answer but worded differently it will be out as april 8 - june 30. So as you can see with the samsung S30 the rep said that they dont get info about the phone until a day, two days, or the day of the release about that phone and as u can see by comparison it doesnt even compete so, my point is the pre for all we know could be finished completely and just have all the stores nation wide stock up on them for the release instead of having sold out posted everywhere, thats why they say in the first half of 2009 basically they dont want to disappoint alot of sprint customers and non sprint customers. Its something to think about would somebody agree or disagree.
@ Pound
You are really thick, just be friendly anything said here is pure stipulation or estimation.
You mention the commercial. They don’t see “we are” the first 4g it says ” and soon to be the first 4g carrier” or at least something like that. Cant youtube it, its blocked and proxy’s dont work. They don’t admit to having it out yet because its not commercially available. Why would i be talking about that “4g is out at all”. No no im talking about it being readily available to the masses. Its not.
In response to your comment about my time frame. Did you not see that i said im still at work? I didnt sit down and put time into the number, i rationally guessed. Also when i refer to “June” its the fact that i dont see it logically possible to launch it any later with out it destroying the launch and in my mind i cant say it will be passed that because its depressing
Yes it would be badass if it was 4g, but if it “would” be the cause of the long release date. Then eff that id rather have it 3g. Now in reference to the commercial i think anything sprint puts up needs to be taken with a grain of salt, they would put the pre on a damn Ceral box if they could, but don’t expect it to be the prize at the bottom of the box you know? ( i think that was a damn good metaphor )
* Picture on a cereal box (ya i didnt catch that)
@ Pound
Your right at first glace of the commercial it is deceptive. It does make you think its hinting it being on 4g, hell i may end up putting my foot in my mouth and it comes out 4g, i just don’t see it possible, palms so beat up right now and so is sprint.. This is their ticket to get out of trouble so. I think its a stretch to see 4g but who knows.
@ Hazy
I am still hoping it will be sooner but this guy is the #1 man in charge of sales for my region in PA. THIS SUCKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it is earlier PLEASEEEEEE
I just got word back from my “source” (I hate that term) I mentioned earlier. ARE YOU READY!!!!!?????!!!!! His official word is………………………Around June 1st.
well im with att so far i been having a lot of problems with the service. im currenly have the iphone 3g and i hope the palm pre will be best then. im planning to swich to sprint
@ KCS7272
NOOOOOOOOOoooooOOO
But srsly that blows i mean, i know hes your source but i hope hes wrong and its sooner haha. Well if hes correct. Its slated for the following:
May 31st or June 7th (following the sprint Sunday release crap)
Argrhhh
@ HAZY
I hope he is wrong too but that is the date he was given. In my opinion it could be sooner, I mean if it was dead set in stone they would just come right out and say May 31 or June 7 ya know? I feel they are going to release it ASAP I just hope it is sooner than later. As I said before I really believe Sprint / Palm have screwed the pooch with the release of this phone.
@ John
Yes sir! that would be the commercial running here in the DMV (DC, MD, VA) area. Everyone here is anticipating the phone and i’m sure on release day, the Sprint stores are going to draw lines, and lines of people!!…lol.
@ HAZY
Sprint has had 4G out east sense Dec ‘08. they release info on the Pre in Jan ‘09… You think there will be “NO” 4G on the Pre. The way I look at it, from Jan ‘09 to Apr ‘09 is about 3 months, 2 more months until this will probably be released… The way the commercials show the Pre and given there is about 5 months of project time, why can’t they make it a 4G phone? It probably will NOT happen but with 5 months to work on it, I don’t see why they don’t suprise everyone and make it a 4G. Yes there is no market for it unless you are in Baltimore but by the end of this year there will be a hand full of cities that support 4G, and even more by ‘10. That is about 2 hand fulls more than AT@T and Verizon will have in ‘10!!! I mean how else can you kill an Iphone besides the Pre’s good looks
yes i think there will be lines at the store for this… And that sucks because I want one, so that just means that I’m going to have to beat all of you to the punch… maybe camp out lol!!! wink wink
@ Pound
The pre was in development before December though, you have to realize release of info and the actual conception date are not 1 in the same.
The reason it cant be 4g is at a point in the phones manufacturing and programming process is a turning point on what they have to decide its running platform of data stream will be on.(Now if they somehow started it with 4g in mind then im wrong but i dont think they did they have WAY to much to worry about.) To put it easier, You cant run most Windows on Apple, but with an emulator on Apple you can run some Windows, but they run like shit. Same goes for pre except we sub OS to 3g to 4g. 4g already runs faster than 3g and follows the same protocol assuming. So running a 4g phone on 3g is simply like plugging USB 2.0 Flash drive in a Non USB 2.0 Slot. Just slower. But 3g to 4g, is a slower way of communicating trying to run a faster way when it only knows the slower way. (Runs slower). Now this can be completly wrong, but i work with computers for a living and id assume it works the same way with phones so?
Someone correct me if im wrong.
Also yes i will be outside in my car the night before the Pre’s release and will camp the store. I will be the first in my city to own and /epeen and show off the phone
Well I just ordered a used palm Treo 755P it will be here tomorrow at which time I will take my Iphone 3g back to AT&T and terminate my service within my 30 day buyers remorse period (by 5 days) I talked to a Sprint rep and she told me since I will be activating an old phone when the Pre comes out I will be able to buy it for the new customer price
And yes I got her name and ID as well as a copy of the web chat so when the time comes Sprint cannot pull their famous “We know nothing about that” schtick! I do not know why but I think we are close to release! I am hoping no later than the first week of may. Although I want it sooner. I guess the Treo will carry me over until the Pre but I really do not want to wait until June.
@ Hazy
If Best Buy gets it right away like they did with the Instinct I will buy the Pre there. They usually give you an instant rebate!
@ kcs7272 problem with that is i already have a contract with them ( the highest tier everything plan ) so i cant get a new contract or upgrade from bestbuy i just get the 2 year 150$ off rebate
do u guys think it’ll be available earlier online?
@Juan, Sprint wants to see people line up in front of their stores. It will be very interesting to see which line gets longer if the new iphone happens to lauch at the same day.
Palm pre expected release july1 or after its the new release second half of the year or the third quarter as told by sprint reps and palm reps. there is no april, may, nor june release. im just giving everybody an heads up
@ Malcolm
Where did you hear this at?
Because sprint reps dont know shit, and you cant even contact palm about the pre if you try so i dono who you heard that from
@ malcolm & @ hazy
well if the july release is tru….sprint and palm r screwed bc they promised it in the 1st half of 2009…july is 1st month of 2nd half of 2009
Bull crap on the July or later release! As I said before the guy I asked is the head of sales and marketing for PA and he says no later than first week of June. I still believe it will be sooner than that or Sprint / Palm would have just said June or second half of ‘09 or given a date. I have been given so many bogus dates by Sprint and Best Buy. You can ask a Sprint or Best Buy rep. the release date and then ask another one 5 minuets later and get a whole different answer. i asked 6 Sprint reps and 4 Best Buy reps in one day and I got every answer from March 15th to there is no release date. I don’t want to sound like a jerk but Malcom’s heads up is more like a head in the sand! If you are right Malcom then Sprint / Palm have just committed suicide with 2 new Iphones and the Touch Pro 2 as well as many other great phones all due out from now until Sept! I AM NOT CALLING MALCOM A LIAR< JUST THE PEOPLE HE SPOKE TO.
I called sprint and palm inc. twice and both confirmed a second half of the year release and i asked did they mean second quarter and they said no second half of the year. The only crazy thing about this is the sprint rep even said that the palm pre was scheduled to be released on april 16th but got pushed back due to software malfunctions, now i don’t know if this is true or she was just rushing me off the phone but that was said to me. Plus rim is in the works of releasing tne blackberry storm 2 later this year around sep’09 so sprint is in between two big carriers and i don’t they can pulk it off if don’t release it the next couple of weeks, i want this fckn phone as much as the next person but sprint/palm is really and i mean really fckn their whole image, of promising a phone in the first half, up
dude that fJHSFLing sucks
check this site out….http://www.prethinking.com/home/2009/4/10/sprint-employees-now-training-on-the-palm-pre-pres-launch-is.html
Well I really doubt the july release and even June now. i am pretty sure by the end of April or first part of March, why you may ask? Sprint has begun training employees on the Pre and cases and holsters are coming out already! I used to work in the cell industry and when we trained on phones they usually came out 1 to 3 weeks later. There is now way they are going to train the employees and then say ok try and stay excited and try not to forget what we taught you or quit in the 3 and a half months! Get ready guys I think we are SUPER close! I am still praying for an April launch!!!!!
i hope it comes out sometimes this month or early may please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read an article today about developers not wanting to port their apps over to the new WebOS.
Do you guys think Palm will have a hard time developing a app store like Apple?
Sorry the article can be found at:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500142&subSection=Development
@Monica
maybe thats y its taking forever to launch the pre
@ Monica- The phone is not even out yet. People will develop like crazy when this phone is out. My friend that works at Sprint will only tell me “May”
April 26th or May 3rd (Sunday) will be the soonest we will see it released if the 3 week max statement is true.
I suggest everyone save up 300$s because after what ive seen palm and sprint do about this release they will no doubt fuck the pricing up and i have a feeling its going to be 300 (but i can only hope for 199)
@hazy
im saving 300 also bc i doubt this is gonna be 200 and if it awesome but come on…this fone has been on top of the hill since january and everyone is looking forward to getting it…so if they price it at 300 i know a lot of ppl r gonna get it
@Hazy
I just read that Sprint has frozen may vacations and that they have two launch dates.
May 17 or June 29 If they do not get enough stock in they will go with the later.
I hope it is late April or even May 17. The Treo I bought will not ring it only vibrates
@ KCS7272
O noes at your treo. That sucks.
Well as for the sprint thing i can wait till may that’s fine but the end of June fHdhfjr that.
They are going to rape people with the 300$ price tag now they have wasted our anticipatory time for 5 damn months….
@Juan
You have it a bit wrong. Its they know the hype is blow the shit out of porportion and the delay makes pepple want it even more. So because of the hype they know people will buy it at 300$. But after initial sales. I Guarentee sales go for 500% to less than 5%. A hype launch is terrible in the long run, now if they did 199 i guarantee people will buy it in the long and short run. If its 300 WITH new contact that puts it at about 800$ for no contact, no one will buy that
@Hazy
I just got an email from Palm about future apps and it is all Pre. I feel it coming man I can’t wait
@KCS7272
can u forward me the email? my email is maxima2k53 at aol.com thanks!!
I will stick my foot in my mouth if its released on the 15th or 16th. But im thinking earliest may 17th. Thats after reading stuff at http://www.mypre.com
So ya read all the info on mypre.com
it will be some time in may my bfs boss from corpret say may and the phone will around 299 no date tho. u know it will be soon tho bc there’s a new ad on tv abt the palm pre
so how is the 4G network better than the 3G (pros n cons)
So someone can leave a link for mypre.com but I can’t leave one for Palmpreforum.org?!?!?! Thats pretty lame!
Well that person is me thats why, no im kidding.
But i think its because thats a forum, and mypre.com is the website that has the most exclusive look at the pre at all the conferences and stuff. Thats just what i think and maybe because the admit likes me?
I dono, but anyways, any new news anyone?
@beau - the only thing i really know about it is its the “next generation” of web browsing and its 3 times as fast as 3g
@Matt, The reason that your comment was removed is that it contains only promotional material. Please feel free to post Palm Pre release date stories/posts/discussion with links that have not been covered here.
is the palm pre going 2 have apps similar to the iphone or are they going to be totally diffrent
i know its a rumor but what do other people think about best buy sellin palm pre exclusively, think that its going to happen or no
ok i have been testing my beta pre since april 3rd. phone has a lot of updates,internet is fast and it is running the new 4g with the update downloaded and synced to it.
pros of this phone is it high definition and crisp ringer, you can download windows application to it too for those who are into the windows palm software that always crashes on you,. lol. user interface is awesome everything is there its like the best of the apple i phone with the best of the palm treo both in one. let me know if you have any questions about this as i have it until the end of the month then my demo is done.
still no change on the release date though, i do t k now where your getting your info. still release date mid june.
@ james
well the release date of may 17 is all over the web….but supposedly if it goes to june 29 if demand is more than supply which i hope not…but thats awesome if the pre works off of the 4g but it doesnt matter for me…i live in south florida it’ll be a while till i get the 4g
sprint is now advertising the pre on tv……
@Dave, did you see this one on tv http://www.icellphonedeals.com/palm-pre-commercial/ or something different and specifically mentioned Pre?
@ James
whoa re you to be able to get a pre to test?
@ Hazy
did you read what James said? Boy if that is true then… WOO HOO!!!
The Pre has been spoted at an out door event.
On Boy Genius.. Search ” Palm Pre gets caught taking a walk in the park”
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/04/13/palm-pre-gets-caught-taking-a-walk-in-the-park/#more-22397
@ All Posters…….. It will be any day now!!!
have u guys heard…the touchstone is probably going for $69.99….wut u guys think?
@ Pound
Ya i read it. but not bashing him, we told him to post pics and he still never has or he said he was gona post some pics of something ( a far up post ) and i haven’t seen shit so ya…. I mean ya it might be 4g but im not taking his word till i see pics
@ Hazy
lol I hear ya… guess we will find out..
@john…..it was on tv……..The commercial was about all the things the now network can do for you bla bla…and the new 4g network….then it goes from a super tight shot to a wide shot….and the is the pre…..they didnt mention it by name though….
are there people out there that still have not seen the commercial? I see them all the time, during 24, I heard during heros, during the final 4 mens and womens games… can’t wait!!!
so… I dropped by a sprint store the other day because I was wondering if you could use the pre with a cell phone plan that doesn’t include internet. (ie a family plan without internet but infinite text messaging) I know I would be hindering the phone because I don’t want to pay for internet, but the rep said it wasnt even possible. Does anyone know if this is accurate?
I only ask because I have heard that the reps have been giving false info about the release date.
@jeff
yeah im in the same boat, apparently it is mandatory as of the Treo 855 and pro that a data package be purchased to go along with it.
@jeff
it is mandatory for the pre to have internet….bc pretty much synergy and all works off of the internet….its stupid to get the pre if ur not gonna use the internet imo
So everyone is clear on what is going on.
4g is already released in certain areas throughout the US. It is insanely fast. Sprint is already THE fastest cell phone company for data. Don’t believe me? Google it, you’ll see.
Next the Palm Pre is supposed to release in June period. But both Palm and Sprint are working as hard as possible to release it asap. I see it possibly coming out midway through may. I stay on top of new high end devices and when they are coming out. The Pre is still under wraps, and I email high up Sprint employees constantly about the release date. Yet, they don’t even have a release date for it yet. I’m not at liberty to say how high I go, but rest assured it is pretty high.
Also Palm Pre will NOT work on the 4G network when released. Once 4G is released nationwide there will be an update released. Either by OS update for 2nd gen release as like with the iPhone and iPhone 3G.
Also the new BlackBerry Bold Nergia (spelling) is supposed to be the next highly anticipated phone to be released and it will be released 3rd quarter of this year as well just so everyone knows!
Thanks
Stephen
@Stephen SPRINT EMPLOYEE
btw….when u mean that the palm pre will have 4g by either OS update or 2nd gen release….the 2nd release means a buying a newer palm pre?
Good morning everyone,
There is an article on boy genius titled ” Palm’s new handset: Pre-mature hype?” This document is proof that Sprint and Palm is on the edge of shooting themselves. They should not have announced the Pre, if they weren’t ready to release it within Qtr 1 (my opinion). There is so much hype for the Pre, but it won’t kill the iPhone if it comes out days before the new iPhone.
I want a Pre! NOWWWWWWWWWWW
Signed
Getting Frustrated.
I spoke with a Sprint employee. He said release for the Pre will be the first week of May, with a price point of $189 with 2-year contract. Take it for what it’s worth!
I hope it comes out soon, I just read Dell is selling the Pro for $269 unlocked! To me that is a sign they are trying to move stock to make room for something else.
@ Monica
Sprint said 1st half of the year… How can you even begin to think that Palm/Sprint is shooting themselves by not having it out in Q1… Rumors had it coming out in Q1 but it was never stated by Sprint or Palm so no reason to say “they are messing up” or “shooting themselves” because they haven’t missed a date yet. Everyone loves the Iphone for some reason, I have always hated Apple, so I can care less. People run around “ohh touch screen that you can drag your finger”, “plays MP3’s”, “has internet” bla bla bla… My Treo 700wx from over 3 years ago did all that before Iphone came out. My old 700 and my current 800 have always had 3G, Iphone had to make a new version to have it do 3G, now they have a new one coming out… What is it going to do different? More apps? Come on! The new Iphone won’t affect the Pre at all. I just hope the Pre will have the abbility to be used as a modem… Thats how I have internet now is using my 800 as a modem :).
So this is freakin annoying they need to just release the thing theres just tooo much hype it has to be very soon! I’ve never used a palm device, and I am somewhat fond of Windows Mobile 6 so I was thinking about buying the touch pro. Can someone let me know about the major differences in windows mobile and palm etc. thanks a lot.
Hey gang, for some reason I can’t get a PhoneReview.com link to post, but check out there website because it appears that another memo from Sprint has “allegedly” been leak and Pre might launch on May 17th afterall!!!
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2009/04/14/palm-pre-leaked-document-release-date-expected-may-17th/
Try this link!!!
Sorry gang the link above isn’t working properly. You can find the article regarding the possible release of the Pre on May 17th at Phonesreview.
@Barry
can’t find the website unless u post it correctly…
@ Josh
Josh, I bought the HTC Touch pro to tie me until the pre comes out. When bought the Touch pro, the Sprint told me that it was likely the Pre would be out before my 30 days (for returning the Touch Pro) were over. Well, I got 6 more days and still no signs of the Pre. I am taking the Touch Pro back to Sprint tomorrow. Let me tell you about the Touch Pro. First of all, it is a cool phone, has lots of features, and I love the keyboard, it is probably the best keyboard on a phone. It is fast and works like a dream. With that said, here are the problems I have with it. It freezes alot, gets sluggish at times for no apparent reason, it gets very hot when talking (even for just five minutes) and I mean HOT. The directional controls on the phone (the round button in the middle) is very awkward, whenever you want to go in one direction, you end up pressing enter most of the time. The buttons at the bottom of the phone (home, back, hang up ,etc), feel very cheap and sometimes do not register anything when pressed, you have to press them multiple times. So, I am taking the phone back tomorrow. The phone had lots of potential, if it wasn’t for the freezing up and that it gets so freaking hot, it would be a nice phone to keep.
@Juan, @Barry, try the link again. I corrected it. It was missing one character in the link. it should work now.
@ Pound
All I am saying is that Sprint and Palm are cutting it very close. In my original comment I said ” it was my opinion” that they should have released in Qtr 1. No, they haven’t missed a release date, but I believe they are letting an open opportunity pass them. They have started all this hype about this phone and by the time it will be released, everyone will be paying attention to whats going on with the new iPhone. The new release of an iPhone will affect Pre, b/c none of the iPhone users will have a reason to leave AT&T and come to sprint.
All, in all, I think they left to much room for people to start talking about other devices and for other devices to come out.
I just got an email from Sprint, when I opened it it was a full ad for the Pre! They are getting closer! I almost died because the email said meet the Pre! I thought it launched. it has to be soon….. I hope
sounds like bs to me that it’s gonna come out on April 30th…but here’s the website….
http://www.publish.com/c/a/Mobile/New-Details-Raise-Buzz-Around-Palm-Pre/
@ kcs7272 — I just got that email too, and I was SO excited when i saw the title of it. But I keep hearing the date MAY 17th MAY 17th. So there might be SOME truth to it if they are sending this email out exactly ONE month before the rumored date? I hope its soon! I think its bs that the charger is sold separately though. And since the charger is that touchstone thing, that will mean a car charger is not possible right?
@ Randi
There will be a car charger. IF you look at pictures of the Palm Pre, there is a USB port at the bottom of the phone.
@Randi
The Touch Stone charger is sold separate but that is an optional charger. A regular charger comes with it. Also I just read that Best Buy will be selling the Instinct S30 for $50 for new contracts or people who have a $99 or up plan an want to renew it.
There is also speculation the Pre will be around $149 to $199 for the aforementioned contract options. If at all possible I will get mine at Best buy because the always give an instant rebate as opposed to Sprint’s crappy Mail ins. When I came back to Sprint for the Pre i activated an old phone so when the Pre comes I will be able to get it at new customer pricing. I am half tempted to pick up the new Instinct until the Pre comes out, I am using an old HTC touch… I hate winmo!
so the email is out but still no specific release date
Here is an article I found :
Supposed photos of the new Palm Pre have leaked along with interesting details about the device.
First, a member of the TreoCentral message board posted link to a Chinese Treo message board featuring photos of the new Pre set between a Centro and iPhone (as seen above). The photos come from Ludle International, a Chinese electronic parts and accessories wholesaler.
A translation of the Chinese Treo message board posting reveals the author spent some time with the Palm Pre. Among the highlights:
The Pre’s screen is less scratch resistant than the iPhone’s, while the Pre’s back is more scratch resistant despite being a fingerprint magnet.
The Pre is smaller than the iPhone.
The Palm Pre is currently in mass production.
Pre mass production would certainly give credence to rumors of an April or May launch date.
Of course, much of this information has been gathered from Chinese to English translations, so nothing can be confirmed.
(via preThinking)
Check out this site… It’s gotta be coming soon.
http://www.everythingpre.com/articles/2009/4/17/palm-pre-makes-appearance-on-sprint-mobile-business-website/
I was just at my local sprint store. I asked the person helping me pick out a new phone for my wife, when the Palm Pre was coming out. She told me that they have been told it will release on or around May 17th. She also said the only way someone will be able to get one on release day will be to have an email that will be sent out to people who “pre registered” for the Palm Pre on the Palm website. She said, if you don’t have the email from Palm, you won’t be able to purchase one on release day.
[...] were out - should I switch to Palm Pre? I have a good feeling that we are getting very close to the release date since the Pre commercial is airing all over the place. Whether you are with Sprint or other [...]
yesterday i called sprint thinking the phone was out since i received the email everyone else got. and the sales person said at the end of this month which is next sunday lets see and cross our fingers
I don’t know how people get Sprint reps to give up the release date. I was just online with Melody B. and after we resolved some things I asked about the Pre and I got “It is to be released by June tentatively” After I buttered her up and made her laugh i asked “But it could be sooner?” and she replied “Yes it could, you can register to be notified when it is available” and That’s all I got! I dod not know how you guys get dates lol.
The email….now that was a major tease!! But I tend to have more patience than the average person. Though I must say, all the predictions on the release date would drive anybody crazy!! I will camp out when I know for sure when it is coming out. I say we all get together and have a huge party in the parking lot!! Anybody in?
@VICTOR
I say we get like 5000 people to call Sprint and tell them if they do not release the Pre on the 26th or at least give us a solid date that we will all take a hike. I doubt Sprint would want to lose 5 or more thousand customers in one day.
Well Best Buy is selling the Instinct s30 for $50 so I wonder what the Pre will be with them? Sprint needs to get with it and just offer the Pre up at $199 or less flat no mail in crap rebate. I cannot believe Sprint is still selling the first gen. Instinct for $229 with a $100 mail in rebate ( the same they are selling the S30 for) when are they going to kill these crappy rebates you have to wait for? That is why I will almost always go to Best Buy. I have no idea why Sprint would want a secondary seller of their product to out sell them? That is why I got my first Instinct through Best Buy Sprint was totally sold out bust Best Buy had them plus They gave you and instant $100 off to make it $129 instead of waiting for it through Sprint
Does anyone know if there’s 3rd party apps out there for the Pre or do we have to wait awhile for that too…. another main reason that iphone is so popular right now is that there are so many useful apps for it. I’m tired of at&t, looking for something better than iphone.
@ KCS7272
Yep yep
u hit the nail on the head. Sprint Kills with that rebate. It always better to shop at best buy.
I example is the LG rumor, with sprint you paly Like $99.99 and get 50$ mail-in rebate, so in the end you only pay 50. However with best buy Its the phone is 49.99 with instant rebate, so you get the phone Free.
Never will i buy from sprint store. UNless they do away with that rebate.
i just got off of a web chat with a Sprint rep of course I asked about a release date for the Pre. I told her I was thinking of getting the updated Instinct until the Pre came out but I was worried about it not coming out before my 30 day return period was up. At first she gave me the standard go to Sprint Palm Pre site. Then I said “ok thanks, So there is no unofficial rumored date?’ I waited for like 3 min. and I said thanks for the info. and was ready to terminate but she came on and said to hold on while she searched for something. Alicia then came back and asked for my email address and my zip code, then she said she was going to have some information sent to me and that I rock as a customer! Cross your fingers if I get some good news I will post it!
@KCS7272
lol u better
Well I did it I ordered the new Instinct from Best Buy Online until the Pre is available I will get it tomorrow. Two issues though, 1. When I activated my service with Sprint I used an old phone so I am supposed to get new customer pricing. Best Buy sells the S30 for $50, because I have an existing account I had to do it as an upgrade so they charged me $129 instead of $50. They claim Sprint will iron it out and I will actually only be billed $50 this better be true or they will hear some major bitching from me. 2. I hope the Pre comes out before May 21 or I will have to try and sale the Instinct on Ebay for like $200 plus I have a mint Touch diamond my sister gave me I will sale that for like $200 and I guess that might put me at shelling out like $200 or $250 for the Pre which I could handle, I won’t like it but it is better than 6 or 700
@KCS7272
I was on the phone with a sprint employee and they said they’d send me info too after asking for my area code and email address. It ended up being the same email I (and everyone else here) got before. =[ But cheers to the hope of some new news!
I hope the Pre come soon, until then I’m stuck with my sad sad 755 with a broken touch screen and taped on back…
they are lagging on the pre. the hype is gonna die down soon
Im on the phone with sprint sales… They make me mad because they tell everyone that the phone will soon be out…. But no one will know when it will be out… right now i am calling palm to see when they know…
Well, I returned the HTC Touch Pro on the 29th day into my 30 days. I only got the Touch pro because the Sprint rep had told me that there was a good chance the Pre would come out before my 30 days were over. Anyway, the Touch pro was a good phone, but had lots of issues. It was also to expensive for what it did. I needed a phone so I got the Palm Pro. So far seems to be more stable than the Touch pro, but I still have issues with it. i sure hope the Pre comes out before my 30 days are up again, or I’ll have to return the Palm Pro as well. And Sprint better take it back, the reason I switched to Sprint in the first place was because of the Pre and now they better F$*C!@ give me one when it comes out.
@ jay
Good I hope it dies down… less line for me to get mine!!!
I have a friend who works for the call center here in OKC and he told me that they will be the only palm pre call center which they are currently in training for the device and he gave me 2 potential realse dates of around May 30th or June 12th
Well I canceled my order with Best Buy online because I found out it was backordered for a week. They did not email me and tell me I had to find out when i checked my status because my phone was not here yet. On top of that I have to wait like 3 days or so so they can put the money back into my bank even though they took it in like 5 seconds and then later that night told me my order was being shipped. Sprint better get the Pre out or I am going to go back to crap AT&T and either get the Iphone again or the Samsung Impression. I swear we need to organize it so we all contact Sprint within 1 day of each other and say put the Pre out or we leave Sprint! If like a couple of thousand people do this at the same time maybe they will buckle. I don’t think they want to lose like 2 thousand customers in one day. I mean crap they work for us right?
Sprint/Palm are not going to just release the Pre because people call them & demand it. And I highly doubt that a few thousand people would leave Sprint JUST because the Pre isnt out yet. Obviously they are waiting for a reason. I mean I want the Pre pretty bad, I’ve been waiting since December. But I’d rather wait and get a good phone than have it come out too early with defects. I think it will be out within a month, May 17th is all over the web as the anticipated release date.
@Randi
I am not serious about the leaving Sprint thing I am just blowing off steam. As for them not releasing it yet for a reason I believe the reason is they showed it off too early to try and keep people from leaving Sprint and now they are playing catch up trying to get it out ASAP. i hope it is no later than the 17th. As for all of these people who say stuff like Joe Schmo at Sprint is my uncle and he says June 29… I doubt it. I do not think anyone knows the actual release date as much as it is just we have to get it out by June. I think it is a case of if we can get it out earlier we will. I feel this was poor planing by Palm and Sprint and I also feel if there was an actual concrete date it would have been leaked by now due to the fact that we are about a month and a half away from their latest ship by date.
@some dude- Good luck with that one. You are only able to return one phone within the first 30 days. So you had the Touch Pro and now the Palm PRO…… your stuck with the Palm PRO there bro. Sorry. You don’t get an additional 30 days for each phone you return.
@ KCS7272
I AGREE with you 100%. Sprint announced it to early.
This is rediculus on how long we are waiting for the pre! My Instinct SUCKS and i cant wait to upgrade to the pre and for now i went back to my rumor…so sad…
So I was hoping to get a Sprint referral program contract (SERO) which as you all know is only available online. So I didn’t know If anyone here would have an idea as to whether or not hot new phones like this are released online on or soon after the release day and if they are available on the referral program?
Thanks for the help..
the Pre will not work on a SERO program
I am tired of my instinct also.. i heard of the new S30, or whatever it is.. looks nice.. but i want the Pre.. cant wait for it to come out..
So we are all waiting for the palm pre, but the bad news is they wont release it on a Sunday, they are gonna release it during the work week. because the phone will be available for telesales and online only before the stores actually get it. i still dont think it is gonna be released on may 17th because if sprint nor palm didnt say it i dont believe it, if they say the 1st half of 2009 that means from april 23 - june 30, its just my opinion, and if sprint does have a release date i dont think the reps will say anything since each conversation is being recorded.
@ Malcom,
Why do you say ” available for telesales and online only before the stores actually get it “?
Sprint has released multiple phones on a Sunday, the first Instinct for example, and the S30 was just released this past Sunday.
@Monica
when ever a high demand for a phone comes in to play they try to prevent the worst from happening you go into a store and they are sold out. So basically they are to the telesales and online purchases first for those who entered the email and left their phone numbers on both palm and sprint websites, then about two weeks later when the full shipments go to the stores then they will do another release kinda sorta.
Well I am set then I am signed up on both sites
@KCS7272
why do you not think it will be available on SERO??
I believe they stated that in a press release a while ago
I apologize, I didnt mean SERO I meant the new Sprint Everything Plus Referral Program, I am planning on getting a new contract with that NOT sero, and it does offer those simply everything data plans which will be required. I sure hope it works because their prices are much more reasonable than the normal sprint plans. Hope this changes things
Everyone, you guys have to read this! I had this discussion with a rep online!
Time Details
04/24/2009 04:59:30PM System: “Please hold and the next available agent will be with you shortly.”
04/24/2009 04:59:32PM Session Started with Agent (Brittany S.)
04/24/2009 04:59:32PM System: “Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Brittany S.. How may I assist you today?”
04/24/2009 04:59:58PM sherbaugh: “Hi Brittany,”
04/24/2009 05:00:06PM sherbaugh: “I have ********** questions”
04/24/2009 05:00:08PM Agent (Brittany S.): “Hello! How are you this evening?”
04/24/2009 05:00:38PM sherbaugh: “Great! and you?”
04/24/2009 05:01:12PM Agent (Brittany S.): “Super! How may I assist you today?”
04/24/2009 05:01:34PM sherbaugh: “Do we have an actual release date for the Pre or is it still before the end on the first half of **********?”
04/24/2009 05:03:21PM Agent (Brittany S.): “I do apologize however we do not have access to the actual rebate as of yet.”
04/24/2009 05:04:02PM sherbaugh: “I was thinking of getting the new Instinct until the Pre comes out I am eligible for new customer pricing since I activated an old phone when I started my service. But online through Sprint it would be $********** with a $********** mail in rebate but at Best Buy I ca”
n buy it for $********** total
04/24/2009 05:05:17PM sherbaugh: “Why the big difference and can Sprint match that price?”
04/24/2009 05:07:26PM Agent (Brittany S.): “I do apologize however Sprint does not match third party prices. These third party carriers buy the devices at bulk and sell them priced accordingly.”
04/24/2009 05:08:58PM sherbaugh: “I understand but would Sprint not carry more of these phones than Best Buy therfore Sprint buys a bigger order? The phone is A Sprint exclusive correct?”
04/24/2009 05:12:15PM Agent (Brittany S.): “I do apologize however it is Exclusive to Sprint Service provider, not to these third party carriers.”
04/24/2009 05:13:33PM sherbaugh: “I understand that. That is what I am saying if the phone is made exclusively for Sprint how is it that Best Buy would sell it for that much less?”
04/24/2009 05:15:40PM sherbaugh: “I used to work for a cellular carrier and we ordered directly from Bright Point who supplies most carriers and we always got it cheaper than third party resellers. I am just confused I guess”
04/24/2009 05:17:47PM sherbaugh: “Sorry for all of the fuss, you have been great! I am just going to shoot a call off to customer retention. Maybe they can help me understand I am pretty thick. lol Have a great day.”
04/24/2009 05:18:19PM Agent (Brittany S.): “I am able to provide you with a link so that you may talk to Corporate directly.”
04/24/2009 05:18:35PM sherbaugh: “Great! thanks”
04/24/2009 05:19:10PM Agent (Brittany S.): “please access the link below for contact options.”
04/24/2009 05:19:12PM Agent (Brittany S.) sends page: “http://sprint.com/contactus/”
04/24/2009 05:20:01PM sherbaugh: “Thanks Brittany have a great day”
04/24/2009 05:20:10PM Agent (Brittany S.): “You are quite welcome. It was a pleasure assisting you today. Have a great evening!
After this highly intelligent chat I called Sprint and spoke to a lovely Hindu woman
After I relived the conversation I had with the rep online with this operator she tried her best to help me but she then told me they must be reconditioned phones! At this point I told her I doubt that is possible seeing as the phone was released on the 19th of this month. At this time she told me I should go buy it from Best Buy, bad bad business in my opinion.I just want an answer I pay Sprint $100 a month plus tax for service should I not be able to get the best price from THEM on my phone. I would rather deal with my provider directly for product, besides why would Sprint want to lose those sales? Once again I am frustrated with how Sprint handles things. Oh well I guess if they keep talking in circles about things like this and keep dragging their feet on the Pre (The reason I paid a termination fee with AT&T and came back to Sprint) i may just bolt again. I do not feel the answers I was given or the massive delay in the Pre is a good way to retain or gain customers.
By the way the omitted prices are $229 with Sprint and a $100 mail in rebate and $50 at Best Buy
So now we are in our last week of april and still no sign of the pre nor price or release date. Basically palm/sprint are now left with two months, and still saying “we promise the phone the first half of 2009 .” Correct me if im wrong but wouldnt it sound stupid to repeat that with just two months or even one? The first time this phone was shown it was to be out before the end of the first quarter, then march came around then it was the first half of 2009. im pretty sure they have something else up their sleeves, so question to be asked why is their such demand to keep it low on the radar? the next time we hear from sprint/palm its either when the phone will be released or the price but my quess is going towards “the first half of 2009.” with only about 70 odd days left. what do you think?
@Malcom
Yeah, I think they are just going to flat out release it, no price announcement just one day BAM! The Pre is here. I hope it is soon this is getting old.
This is in response to KCS7272’s post in which he’s trying to figure out why Sprint’s corporate pricing is more expensive than 3rd parties. I am a former manager of 3 years at a Sprint corporate store and a victim of their recent layoffs (so now I can legally share Sprint secrets with you!)
First off, don’t confuse customer care reps by asking them questions like that. Sprint’s turnover rate at the call centers are insane, thusly you’re talking to someone who’s only been working with Sprint a little while and has no idea how the company actually works. The reason Sprint phones are so expensive is because of common sense business on the end of the distributor. The cell phone’s distributors know that this phone is intended for Sprint, and Sprint is going to buy them no matter what. So they’re sold to Sprint at the the highest price they can make it. With third parties, the distributors know that the third parties are under no obligation to order any specific Sprint phone. So its more of a luxury when the third party actually orders a product. Because of this upper hand they have, the third party can actually barter the price of the phones down, whereas corporate Sprint doesn’t have this ability. And this isn’t a suggestion of how I think it works, this is in fact how it works.
What it comes down to basically, is that Palm Centro you have actually cost corporate Sprint $300-$400 each to buy from the manufacturer/distributer (yes, Corporate Sprint’s retail price is normally very close to the price it actually cost them) while 3rd party store’s paid about $100 or less for the very same phone (but normally mark the “retail price” up way higher than Sprint’s retail price).
Best Buy used to have about the exact same prices as Sprint, but since they stopped using mail in rebates companywide, all of their prices give you the MIR out the door.
While these prices at 3rd party stores are very tempting, don’t do it. At Sprint you’re paying for a whole lot more expertise and and a much more in depth POS system for getting your plan right. Believe me, as a manager of a corporate store, 25% of my time went towards fixing customer’s accounts because of 3rd party mistakes. Their system for setting up or retaining your plan is not very accurate. Their reps are more likely to rip you off, because they are paid mostly off of a commission based on how expensive your plan features are, while corporate reps get paid very little for product and service commission, but mostly hourly and commission based off of CUSTOMER SATISFACTION surveys. Its worth the few extra bucks to go to a corporate store (and this is even coming from an employee who’s a little disgruntled!).
@JLH
I owned a store until last year for a different provider we were not corporate but the next step down (a premiere dealer) the next step down was authorized dealer (i.e. Best Buy for example) Corporate (like Sprint or Sprint on line)
always paid far less than anyone else for phones from Bright Point ( if I got a phone that retailed at $225 for $150 as a premiere dealer an authorized dealer like Best Buy got it for $200 then corporate got it for $45 or $50. So some of what you say makes sense to me but some does not. Unless buying policies change from provider to provider what I just explained is pretty much it Corporate always made way more money off of phones as well as activation fees payments and so on. At least that’s what my friends at corporate always said i also had friends who worked for other carriers I.E. Verizon and AT&T and they also said the same thing I did. So I guess Sprint does it totally different than everyone else? I guess that is why a lot of former Sprint employees do not have much good to say about Sprint? Quick question, did you also get your stock from Bright Point? I thought someone I knew at Sprint said you did, I know we did and T-mobile and the rest.
@JLH or KCS7272
You two seem to have a lot of knowledge on cell phone companies and I have a grip about Sprint and maybe one or both of you can give me some information to cool me off a little.
I get very upset with Sprint whenever I think about how the service there phones. If you purchase a Sprint phone and do not by a service contract, they will not service the phone. Even though the phone is covered under a warranty from the manufacturer. I get upset b/c I bet that Sprint is double dipping. They are charging me $84 per year ($7 per month) + I beleive they are charging the manufacturer if they make a repair that is covered under warranty.
Am I correct? I ask these questions as I wait quietly for the PRE. I get angry as I think about this and start looking a other providers and phones, but I think they may be doing the same thing or worse.
Enlighten me….
Well I just read that Sprint sent some reviewers / reporters an email stating the Pre will be available for pre order one month before it goes on sale. I hope this is not true because if it is that means we will not see the Pre until June! Way to drop the ball on the Pre Sprint / Palm. Let’s see within one or 2 months of a June release we are going to see at least 2 new Iphones the HTC Touch Diamond and Pro 2 the Garmin Nuvifone and a slew of others. They might as well wait to release it until someone invents a phone with a holographic projector in it. I know alot of people are going to say “It will be alright, Sprint didn’t mess up. I’d rather have it with all of the bugs worked out.” Well I don’t agree they let us know about it to soon dragged their feet, people are feeling left out and losing interest and by its release, if it is in June, I don’t want to say it will be outdated but it is going to be released with some of the best phones we have ever seen! Sprint should have got it out alone so it did not have to share a spotlight. But no, they decide instead to release a new Instinct with very minor improvements! Oh, and that new Sanyo messaging phone that is coming on May 10th for like $50 that was a way better move to get that out fast!
This is the article from Pre Thinking I was talking about above.
Palm Pre avalible for Pre-order one month before its launch, 5/17 not the release date?
Philip Lam | Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 12:57PM | 5 Comments
I don’t know how much of this is true, but according to an email from a Sprint Customer Service Specialist, we’ll see promotional campaigns related to the release date one month before the offical launch of the Palm Pre. Not only that, “Once launch date is fixed, you will also be able to Pre-order this handset online.” In other words, when the release date ads starts rolling out a month before the offical launch date, at about the same time we should be able to pre-order a Pre online(Maybe with its price tag?). That doesn’t give anything solid as to when the Pre’ll be released, but it does beg the question — will rumored 5/17 make it to be the Pre launch date? Counting today we only have 22 days till we reach the 17th of May. Either way, only time will tell.
@Ace King
Here is the low down. A manufactures warranty is basically crap the only thing it will cover is internal malfunctions that did not happen by you, i.e. the screen goes dead not due to damage by the user, ear piece or mic stops working etc. If there is any sign of damage done by the user like a cracked screen, water damage, or even scratches on the phone this can and usually does void your warranty. If you pay for a service plan it is not actually through your carrier Sprint or otherwise, it is through a third party usually ASURION. This company will supply either refurbished or new models to you carrier to replace yours. If the phone just came out or has been out for only a short time you will probably get a new one but if it has been out for a while you will likely get a refurb. Also this service plan you purchase will cover anything from lost or stolen to totally crushed under a car or dropped in a pool. In most cases you can only make 2 claims a year and there is a deductible just like in car insurance. Also you will get the same phone model you had unless they are discontinued then you will get a phone of equal or sometimes greater value. I look at it like this, I carry the service plan until the cost with deductible gets near the cost of the phone. Hope this helped
Here is a rumor I hope is true…PLEASE BE TRUE!!!!!
First Shipment of Palm Pre Phones In Route?
Posted by: Christopher Meinck in Palm Pre on Apr 28, 2009
According to an anonymous tipster, the first shipment of Palm Pre phones left Hong Kong earlier this morning in route to UPS in Louisville. The plane will be unloaded and then transferred to another location locally to be prepared for reshipping. The hub for UPS is located in Lousville and earlier reports indicated the Palm Pre would be manufactured by the Taiwan-based Chi Mei. Rumors are flying fast and furious. To avoid any potential hysteria, we’re tagging this as rumor, albeit one we hope to be true. Still no word on a release date, although our tip jar continues to fill with potential dates.
someone call engadget quick, please god, please god, please god
@KCS7272
if that rumor is tru…im betting for sure the may 17th date is tru
Does anyone think it will be be available online?
@Josh
it should
@Ace King
KCS7272 is right about the $7 insurance you’re paying. If its something that physically has happened to the phone, the manufacturer won’t touch it with a 20 foot pole, whether you knowingly physically damaged the device or not, or whether you think the damage was caused by faulty manufacturing. Electrical failures and software failures is about it. On another note, Sprint has recently changed their insurance policies. Sprint used to cover physical damage (except for liquid damage) in store for free if you had insurance. Now you’ll be charged $99-$119 for physical damage. You can still process the claim through Asurion for $50-$100 though. And since in this situation without insurance, you’d be completely on your own to get another handset, the insurance is still worth it. Good rule to follow is to copy what the sales reps do. What phone most of them have is probably the best one to get, and if you ask, mostly all of them have insurance (and that’s the only thing Sprint makes corporate employees pay for on their phone bill)
@KCS7272
Brightpoint is pretty much the industry standard. I can’t say for sure that’s where we always got our shipments, but that’s the only one I have heard us getting phones from.
As for phone pricing, the way I’ve described it is the way I’ve always know it to work from my experience. As far as what my district and regional managers told me and what my monthly paperwork told me is that Sprint almost always lost money on phones, which is absolutely ok because the money is made by profit from accessory sales and of course the plans. I do believe there were a few occasions where regular handsets, especially Sanyos, that corporate got a better deal. But when it came to PDA’s, there was never an occasion where Sprint was paying anywhere as low as 3rd party. I don’t have experience with any other carrier, but would assume this is the same way it should work with all of them, but honestly with the way Sprint runs themselves, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do everything the opposite of everyone else.
@JLH
You are right from what I have seen Sprint does do most things bass ackwards, anyway I went and got the instinct at Best Buy so lets hope the Pre comes out within 30 days of yesterday
@ KCS
what do u think about the new instinct compared to the old one? I have the old one and i dont like it that much
If there aren’t many apps for the Pre it will NEVER be the “iphone killer” Apps is what makes the iphone.
I’ve also heard there is no video camera. which is strange
June 7, 2009
@beau
The new Instinct is pretty much the same as the old one the screen is 3.2 inches instead of 3.1 and it is much lighter, I liked the weight of the old one better. So far the battery life is crap and they only give you one instead of 2. Also it is EVDO Rev.0 while the old Instinct was REV. A. They also made the weather app not an app anymore it takes you to the weather channel website. All in all it pretty much is a letdown I actually liked the old Instinct better and I got it on the 27th now there is a rumor the Pre is not coming until June 7 if this is true I am going to be pissed! I will have to try and sell the Instinct on Ebay to make up some of the cost of the Pre because if it comes out in JUne it will be past my 30 days. Here is a final kick in the nuts, when I started my Sprint service again i activated an old phone so I was eligible for new customer pricing on a phone when I bought the Instinct. When I got home I looked at my account online and found I was charged and upgrade credit of $18.00. I called customer service and even talked to a lady at corporate i explained to them all I should not be charged a upgrade fee because it really wasn’t an upgrade it was like I was buying my first phone. Yeah right, it is an upgrade to them I have to pay $18 after buying a phone, why in the hell would you charge someone $18 after they buy a new phone from you and extend their contract another 24 months, well Sprint that is your winning strategy and that is why you lose millions of customers a year! the Pre better be worth it!
@malcolm
if thats tru….we’ll be hearing about it next thursday…u know how they always officially announce it a month b4
I went into a sprint store to check out the palm pro and s30. Both were minimally unimpressive. But while I was playing with the palm pro a sprint customer rep was talking to a customer about the treo 755p and how the platform is outdated , bla bla, but then he mentioned that palm would be coming out with a new phone with new software within the next 2 to 3 weeks… that means may 17th seems like a good date to bet on. Well if it isnt out by may 17th, im basically sick and tired of waiting, im jus goin to go berserk!
lol Well looks like the April 30th date is out the window now huh? lol man, well 2 more dates to go, May 17th and June 29th…
@Pound
i believe the 2 dates are may 17th and june 7th….june 29th is too late and palm and sprint will go to hell for that one…
@ Juan
LOL! LOL!
I came out earlier and said june 7, 2009 right. but also i heard that phone companies send out emails about phones that are coming out in a month, so if that is true then i received and email from sprint(meet the pre) on april 17, 2009 does that means may 17, is still a possible date for the release cause i mean damn this phone can do everything except wipe your azz unless someone creates an app for it.
@juan
June 7th is the 1st I’ve heard of that date…
@malcolm
I think the app thing is dumb!! to enjoy a phone you have to go out and buy apps for it? Thats the most retarded thing I have ever heard! You must be an Iphone user!
I believe That Apps is crucial for the survival of the Pre. The number 1 reason that the Iphone is great is their apps, and how easy it is to use. G1 came with a lot of apps and is growing as we speak, and G1 is like the number 2 phone. Pre can be number 1, 2, or 3, if they put time and effort into their apps, They should launch with an app store already in place, with at least 40 or more apps available
@Suruat
Sounds like these are your opinions… I don’t think the Iphone is “great” or even “good” let alone the G1 Ive know 2 people with a G1 and they hate it!! Why would you go out and buy a phone but then you have to turn around and “buy” apps to get it to do what you want? When I see those commercials I laugh because there are pages and pages of apps… how much do you think those run? lol thats probably $1000 worth of apps… and if thats what people have to do to have a phone work then WOW!!!! Whats an Iphone good for then if you have to go out and buy all this stuff to make it fun? Just about every phone out now has a touch screen, can use your fingers to scroll or flip through contacts, do music, videos, internet! Shoot Treos have had all this before the Iphone came out… I have a Treo 800 now and it does everything I want it to do and I never had to spend a dime on a retartded app! I can even use it as a modem downloading at 1.6mbps… Lets see the Iphone do that?
@Suruat
Well not only that but its the size of a freaking check book! might as well buy a netbook and cram that in your pocket!
@Suruat
lol and then you say it needs to have 40 apps… Name 40 apps? an appartment locator? how many times are you going to move in a year? a compas? comes with sprint navagation, find fast food? Google maps will do show whats closest to you via GPS, or windows live search or sprint navagation… I can’t even think of 40 apps… lol Just saying, I think having 40 apps is rediculus let alone on realease! Games? ya those are fun but why spend money on a game for a phone, if you like games that much get a PSP or DS. Shake a baby, ya really fun right! Of course these are my opions…
the one thing that I probably will NOT like about the pre is that there is no micro SD slot! I think that is going to bug me! I love being able to pull out my card and load it into the computer to move songs and pictures, now it sounds like I will need to plug the whole phone in. I love the fact that with my treo 800, I can take pictures or a video of what I’m doing right then and there, pull the memory card out of my camara, load it into my phone and send the file via email… that i will loose with the Pre!!!
@pound
first of all imma sprint user, second it was a joke obviously you dont get the meaning, the pre can do a whole lot more than the iphone, i.e. i nothing the iphone, and since the pre has an app store thats where that phrase came from to be funny or you’re a douche
No video on the pre?? that’s crazy
Its already May, when are they releasing it???
@ Pound
I wonder have you used the G1 or Iphone,
When the G1 launched it had came with and app store of about 70+ apps
And guess what They were all free!!!!!
Oh and guess what else The majority of apple apps were and still are free.
G1 just recently started adding some prices to a few of their apps. There will always be free apps and paid apps.
I have never spent a dime on app for the Iphone and Apps ar still my favorite thing about the phone.
@ Pound
You are right in thinking apps are useless, how ever to ever 15 useless app there is 1 great one. Example Shazam, Pandora, barcode scanner, etcc..
OUT of all those apps there are some that i am sure will be useful even to you.
Besides just because there are apps does not mean u have to get them, as for me I just like knowing that the choices are there.
ONce I saw an app for the Iphone that was simply the constitution for the U.S. Ofcourse I had the constitution in a textbook but i downloaded the free app anyway just because. Few weeks later I auctly used it in class as we looked over the constitution. that was kinda nice. My grandmother has an app that keeps her posted on houses for sales within a certain area, she loves that. She is very in love with the G1 flash light, she was showing off 1 night as we worked on her car. The Bible app on the Iphone, is one of the best app i have every seen, I have all the major visions of the Bible, and even in different languages.
@ Pound
Just think you are on an airplane, so you can’t use ur web. well lucky for u ur Iphone has all these fun games and other offline apps like novels and such to entertain you.
All those app i listed were all free btw, and those are just a few of my favs.
You may see apps as useless, but to me and many others out there they make the phone experience that much better.
We are all entitle to own opinions. My opinions is that, the Iphone ushered in a new era in the mobile phone world, whether u like the iphone or not, this is true.
And apps play a major role in that feild.
So it is my belief that apps will be one of the make or break factor or the Pre.
palm knows that to compete they need an app store.
Even Blackbery just launch their app store.
Microsoft is working on an app store for their windows mobile.
If all these company are puting time into this than there maybe somthing to it
that many people want.
One of the Instinct major drawbacks was that they did not make an app store
and this cause an uproar within that community
just go to some instinct forum and see for urself.
I like the Pre, I love that it will launch with app store.
the word store does not nessary mean you will have to pay.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
sorry for all the errors i was typing alot in a short period of time {^_^;}
Something funny.
I was just in a meeting talking to someone (1person) about the Palm Pre and as soon as I mention the name half the group turned and said “the pre, Oh, don’t buy that”. I couldn’t do anything but laugh. Of couse all of them had iPhones. One of the guys said that Palm will go under in the next 3 years. I said to him, if they do thats fine b/c theres no chance I will keep the Pre 3 years. Palm will come out with something else by then.
I said all that to say, there are a LOT of people waiting to see what the Pre is going to do.
OK..
I think its absolutely hilarious reading peoples blogs, and they have no idea what they are talking about! LOL!.
People think they know everything, but in reality, know very little.
I have been working Sprint for almost 6 yrs now. I am one of the main Business Account Managers. I know quite a bit how things wrk, and when a sprint rep says they dont know the date, they are telling the truth. All these rumors about when the phone is going to come out is exactly wha it is, “a Rumor”.
The Instinct was supposed to be realesed 8 months before it actually came out. But EVERYTHING always gets delayed. Me, being a Sprint employee, they have been talking about the PRE for quite a while now, and still delays, delays, delays.
I really dont know where people get their information from, or these random dates, but when the phone is going to come out they will let us know 2 wks ahead of time. And so far, NOTHING! on Sprint.com it says coming soon just to keep the hype up. And dont get me wrong, im pretty hype about this phone because I want it!!.. lol … but as far as release date goes. Stay tuned n I will let everyone know for sure the REAL release date.
I have been a palm user since the first palm pilot came out in the 90s and I’ve experienced with many of their products first hand, my first phone was the Handspring 350, then the 600, 650, 700p and now a 755p.
I AM NOT GOING TO LIE TO YOU… I was more than ready for a new phone/platform. I was THIS close to start seriously looking at other phones when the pre was announced so i’m sticking to my 755 until the pre comes out simply because it looks outstanding.
I don’t see no point in arguing about what phone is best, IPhones, BBs and G1s are good phones for various reasons. It would be ignorant for me to tell you now that either one of those phones suck when all have proven to be successful.
Monica’s comment cracks me up because that is the reality. There is so much bashing going around against Palm, it is nonsense. Palm has already paid the price of their lack of innovation, there is no point in them or anyone (including the Iphone-bearer bashers) to cling on to the past. I for one think the future looks bright for the Palm Pre and the WebOS platform.
Why not sit down and hope that palm does great with the new phone and platform? competition is a very good thing.
I for one wish everyone had a nice modern powerful phone even if it’s the girly sissy looking iphone. LoL.
Peace !!!!
Great Comment Chuck!….
LOL..
Exactly what people needed to hear!
sorry guys, another letdown, but i just found our june 7th is a “solid rumored date”. its final too
june 7 does sound weird giving the fact they are still saying the first half of 2009.
I really feel Sprint screwed the pooch if June 7 is the soonest you can get a Pre and then the supply will be limited. I was an idiot and bought my S30 Instinct on the 28th and it succcckkkkkkssss!!!!!! If i have to wait for the 7th and pay full price for a Pre I might just hang tight for a bit then sale my Instinct and go to T-mobile or another carrier that is releasing one of the many awesome new smart phone and get it with a big subsidy. Way to go Sprint you never seem to quit screwing things up. Sprint has great plans compared to a lot of other carriers and customer service is getting better but when it really matters they always seem to blow it.
TO KCS7272.. That makes no sense so your gonna pay a $200 cancellation fee to save $200 off a phone
@ malcolm
maybe i’m reading this wrong but June 7th is the 1st half of ‘09…. 2nd half does not start until July!
@ KCS7272
I don’t see how Sprint did anything wrong. They said 1st half of ‘09, you took it as March or April, or May… thats not Sprints fault you got had by all the rumors! I highly doubt that Sprint told you to go out and get the S30 while you are waiting for the Pre… The only person to blame is yourself and I hope you go to t-mobile, that leaves one less person for me to beat tot he punch to get my Pre!!
sorry to hear that KCS7272, I know you wanted the pre, you definantly shouldn’t have gotten the s30, its the same software, BASICALLY the same hardware, which was junk to begin with. this is odd however that they might release it on the 7th. even though the 7th is a sunday still, just saying
@ Suruat
If I’m ever on an airplane, I don’t know if I could compare a PSP game to an Iphone game… but ya if thats what floats your boat then cool! if you need 40 free apps that do nothing cool! If you need an app to read a book then cool I don’t know if the Pre will have it but my 800 I can play games, I can read a book, I can watch videos, listen to music… It does all that, so to get apps to do it… WOW how fun! I hope that the pre does all this without going and getting silly apps!
@Pound
First off I did not go by rumors I needed a new phone mine was crapping out and i waited as long as I could, secondly I feel Sprint is messing up because there are a lot of new and potentially better phones coming to market around the same time. With the problems Sprint has had in the past I think they should have tried to release the Pre when it would have had the spotlight alone. Thirdly, you have a real smart mouth and you need to close it!
@Nick
I wouldn’t have to pay the EFT I have a pretty good connection that could help with that, as for saving just $200 on a new phone if I had to pay full price on the Pre…Yikes! It is going to retail with no commitment for well over $700 probably closer to the upper 8’s.
@Dean
I hope it still does come on the 17th but I am not holding my breath
@pound
ok dude, listen before you speak if june 7 is the projected release date, why isnt palm or sprint verifying it instead of third parties saying it. if you’re so smart show me where palm or sprint said june 7 because they are saying first half of 2009, i mean hell for all you know it could be may 10.
@pound
and another thing if there werent apps for the system you might as well go wal mart spend about 50 bucks and by a house phone and a digital camera because thats all you seem to need not the pre.
@ malcolm
I never said June for sure… heck it might be May who knows… I never said I did or pretended that I did. you said June 7th would be weird because Sprint said 1st half… All i said is June 7th is still in the 1st half!
As far as apps, My Treo 800 works pretty good with out adding an appartment locator and dumb crap like that! Sense you have read everything I have posted maybe you should go back and read it again… I never said I only make calls and take pictures!! I use my phone for everything, I just think it is dumb to get an app to find an appartment or any of those apps!
@ KCS7272
I’m sure Sprint is aware of what is coming out, they said 1st half and they have not missed it yet! how mad would you be if the Pre came out but in very limited supply and you couldn’t get one for months… or how mad would you be if it came out and there was still bugs with it? all you would do then is complain about why Sprint released a phone that was not ready to come out yet!! Yes that is the kinda guy you are, complain and complain but ts ok! go to Tmobile!! Oh ya, I will NOT SHUT MY MOUTH lol!
@POUND
You need to change your name to Putz and I will forget more about cellular devices,sales and advertisement of said products than you will ever know. Also there is a difference between complaining and stating an opinion here is an example.
Complaint : I am so tired of Pound he always shoots off his mouth
Opinion: Pound is a freaking idiot and needs to move out of his mothers basement
Do you see the difference??
@pound
For Sprint and Palm to say the pre is still in for a first half of 2009 release, im saying its weird giving the fact that sprint nor palm has confirmed that RUMOR!!!!! every date that has came up ever since the ces 2009 show has been a hoax. The only way that day is the Golden day Sprint/Palm would pretty much say it. Now with the apps if think its real creative that their is an app that can locate an apartment it may not be good for you but it may come in handy for someone who doesnt have a phone book to look it up. FYI Since Sprint said they would be more open to third-party developers than what AT&T are, so im pretty sure there’s gonna be more apps to come so if you dont like apps like that then i suggest you shut up and stick with your treo 800 PAL.
@ KCS7272
I think I get it now, so lets try this out shall we
“I was an idiot and bought my S30 Instinct on the 28th and it succcckkkkkkssss!!!!!!” Opinion, but I must say, couldn’t agree more
“If i have to wait for the 7th and pay full price for a Pre I might just hang tight for a bit then sale my Instinct and go to T-mobile or another carrier that is releasing one of the many awesome new smart phone and get it with a big subsidy.” I say complaint.
“Way to go Sprint you never seem to quit screwing things up. ” Complaint
“Sprint has great plans compared to a lot of other carriers and customer service is getting better but when it really matters they always seem to blow it.” complaint
@ malcolm
Ya for someone who doesn’t have internet… well if they do not have internet then they probably wouldn’t get the Pre to work very well will they? But lets say you correct yourself and say ” come on putz, of course a phone will have internet” or whatever your excuse will be… Ya it might find it a minute or so faster but I’m sure I can log on too craigslist.org just as fast and find an appartment for the one or 2 times I might need one, like when moms kicks me out of the basement… The only thing I have against apps is that it seams you need them to get the Iphone to do anything cool like I said a while ago but you to smart men must have not read that comment right?
My business rep from sprint is going for Palm Pre training next week. He said the phone usually comes out about 2 weeks later. So good news for the rumor date.
@ pound
Did you say you can read books on your 800?
Well congrats even you use apps.
@Brandon
i hope thats tru
i know this isnt about the pre but i have a question, ok so i have an instinct and the insurance plan. I droped it in the toilet so now i know that i would have 2 pay 100 bucks 2 get it fixed but the ink mark on my batterie and the inside of my phone are perfectly fine, now i know that seems impossibble but its true so does n e 1 think that i would be able 2 get away with just gettin it fixed or have 2 pay thee 100 bucks for water damage
@beau
depends on which insurance plan u got….there is an insurance plan that does cover “everything” even water damage
well how would i know wich one i have cause i only pay 7 bucks for my insurance
well i have the everything plan so wich one is that
@ KCS7272
Thanks for your responses. I don’t like the change that Sprint has made, especially since I have been paying for insurance and have never used it.
@beau
If you pay $7 that is the one, Your phone is covered for anything, even water damage. I would just pay the deductible and get on with it. Even though the indicator stickers are not showing water damage they will still know if you try to just do the warranty, they actually take them apart and look. I have seen many phones that show no signs of water damage but once we took them apart it was like a swimming pool inside. Besides the $100 deductible you pay is not to fix the phone, they actually send you another phone.
WOW, has any heard of the Palm Eos?
Looks prety cool….
http://mypre.com/my-pre-week-in-review-week-18-2009-2009031440
MAY 17TH MAY 17TH!!!
I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH SPRINT. I PAID MY BILL AND ASKED WHEN I WAS DUE FOR AN UPGRADE, KNOWING I WAS…SHE SAID I WAS IN DEED AND THEN I ASKED THE GOLDEN QUESTION…WHEN IS THE PRE COMING OUT…SHE SAID HOLD ON AND TWO MINUTES LATER SHE SAID MAY 17TH. NO JOKE. I AM A BUSINESS CUSTOMER FOR 6 YEARS WITH THEM AND HAD BOUGHT THE TOUCH DIAMOND AND RETURNED IT IN OCTOBER OF 08..SO I WAS DO FOR AN UPGRADE STILL SO I WANTED INFO ON THE PRE AND SHE GAVE IT UP…SHE SAID TELESALES WOULD BE UP AND RUNNING ON MAY 17TH TO GET IT THROUGH THEM AND AT BEST BUY….
NO JOKE!!!
I CALLED IT BY THE WAY…IF YOU LOOK AT MY OLD POST I SAID MAY 17TH CAUSE IT WAS A PERFECT DATE…MEMORIAL WEEKEND AFTER AND RIGHT IN TIME FOR THE 2ND QUARTER..
BTW THE CALL TO SPRINT WAS A 611 CALL MADE AT 713PM NY TIME..
AND I SAY 2ND QUARTER MEANING THE END OF IT AND IN TIME BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD…WHICH WOULD HAVE SCREWED UP THE 1ST HALF PROMISE DATE…
@PLAYER 1
how do we know may 17th is for sure….sprint or palm wouldve announced it a long time ago wouldnt they?
WELL THE WOMAN SOUNDED PRETTY SURE…SHE SAID I WAS AVAILABLE TO GET IT ON SUNDAY OVER THE PHONE WITH SPRINT. SHE COULD BE LYING, BUT WHY WOULD SHE? WHEN I ASKED WHEN I COULD GET THE PHONE, SHE DEF STOPPED TALKING TO ME, TALKED TO SOMEONE ELSE, AND CAME BACK WITH THE DATE. …SHE REALLY SOUNDED POSITIVE ABOUT IT. MAYBE SHE WASNT SUPPOSED TO GIVE OUT THE INFO, BUT SHE DID AND WAS HAPPY TO TELL ME.
SUNDAY BEING THE 17TH OF MAY. SHE SAID ” SUNDAY, MAY 17TH PALM PRE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOE TELESALES AND BEST BUY”
THATS A SPRINT EMPLOYEE SAYING THAT, NOT ME. IT WAS SAID WED MAY 6 AROUND 715PM. I CALLED SPRINT FROM MY SPRINT 755P PALM PHONE AND DIALED 611 TO REACH THEM.
HEY….SOMEONE ELSE WITH A SPRINT PHONE TRY TOO!
CALL FROM A SPRINT PHONE AND DIAL 611, GET A REP ON ABOUT BILLING (WHICH I DID) AND ASK IF YOU ARE DO FOR AN UPGRADE AND BULL CRAP WITH THEM FOR A BIT AND THEN ASK…HEY, IS THE PRE COMING OUT THE 17TH? SEE WHAT THEY SAY…
@PLAYER 1
well i hope its tru thats 2 sundays from now
DUE NOT DO…LOL
@PLAYER 1
i dont know it just seems weird that normally when a phone comes out….they normally let u know a month in advance….if the june 7th date is tru they should say somehting by tomrorow….but i hope the may 17th date is tru…only time will tell…
AGREED…WE WILL SEE…LETS KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE 17TH..
AND I DID GET AN EMAIL FROM SPRINT ON THE 17TH OF APRIL ABOUT THE PRE…SO THAT WOULD MAKE A 17TH RELEASE DATE A MONTH AFTER THAT EMAIL…YOU KNOW THE ONE…
@PLAYER 1
and if not then june 7th…i just dont wanna w8 for a june 30th release….thats 2 far away but its not like any other phone impresses me either
@PLAYER 1
hmm i didnt get that email maybe i deleted it by mistake or my stupid junk filtered filtered it away from my eyes…but i HOPE SO!!!
I CAN EMAIL IT TO YOU…ITS DATED APRIL 17TH, TOO…I SIGNED UP FOR INFO ABOUT THE PRE ON SPRINTS WEBSITE A WHILE AGO AND ITS THE ONLY EMAIL I GOT FROM THEM ABOUT IT. PALM SENT ME A EMAIL ABOUT FANDANGO APPS ABOUT 2-3 WEEKS AGO
@PLAYER 1
yeah bro send it to me…my email is maxima2k53 at aol.com
ok i sent it to you…
@KCS7272.
Ok i have a smart mouth and should shut it. Your the idiot that bought a s30 lmao!!!! When sprint has one of the best repair programs and you could of got you phone fixed to hold you over. Im sure you know people inside sprint Im pretty confident I know way more and if you new people you would not be worried about the pre cost and extending your contract when someone inside can reset your contract day have a good day IDIOT!!!
@Nick
First I never said you had a smart mouth I said Pound did after he felt the need to insult and berate me so unless you are his lover and are standing up for your man what’s the deal?. Second I could not get my phone fixed because when I came back to Sprint I activated an old phone . (not covered by insurance) and I do know a few people in Sprint but I try not to abuse it and I do not care if you or I know more i am not trying to get into a pissing match nor was I even bragging like most of you do and you are now I simply stated i know someone. Finally You should read comments before you flip as you can see in my May 4th response I addressed 3 people, you were the second and I was very polite to you here is the convo.
KCS7272 on May 4th, 2009 3:52 pm
@Pound
First off I did not go by rumors I needed a new phone mine was crapping out and i waited as long as I could, secondly I feel Sprint is messing up because there are a lot of new and potentially better phones coming to market around the same time. With the problems Sprint has had in the past I think they should have tried to release the Pre when it would have had the spotlight alone. Thirdly, you have a real smart mouth and you need to close it!
@Nick
I wouldn’t have to pay the EFT I have a pretty good connection that could help with that, as for saving just $200 on a new phone if I had to pay full price on the Pre…Yikes! It is going to retail with no commitment for well over $700 probably closer to the upper 8’s.
@Dean
I hope it still does come on the 17th but I am not holding my breath
So If you would have read it properly you would see there was no reason to jump all over me or call me an idiot. Just a word of advice you should probably find out some ones real name and check into them before you call them an idiot for no reason, that is how people turn up missing.
@ KCS7272
Man it sounds like you know everything!!! I vote for you to be the new CEO of Sprint sense Dan has no flipping idea what he is doing and you have all the answers! But sense they probably will not hire you (if not laugh in your face) its ok to go to tmobile and get a G1 because Sprint is a joke and has no idea what they are doing and should have given “KCS7272″ a release date months ago so he didn’t have to buy a S30 and for all his trouble Sprint owes him 37.75% discount off his next 6 months of bills!
Man you can moan and groan and make all the opinions you want! All I said was Sprint has not missed a date yet and your complain is that they should have released it by now… They said 1 half, and they have not missed it yet! I love reading all these blogs about how people are tired of waiting and going to leave sprint for an Iphone or a G1. I hope you all leave for being retards!!! I can understand if they had a release date in March and missed it but they never did and baging on them because thay are still on schedule is stupid lol!!
Would you be mad or complain or want to leave Sprint if they came out (the day they released the news about the Pre back in Jan) and said that the release day would be June 30th? I bet not!
@ KCS7272
“@Dean I hope it still does come on the 17th but I am not holding my breath”
now you still want it to come out, sounds like you were just complaining before then huh? But wait you do not compain!
@ KCS7272
“So If you would have read it properly you would see there was no reason to jump all over me or call me an idiot. Just a word of advice you should probably find out some ones real name and check into them before you call them an idiot for no reason, that is how people turn up missing.”
Wow we have an internet tough guy! I better stop talking about him because I do not want to “turn up missing”
Listen, if you are stupid enough to buy an S30 and right before the Pre comes out and then cry about it online with blogs!!! I highly doubt that you are some sort of gang member or ANY type of person to make someone “turn up missing”. The worst I bet you can do is show people the finger that made you into a woman!!!!!
@Pound
Your last line was correct! for once it would be nice if they could give a date especially now that it has been going on so long. And the only one who seems to think they know everything is you. I used to own a cellular store and I know a little on how things work that is why I get frustrated when I am kept in the dark or fed bullshit. And to tell you the truth I had the G1 it is a really neat device, I just did not like the stability of the sliding mechanism for the keyboard after about a month every time you touched the screen it would creek and pop and when using the phone it felt like it wanted to slide open. If they could fix that it would be great, as for the Iphone I got it when it first came out and then switched carriers due to work but I did have the 3G as well. The Iphone is very slick with its UI but the plan prices blow a bit and the call quality is not the best on either model old or 3G. Sprint really has some of the best plans and price point available and customer service has gotten way way way better over the last year or so all I am saying is they are trying hard to recover from a bad rep, some of it deserved some not. The point is while they are trying to turn things around they really don’t need to make people angry or frustrated by not giving out a release date, especially this late in the game. Whether or not customers will leave over this is only part of the issue the main thing is it is generating a lot of bad word of mouth and believe it or not that can really hurt a business. Maybe alot of people may not leave but it does have the potential to scare away new customers.
@pound
Also I am not part of a gang nor do I want to be or claim to be.
First that comment was not directed to you so get over it secondly who I am is something you don’t want to know, and I am not an internet tough guy believe me but if you want to know about me you can find out real fast ass. I am not crying about anything I said I was dumb to get the phone and I was just saying it was a bad move. As far as being somebody who can make people go missing your right I cannot do that I am a nobody, just keep telling yourself that. I don’t want to sound like a psycho I just hate people who shoot off their mouth for no reason and berate people for fun especially when they hide behind a computer. You get all offended when someone says anything you do not agree with. Get over it ! It is a blog a place where people talk and express their opinions and complaints. So I am sorry if I have offended you in any way, My mom is in the hospital dying right now and I really have no desire to carry on a childish battle anymore I have so much to do.
WOW how old are we?? You guys are fighting over a discussion about a CELL PHONE! Your acting like your in high school. Maybe you should both grow up and act like adults instead of insulting each other for everyone else on here to read. NOBODY cares what you have to say to each other. Take it somewhere else if you cant get over it. I read this blog to find out about the Pre, not to listen to two you two (AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE). THANKS!!
Like Randi said, this was started for a release date! some how it turned into a complaint blog so I started compaining at the complainers… Then poeple got tough and now telling personal stories, like I care!
how about that Palm Eos?
@Pound
i dont like the palm eos…..i rather have a full screen and the slide up keyboard…imo…..how about that release date for the pre!?!?!?!
By now everybody probably heard about the June 7 release of the palm pre, does anybody believe that the memo that supposedly got leaked by palm is true? Secondly, is the sending promotional email a month before the release bit, is that true? I know that the first half of 2009 isn’t here just yet but do you think Palm/Sprint are trying to release it with the new iphone or just all of a sudden the pre is here? what do you guys think?
thank you randi, someone needed to say it…so back to pre, i never got that last email, does that mean im not gonna be able to get the pre on release date…i did register and i have gotten a few others
i have registered.. but i have yet to get an email from these guys..
Palm Pre release on Survivor final episode
The Pre is going to be released the same day as the Survivor two hour final (a sunday). The phone will be in a episode the Thursday episode prior to the Sunday two hour show and then will be promoted hard the next three days for the Sunday release. The final episode is sometime in May.
will the music from the sprint music store be able to go on the pre or not because its amazon not sprint music store
well since nobody wants to answer my Question……….. I walked in to a sprint store today and looked at some phones and the lady kept telling me about the palm pre so i asked, so do u have it(knowing that its not out yet) and she says i dont know maybe a couple of weeks or sooner but i could tell she was like trying not to tell me something so then i asked have u started training for the pre and she just smiled n said nothing………?
so yeah….ppl barely chatting here…i guess theres notin more to talk after june 5th is probably the release date?
May 17, seems to be the date of the release, if pre was being released june 5 i should have received an email regarding that day on may 5,6,7,8,9. But i did received and email from sprint april 17. so what do you think (may 15,16,17)
@malcolm
well lets hope so…that weekend is this one coming up so lets hope so but i dont know….dont u think palm or sprint wouldve announced it a month ago i still dont know y they say that bs of “1st half of 2009″ thats a pointless release “date”
Okay def.confused
when is the palm pre really coming out?
may or june
im so anxious to get it
So is June 5th the day or what? I bought Pro, but I don’t like the Microsoft Operating system.
Also does anyone know if you will be able to spell check emails, and if their will be a voice package included?
I just walked into a sprint store and asked about the pre because I’m due for a phone upgrade.
Two interesting things occured:
Part 1
The girl I was talking to was the pre-manager for the store (I cant remember her official title, but she was being trained in how to use the Pre). When I asked her when the Pre would come out. She said July/June (in that order). Then I asked if she new anything about the May 17th possibility. She said no, and she deffinitely did not think it would be then because she just barely started training on the pre.
Conclusions:
No pre on the 17th =[
And the pre is not coming out until late June =[
However! Part 2:
When I was leaving she asked if she wanted me to leave her my number so she could call me when the pre was out. I wrote it down for her on a sticky note. My guess is this means that it must be sooner rather than later, otherwise she would have given me the routine email/phone number thing everyone else here has already filled out. I’m sure the stickynote would be lost if it were to come out any later. My guess/hope is the pre will be released within a month.
Anyone have any other takes on this interaction? The whole thing left me thouroughly confused. Was part 1 true or false? Was she being nice in part 2 or was she instructed to take down my number? Someone else try this and see what happens.
@TJ
i think she’s lying….u know if it doesnt come out may 17 which is next week then it for sure will be coming out june 7 which is early june….if it comes out late june…say goodbye to palm and sprint bc iphones will be selling like crazy by then…IMO
@TJ
I think training on the pre for 7+ days should be suffice.
@Mike
I agree, she made it sound like training was a huge endeavor. Does anyone have any evidence for how long training is? How long was it for the iphone?
@ Juan
I know, I dont know what I’m going to do if its not the 17th or the 7th. My current phone is starting to crap out on me. I really hope its the 17th!
Ok so here’s the thing….i used to work for radioshack and sprint and everytime we had some phone that was coming out they told us the date before we even went to training….i remember when the instinct came out they wanted to send a few of us to training it was a week prior to the phone itself was coming out. But they told us the date so not sure why she would go to training and they wouldn’t tell her the date
There can be 2 outcomes to what happened to you TJ. 1) she was either lieing to keep the momentum up for the customers to keep coming in and signing up or 2) they really havn’t told her.
As far as I’m aware the palm pre should come out either next week or next month.
@how much will it cost?
Isuppli, as reported on etrade and by gizmodo, reports that the phone costs approximately $138 to build and will likely be sold to Sprint for $300, but following a subsidation will probably come out at $199 /w the 2 year agreement just like the treo pro is right now. I would guess $299 /w a mail in of $100 for users who avoid the everything data package in lieu of the $25 dollar add on for data premier, but otherwise it will likely be instant.
@my last comment
138 should be 170 (Isuppli’s most updated document corrects the first figure as a mistake) But it’s still cheaper than the iphone, although slightly more than the G1
dude im tellin all u guys that its got 2 be sooner than june because like i said before when i was at the sprint store i asked the sprint lady if they were training for it why would she smile and say i cant tell u that n plus, when me n my girlfriend walked in my gf said just lookin at phones n then the sprint lady proceeded 2 tell me about the pre and if it wasnt going 2 be out for another month why would she even try to tell me about the phone………?
so i texted my friend that works at sprint
me: u here n e thing about the pre comin out on the 17
sprint: no im positive its not coming until the 7th because its not on our rebate forms and we get new ones on the 7th but i took my first training today on the pre and its soooooooo sweet
right now….no rumor is really legit….we just gotta w8 and c
I just spoke to a sprint store, and they informed me that it will not be available until the end of June.
@ TJ
The EXACT same thing happend to me about 3 weeks ago. Asked the sales rep when the Pre would be released…his response was “June/July”.. He then asked if I would like to be put on a call list for when they had Pre’s in the store. I gave him my info, but don’t really expect to be called. If everyone who asks for the phone gets put on the list there are going to be calling people for weeks.
I feel like I know when the release date is. It’s going to be a surprise to everyone which is nice because I won’t have to wait in line.
@Heather
if it comes out late june…sprint and palm is screwed…it is coming out early june
guys, if it is release the 7th, are ONLY best buys gunna have it? or are the sprint stores gunna have it too. my head is spinning about this best buy release
@Dean
i think both will have them
I was in the Sprint store today, and the guy said he was told it would be August. I KNOW this can’t be right. Ugh I’m dying over here.
@Keaton
it’s not august…if its august…they break there promise of 1st half of 2009
The iphone can basically do what the palm pre can do but just a little differently
@malcolm
well the big difference is that the iphone can’t multitask
@juan
actually it can it just doesnt do the card view like the palm pre, as far as the apps go it just pauses the app while you do something else then when you get back on it, it continues where you left off. I not a big huge fan of the iphone i an a faithful sprint customer, i just really want the pre but if the palm/sprint release the phone a couple of days be for the big announcement from apple, it will be suicide for them because nobody knows what the 3.0 upgrade can do(multitask) think about it there is no patent protection on that technology apple can use it once that happens palm/sprint just lost everything just because of keeping the hype going for 5 months with out a price nor a release date. So once something hints that the iphone has capabilities of multitasking im pretty sure everyone will wait for the big 3.0 upgrade for the iphone, im not saying this to discourage palm/sprint users, im simply just stating reality for a company that has alot to loose.
Just spoke to a Best Buy cell rep and she informed me that they are highly expecting the June 7th date and that it is set on their shipping list to be in stock on the 6th and that always means the next day it will be availble. This date also is a perfect release, she did say that she is unkown to the price but from past experience believes best buy will sell for 200 which is a great price and should kick the iphones ass. If the price is any higher or release date later then they risk losing to iphone.
CO sign Malcolm. I think this Phone had the chance to be HUGE. I think they the window has passed. I still think it will be a great phone, but why show competitors what it does and then give them 5 months to coppy and/or improve on it? Doesn’t make much sense to me.
Yeah you showed the phone in January and promised it in the first quarter of 2009, that was a good move but when march came around then it turned into a first half of 2009. Basically this is where i think they went wrong if they were gonna hype the pre like the iphone they should have just hinted at ces 2009 about the phone and left it as that and show minimal commercials like apple did for the iphone, instead they broadcast what the pre can do without a price nor a release not a good promotion campaign, if they had released the phone towards late march early april by now the palm pre would have been the biggest item today with or without bugs but now it wont gain as much ground because of the iphone 3.0 upgrade and RIMM are in the works of releasing a blackberry storm 2 to late this year. I know there might be a few of you that might disagree but the facts are there, palm and sprint did play cat and mouse some may flock and change carriers but a much earlier release would have done them justice, meaning gaining new customers from different carriers and existing customers renewing contracts, now it will be more of a struggle to get people to switch giving the fact that apple, blackberry, and android google are dominating the playing field. I say the ONLY way palm can have at least a good selling quarter is to release it May 17 or at least May period. IMO
@malcolm
by the way the new iphone is only gonna be updated in the CPU speed and camera use and that it has a digital compass and FM tranmission…there’s no change in battery or casing or anything….and i read that battery was one of the biggest problem…..also….the iphone doesnt “multitask” like the pre…yes when ur doing something on the iphone and u get a call…it pauses and then when u get back to it…it will resume….but the pre doesnt “pause” it runs in the background
Just got email on pre from palm to register
I just received an email from Palm — asking to enter into a drawing to win a Palm Pre, contest ending MAY 18th? hmmm your thoughs?
Also, my boyfriend used to work at sprint and he went back in today and they told the June 7th. i know everyone keeps saying that, but I still wont believe anything until an actual fact comes out.
@Juan
Basically you read what they wanted you too, think about it the only reason why they didnt do open apps in the background was do to what? Battery issues correct. so then tell me this what are the other features that the iphone also have, not to be riding apples back or anything but the features you mention are few of many. trust me apple tried to do the legal action with the copy written technology but didnt work, right? And to say they won’t have something else up their sleeve is really underestimating your opponent. I believe the palm pre would, no will be a good competitor to the iphone but the pre has true multitasking this is true they just need to get that phone out asap before they really go bankrupt.
@Randi
i believe they’ll release the date may 19th for they’re special announcement and june 7th or the 5th they’ll release it buttttttt……we’ll c wut happens
Hey guys just wanted to let you all know something, i dont know if it means anything but take it as you will. I registered like most of you on the palm website and I got an email from palm today, with a link to a sprint site where you can enter to win a pre. Its doubtful this has significance, and most of you probably got one or will in the near future, but whatever there you go. I also saw on a few sites (gizmodo etc) that rumor states palm may be releasing a statement of sorts on tuesday. Anyone have anymore info on that?
@Josh
next tuesday they should be making an annoucement i believe they’ll give us the release date hopefully even the fone lol jk so w.e we’ll c
@ juan yes i just got it i thought it was out they are teasing too much
iphone is coming out with a iphone with a keyboard
Got the info on the Sweeps…if you check out the official rules you see that they draw the prize in May… according to sweeps laws in some states, they have to have the prize available to the public to award the prize. Since they are not limiting any of those states in the sweeps they have to comply with all states rules. So if you take the May 26 date they have on the sweeps and add the 5 day contact window they have to have the product by that time frame in those states before sending.
another nice thing in the sweeps… if you check out the ARV in the sweeps of the $1800 including a year of their unlimited plan. This cost is $100 per month or a total of $1200, $70-100 for the Touchstone, leaving $500 for the phone without the contract.
If you take this info, and check out the sprint 2 year contract fee (which is the amount of money they take off the price of the phone) you see that amount is $200 (That is a pretty standard rate). This means the phone can not be above $300.
as a person that rights official rules for sweeps I can tell you that once a company does a sweeps they give a lot away in the official rules because they are required to by law in great detail…always check the rules of any sweeps to get some nice info
EXcited
Its Almost Here!!!
can the days go any slower….geeezzzzz!!!
Palm Pre on Sale June 5, 2009
@Tridane
how do u know for certain?
just got off the phone guys with sprint and they just told me June 30th
There are some good pics of the Pre in a Sprint back room , also I got the email from Sprint to win a Pre and that ends on the 18th. One more interesting fact “My Sprint” has been down for a couple of days and is still down as of this post, it says they are adding features….I wonder if they are Pre related?
Something seems to be close
I know they are to make an announcement on the 19th according to several articles. Let’s cross our fingers.
4 days left for an “announcement” to be well announced…lol
June 16, 2009 official launch date.
yeah i have been trying to go to my account and its temporarily unavailable ooohhhhh would like to call sprint but i know it would be a waste of breath I WANT THE PHONE NOOOOOOWWWW i hate the Rumor phone.
Message now switched on “My Sprint” it now says they are having a massive outage. Before it said they were adding new features to better serve you, hmmmmmm? ;-/
theres a new rumor i heard about a june 16th release….http://tinyurl.com/osxcoo
i hope its bs…
well the online feature is back on but i dont c any changes
@Juan
The online feature is not up for me is it still up for you?
@KCS7272
not anymore…it was up but then went down again…it was weird
Any rumors about a 16 gb Palm Pre? I use a 16 gb sdhc card quite successfully in my Treo 700p and even though I’d love to have a Pre it would be quite painful leaving a good chunk of my music and audio book content at home.
i am back on into sprint dont c any difference
damn ive been hearing rumors about a june 16th release i hope its not tru…
well here it is, may 17th…. NO PRE :[
Pre, announcement on release date by Palm and Sprint to be in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Expect to see in stores around June 6. Best Buy listed relase of inventory of the wireless charger for Pre on June 7. Hope this doesnt get delayed again!
JUNE 7TH….COME FASTER!!!!!
WOW!!!
I never saw this coming! I went to Bestbuy to ask about the Pre sense they are suppose to get all the Pre chargers and stuff on June 7th. He said that the new blackberry was announced to come out sometime in August and the Pre will not come out until then. I told him that can’t be becuase all the info I have been reading online. He said sorry, not until August. I told him that he was wrong and walked away but how can i say that he is wrong lol. I hope that it is not true!!!! August is just too late!!! I’ll get a Pro if thats the case…
@RP
what do you mean delayed again? It was never anounced so it can’t be delayed!!!
@ Keaton
“I was in the Sprint store today, and the guy said he was told it would be August. I KNOW this can’t be right. Ugh I’m dying over here.”
Bestbuy just told me August too!! said they are going to release in August because the new blackberry wont be out until then… BS!!!!
@Pound
it cant come out in august bc then sprint/palm break there promise of 1st half of 2009 and then they will go broke and PPPTHHHHHHHHH
Everyone calm down. If you READ the contest rules it will tell you that the Pre cannot be awarded until it is availble to the public, that means no later than the 7th of June!! Also I just went in today to best buy and was going to swap phones and the rep- knew I had been waiting for the Pre she said my 30 days were up 1 day before the pre would be out which is the 6th but if I keep the phone that I have they will swap me out for the pre the next day with no problem. ALSO… she even stated that the touch stone would be in on the 6th which would be completley stupid if the phone wasn’t availble til August- quit worrying- no phone company in their right mind are going to let this much slip out and create this much buzz just to wait til August simple advertising and sales strategy will tell anyone that if they did that the all Hype would be lost and all of us who are planning on getting it on thee 7th would be pissed and end up with other phones- by August no one would be able to get it unless it’s new contract which equals loss of profit. Any one saying it’s August is just trying to destroy hope and piss people off. JUNE 7th.
http://www.precentral.net/new-york-times-summer-smartphone
Does anyone know if upgrades can be uploaded to the PRE or will we have to wait for the 2nd gen to iron out the kinks?
OK, seriously……
Release the F’in date already. What’s the problem? They say they are going to release the date weeks before it actually hitting th shelf. So nice to know I’ll have weeks more to wait AFTER they release it. I’ll wait on the new I phone if they are going to keep being D Bags about it. I’ve been eligible for 150 discount for 4 months now waiting for this mofo. Release the Mutha-F-in date sprint!
@Johnny
i believe with updates…but we’ll find out
According to sources cited by the New York Times, the Palm Pre will become available some time during the first week of June. The Times wasn’t more specific, but said the information came from people briefed with Sprint and Palm’s plans.