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If your running wifi, your 3g connection will still be running. Visiting the outside world over xmas I was blown away by how I get an HSDPA connection most places I visited. Back in the Dale now and back on 1 bar of slowness. :(
 
Xanadu said:
Can't find any usage stats.

Since yesterday, I've made a couple of short calls, sent about a dozen texts, watch a couple of videos on YouTube, spent about 20 minutes browsing the net, and installed 4 apps. I'm on 50% battery now.
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I haven't charged my phone this year - it's at 20% battery now.
 
Woooargh! Palm have just released seven big hitting, graphics-intensive games for the Pre:

Need for Speed Undercover (EA Mobile)
The Sims 3 (EA Mobile)
MONOPOLY (EA Mobile)
Asphalt 5: Elite Racing (Gameloft)
Let’s Golf! (Gameloft)
Glyder 2 (Glu Mobile)
X-Plane (Laminar Research)
http://www.wirefresh.com/palm-pre-gets-sims-3-need-for-speed-and-other-graphics-intensive-games/

And there's more! Check out their hotspot app:

Who cares about wired tethering? Palm just dropped a bomb with a Mobile Hotspot app that'll bring WiFi routing to up to five devices, not unlike the MiFi devices already offered by both Sprint and Verizon. That's awesome, right up until the moment that the networks totally saturate -- but until then, you'd best believe we're going to be riding this wave of glorious 3G.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/palm-intros-mobile-hotspot-app-guaranteed-to-make-your-router-j/
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And plus models of the Pre and Pixi, stateside only at the moment :eek:

Double storage, no mention of what the CPU is and no mention of any removable storage
 
I see that as what they should have started it with tbf. Not really much to see from Palm other than 'lots' = Seven.
 
Sunray said:
I see that as what they should have started it with tbf. Not really much to see from Palm other than 'lots' = Seven.
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And EA Mobile’s Tetris, Sudoku, and SCRABBLE, and Gameloft’s The Oregon Trail and Brain Challenge, for starters.

They're getting the big gaming players onboard and that *is* important.
 
I do think that Palm was at least a year too late to market and unless it does something spectacular the iPhone + immense marketing has imploded its market and its fighting for its life.

These new models are what they should have released a year ago.

EA isn't going to be producing games for the phone unless there is a sizable installed base. You can ask them and they will port some stuff over (quite probably Palm doing most of the porting work) , but that's a long long way from EA producing new games for that platform.
 
16GB is a great start, but I think they've missed a trick by not including a micro SD slot. It would mean you have 32gb, so it could compete with the iphone on storage on when 32gb micro sd finally comes out, could be boosted further.
 
The Pre may not be able to match the iPhone's cornucopia of apps or its vast wads of cash or advertising budget, but it is substantially cheaper (this is a BIG thing), it's physically smaller, has a physical keyboard, a better operating system and is now getting games as good as the best on the iPhone. Crucially, it's also now appearing on one of the US's biggest carriers.

I'd say that might be enough for it to keep its head above water, although it's always going to be a different story in the UK, where Palm remains a very minor player.
 
grit said:
Joining the venture capitalists that back Palm != joining Palm.

ETA: Thats similar to saying that because I have some AMD shares, I've joined AMD.
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Your analogy is rather ill-informed. Elevation have invested vast sums into Palm and are their major investor as well as holding a quarter share in the company.

The Apple-to-Palm exodus heated up in the summer of 2007. Palm had just hired Rubinstein, formerly head of Apple's iPod unit, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs feared Rubenstein was recruiting Apple employees, reported Bloomberg. So Jobs proposed a no-poaching rule to former Palm CEO Ed Colligan, according to Bloomberg. Colligan rejected the proposal, calling it wrong and "likely illegal."
Why leave Apple for Palm? It's not just the money, Golvin says. "Some of these Apple executives might have been left out of the mobile evolution at Apple. People who are successful in Silicon Valley tend to have a good nose for where the market is going, where opportunity for innovation lies, and clearly that's much more in mobile than traditional computing."
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http://www.cio.com/article/516019/Palm_Benefits_from_Apple_Alums
 
There was a software update recently. Any Pre owners know how I can get rid of the utterly useless and ridiculous American apps on it. Who gives a shit about Nascar, NFL and Sprint TV!!!
 
editor said:
Palm are wobbling badly right now. I've just written this piece about their plight in the UK:

Palm Pre: why it failed in the UK
http://www.wirefresh.com/palm-pre-why-it-failed-in-the-uk/

I wish they'd fucking sort it out.
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The choice of O2 as a carrier has got to be one of the most incredible Roberto Carlos style own goals I've ever seen. O2 shops were iPhone shops and to some extent they still are.

The Pre was forgotten before it even got into their stores and once it did arrive only the Palm heads and the well informed knew about it. Nestling under the 8ft high iPhone, iPhone banners, iPhone bunting and iPhone ballons all over the floor and a stack of open demo iPhones.

Sales were probably only to the tech press!
 
Sunray said:
The choice of O2 as a carrier has got to be one of the most incredible Roberto Carlos style own goals I've ever seen. O2 shops were iPhone shops and to some extent they still are.

The Pre was forgotten before it even got into their stores and once it did arrive only the Palm heads and the well informed knew about it. Nestling under the 8ft high iPhone, iPhone banners, iPhone bunting and iPhone ballons all over the floor and a stack of open demo iPhones.

Sales were probably only to the tech press!
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Could you post all that on the Wirefresh article because I really like it - and I've just sent Palm the link to the article. :)
 
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