Palm and Verizon Announce the Pre and Pixi Plus
Not good for Sprint... sort of...
Sprint already seems to hate this phone (exactly WHAT smartphone you're supposed to buy on Sprint's network I don't know...) . It's unwarranted as the Pre is excellent and will be the first decent smartphone Verizon has.
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bluecoyote said:It's unwarranted as the Pre is excellent and will be the first decent smartphone Verizon has.
Really? apparently you must be out of the loop and on another planet when the Droid was realeased.
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The Droid is an also-ran in the smartphone world. The only people who really think highly of it are the people used to VZW's gruel of smartphones in years Prior.
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bluecoyote said:
The Droid is an also-ran in the smartphone world. The only people who really think highly of it are the people used to VZW's gruel of smartphones in years Prior.
Funny 🤣
Palm Pre sales have been a disappointment for Sprint. There is lots of unsold inventory out there. The blame could be anywhere from below average hardware to it's carrier to Palm itself who was near death just before WebOS was introduced.
More carriers picking up the OS should help but I doubt at this point it will gain the mass acceptance on the scale that Android is enjoying.
Also-ran? Not by a long shot 🤣
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Not going to argue that the Pre's sales have been disappointing,
But my own experence purchasing the Pre was miserable (Sprint reps are encouraging people to NOT buy the phone) , and it's reported early on quality control issues aren't unfounded.
That said, the Pre's WebOS is an amazing platform. Unlike Android, it's bringing a lot of new concepts to the table. The develop environment is phenomenal, and unlike Android, it's UI is actually well thought out.
The Droid is little more than trying to compensate for Android's shortcomings by slapping on a keyboard and big camera.
But my own experence purchasing the Pre was miserable (Sprint reps are encouraging people to NOT buy the phone) , and it's reported early on quality control issues aren't unfounded.
That said, the Pre's WebOS is an amazing platform. Unlike Android, it's bringing a lot of new concepts to the table. The develop environment is phenomenal, and unlike Android, it's UI is actually well thought out.
The Droid is little more than trying to compensate for Android's shortcomings by slapping on a keyboard and big camera.
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I'll agree that WebOS is amazing. The UI is well thought out.
This reminds me of what happened to Apple in the 90's. They had a superior platform, yet windows based computers gained mass acceptance for various reasons.
What Android isn't now, it will be in the future. There is a lot behind it
This reminds me of what happened to Apple in the 90's. They had a superior platform, yet windows based computers gained mass acceptance for various reasons.
What Android isn't now, it will be in the future. There is a lot behind it
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If the Nexus One is any indication as to where Android is going, I wouldn't put much behind it. Android seems extremely confused as an OS- not bad, but not a lot of its hype hasn't translated into anything other than a handful of decent but not class leading smartphones. It just feels like a giant comittee project rather than any true vision of the future. There's a lot of hype, but just middling substance
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It doesn't help when young multimedia lover sales reps dismiss other Operating systems in front of their customers.
I actually witnessed two sales reps in the same store conduct the same practice of lurering away the customers from certain phones.
This gentleman came in and was looking at a WinMo device. The one sales rep literally told him not to buy the phone and to look at the Android. The customer was polite and said he had been a big winmo user but was open to a comparison. The sales rep admitted he didn't know much about the winmo phone. The customer asked: Oh really? Well then maybe you shouldn't be weighing in my desires until you learn more. What really blew me away was the response from the rep: "You Windows Mobile people d...
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I actually witnessed two sales reps in the same store conduct the same practice of lurering away the customers from certain phones.
This gentleman came in and was looking at a WinMo device. The one sales rep literally told him not to buy the phone and to look at the Android. The customer was polite and said he had been a big winmo user but was open to a comparison. The sales rep admitted he didn't know much about the winmo phone. The customer asked: Oh really? Well then maybe you shouldn't be weighing in my desires until you learn more. What really blew me away was the response from the rep: "You Windows Mobile people d...
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I am not in sales, but not being knowledgeable about what you are selling is unforgivable. It does no one any good down the line
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