http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/ Engadget Comments for GSM Palm Pre spotted with Vodafone SIM card http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/O2 has the iPhone, T-Mobile the G1, Vodaphone has the BBerry Storm, and I think Orange has the Touch HD, but I may be wrong there.
I think exclusivity deals are good for the carrier and the manufacturer, because if the phone is good enough people will switch over, and the manufacturers barely even have to market the product. Everybody wins (apart from the consumers, but we never win...).]]>Feb 16th 2009 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
The Vodafone forum had a comment from a Vodafone employee a month or so ago saying that they had been laying with a Palm Pre in the office and that we should all keep an eye on the "coming soon" section on the website.]]>Feb 16th 2009 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
Makes sense... after being "jilted" by Apple in the failed iPhone negotiations, Vodafone would definitely not want to miss out on potentially the best handset competitor to the former, which has seen them hemorrhaging subscribers all over Europe to the iPhone-exclusive carriers.]]>Feb 16th 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Sorry Palm you doing your best again to screw it up. If you want Europe to be an important market for Palm then you will fail again this way.
Competition will be one step ahead of Palm.]]>Feb 16th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
The horror!!

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It seems like they are really checking off some of the iPhone deficiencies and I think that this would be a nice one to add to that list.]]>Feb 16th 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
I don't know where you and a lot of people get your info about technology on mobile phones, but you are SOOOOOO WRONG!!! did you know CDMA phones use a SIM card too??????? first do a little research before trumpeting something.]]>Feb 17th 2009 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/No, they're not, but they only discover that you're a "valued customer" once you leave them for someone with better prices. The good thing about Europe in terms of cellphones is that we're not as early bronze-era as the US of A. There is very little need to tie yourself to one provider only to avoid those precious X-Files "NO SIGNAL" moments. We have coverage, thank you very much. Whenever I see an "exclusive" deal done here, I instantly decide both the maker of the phone and the provider can go have themselves, as "exclusive" here means you pay more, much more, for a dubious privilege. "Exclusive" gets you the kind of shameless customer milking you see here (Germany) with T-Mobile and the iPhone. Once you compare say UK iPhone tariffs to Germany, you see that the latter — which you know already are quite expensive — border on the obscene. I sure hope Palm doesn't go down that road in Europe. Because I want that phone that is, but I don't want to feel raped each and every time the bill arrives.]]>Feb 16th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
So lets say it goes to Vodofone in Europe. And let's say I could unlock it and bring it to North America (I'm in Canada, although I don't think it matters between Canada and US). So my understanding is that the phone would work, it just wouldn't get 3G?

Am I getting this right? Is there a cell frequencies for dummies? I would prefer to stay with GSM, but I will make the move to Bell (CDMA) if I have to.]]>Feb 16th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 16th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/
If Vodafone does get the Pre, will it be possible to unlock it or w/e and import it to the USA? I've got AT&T and am hoping I'll be able to grab the Pre without going over to Sprint.]]>Feb 16th 2009 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/gsm-palm-pre-spotted-with-vodafone-sim-card/Feb 20th 2009 2:15PM