Palm Pre to be assembled by Chi Mei Communication Systems, fairies
By Laura June 
posted March 18th 2009 4:33PM
posted March 18th 2009 4:33PM
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posted March 18th 2009 4:33PM
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How long before a factory worker appears in a photo to much acclaim?!
"but it also manufactures phones for Motorola"
And look where that brought them! On the verge of dying!
Just kidding.
Looks pretty nice (the phone I mean) but I have a feeling this might take some time to get to Europe.
Wait... production hasn't started? I thought this phone was to be released 1H 2009. It seems like Palm's cutting it pretty close!
Like everyone else is saying, this phone can't come soon enough! I can't wait to own this phone. The Palm Pre is all Palm, hold the PalmSource: Fabulous
Considering they were showing pre-beta hardware and software at CES...
It was reported as early as September, 2007 that Palm had outsourced assembling to Chi Mei to ODM "CDMA 2000 devices", a mystery device was supposedly due to launch in 2008. Well it wasn't the Treo Pro, it just launched and is assembled by HTC, I think the device in question and the one that was being worked on in 2007 is the Pre. I remember the outspoken investor from Innovation Partners mentioned during an interview that webOS and the Pre went into development 2 years ago.
Laura June, how could you miss this: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/foxconn-wins-3g-iphone-contract-3-million-units-shipping-in-jun/
CMCS is part of the Foxconn Technology Group.
Engadget, do you think that the final hardware will have a rotating keyboard for landscape typing?
I do remember this article from last year that had those palm buttons http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/mysterious-t-swivel-handset-appears-on-korean-site-keeps-us-gue/
No.
Just no.
Long answer? The actual design won't change that much. What they might do is put in a soft keyboard for landscape.
Dear Engadget,
Please make a poll asking who will buy the optional TouchStone charger when they purchase the phone. I think I will just because it comes with the matte battery cover, but i'm curious to know how many other people will.
I will because it's perfect for how I keep my phone, i.e. I just put it on my desk. if it can charge at the same time...
Price will be the deciding factor for me. I will only pay so much for awesomeness while I remain this poor.
It does look like an intriguing device however, when are US companies (This includes Apple) going to get back to the bargaining tables with US workers and at least try to manufacture products at home. Yes this can be said for anything developed in the states but produced overseas. Don't get me wrong I love other counties however in today's market we need more US born industry and development throughout the entire product life cycle, from drawing board to consumer’s hands. Bring jobs back to the US.
As long as consumers keep on complaining about devices costing so much.
Be willing to pay more for American made devices, make it known you want to pay more for American made devices, and you shall receive American made devices.
Otherwise, companies will continue to make devices overseas to assure they have a decent profit margin.
I really, really hope this phone lives up to the hype.
But even if it doesn't, Palm should still get a high-five for making Apple switch up their game.
Absolutely ridiculous for people to assume Palm has anything to do with iPhone 3.0 development. To assume Apple implemented these features in the last few weeks show tremendous naivete on peoples part. Watch the video on the so called cut, copy and paste. So it works just like the Palm right?
So a new smart phone is announced that completely blows away the iPhone, and all of a sudden Apple releases a few features everyone has been begging for 3 years. Just a coincidence?
apple has been releasing steady updates to the iphone OS since day 1. most of these features have been a long time coming. to suggest palm "forced" apple to do anything, or that apple released this in any way to combat the pre is hilarious.
You cant prove 3.0 was designed to respond to Palm,
nor can you prove it wasn't.
@ Jubei
Copy and paste? A bit "me-too" ain't it?
@Decoy
LOL.. not quite. You forgot about the Newton from Apple. I still have the 120 in full working order.
sprint has been pushing their older models in the last couple months and just recently they released the rumor 2 they are trying to push those products as much as they can before the Pre comes out, i PREdict that it will come out late april early may.
i dumped sprint cause i couldn't get a signal indoors and it was supposed to be my only phone. Is that still a problem?
Hey palm Sprint locked up the pre but how about a horizontal slider with the new OS for t-mobile. We'll call it the...hell i don't care what you call it i'll just take it.
The only place I really lose reception on my sprint phone is in elevators. But I think that is kinda common in all carriers.
They can take there time, because I won't be picking this phone up until it hits Verizon next year. As amazing and awesome as this phone is, there isn't a thing in this world that would have me leave Verizon for Sprint's worst ranked customer service.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=BW&Date=20090304&ID=9664406&Symbol=S
"best in class"
the more you know ;)
I'm going to get one and only call Tibetans.
So Apple release a update to the iphone? What about a new iphone is they still going to be releasing one? Sounds kiind of silly to release an OS 3 when its just 3 months til June
I have a Chimei monitor and I can say that the product is built extremely well. Heck, it survived an international trip in my suitcase. As long as the phone is solidly designed, I bet that they will do a good job of putting it together.
they are so lagging.,get with it already................
relesa date looking farther n farther away. maybe july august.,.,by then palm will be under so deep..........they still scroungin for release/advertising money.
A little scary in my book. Some unknown company? Whole thing gives my nightmare flash backs to the quality control issues with the Treo 600/650 (what you mean two screens should be vagualy similar?).
Most devices are made in China by 'some unknown company' for all the big names.
You have probably never heard of Hon Hai, Wistron, Compal, Inventec... but Sony, HP, Dell, Apple, etc. sure have. What counts is the quality, really.
So when is this coming out? Palm need to hurry up, or else people won't care about it anymore as all the news and spotlight will be on the new iPhone. Also, when will US ever get the GSM version, unlocked?
Maybe it's an age thing, but the reason I'm excited about the Palm Pre is the fact that it will have a considerably bigger display than the Palm Centro. That will allow me to get stuff done without going blind after half an hour, and in places where it's not wise to pull out a laptop. If developers don't have lots of apps for the Pre out of the gate though, it will not be able to compete with the iPhone.