Palm Pre "real reviewer" units going out? Not so fast.
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 13th 2009 4:27PM
posted May 13th 2009 4:27PM
We clearly said "we'll provide you with a current-model phone and data-plan service for six months" and Pre only once it is available, we never said they would get early Pre units.So, that's something to consider before you jump the gun on the next Twitpic blast from Joe the Reviewer (though in this particular forum poster's defense, he did recant). Still, the whole tone leading up to the Pre launch is starting to feel a bit chaotic -- we know Palm has to pull the trigger soon, and we've heard lots of totally believable rumors, but it is beginning to feel like anything might happen. The basic question we're turning over in our minds right now is this: does Palm know how to do this right?
I filled out an application, my girlfriend too.
I'm kind a bummed I didn't even get a response. Oh well.
I wrote a short essay. lol. It was a shot in a thousand.
I'm so bummed too... We put a lot of effort into the application. Meh.
Lord knows we would have been good reviewers.
Why are people sad about this? It's for six months, and it's a loan. So you'd have a free Pre on a seperate line for 6 months...and then you'd have to buy your own Pre. You'd also have your original separate line during that time that they aren't going to pay for you to cancel.
I don't get why everyone's dying to be chosen for this. It's really nothing.
Are you saying that they're going to charge you the early termination fee if you cancel after the six months?
You have a cellphone and plan right now.
Palm chooses you. Hurray.
They send you a Pre and six months service.
The Pre is a loan, you do not get to keep it.
After six months they decide if they want to keep you or end your participation in the program. If they terminate you, you give the Pre back and now have to buy your own Pre anyway.
So, you're getting a separate line and the burden of having to impress Palm by "real reviewing" via Twittering, Blogging, Facebooking, Youtubing, and forum-ing about the Pre to be kept on board, since that is the point. All for a loan phone on a seperate line. You'll be paying for your existing service no matter what, Palm isn't going to pay to cancel your existing plan.
I don't get why people want this so bad.
Bummed... Girlfreind...Fiiiilllled
Must... Resist...
I had no idea my comment could be so misconstrued, but yes, she's definitely also been filled. ;)
I always thought you could put your account into some kind of hibernation for a period of time(like 6 months maybe?)but you would still have to do the full 2 years contract. I do remember someone talking about this before but not sure what network but I think it was Sprint since i have them myself
Still no good if there isn't a no-contract price and an unlocked GSM version.
I really wish that I didn't have to wait till Sept to re-new and get the 2-yr price.
Yeah, I can upgrade in July and save what I expect to be something like 75 bucks...not worth it to me, I'll probably end up paying full price, but I don't mind.
It looks like it may not be out til then anyway so you might be in luck!
Luckily I'm a Premier Customer. Which means I get to get a new phone every year at the "new customer" price. So I have to wait for one year which in July.... Fucking Instinct :(
October for me..... Yarrrrgghhh!!
Or pay $200+ to tMobile to cancel my contract early. Those twats.
I just hope the GSM version follow soon enough, so I can import it.
I'm confused by this whole mess... maybe it's the 1200mg of caffeine in my body. Why can't Palm simply release a couple TV ads, give out some reviewer models to the press, and get it in stores ASAP? Crazy (and oddly fake) marketing gambits are annoying.
I agree, if Palm is planning on releasing this on June 7th, (as many suspect) they need to start putting some ads on TV.
Of course, I could be completely wrong about the June 7th release, so what do i know...
Oh god. No one knows the date yet? Just set a freaking date and kick the damn thing out the door.
They are shooting commercials for the PRE right now on soundstages at Warner Brothers in Burbank. Should expect commercials within a week or two.
For f*** sakes, gives us a release date already!
So no pre-release pre, then? Shame.
Pre should have launched before Tegra phones are unvieled at Computex on June 2-6 '09.... their choice. Spent waaaay to much time promoting the product. They should have learned from Xperia... but then again Xperia was overhyped.
Oh just shut up with your mystical Tegra crap already.
Mystical? Are you like the village idiot or something :DD
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mobile_games_demos.html
Oh, and you need to wait for the demo to load... just in case... you know... it's ok.
Mystical as in "no actual product", dear TardX, other than that overheating, aircraft carrier-sized Toshiba POS everybody has rightfully forgotten about alreay.
And now, go ahead watch some more NVidia propaganda and leave us alone here, will ya?
Ah I see... you're an iTurd.... feeling threatened?
"but then again Xperia was overhyped."
I think you wanted to say the following;
"but then again Tegra is overhyped."
There, fixed it for you
No, second iTurd, Xperia has proven to be overhyped. Tegra hasn't been released yet, and so, the overhyped assumption is invalid.
We'll see in a couple of weeks.
iTurd...nice. Couldn't be further away from the truth, but still...nice. Very original.
Also, I'm not feeling "threatened" by a tiny piece of silicium that I could crush with my little finger - surprising, huh? No, I'm merely annoyed about dumb marketing droids in general, and you're not the tiniest bit better than iKurt/Guru/Jubei/whatever with your annoyingly persistent heralding of oh so superior vaporware in completely unrelated posts.
So, do us all a favor and just STFU until some ACTUAL Tegra based products show up.
Hey, "L", let me introduce you to a whole new world, where people speak about, and are impressed with products that have not been released yet. It's an extremely unusual behavior. However, when you grow accustomed to this -apparently- new world that has never been seen before, I'll take your greasy hind over and introduce you to another brand new world where people are excited about "rumored" news, without even images included. It's, again, a very unusual behavior.....
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So you can take over a silicon chip, physically? Vewy, vewy impwessive. You weally stwong. Now, roll over and shut up.
OK, then please explain what in THIS post about the Palm Pre has given you a reason you YET AGAIN jabber on about that silly Tegra? You barely even hit the topic, and it's the same with every other phone post - if there's one thing that's certain, it's TardX trolling the comments of that post, be it $40 lowest-end phone or $700 super high-end flagship.
SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY.
You need an explanation? Oh well of course you do, what did I think....
Palm Pre was announced almost half a year ago. It was in a nearly finished form and everyone who handled it confirmed this. Here we are, half a year from the announcement, and we're hearing news of "real reviewer" units.... in my opinion (what for it), this was too much of a delay, given how this phone will be released head to head with many high-end products, including a much more capable product in the form of the Tegra chip. And hence, this post is related to the headers news.
However, if there is a certain degree of relativity that all replies to a story should not streer far from, well, in this sick mind of yours, let me know. Maybe you can write a paper about it.
If you think Tegra should be described as "silly", well, it's your right. But then it's the right of anyone with an ounce of gray matter to think you're, according to your opinion, a complete idiot who should just shut up already.
@TareX
Let me introduce you to a whole new world, where people don't insult each other on the internet for expressing their opinions, where people don't hijack threads to talk about something completely unrelated.
Oh and before you start assuming, I'm not an apple fanboy, nor am I a 'tegra' hater because I have no idea what it is and nor do I care, however after reading your posts I've been subconsciously left with nothing but negative connotations.
And on a more related note, I agree the pre-launch hype for the pre has seemed a bit chaotic.
You must know I didn't intend to hijack the thread with 10 replies about Tegra. It was a simple comment how the Palm Pre has been delayed a LOT, and many other posters said the same thing. It's just that "L" has an allergy from the word tegra....
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What would probably be best right now is a statement explaining when it won't be out by. Unless it's dropping really soon, I could see the anticipation petering out a little.
It won't be released on June 6th or before that date, and it won't be released on June 8th or after.
Cool beans.
What the?
I thought topplsky has been carrying around the pre since march.
Imagine if he had been carrying around iPhone 3 months prior to release date.
Either that phone is the size of a keychain dongle, or that guy has huge f'n hands
Or horrendous Photoshop job.
so has anyone gotten some sort of response? i filled out the application the day it was posted like most probably did, but i mean if we don't have a release date yet, and no one is getting these until they come out...does anyone even know if they are going to receive one?
I am sure they would have told us if we won.
I was really excited about the Pre for the longest time... Now I'm sick of this crap. Either release the phone or shut the hell up. It's like the Storm release all over again - I just hope it turns out better than the Storm did. Sorry for venting...
FAAAAAKE! those are cropped pics from CES. the box is clearly not Sprint branded
Yep it's clearly photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels and having seen quite a few photoshops in my day.
Why would the boxes be sprint branded if it was pre-release stuff being tested FOR PALM.
@Phoenix
Cause Sprint is the one giving them to testers.
In that forum the twitter guy said it was just a joke.