Palm Eos on track for AT&T release second half of 2009
By Ross Miller 
posted May 24th 2009 5:52PM
posted May 24th 2009 5:52PM
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I just made a stupid comment
...good for you?
Wow, this is definitely big news for AT&T. I wonder how it will stack up as a direct carrier-level competitor to the iPhone.
How many phone stories are we going to get today and what is the point of Engadget Mobile?
Nobody has been able to figure that out yet.
Well I think Engadget Mobile is suppose to be for all cellphone/mobile related stories, while Engadget proper publishes only the big ones. It just happens to be a time for a lot of big cellphone stories - which is good because it means there's a lot of cool new handsets coming out and choices are becoming harder and harder. (I just wish the plans were becoming cheaper and cheaper ;))
Hm, "new Palm OS experience"- maybe it's webOS, or perhaps Palm bought the rights to TealOS? :P
I see no reason whatsoever not to assume it's PalmOS.
PalmOS has been decried as old and broken and in need of a replacement for ages, if they were releasing a new revision (that's obviously not it on the screen) it would almost certainly have been announced alongside the Pre. This phone is most likely just a non-slider Pre with lesser specs, seeing as how it was given no introduction at CES.
There's actually a very good reason to assume it's not Palm OS- Palm OS can't handle voice and data at the same time, yet this is a UMTS/HSDPA device, which means it would have that capability.
Old Palm OS did not support capacitive screens.. It is 100% WebOS.
it has a gesture area so its runs webos
where is wifi? =\
It's on the Palm Pre
We're getting an overdose of Palm news today and I LOVE IT!
Ontopic: I'm really excited about this phone, I was planning on getting an iPhone this summer to compliment my E71. I'll be selling my E71 for this for sure when it drops on this side of the Atlantic (European side that is).
I was a Nokia boy too, but it is evidently clear that Nokia doesn't do anything right these days vis a vis the competition. I want this phone. Or the GSM Pre. No more Nokia for me, their era is over.
but it's so ugly :/
tell that to your puppy.
oh yeah im that evil.
hahahahahahahahaha
Unfortunately*
I was expecting a much cheaper price tag -- like something NOT 100 dollars more than the Pre.
... But like I'd buy a smart phone from ATT and pay twice for data anyways. Unlocked is the way to go.
When it actually arrives it would have to be cheaper. There's no way they could ask for $300 for this. Maybe $150-200 at best (subsidized).
Yeah, I'm not sure how a $349 phone is supposed to replace the $99 Centro... (And the Centro is only $29 at at&t today, it seems)
That's the unsubsidized price, making it $200 less than the Pre. The take home price will almost certainly be $99 or less.
Does at&t typically include a mail-in rebate with unsubsidized phones? I'm asking honesty, I'm fairly certain VZW doesn't, but I'm less familiar with the policies of Big Orange.
@Epsilon-Not
Yes, you can get the rebate on non subsidised phones with AT&T as long as the IMEI is registered onto a phone number, and any rebate prereqs (like $30 data for a PDA, or unl text and data for a quicktext phone) are met.
Weekend posting of Palm new gadgets is good cuz that'll get some folks' blood moving ......... up n down.....
and at least I haven't seen a damn fruit on any of the images posted thus far......keep 'em coming...
Nifty little trick by AT&T announcing this before the Pre debuts to limit switchers to Sprint.
Yeah, it worked for me. I don't want to have to get rid of my current plan, so I'll be excited.
I wonder if I'm the only one that thinks this doc is fake.
The lcd screen on that picture hasn't been photoshopped on properly.
It's not lined up right.
Folks are getting more adventurous with their fakes nowadays.
Maybe someone should send in a fake Cease and Desist legal notice on this report.
I think it's fake as well. The spell check squiggly under 'microUSB' is kind of a hint.
Why does Palm apparently hate memory cards? Seriously, not even 4 GB of user memory? That's pathetic.
Also, please correct the article, this isn't a slide.
Sorry did not mean to reply to you. Was meant for the writer.
Give it web os and wifi and its a deal
The biggest thing holding this back is the lack of expandable memory.
So ATT owns iPhone and Plam
I'm confused about all QWERTY 9xxx bb models with similar look :S
I think Palm is about to make the most epic comeback of this decade... Their stocks have been rising ever since the announcement of the Pre/WebOS and with slick devices like this being spit out, I think the sky is the limit for the grandfather of (popular) PDA's / smartphones. RIM and all the "other" (winmo) devices have a new contender.
Is it just me or does that picture look awfully familiar (and mockup-ish)?
It needs wayy more than 4 GB of storage. That is so weak. I'm excited and will probably own one anyways, but not very happily.
If this is real (not unlikely), then it better have wifi and (alteast or) 3g!
Epic comeback? Please. This should have been released 3 years ago, and it still doesn't do WiFi, unlike the Dash which really was released 3 years ago. Palm users have been asking for ages for something slim and modern that didn't run Windows. How difficult can that be? When Palm refused to deliver, a lot of us switched over to the iPhone. I haven't yet, but I will be as soon as my Centro contract runs out. It's too late for Palm to start a developer community from scratch when the iPhone already has every piece of software you could possibly want, many of them free.
b**** please.
@PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts)
320*400 screen? 4:5? Really?
No WiFi? Fail.
I think this will help Palm much more than Pre on Sprint's network.
this would've been my next phone, if it had a wifi chip !!
It was supposed to have a micro SD slot, right?
10.6 mm thick? QWERTY keyboard? No Windows Mobile? YES PLEASE!
I'd be way more inclined to wait on this phone and stay with AT&T *if* it offers wifi connectivity, no need to bleed my data plan if I'm working in my home office with wifi. Of course then in a few month you "cap" the data plans and start charging for overages again, especially if my phone has so much utility.