Oh, hey, look at that: you can buy a Pre now! As of 8:00AM on the East Coast, the phone went on sale at Sprint stores, with Best Buy, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart also retailing the phone today as Saturday dawns across the country. After Sprint's invite only
pre-Pre launch event last night, we still saw plenty of folks lined up outside Sprint's "flagship" New York store in the Flatiron Building before the doors opened. Apparently people started queuing around 5:00AM, with Chris Lee and Randy Williams the first through the door -- replacing a Treo Pro and a HTC Mogul, respectively. Like last night, the process took about 40 minutes, but a lot of that is spent waiting for a small pit crew of Sprint employees to swap over your address book, so if you forgo that we'd say you can be in and out in 30, which should still be plenty of time to savor the moment. Word is that the Flatiron store has about 100 units, but it's clear that inventory varies widely between locations and retailers -- Touchstones seem to be a much rarer commodity.
We'll be checking out some other launches across the country, so stay tuned, and be sure to send in your own pictures and impressions!
Some word from the wilds: Tipster Brad says that his Best Buy store in Orlando has only 9 Pres available, and they're giving them out one by one on an appointment basis -- he was fourth in line, so he'll be going back at 12:15PM to pick his up. Unfortunately, their Touchstone stock is zero.
Kevin C. Tofel was fourth in line at his local Sprint store, which purportedly had 30 phones in stock, but he picked up the last of the Touchstones.
We just checked in at the Bryant Park Sprint store in New York City, and while Pre inventory is cool, they are all out of Touchstones. We're starting to think the supply of those is quite limited. We also hear that at least one tenacious gentleman got in line at 6:00PM yesterday, and spent the night outside the store in order to get his first.
San Francisco
At about 7:45AM PT, the line around the the 388 Market Street Sprint Store numbered about 15, teetering just barely around a corner. Our first person in line, a self-proclaimed Palm fanatic and future Pre developer, had been out there since 6:00AM, with a chair-clad individual taking up slot number two since 6:30AM.
The vibe here is pretty chill, but everyone seems pretty satisfied with their purchase. The Touchstone doesn't have quite the same story, however. One customer we spoke with said he wasn't getting one because it was "too expensive," and that at $40 he might consider it (the inductive charger now retails for $70). It doesn't look like the line is extending too much at this point.
Thirty minutes after its launch and we're still seeing a line outside -- nothing too big, but noticeable. The catch here is that Sprint is only letting about ten people in at a time -- at least the weather's much nicer here than our East Coast sojourners. By our estimates, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes for each customer to get registered and take their new baby out of here. Hey look, it's Jon Rubinstein, here to see the action for himself -- and of course to show off his personal smartphone. Three guesses what it is.
More celebrity sightings. Here we are with Gizmodo's Brian Lam, lost in deep thought.
We got word that the Castro Street store had a pretty major crowd this morning, so we headed over there to see what was going down. According to one customer who showed up close to 7:15AM this morning, there were about 50 people in line and were told only 25 or so Pres would be in store, with the rest getting on a wait list and possibly getting one later (we heard reports of some stock maybe being moved around the city to accommodate).
Chicago
We sent someone packing over to the store at 1 W. Division Street in Chicago, and the line had started off pretty frigging long, easily outstripping the store's supply of units. 37 folks received numbers, while the rest were told they were welcome to sign up for a waitlist. Those who are out of luck are being told to "wait and see" if there are any extras -- we figure they stocked a few extra in case someone wanted to buy two -- and they say it's plausible more units will arrive later today. No guarantees, though. Oh, and they're all out of Touchstones, too -- in fact, we were told that all of Chicago is currently out of them, and that they're on order.
Line-waiters were bonding, exchanging stories of their tribulations in the hours and minutes leading up to their purchase. We got the sense that most folks here were existing Sprint customers, but activations were still taking about ten minutes or longer; there were three employees on duty, so needless to say, the line wasn't moving particularly fast.
This is a bin that we've playfully termed "The Bin."
Buyers were in no rush to leave the store after activating, eagerly showing off their gear to the less fortunate. Our man on the ground was accused of "showing off" while emailing on his own Pre, but hey, we had to send an email. What could we do?
Updates:
50 people in line at the Sprint store in Honolulu, thanks to Aaron for sending in a pic!
posted Jun 6th 2009 9:24AM
Was 5th in line in vermont... Love the phone. Was wowing within the first 2 minutes of use.
I work in the Flatiron Building.
Only the first 2 minutes? ;)
One thing you can say for sure, those people waiting in line aren't the hipsters you see in an iPhone line, but I'm happy for the Pre. Now we can move on to geeking out at WWDC.
I work one block away from Flatiron Building.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2297842633_d36e1dfe09.jpg?v=0
Used to do my business w sprint at that "flagship store", until I closed my account in 2001 and moved on to AT&T/Cingular/AT&T.
I was also 5th in line, but in a best buy in Michigan. Loving it. Pandora works flawlessly on the data plan, so does TV.
(sadly, they only had 10 Pres, so a couple people were bummed out, but I guess the sprint store got a lot of phones so no big deal)
Look at that poor kid sitting on the fire hydrant. He better get his own Pre for all that waiting.
It plays World of Warcraft??!!!! Awesome!!!
@paul
Yeah it's too bad they're not more like the hipsters in these pictures.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/06/28/apple_store_san_fran_iphone_line_already_a_three_ring_circus.html
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/14069/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/11/iphone-lines-cut-off-on-east-coast-and-midwest-west-side-still/
The lines for the iPhone were NEVER a bastion for the hipsters.
Here in Federal Way, WA, there were around 15 people waiting before opening and there were 30 units available.
I got there around 5:30AM and was feeling sad until more people started showing up. No regrets, though. The phone is amazing :D.
Here is a link to my waiting in line pics / first impressions!
http://www.crazyhawt.com/2009/06/06/palm-pre-waiting-in-line-first-impressions/
Were there any employees to cheer people entering the store or cheering them for buying the Pre? Just Rubenstein and he doesn't really work there. Ed Colligan should have showed up to pull people off the streets into the Sprint store. Most average Apple store crowds are bigger than that on ordinary days. Forget about the Apple Cube Store which stays crowded 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Well, I just hope Palm can sell enough Pres to stay in business, forget about going after the iPhone since Apple is way off ahead in the distance somewhere. I do hope the Pre buyers are satisfied and that the Sprint network is good enough. I'd heard that there were about 100 Pres available throughout Manhattan and I guess that's OK. Better than 20 for sure. I hope for Palm's sake, they were all bought (probably a few more will end up on eBay).
@insky
+1 that first link is priceless.
I was far back in line in the morning and had to leave the queue to go to work. Went back on my lunch break, but it was about a 3hr line. After getting off work at 5 i went straight to the store and was finally leaving with an activated Pre around 6:20.
Does anyone know when they will sell online?
Some are selling them online.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/palm-pre-hits-ebay-prior-to-official-launch-just-900-and-a-fis/
@rcarm
I think he meant when you could go to Sprint.com and buy one.
I was being sarcastic.
My bad :)
Got mines, waited about an hour and a half. Love the new phone. They ran out of touchstones. Sprint store on 42nd street, ny
Looks like Engadget are surprised that people want to buy a Pre - guess what not everyone wants an iPhone!
yeah, all 25 of them
Amen brother. Looks like some of us want to be productive and do more than just listen to music and browse at the same time. I'm still blown away at how well this phone multi tasks.
funny how this post has nothing to do with the iphone... yet some people still feel the need to wail and gnash their teeth about Apple. You're highly conditioned - like a beaten dog. Enjoy your Pre! Quit feeling trodden upon!
hey at least engadget POSTS stuff about the pre.
unlike those sorry excuses over at gizmodo that only post about stupid sh1t, apple, and anti-pre news. seriously they were posting all this stuff about how there are only 9 units in each store. what a load of trash. sure engadget did that too, but at least they pointed out that it didn't make sense that the flagship store in chicago would only have 10 units. they also posted a FOLLOW UP like this post about the actual number in stock. god, gizmodo is so worthless these days.
/rant
speaking of,
** Can someone provide a serious comparison to the iPhone, as in someone who owns and uses the iPhone 3G as their primary phone but now decided to get a Pre **
Don't hold your breath waiting for someone who switches from the iPhone to the Pre; there might be a few, but sadly, not enough to save Palm.
I was going to swing by and take a look until I saw confirmation that tethering isn't available. Until Sprint pulls their head out of their rearends and adds it (or until a third party solution emerges) I think a lot of folks are going to hold off. As much as I want this phone, I can't cough even more money beyond the $69/mo to add a second line for laptop connectivity.
I felt the same. My touch diamond tethers perfectly. Two things. 1.) my diamond still has data working for whatever reason. 2.) Classic emulator may allow for PDAnet tethering. It can access the data side.
I really doubt the emulator will be able to do tethering. Being able to use the networking stack is one thing, but to bridge the networking to the bluetooth or a cable is another kettle of fish. I am hopeful something emerges, but I doubt it will be through the classic emulator.
I'm happy to be proven wrong, though!
Sadly, I am pretty sure classic wouldn't work with PDAnet or USB modem, since the developer has stated that it doesn't have access to bluetooth or the cell network. I am still sitting on the fence deciding whether to get the Pre or wait for the Touch Pro 2 because of this too.
That the phone wouldn't tether out of the box was a well known fact, I don't know why some people here are shocked by just now learning this.
I'm sure someone will find a hack to enable it. It took all of 2 days to hack the Instinct to PAM. Quitcher bitchin and have some patience.
Me too.
If pre was released a month ago I'd buy it for sure, now I may be would have bought it if there was tethering option but without that screw sprint. The drawbacks outweight the advantages: no data and voice simultaneously, bad battery life, almost nonexsistent app store, smaller screen. I'll wait till 15th June and see what Apple has to offer.
CheshireCat, sound like a apple fanboy much?
don't mean to sound like an anti-pre troll bastard but..... why are people making such a big deal about this? don't get me wrong it looks like a great phone an all (i actually like the pre ui better than androids) but if i was on sprint i would just wait for the touch pro 2 to come out which seems a better phone since it has a bigger screen, expandable memory slot, more spacious keyboard,etc.
Begins with Web and ends in OS...
If you think most people considering this phone are also considering the Touch Pro 2, you have pretty much missed the point here.
the main reason for not getting a touch pro 2 would have to be windows mobile.
however well it's been skinned by htc, it's still a tired, fiddly old OS with nothing going for it.
Windows Mobile = Fail. Therefore people are getting the Pre
@Victor
I agree WinMo has become stale... but if you haven't used 6.5 yet.. you aren't aware of how it has changed. I just upgraded my Fuze to the Energy 3.0 ROM and it is the best phone OS interface I have ever used, so slick fast and clean.
So a TP2 on 6.5 will be something to at least give a whirl, I personally cannot wait. Something that the iPhone and maybe the WebOS? cannot do is change to whatever look you want. I personally cannot stand the iPhone / blackberry layout. Here is EVERY app on you phone hogging all the space.
Just saying options are nice, the WinMo 6.5 Titanium layout is sharp as can be. I look forward to trying a Pre myself, been 5 or 6 years since Plam made anything worthwhile! But ATT and Verizon are reception kings in NorCal, so I wouldn't switch until it came to a new network.
JayJay, ur right. My contract expires in a year, but why wait such a short time at all?? Im waiting on the blackberry Hurricane, It will have a shoe buffer and a more spacious keyboard as well!
@look around u
"You are not employees of Apple. Just because you bought a product from them does not mean you are part of the "team"."
I love you.
Windows Mobile 6.5 sucks too.
Indeed, the not having an SD slot is just a complete marketing disaster IMHO, even though you can argue it's not needed for the most part it is what people like to have, deal with it, and look what happens to many snotty companies that don't care what the customers wants.
Even sony now says you should listen to customers (not that they do of course, at least not yet)
but it has windows mobile....
I go the Pre for my wife and I am waiting, unpatiently to be exact, for the TP2. It's gonna be hottess. For the people Dissing WinMo. You seriously have to try 6.5 first. I have it installed on my Sprint Touch after using TouchFlo2D for about a year and It's like using a new phone! It's fast, slick and super customizable. Don't blindly hate WinMo without first trying what else is has to offer.
I go the Pre for my wife and I am waiting, unpatiently to be exact, for the TP2. It's gonna be hottess. For the people Dissing WinMo. You seriously have to try 6.5 first. I have it installed on my Sprint Touch after using TouchFlo2D for about a year and It's like using a new phone! It's fast, slick and super customizable. Don't blindly hate WinMo without first trying what else is has to offer.
@Bryan:
I've had 6.5 on my HTC Diamond for the past 2 months. It took all of 5 minutes of using the Pre to really show me why I will never go back to Windows Mobile until it is completely overhauled. The synergy of the Pre really is great. Responsiveness, the ability to use capacative touchscreens, syncing your gmail, outlook, and facebook contacts all in one manager. Let's not forget being able to set individual ringtones for individual contacts.
Don't think of me as anti MS either. I own a 360 run Windows exclusively (I actually liked Vista, but switched to 7), will most likely buy a Zune HD to upgrade my Zune 30. Windows Mobile even 6.5 just isn't up to par.
I have spent quite a bit of time with my friend's iPhones, and I will say WebOS is a great operating system. I like some things WebOS does better, and the iPhone does some other things better. The one thing they share in common though is that they were both entirely designed to be used by your fingers and not a mix of stylus and finger.
Someone forgot to tell these people the Pre is a POS.
Someone forgot to tell you to KTFO.
Go back to Youtube!
Blind hate is why we can't have nice things and coexist peacefully. Read the damn review.
Your mom forgot to use a condom.
You mean his dad
Has nobody noticed?
http://www.engadget.com/profile/2332028/
All Jake does is troll the Pre.
I do like the Pre's features. I'm a little reluctant to buy since I still have time on my contract with T-mobile (who has excellent coverage and semi-crappy phones right now).
Jake's pretty messed up in the head.
well according to jake's posts he lives in korea, so not only does he not have access to the palm pre, which is just baron davis sick nasty, but also he is a communist
Nicely done – by far the most useful review of the Pre I've read so far, including those by Mossberg and Pogue.
Regarding the Pre itself, unless you have an aversion to Apple & AT&T, to me it's much ado about nothing. Furthermore, if it was Apple in place of Google, Palm and Blackberry introducing clearly inferior physical keyboards (G1 & Pre) or poorly implemented virtual keyboards (Storm), the tenor and pitch of the outrage would be much higher.
While multi-tasking is a great concept, this is one user who is unwilling to accept the tradeoffs as implemented by Palm, sacrificing stability and battery life for the eye candy of having multiple apps/cards available. From a pure productivity/usability perspective, I believe Apple will strike the right balance with long-awaited Push found in 3.0. If not, given Android and Web OS, they'll be sure to prioritize refinement in future versions of the OS, once again, without sacrificing stability and battery life.
All and all, the Pre is just an unfortunate reminder that Palm once held the keys to the kingdom, blew it and their customers off, and leaves a swan song that simply confirms that Apple got the big stuff right two years ago, and is now about leave Palm and everyone else wondering what could have been.
yes, but you silly fool, one of us still has control over when our mic is active. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
I'll give you a hint, it's not the guy who can't remove or even touch his own battery.
ha aha hahahahahaha ahahha... ohh.. i'm just shed a tear. you sound like you're either really in love with your phone or you work for Apple.
Sacrificing stability?
@ cgpublic
Don't worry, not being able to multi-task or take non Mr. Blurrycam pictures is a 'feature' of your phone. If Apple didn't include it, you don't need it.
/sarcasm
@Brad quoting your soure: mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to ANY handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
What's your point? inless your suggesting Pre owners remove the battery everytime they are not on a call? seems unlikely.
Isn't the Mac is just an unfortunate reminder that Apple once held the keys to the (PC) kingdom?
XiozTzu @ Jun 6th 2009 9:54AM
Apple? You mean one of the most profitable tech companies in the world? Yeah.. they're probably stamping their feet all day.
Unlike Palm.. who's financial results aren't quite as zingy.
NIce post, cgpublic. The other repliers are just emotionally defending the pre, but with the current iPhone still trumping it in many ways despite being a year to two years old in many aspects and being a newcomer that all higher-end phones are compared to, it’s a given that the dislike for the iPhone and the defense for the Pre will exist.
I prefer my iPhone, but I’m not some techhead who just wants to impress his friends by spouting off a spec list or needs it for business. I want a simple to use media phone, a term which I think is better than smartphone as all phones are getting smarter and the types of smartphones are diverging.
The biggest design gaffe I see with the Pre, which should have been a key focus since it’s the one thing Apple compete with, is the keyboard. A virtual keyboard in landscape is mostly pointless as it uses too much display real estate, but in a slideout they should have opted for a higher quality keyboard in landscape, like other phones.
Push Notifications are what Apple said they were but they aren’t the solution for all 3rd-party apps. I commend Palm for their OS and SDK choice. Sure, it’s not as powerful or has a robust SDK like the iPhone OS X, but it also means that it uses less resources, developers can make apps for it easier and they can have an SDK out of the gate. The apps have the power of Mac OS X Dashbaord Widgets; you can’t do nearly as much with then but they should suit most people’s app needs. In the short term solution that may very well not work in their favour, in the long run, not so much, but they work on a proper SDK for the future. That was a smart move on their part and I hope it works out for them.
Monday Apple should announce their next iPhone which would presumably run the same Cortex-A8 ARM, the same 256MB RAM. Once that happens Apple may very well allow developers to run design their apps for the background processing, but only the new device. Don’t forget that HTML, CSS and JS on WebOS is a lot less resource hungry than a shrunken OS X and apps running a compiled C-based app with many power frameworks. The current and original iPhones will never get this option. They just don’t have the HW to make it viable.
I hope Palm doesn’t have the 40% return rate that Verizon did with the BB Storm and that they get some of the major issues ironed out soon. I understand the desire to get the device out and compared to the current iPhone before new one is launched, but so close to the next one means that objective buyers will probably wait. I think they should have waiting several months before or after the iPhone to let it have it’s own time frame. They could have worked on making video recording available (something that Palm has experience in on phones and something the new HW can easily support), gotten copy/paste system wide, perfected the HW, improved power management, etc. These are all things that are a major issue now for many buyers or will next week in comparison to other devices.
I wish Palm well but this last attempt may very well their last attempt. As much as I want them to succeed it looks likes they drop the ball in the most important areas.
cgpublic and all of these others.
We get it.
You dont like the Pre.
You love Apple products
You want people to ONLY by Apple products
Anything that not from Apple needs to be trashed and put down.
All of the wordy blathering doesn't make your posting any different that Paul A. Chapel's one sentence screeching.
Be happy people are buying in this economy. Be happy that people are happy. Be happy the ball has been advanced down the field.
You are not employees of Apple. Just because you bought a product from them does not mean you are part of the "team".
If you are seriously offended that people have bought a Pre, then you need to seek some help.
In short: Grow up and get a life.
"While multi-tasking is a great concept..."
Translation: "Lord Jobs, my Master and Commander, has deemed that I don't need it, and thus I don't even desire it!"
The Apple cultists are so enslaved to their religion's First Commandment, "Thou shalt not want what we don't tell you you want," that they can't even imagine having the same multi-tasking functionality on a phone that they take for granted on the computers (or Macs) they're tapping their sniveling missives from now. I doubt that cgpublic would be happy if he had to close his browser because he had to send an email or have his calender poof out of sight because his telephone rang. (Then again, I could be wrong and he's only capable of holding one thought in his head at a time. Mac users aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, as the single mouse button attests to; Apple knows their herd, er, target market.)
Since I couldn't order online, I wandered into a nearby Sprint store and checked it out. When the girl handed it to me, I thought it'd be one of those dummy units like they have on the display stands and the front looked like a sticker. Then she swiped up the Launcher. WHOA!!! The thing was real! It didn't even look like an LCD, the pixel pitch is so tight.
They were able to take an order - if you prepay, they'll send it to the store in a day as opposed to waiting until Friday for the normal restocking shipment - and while I waited, I was able to play around with it. The keyboard is teeny, but OK. The screen is stunning. The iPhone fanboys are poo-pooing multitasking, but it's the shiznatch to bounce from web, Google maps, Accuweather, YouTube, etc. at will. The speaker was pretty loud and clear as I watched videos. The accelerometer was a little wonky leading me to suspect the initial units will have some build quality issues as some reviews have noted. (e.g. one review says the speaker is weak while another says it's fine.)
I also like that the service will be around $65/mo. with the insurance and taxes and it includes the Sprint navigation and unlimited everything but talk, but since mobile-to-mobile is free and almost everyone I call is on cells, I will never run out of my 450 min. allotment. (The crushing sticker price for AT&T was why I never entertained the iPhone.) I'll be able to stop lugging my Dell Axim PDA and Garmin GPS units around and as more apps come online, it's only going to get slicker.
Pay no attention to Dirk's comments - he's only had 7 on Engadget and ALL of them were the most anti-iPhone comments ever. I'm actually wondering if it's not Palm's CEO posting this junk.
@Dirk : Nowhere in your ramblings did even a coherent thought or sentence make it's way out of the pot-filled god complex you have for yourself. I have heard so many people like you who think you know everything about everyone. I love it when some wasted hippie like yourself passes judgement. You are a zero on my, and everyone else's scale. Forming complex sentences as you try and hold on to what little dignity you have... you are the saddest commenter I have ever witnessed.
Furthermore, I (and about 250,000 others) bought an iPhone on 'Day 1' - when it wasn't "cool" and there was no "herd". We just genuinely thought the product was THAT good. And did you seriously use the phrase "warmth of the herd" in a gadget post?
LOL - I'm looking through your past posts and I don't believe I've ever met someone so AGAINST the iPhone simply because it reached mass market and became another cultural icon. Nevermind that it's a great phone, you haven't said a SINGLE positive thing, ever. You're just sad. What makes it more amusing for me is that your beloved Pre that you are so quick to rush to defend (after less than a single day on market) is that 90% of what makes the Pre a cool phone, came from the iPhone. EVEN THE BOX IS A COPY, Dirk. If iPhone users are part of a herd, then you are simply a bottom feeder picking up what was left behind for you. Sounds fitting for a person of your... type. By the way, how does it feel to know that if Palm could have it their way, the Pre would be the mass-market icon the iPhone is. What then? Would you become a sheep? Or any of the terms you call iPhone users?
If you'd like, please open a PayPal account and let me know what it is. You are clearly the most pent-up, obnoxious, self-loathing human I've ever come across and it is painfully obvious that you have not been laid in many, many years (if ever). I would be willing to purchase a hooker for you, because you REALLY need it.
will it blend ?
will you blend?
He's got one for each ear?
the one on the right is probably his old treo
Oh, true.
That would be hilarious if true, I thought the same thing at first, but it's actually a Treo.
Picked mine up at 8:15am...this phone is amazing.
I stopped by the Sprint inside the Target mall in Queens (2 blocks away from Queens Center mall in NYC) and there was no line, no crowds, probably around 5 people in the store. I played with the Pre and asked if they still had some in stock and they said they had plenty. If I wanted one, I would have walked out with one. However, after playing with one, I do have to admit that it's sweet. However, it still does feel like a 1.0 product (I'm not bashing it, I compare it to the iPhone 1.0).
I think as the platform matures, it'll get better.
Palm, welcome back baby! Great job.
Yes, it is a Palm-operated Smartphone. I think they're aware.
This was for Jake who decided to fart on the page two comments up.
Haha that was good. Too bad Jake may never see it.
"a small pit crew of Sprint employees to swap over your address book"
LOL! where's the SIM card? CDMA SUX AZZ!
You know, if you lose your fancy GSM phone with a SIM card, it doesn't much matter. You've still lost your entire address book.
before i had known it my contacts were in there from google and my first call came up correctly ID'd. i looked at the sprint lady like WTF, then realized it had synced with google. very cool.
Even without sync'ing to Google or Facebook I have over 1000 contacts on my phone; most with multiple numbers, e-mails, addresses, anniversaries, birthdays, spouse names, children's names, pets names, notes and avatars. If I had to try and juggle which pittance of that went onto a SIM card and which didn't I'd go bonkers. I'd rather just not have a SIM card. Oh wait, I don't! SIM cards are for people with no family, friends or life...
Umm, most smart people sync their data onto their computer. Depending on all of your data to be in the cloud is quite silly if Sprint/Verizon looses it.
Damn that line looks pretty small, specially being the NYC store. Around my area there's not a single person on line and the stores open up like in 20 min. no one by Radio shack or the Sprint store, WTF.
There will be some upset people come monday
who is that good looking guy?
Picture 6 - I bet that dude in the middle was thinking about robbing all of them at gun point, using that gun he's holding onto.
You can believe me or not but Sprint's plan was to get all the blogs frothed up to create hype for the PRE. All the leaks were on purpose and they worked the blogs to help create PRE fan boys. The anemic lines shown prove they didn't do such a good job creating hype.
Blogs may think they are all that but corporate America, as Apple and other have shown, knows how to manipulate blogs to create hype. Next up WWDC...
It's true. We're easily manipulated by excellent products.
apple fan boy much tzu?
I really don't understand the fanboyism with one platform or another, and I have 2 Macs for crying out loud. why don't fanboys take a close look, and say that this is a pretty good design, you can't wait for wwdc, and move on? but you have to come into the thread and talk about non sense, and make iPhone sound like the jesus phone again. it's just pretty sad.
I for one, am waiting for the wwdc, but I applaud palm for their all out effort on this, and I hope they will succeed. last thing you need is a dominance from iPhone. we need competition, however how big or small they might be, for the designers to go into battle, and keep trying to outdo one another. stop being a fanboy and relaize that any competition is a good thing.
All that hype and all those good reviews make us UK people feel left out for now. Hopefully those O2 rumours turn out to be true. And not after an open letter, either. Imagine that, iPhone and Pre on the same carrier!
Wow, that looks like a lame party. Lol! The line stretched one one-thousandth of the way around the block.
He gets home with his shiny new phony, goes to make a call, sees zero bars, and then remembers: it's the Sprint network :/
I actually got home with my pre and realized that I had full bars...hmm weird
Me too, better than I had on ATT or T-Mo for sure.
Seeing as Sprint gets better coverage in the Boston area than any other network, your argument is invalid. My coworkers on AT&T miss calls all the time because their iPhones don't get reception in a building. I still get good coverage in a T stop.
You were saying?
Got mine this morning. I was 8th in line. Wow! I love this phone. Much nicer than expected.
I expected to see more people then that...
Why?
Outside of tech circles, very few people know the phone exists. And of the few that do know about it, fewer still even care.
That's not a knock, my brother just came home with one, and its great. But no one cares.