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$29.99 a month for unlimited data and SMS from www.sprintrelaystore.com would be awfully nice.]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
* Unlimited e-Mail
* Unlimited Internet Access
* Unlimited Instant Messaging (IM)
* Unlimited Domestic Text Messaging (SMS) (Included! Save $15)
* Phone as Modem, up to 5GB per month in total or up to 300MB per month while off-network roaming (PAM) (Included! Save $15)
* Incoming call will be blocked. When making the outgoing phone calls, you will be billed at $0.20 per minute for local voice calls or $0.40 per minute for long distance voice calls. The incoming call block can be removed by contacting our video customer service. If the incoming call block is removed, you will be billed at the same rate as the outgoing phone calls.

Phone as modem.... LOL. Not on the Pre!]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/50,000. Wow. 50,000 complete morons just bought a shitty phone when they could have gotten the top of the line service-AT&T and the best phone on the market- the iPhone.

Some people are such morons.]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
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After reposting their 10 billionth reminder of wwdc and little comments like that, this website is way to biased. No wonder you love it here, paul, we all know you dream of humping steve at night. Comparing the two is what I want, I want people to be able to actually choose which product they want based on what they like. Not have crap like that shoved down their throat.]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Gotta give credit where credit is due.]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
If palm didn't want their device compared to the iPhone they should have been original about their product! If you don't like the way Engadget does things then stop visiting the site. I bid you ado. ]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Trelane, General, retired]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
let's see you back this stupid comment up.]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Endgadget is not a news sight. It doesn't have to hold itself to any kind of journalistic standard.]]>Jun 8th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Right, because a bunch of programmers and engineers were sitting around PALM headquarters going, "You know what would be really cool on a phone? Multi-touch and a real browser and full touch screen phone with no buttons. We'll have to kill our old OS to implement such things, but I think it's a great idea. And what's even better, no one has ever done this before! It'll be a hit!"

Right. I'm sure that conversation happened. If the Pre had been announced a couple of months after the original iPhone, maybe.


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Seriously all of you bitch and moan about how Engadget is apparently hurting you with all these "horrible apple stories" yet you idiots day in and day out come in them and post.

NEWFLASH!!!!1

NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO READ ENGADGET. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE ENGADGET THEN STOP READING IT. GO TO ANOTHER OF THE MILLION TECH WEBSITES OUT THERE.

/rant

Anyways this is Palm's fault. IF they had produced enough Pre's who knows how much they would have sold. As it is though I think the launch could have been significantly better. There was ZERO advertising on TV for this phone. I MEAN ZERO. The only ads I saw were online...

That in itself is a disgrace. ]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Yes, I've seen it.

]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/so YES ,
you can and should compare what ex-apple employees invent to their old company.
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All great points, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with my original comment. My original comment was:


"The Pre wouldn't exist without the iPhone, so I think it's reasonable to compare the two."


That comment didn't imply anything about competition. I was making a simple observation, which justified the idea that it's okay for Engadget to mention the iPhone, since the Pre was an obvious imitation of the iPhone. It doesn't help shaunisadirty's argument when representatives of PALM actually compared the Pre to the iPhone and said that iPhone users were going to buy the Pre after finishing out their AT&T contracts.





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Palm announced they were working on a brand new Linux based OS at some point in late 2005, so the Pre would have existed with or without the iPhone. HOW the OS would have looked is a whole different story, but not the point.]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
"it's a pre jim, but not as we know it"

that would have been your pre (alien)
but for the ex- apple team that made the pre what it is today,user friendly, just like apple,

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"June 29, 2009, is the two-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later. Think about it — if you bought the first iPhone, you bought it because you wanted the coolest product on the market. Your two-year contract has just expired. Look around. Tell me what they’re going to buy."

He also said that the Pre "eats iPhone for breakfast" in his little mock video.



So, in other words, the Haters argument is:


Engadget compares Pre to iPhone = BAD

PALM representative compares Pre to iPhone = GOOD


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true that, "fanboys" on both sides secretly love this ;)]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
Engadget compares Pre to iPhone = inevitable but often unnecessary.

PALM compares Pre to iPhone = inevitable and unfortunately necessary.....but no one has EVER said it was "good".

Likewise your view seems to be

Anyone that has a criticism of Apple = "Hater"

Anyone that feels Apple can do no wrong = "objective"

As always, reality finds itself in moderation.

Neither you....nor Engadget find itself in that happy medium without fail. Though to Engadget's credit...they at least TRY.]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/This boy is actually right for once. Without the iPhone we probably wouldn't have things like the Touch HD and Omnia HD either. I'm not saying this is any kind of evolution on the side of Apple, they just pushed the market forward.]]>Jun 8th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
As for you that are "sick" of the WWDC announcements, there were 2 - 3 posts per day about the friggin Pre for the past few weeks, thank god that ship has sailed and will be gone for good in a few months...]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
I could really care less about who did what. It's competition and that's what we the consumers need. So far I love my Pre, if the iPhone would have been on Sprint I probably would've already had one. To each his own. Hopefully we'll continue to see companies driving their competition to do bigger and better things. ]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
@Paul, I understand what you said, but if engadget is going to mention the iPhone in every post about the PRE, then mention the PRE in every iPhone post, if we're trying to be unbiased and all.]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
I'm excited to hear about the pre. I'm not excited to hear some whiney commenter piss and moan about word choice in the article.]]>Jun 8th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/Jun 8th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/palm-moves-50-000-pre-smartphones-in-opening-weekend/
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When Apple came out with their first phone... people sorta had an idea what to expect because they probably already had an iPod, or at least heard of one.

Existing Palm Treo or Centro users will probably jump on the Palm Pre real quick... and techie people who read Engadget.

But I don't see the Palm Pre gaining mass appeal and marketshare.]]>Jun 8th 2009 4:08PM