Pre sets first day and first weekend device sales records for Sprint, almost ruins a wedding
By Paul Miller 
posted June 8th 2009 6:24PM
posted June 8th 2009 6:24PM
posted June 8th 2009 6:24PM
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I thought he looked like Ernest from early 90s.
Woot! Only 39,950,000+ more to go to match Apple's user base!!
Don't forget the 50,000 apps and billion downloads.
Only 1,099,950,000+ more to go to match Nokia's user base!!
Only 2 more fanboys to clog the post!
Wow, I didn't know Nokia have an App store that developers could easily write and sell their apps. That 1,099,950,000+ number is impressive. I have no idea Nokia sold that many SMARTPHONES. My bad.
How many apps were available when the iphone launched again?? oh yeah.. zero.
STFU
Too bad Nokia still has the market share to claim the "king" title =/ Oh....
i was reading on a website that the nokia n95 8gb was the best phone with 85% iphone 3g and palm pre is second with 81%
It was a success for Palm considering the market cap of these two companies.
Apple is $100B company while Palm only has a market cap of 1.5B? If we assume that iPhone make up to be about 25% of Apple's business, which gives it a 25B dollar market.
I would consider Palm successful if it move one pre for every 10 iPhones apple sold.
Anyway, I am iPhone user right now and I am switching to the Pre because of the slide out keyboard, I cannot tell you how many time i have had typo on my business email.
iPhone and iPod is ALL that Apple will be capitalizing off of. Macs are never going to take over the market share, so they might as well focus on other things, lol
Thats hardly impressive, 1st gen iPhone in US only sold something like 700k in the first weekend, and by saying that is a record for sprint doesnt that say some thing about them?
I still need to get my hands on one to see what its like, but it would take something special to take me away from my 3G with 3.0.
who cares... Sprint just needs to release the BlackBerry Tour and move on.. the pre is neat for kids but lets release some adult devices please...
are you kidding me?
I went to the Sprint store last Saturday to finally check out the phone. I liked it. I noticed that Apple had trained me into how I should gesture and what results to expect, so it took me a little longer to get used to the UI. I kept waiting for the vitrtual keyboard to show up. I think I prefer a virtual keyboard to the physical one. I never thought I would say such a thing but Apple did a great job with their implementation.
The biggest problem at the Sprint store, the lack of Palm Pres. I think Palm and/or Sprint miscalculated the demand. My wife liked the Pre so much she was ready to buy it instead of waiting to see what Apple came out with today. Pre lucked out that Apple produced mediocre results today. So I am pretty sure we'll be a Pre/iPhone family for a while.
So congratulations Sprint, but it could have been at least +1 than the current numbers if your supply had matched demand.
[Pictured] From left to right:
A morbidly obese zombie, a grunt in the Italian Mafia, a 60 year old pedophile, the bouncer at the local night club, a neo-nazi business man, and a construction worker on lunch break.
At least Palm is selling!
hahaha i was going to comment on the dudes waiting in line too!!!
It makes me wonder what the other guys in line were like...
"Stand here... no wait... a little to the left. No wait... a little to the right. Oh dear God, no. Let's walk up the line a little more. No no, go back... Ugh..." ::click::
I thought they were all paid extras .. no females .. or do they just drive in?
CEO Dan Hesse can say what he wants about Sprint but after purchasing a Pre on Saturday, I have never experienced worse customer service from any vendor, cell provider or otherwise. I own an Iphone 3G and have a Verizon blackberry; while the Pre itself is a wonderful device, particularly the multitasking aspect the network is atrocious. I live in CT and have not made a call yet that has not dropped. The data connection is woefully slow, far behind ATT and Vzw in CT. I actually thought that my phone was defective due to the connection problems, only to spend two (2) yes I said two hours yesterday at a Sprint Store in Newington CT, only to be told that the phone was fine and that the connection issues were typical in the area. Well, let me define the area, according to the Store manager, the "area" was all of central CT.
The worst part was I simply wanted to cancel my new account and return the phone. You cannot cancel an account in the store. I called customer service and still could not cancel the account. I had to head back to the Sprint Store this morning and had to wait one hour and forty five minutes to return the phone, then call back Sprint and cancel the line. A complete waste of nearly a day to return a device that I will surely purchase when it arrives on another provider.
Networks vary across the nation.
Out west the Sprint network is very good. I have a Sprint broadband card and it smokes any other consultant in our firm using AT&T or Verizon for data.
Again, Sprint back east, not so good. Spring out west, quite awesome.
Does anyone else think the whole wedding thing was just pathetic?
Wait, I'm confused... how does this related to the iPhone 3G S? Yup, just checked.. .this is still engadget. How odd of them to interrupt the nonstop stream of "iPhone 3G S comes with a Magic coating!!" stories...
people are disappointed with the iphone but from what i hear the pre cant even do video recording. posting it directly to youtube from the iphone seems pretty cool to me, it will make youtube even better, sure theyll be alot of junk videos too but everyone will have their iphone on them and can easily pop it out and record videos to youtube. so much iphone bashing but no one bashes the pre for its many shortcomings such as video and lack of storage!
Well...the Pre is 1.0
The iPhone 1.0 didnt even have video recording...
I don't see the big deal?
I bet they won't have to wait the length that iPhone users had to wait =/
IDavey,
Apple is still selling iPhone 1.0? If so, you have a valid point.
Until announced today...did ANY iPhone have video recording? =/
I rest my case...
Man, good thing reality is yesterday and not today iDavey.
@johnny
You're kidding, right? NOW all of a sudden you're smack talking a phone that doesn't record video because Apple finally invented it? You do realize there are dozens of phones in these here United States that can take video and upload to YouTube, right? RIGHT??? And they've been able to do it for years!! You DO understand that after 2 freaking YEARS, the iPhone is FINALLY offering a feature that many phone have always had!
How do people get this dumb?
All this Pre news is getting monotonous.
its kinda like the pre :) ... very boring
This isn't really an achievement, considering the old first-day first-weekend device sales record for Sprint was a whopping 48 devices.
Oh yeah? At least with the iphone i have my choice of over 125 fart apps... um..nevermind..
god why the fuck are so many of you EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED to CORPORATIONS?
Because they're Corporation fanboys masquerading as tech geeks.
Ugh...we should have a geek test or something before posting.
"The rest of the effusive PR is spent on extensive self praise"
Is it just me or does that sound snarky? and if its not just me then:
WHY THE SNARKY ATTITUDE TOWARDS ANYTHING BUT APPLE POSTS ENGADGET?!
Maybe its just me getting irritated by all the Apple praises when I was let down by today's conference.
Also 150,000 apps downloaded on Saturday alone. Fair enough, there's only 18 but still good going. Palm needs to capitalise quick on the lack of killer features announced today. Get that video recording update out ASAP. A GSM release date wouldn't hurt either.
You boys can keep circle-jerking each other debating between the superiority of the iPhone or Pre. Blah blah blah... I'm carrying both and they're both great in their own rite. Will definitely be getting a 3GS when released and whichever flagship WebOS Palm releases.
@iDavey
"iPhone and iPod is ALL that Apple will be capitalizing off of. Macs are never going to take over the market share, so they might as well focus on other things, lol"
This shows how much you understand about what Apple has and is achieving. It has nothing to do with the iPhone directly, as was mentioned in the presentation today (from the engadget live blog):
10:04AM "Here's a chart of OS X users over 10 years." It goes from 5m to 25m. "But something has happening..." he changes the chart to move up to 75m. "We've tripled the amount of users since iPhone."
iDavey and others, when you figure out what that means you'll realize how Apple see the iPhone playing out for them.
BTW, good luck to Palm - the Pre looks like a fantastic phone.
Trust me...I'm very well versed in their business ways (which is why I love them as a business)
But still...the market share will rise...but never dominate.
As it stands, it's still not a "business pushed" OS.
I do agree, it is being pushed more and more (especially with the addition of Exchange support even if not as full featured as Microsoft full version)
So it's getting there.
But as Apple has their name slapped on MP3 players...I mean, iPod IS MP3 players for all intents and purposes.
Windows is still the go to OS for business, productivity, and low priced consumers.
That's NOT TO SAY Mac OS X does not embody those characteristics...
But it's engrained into heads that Windows is just as it's engrained that iPod is the definitive MP3 player...even if there are better choices...
@iDavey
Do you have ANY other life than to bash people who says anything bad about the iPhone?
Look at your comment history you've been _patrolling_ these post in the past hours.
Yeah, and you assume that the number of Windows licenses sold have remained stagnant or fixed?
As more and more people the world over purchase computers/laptops/netbooks then so too do the number of Windows licenses increase.
Case in point, MS STILL commands a 92% OS market share.
So what does that say about Apple?
They may have sold 50 million more licenses, but that only accounted for about a 1-2 % increase in market share, at best.
So, we can extrapolate this to mean that Microsoft must have also solds HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS more licenses in the same time to maintain their market share advantage.
Why is it that Windows Vista (with its criticisms and all) still accounted for more licenses sold by Microsoft than any and all of Apple's OS's released in their near 30 year history, COMBINED?
Look at that cute little Barbie keyboard...enough to keep me away from the hardware let alone how good the O/S is, what a joke. Did they have a round table of midgets agree on that keyboard?
Looks like Palm had a successful launch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNh39h02zYI
This is exactly how I imagined iLemmings were. Thank you for the verification!
What is this '50,000' number that Engadget keeps tossing around? They state '50,000 at best' - but other sites like Bloomberg show that as the low estimate:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aO8w4SDammvs
From the article:
Palm may sell about 150,000 Pre phones this weekend, Lawrence Harris, an analyst at CL King & Associates, said in an interview. Piper Jaffray & Co.’s Michael Walkley puts the number at almost 200,000. New York-based Harris rates Palm “neutral” and Walkley, in Minneapolis, advises clients to buy the stock. Paul Coster, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, estimates weekend sales of more than 50,000.
Do you honestly expect anything but disingenuous reporting about the commercial and/or critical successes of any non-Apple product that directly competes with an Apple product by the crew here at Engadget?
One is worse than the other, so I guess you answered your own question -- don't expect impartiality from the Engadget crew, do your own investigative research, and don't limit yourself to getting your news from Engadget alone.
LOL, click on the iphone 3gs threads, and 99% of the apple fanboys are nowhere to be found, but click on a palm pre threads, and bam apple fanboys are found!!!
Wait wait wait, let me get this straight...
People are criticizing the iPhone because the Pre has some improvements..... improvements that have taken almost 2 years since the original iPhone has launched.
Palm has been making phones for YEEEAAARRS... right?
Yet Apple's first phone is setting the standard for it's OS and implementation.
People are going to say, "well Apple still hasn't added this, or that, or this"
Yet you still forget, this is only Apple's THIRD generation phone. The Pre is what generation for Palm?
If Apple had as many generations of iPhones as Palm has had, how far more advanced and how many more features would it have?
It's kind of like saying that my 4 year old daughter can ride a two wheeled bike very well, when your 10 year old daughter has been riding tricycles for all of her life. Yeah, my 4 year old daughter has gotten your 10 year old daughter to go ahead and try that two wheeled bike, and guess what, she's not half-bad at it because she is SIX YEARS older.
Get my analogy.
The Palm Pre is a pretty nice phone though. I like it. I like my iPhone as well. The end.
guy in blue shirt - what happened to the side of his head? gunshot?