http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/ Engadget Comments for Palm to disclose UK Pre launch details next week? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Keyboard enlarging patch is scheduled to come out sometime next week.]]>Jul 1st 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/
Honestly, no. Like it or not the iPhone is a very well known device that is seen as a competitor to the Pre (wrongly, in my opinion) and announcing the Pre for other locations would potentially have reduced the demand for Apple's new device. You only have to look at the timing of the Pre's release in the US to see that Palm wanted to get the device on the streets before the new iPhone was announced.]]>Jul 1st 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/
As for the release date, any news in advance of a competitor's launch would be helpful IMO so people know how long they would have to wait. Problem is I don't think Palm had any idea what demand would be like and when they would have phones ready for UK.

Finally, @Look...ignoring Apple's popularity will not make them less popular. I realize you hate everything Apple but unfortunately tens of millions of iPhone users disagree.

Palm is seriously dropping the ball with the Pre...their advertising sucks (too much visual not enough phone), there are serious product defect concerns, and finally, their failure to launch a viable App store competitor is killing them in the market. They cannot wait a year to get serious in this game because they don't have the luxury of waiting like Apple did since Apple's move in this space made apps CRITICAL to all phones. Just look at the new Verizon ads for LG, etc. phones...they all talk up how "app friendly" they are. That is the new wave, and Palm is losing ground every day.]]>Jul 1st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/"Finally, @Look...ignoring Apple's popularity will not make them less popular. I realize you hate everything Apple but unfortunately tens of millions of iPhone users disagree."

#1 you mindless simpleton, I dont hate everything Apple. Like most people we hate their dingbat fanatics.

#2 A company is free to release their product whenever they want, and should without someone pipping in bout how it's too close to this release from Apple or too close to that Apple event.

Which if you take into account all of their events, would make it impossible to release anything during the whole calendar year.

The entire buying public does not consist of 100% "I want an iPhone" and 0.000000001% that dont despite what Apple fanboys like to believe, and on top of that there are always people entering into the market all of the time, so who cares when a product is released.

And before you start pointing out build quality of other products, you need to pay more attention to the iPhone overheating issues. Or let me guess, you convinced yourself that was all made up, right?]]>Jul 1st 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/
blah, blah, fanboys, blah blah...you going to use the "I am rubber you are glue" argument next?

As for product releases, if your primary market/competition is the iPhone (as is the case with the Pre and many other attempts at knockoffs...e.g., Storm, Touch, etc.) then I would either steer clear of the iPhone launch dates (pretty simple, once a year in June/July). You cannot compete with something if you don't play the game. If Palm doesn't care (and I am sure to some extent they don't) that is fine.

I never said 100% of the population wants an iPhone...I SAID tens of millions of people wanted an iPhone.

Overheating issues is a new one to me...you trying to start a rumor here...are you talking about the "discoloration" on the new white iPhones? Not sure where you are going here but I don't hear people running around screaming because their iPhones are overheating.

I don't hear of too many people giving up their iPhone to go back to a Pre...I do read lots of chatter on PreCentral.net about how crap the Pre is (build quality...seems OS is reasonably solid).

The story will write itself...people will vote with their wallets. Sure both companies will keep some diehard fans but the masses will choose the better product. We shall see...
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Wait.....did you just say trapper keeper? ]]>Jul 1st 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/
Honestly, come over here and pay for a year's car insurance and tell me that the UK is still a rip-off...it's bloody daylight robbery here.]]>Jul 1st 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/And the release should be within this month. :)
Was waiting for the phone from the moment i saw it in CES 2009.
Hopefully the phone will be as good in hand as it is in the video's.

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match should be over soon, it looks like it]]>Jul 1st 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/Jul 1st 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/]]>Jul 1st 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/01/palm-to-disclose-uk-pre-launch-details-next-week/
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