Palm Pre in cahoots with Dutch provider Hi?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jul 3rd 2009 4:56AM
posted Jul 3rd 2009 4:56AM
[Via Tweakers, thanks Harm H.]
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Except the iPhone and iPhone 3G are also shown there, neither of which are available on hi.
Don't shoot the messenger. There are some things that need to be highlighted here:
first of all the iPhone has always been a GSM phone so it's clear why Hi has those pictures there, if my iPhone has no simlock I could use a Hi sim but the Pre is NOT GSM at this moment so why shoukd they have a picture of it on their site?
I believe the Pre is coming sooner to Holland than you might think.
Oh hai, I herd u liek Palm Pre's.
Say it is true Thomas, the best network in the Netherlands + Pre = WIN!
God I hate T-Mobile.
=( Hi is the suckiest provider i've seen with their lame coverage. T-mobile pl0x.
Have never had coverage loss or problems with KPN, but hi uses that network, how can it suck?
Either way a simfree Pre is what I'll be eyeballing anyway.
Hi and KPN suck. T-Mobile might be the second largest provider in The Netherlands, but I don't like T-Mobile either. I was hoping the Pre would come to Vodafone or without a contract with any provider. But it seems I will have to find my Pre somewhere else...
I don't know how tmobile is in europe but in the US it' great. they have cheaper plans than theother carriers and I've had less trouble with billing than with either sprint or verizon. I've never had any trouble with coverage either but i spend almost all of my time in town so it's not a major issue for me. Their phones suck though. I'm interested in this hoping I can get a Europenan Pre, unlock it and us it on t-moblie in the US
Hi = KPN = soulless bastards, even more soulless than usual I mean.
T-mobile is the former german state phone company that the government made a public company while they changed the EU to go more capitalistic, so it started in europe and was in the netherlands etcetera too before it was big enough to get a foothold in the US, generally companies are a bit scared going to the US and prepare well, it's considered shark-invested waters where you might be eaten alive.
i dont think europeans would want the pre anyway... there is no front facing camera, just look at how the omnia outsold the iphone in europe for 3 months straight and how in the dutch market htcs outsell iphones 3 to 1
i only say iphone because its the only high end phone over there with no front facing camera...not because im a fanboy :)
Seriously, I've had 3 different phones with frontfacing cameras and I've used it ONCE. No one I've ever talked to uses that..
Seriously, how many people do you know that have EVER used there frontfacing camera? I have one, and have never ever ever used it. In Europe very very few people use it, because...why would you? The reason more HTC phones are sold here, is because, well there are more HTC phones... And you can get almost every HTC phone without a simlock. For the iPhone you'll have to switch carrier and get a "special subscription" with T-Mobile (atleast in the Netherlands) that includes a data plan and visual voicemail. And well, most people simply just don't care about a data plan and visual voicemail, they just want to be able to send atleast a 1000 sms text messages a month, and well, that just sucks on a iPhone...
Yeah nobody uses the frontfacing camera, not in europe either, maybe in korea? Or maybe in north korea because you aren't allowed to make pictures of anything but your nose? Or maybe in nepal, or russia, no idea where but not the US nor EU.
I just wish I could buy the damn thing without having to sign my life away to a carrier.
That's how it worked here in Finland until the iPhone arrived. Just give us the damn phone and stop shoving a carrier we don't want down our throats.
xoxo,
Finland
Hear hear!
I third that. iHope that the iPhone will be the first and only one to be tied in a carrier here in Finland. However the pre will get here prolly in 2100, so i hope that other countries that get it first will have it unlocked also.
Best comment ever.
Would also influence the featureset of phones in a positive way. Untill that day, tinker away on an openmoko.
so what will the keyboard be then? QWERTY, AZERTY, or QWERTZ?
we use QWERTY over here
Except for France who use AZERTY
I think germany has some keys exchanged too, I remember trying a german game once and the z wasn't where you expect it, in the netherlands they use mostly 'normal' keyboards though.
Who wants a plasticky phone?
Me! Me! Me!
I'm buying it because I want Palm to survive long enough to make a better built WebOS phone.
Hmm, will O2 charge double the price like they did with the iPhone 3GS?
Even the carriers there are hi, crazy europeans.
a dutch/belgian online retailer is also listing the pre as coming soon....
http://www.pdashop.be/product/71896/palm-pre.html
"Welkom bij de Society"? Sounds too much like "Welcome to the social".
I suppose the Zune has things that are worth copying. This slogan isn't one of them.
Ah, but Hi used "Welcome to the Hi society" way before Microsoft invented the Zune.
ZUNE RIPOFF
MICROSOFT RULEZZZ!!!
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Yawn.
Is Palm still making these things? I thought the market had spoken and the numbers put it in the "failure" column.
In a post-iPhone 3GS / OS 3.0 world this thing looks antiquated.
Palm shows the Pre on it´s German website since 6 months as "coming soon"....
Palm Pre available for UK preorder from Handtec. I hope this means that it'll be out sooner than September. I can't wait that long.
Hi, Welkom bij de Society.
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does anyone know if it is triband or not?