http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/ Engadget Comments for Palm posts $22m Q3 loss, says it liked its chances against Droid had Verizon launch been sooner 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/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Hopefully The Rube wasn't kidding about there being "no changes to [their] planned carrier launches." I've been on suicide watch all week since the "delayed AT&T WebOS launch" rumor started.

. . . and by "suicide," I mean buying an iPhone like everyone else.

Dark Side, indeed.]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
And the Palm Pre was being touted as the smartphone that would destroy the iPhone. What a crock. Palm was struggling to stay in business before the Pre came about because of its lackluster attitude of updating its older smartphone OS. The obvious question is what company is going to buy Palm and use its WebOS. I doubt that Palm can survive on its own as fast as it's burning through cash.]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
Ouch it is. I got pre plus a week ago. Wonderful device and OS. But guess what! It lasts 2hrs pandora streaming and couple (2min) calls.

I'll be returning it as soon as incredible is out, still in my 30 days.
They should have fixed the battery thingy before they put a "plus" at the end...
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btw.. literally too little.]]>Mar 18th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
I agree. N900 style device (maybe thinner) with WebOS would be awesome. To be honest though, Nokia just needs to pick a OS and stick with it. And support its high-end devices for at least a year]]>Mar 18th 2010 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 19th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
MS's profile seems to be crush the competition with closed-technology, and then go complacent effectively killing that market and technology. That's what they did against the Apple II, then Netscape, MS Money vs Quicken (although Quicken won with worse tech), vs Sun and Java with .NET, and that's what they did against Palm, and now they're going after the iPhone.

Apple's success OTOH is they successfully synergized open-source tech with their own contributions to (Obj-C, NeXTstep, BSD, OpenGL) and created a pretty good OS. They they copied MS's idea and used a small-subset of their desktop OS to put on their mobile device. The difference is Apple have made it a primary focus of the company instead of going half-way like MS with Win32 in WinCE with only enough effort to dominate Palm. Meanwhile, MS goes 180 degrees synergizing with their console instead of sticking with their original desktop subset strategy effectively pissing the rest of us off for violating MS's backwards compatibility legacy.]]>Mar 19th 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Does it HAVE to be an iPhone? Perhaps you can look into the fine selection of Android devices available for human consumption.]]>Mar 19th 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Actually, now that the Nexus One is going to be available for AT&T, I may get that instead. I don't want to told what I CAN and CAN'T install on a phone that I paid for (thanks anyway, Apple).]]>Mar 19th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 19th 2010 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 19th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 19th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
IMMINENT FAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLL!]]>Mar 19th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2010/03/19/the-worst-insider-buy-in-history/

..cant help but LMAO.. wish i was short $PALM pre-cc. Good Luck ;)]]>Mar 19th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 23rd 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/WebOS Tablet by the end of the year Mr. Rubenstein - I'll take two thanks :)]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/I just got a Pre Plus for Verizon on eBay about 2 weeks ago, I used the Droid too, have been pleasantly surprised with the Pre, not to mention no having to sign a new 2 yr contract with Verizon in the process.]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/seriously...if they made a phone in a non candybar/slider form factor i'd seriously be thinking about it. especially if they did some kinda of qwerty slider similar to the touch pro 2 with LARGE keys. every time i pick up a pre in a verizon/sprint store and try to use the keyboard, i feel like the phone is laughing @ me because of my somewhat puddgy finger tips]]>Mar 18th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/i'm also waiting for a new phone from Palm, with a bigger screen and faster proc.

I think the best thing for us WebOS fans would be if RIM bought Palm. A combination of BlackBerry hardware and WebOS would be awesome.]]>Mar 19th 2010 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
Ta.]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
I don't even think a Pre 2 could save them now. ]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
yea that was one of the things that turned me off to it was how friggin small it is. i love webOS and have been a Palm fan for a long time with the Treo line but the first time i held one, i thought "there is no way i could use this thing on a daily basis". i have a TP2 now and plan on getting a WP7s device when my contract is up but i'll listen if Palm wants to try again.
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Palm is fine, they still have well over $500 million cash to operate. They've had at least that much the past 3 quarters. I think they'll be ok in the long run. Their continued expansion out to multiple carriers seems to be slowing the bleeding. Hopefully they'll be announcing some new hardware soon.]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
I mean, if they released an HD2 style device, it would make this girl pretty happy.]]>Mar 19th 2010 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 19th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
1.) MicroSD support -- this is ESSENTIAL
2.) Better camera resolution, 5mp still and at least d1 @ 30fps video, preferably 8mp still and 720p @ 24 fps video, but I doubt that will happen.
3.) More Ram -- the PrePlus was a great, keep going in this respect.
4.) Bigger screen with higher resolution -- at least 3.5", preferably 3.7" with WVGA resolution.
5.) TV out support
6.) Better applications, but those will come -- the NDK looks promising]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/On an off note, the PDK looks promising.]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/You know what I meant, lol.
Trolio :P]]>Mar 18th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/
Sure, it's not as "polished" as the iPhone OS, but you have to take into account that the iPhone OS hasn't really changed since it was first released 3 years ago. New features added, yes. But nothing drastic.

WebOS has only been around for 1 year. It has bugs, as all phones/OS do when first released, but it has been growing in maturity by leaps and bounds since it was first released.]]>Mar 18th 2010 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/palm-posts-22m-q3-loss-making-great-progress-on-future-produc/Mar 18th 2010 5:47PM