Sprint to Discontinue Palm Pre
Sprint has finally decided to kill off the Palm Pre. It has been around for over 18 months now, wow amazing right?! It was first released to Sprint as an exclusive. Most of the people here that love or hate the Pre - well it is time to either suck up and buy one or let it fade away into Sprint's netherlands!
A little in the history of the device. It was originally designed as an iPhone killer, to compete with the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Obviously, it was not that great of a killer, but it did hit home with a lot of people for the ability of multi-tasking, and modern OS style. Now we hear of the Pre 2, and several other phones being lined up in the European Countries. We have heard Rumors of the Pre2 coming to Verizon, but no word yet if any other US carrier will receive the new Palm device.
With the end of Pre love on Sprint, what does this mean for their fan based users? Is it time to either jump ship to a new carrier, or just time to switch platforms? If Sprint does not bring it back, what guess would be made as of the reason why?
Source: mobiletopsoft.com
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They dont bring it back bc its garbage and they probably lost more money than made it.
Personally I love WebOS, but the Pre was junk. I would definitely consider buying another WebOS device if the hardware was right. Will it come back to Sprint? I doubt it..I think they are placing all bets on Android.
The original Pre was poorly marketed and had severely underwhelming hardware.
I think most carriers are reluctant to carry the Pre 2 until they see how it will preform and whether or not it will be the cause for numerous costly returns. Add this to the rumors abounding regarding new “superphone” hardware HP may or may not release come CES, and carriers (and customers) are skittish.
I never had any problems with my Pre (still use it and like it even more than the Evo and Epic), but the crappy hardware is killing webOS.
It’s frustrating. I think webOS is the best mobile system that I have used (Palm Garnet, WinMo, Android and Blackberry), but missteps by Palm have relegated it to almost zero mindshare.
I really want a new phone but since Android doesn’t do it for me and Windows Phone 7 doesn’t look fully baked, I guess I’ll wait on webOS 2.0 and the new phones.
Ha, I remember when my Sprint Rep said that Android wasn’t going to be a big thing and that Sprint wasn’t going to carry anything Android because it wasn’t a fully developed OS and couldn’t keep up with the Sprint network. xD He said that WebOS was going to be what killed all. Good thing he was wrong.
I wonder if WP7 is going to pan out to eventually be as good as the old WinMo was. I mean, right now it doesn’t look like it, but maybe down the road, they will look at their small customer base and look at what it used to be and get the bright idea to make some changes.
Bye bye lady iphone
The Pre has met it’s end of life like all other phones do. Sprint is simply taking out the trash. (literally) Sprint has no choice but to wait and see what Palm/HP comes up with. If they put WebOs on some serious current hardware then all carriers will want to offer it to their customers. If agreements can be made then carriers will have them. I seriously doubt that Palm/HP will want their devices exclusive to any one carrier at this point in the game. They need to hit a real homerun and they will be swinging for a grand slam on all carriers if possible. I hope for awesome hardware with 4″ or larger touch screens and front facing cameras, 1.6ghz processors, etc. Palm/HP has the potential to take the smartphone market to the next level.
the only good devices HP ever made was the hx4700 and the ipaq 21x series (circa 2007). their smartphones always lagged behind everyone else in terms of hardware, same with blackberry devices if they (HP/Palm and RIM) dont follow the hardware patterns that the OHSA,Microsoft and Apple are following then they will lose big time.
thats sad really although i myself dont own pre (TP2 – WM 4eva) but at least 2 confirmed friends bought pre’s since i pushed it so hard on them when pres came out. One of them was nothing but happy(talk about 1k mins text a lot) other had to change it twice and it going in for repairs again soon(talk a lot text a little). Both talk a lot but the second puts away over 4k minutes a month(unlimited plan naturally), so i guess its a good phone if you talk on it that much:) Was really hoping for Pre2 on sprint(again to recommend to others:))