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Palm Pre Users Get The Shaft

Posted by on Jan 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

The good news is that the Pre will be supporting Flash as the company had promised by the end of 2009… the bad news is the Pre you wanted came out after you foolishly purchased the first one. Today’s Pre Plus has the features users wanted from the first unit. Better slider mechanism, improved keyboard — which also means more responsive keys.

What was interesting, as Mashable had noted, was that the new Pre felt more like the Pixi… which, again, if going to miff a number of existing Pre owners as the phone was pretty clunky. The final smart move, too, was to take the emphasis off of it being a Palm device and instead go with the Verizon branding.

Sadly, Palm is not really a brand anyone uses proudly anymore. Hopefully the Verizon branding will help with this. Plus the great news for everyone, too, is that Flash is still coming. And unlike what the rumors say, it’s coming too all Pre phones.

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  • premaster

    I wouldn’t say we got the shaft, id say that they are leaving sprint in favor of a company that will actually promote and sell this sucker. Sprint is terrible for promoting and if you walk into any sprint store, its like a barren wasteland. Theres 1 employee and hes too busy texting to his girlfriend than to help you. Go into att and its bangin with people who dont know what they want.. or what a pre or iphone even are really. they just get sucked in my good marketing and a common name. Id say the past 7 months of having the pre was the best phone experience to date and i wouldn’t give up these long nights of waiting for releases for anything in the world. now if only a pre 2.0 comes to sprint eventually. I dont want to leave my killer plan.

  • Dave

    This article is all F.U.D.

    Foolishly purchased the Pre? It was the 1st generation of the device. So will Verizon users who bought the pre 2.0 be foolish for not waiting until the next pre 3.0 that supports removable memory cards, video output and who know what else…

    Yes…hardware gets better and improves over time. Eventually almost every geek toy you buy will be outdated; usually sooner than later.

    So yes, the Pre plus has…

    More RAM
    More Internal Storage
    Better keyboard? .. subjective opinion
    Better slider? Possibly…

    Sprint’s current Pre will get the same Operating system updates that Verizon has. So it too will support flash, really besides the extra RAM I don’t see the huge difference…