Comments on: Palm Pre Sales in "Substantial Decline": Analyst

By: Where is the Next Great Smartphone from Palm and HP?: Tech News «

Where is the Next Great Smartphone from Palm and HP?: Tech News « — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:01:57 +0000

[...] if you recall released the Pre in June of last year to good reviews but modest sales. It followed up with the simpler Pixi in November. A Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus, two updates with [...]

By: Why Early 2010 Will Be Critical for Palm – GigaOM

Why Early 2010 Will Be Critical for Palm – GigaOM — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:28:48 +0000

[...] next few months will be critical for Palm, which has seen its handset sales slide following the Pre’s June debut. The company has promised to take its developer program fully [...]

By: Sillyness

Sillyness — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:52:56 +0000

I'd love to see these analysts provide details into methodology.

"we called two stores and spoke to a 17 year old clerk" and that's our 'check'.

By: Ratnok

Ratnok — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:09 +0000

Travis- you clearly haven’t read the reviews or seen the sales numbers on Droid. It’s too bad the power of the Droid intimidates you, but you can always jump on a sinking ship- i.e. Palm.

By: Why Are Tech Layoffs Rising in a Recovery?

Why Are Tech Layoffs Rising in a Recovery? — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:51:32 +0000

[...] for a foothold in the thriving smartphone market, is shedding as many as 5,700 jobs. Sprint, facing disappointing sales of the Palm Pre, will cut up to 2,500. And AOL has been floundering in its search for a role on the [...]

By: ceaser28

ceaser28 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:43:19 +0000

wow most of these comments regarding this editor are true they speculate but like the iphone since a year after the launch every one will believe what anyone says and jump on the wagon. First of all the pre is still on pace on sold amount of pres (according to palm, sprint, and stock editors) also palm sold 70,000 at launch with minimal advertisment and the droid with so much sold 100,000 the droid Ive used is nothing great the keyboard is flat not domed and the android hardware to me is horriable you can get the same hardware that has been out for years on win mo called sbp shell which android borrowed the widget idea android is choppy and the droid is slower then the pre,iphone and surprise the pixi palms stock has risen from $2 a share to $12 in 6 months and sprint up from $3 to $6 i own a iphone 3gs and a palm pre and with the updates, patches, preware etc the pre run laps with its web os and not even utilizing the graphics chip yet scary once it drops on verizon you will see people start to pick up more pre;s and pixis because of how clean and easy to use the phone is and by then all the bugs will be fixed via, will have video recording, flash and graphic utilization which will make the pre and pixi 50% faster and better battery so people read the stocks, use the phone, make your own opinions on things be your own person the reason why sprint has a bad wrap is because people speculate they are a great company and are on the same network as verizon wake up people

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:04:27 +0000

Slim – get your facts straight brother (Sprint vs. AT&T network wise = NO CONTEST, Sprint vs. Verizon network wise = an underdog puttiing up a decent fight)..how short-sighted is this statement..

“get your shizz together and put it out there on decent ntwks (vs. a crap one like Sprint)”

When was the last time you carried a phone, from a different service provider, for a substantional period of time? If you craft your opinions based on someone else’s…are they really your own?

Let me guess, you think Windows 7 is the best thing since sliced bread..? I can’t tell you it is, or it’s not, but I can tell you I wouldn’t base my opinion of it on feedback I got from you. Nor would I base it on the fact that I hated my Windows XP from years back. Things change.

By: gdgt weekly 063 | CastMedium

gdgt weekly 063 | CastMedium — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:47:06 +0000

[...] Palm Pixi is now available and the verdict is mixed. WebOS has not taken off in the way that Palm would have hoped, and the guys argue that the only real chance they have is if [...]

By: Vj

Vj — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:21:56 +0000

Mr Malik -

This initial prediction from your site, and the back-and-forth between you and the posters has degenerated into a PALM stock message boards. Of course we have more civil people here (no bad language here) – but the point is , analysis is missing, and you look desperate to be on the winning side.

Its not the stock market – but you want to be with the market – innovation be damned.

Thats not to say you are anti-innovation , but what you are saying is “Market wins, innovation be damned” .

Hence Sir, I label you as being ANTI-GEEK.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:16:10 +0000

Things are not looking good for Palm as there is so many alternative to choose from

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:19:38 +0000

idiots…maybe, but at least we can write coherent sentences.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:28:41 +0000

I would have likely picked up the Pre if it had been with Verizon – but I won’t leave Verizon to join Sprint so….

But at this point I am waiting to see how the Droid pans out and with the IPhone coming potentially to Verizon – even if the Pre came to Verizon now – I will wait and see what shakes out next year.

By: gbp

gbp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:17 +0000

it is being sold in Spain, England, Germany .

By: gbp

gbp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:25 +0000

I neither have Pre-Love, nor was a PALM fan.
We have seen companies that do both hardware-software came out with innovative products. APPLE, RIM , PALM and NOKIA belong in this club.
While Google is good at most of the things they do , their core competency is search.
Android will fall behind the above companies in terms of innovation. Why ? too many hardware vendors cooking too many flavors.

I owned HTC Hero which has Browser multi touch in Version 1.5 , but the DROID is missing in Version 2.0. Why ? because one is made by HTC and the other is by Motorola.

And strange thing , The Droid lets APP use multitouch.

By: gbp

gbp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:01:52 +0000

PALM’s APP store has about 400 APPS and its only growing.
In six months I would predict it to cross couple of thousands.
While folks dance and sing about 100 thousand iPhone apps , I would say not all of them are productive or used daily.
I wish someone does a survey of APPS usage.
Regarding Droid, I haven’t used it, so can’t comment. But I knew folks who used it.
They think the hardware of the DROID is best ever they have seen (includes the iPhone, RAZR and such). But software falls way beyond. No multitouch on browser ? Not elegant switching between apps … the list goes on.
Pre will be selling on Verizon in two months. I am sure PALM will continue to make money.

By: SELECT « TheWaterRat

SELECT « TheWaterRat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:35:29 +0000

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