Comments on: Amazon Has a Huge Opportunity on Palm’s Pre

By: Lex

Lex — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:32 +0000

I’m in the UK and don’t have the amazon app & cannot find it – am i doing something wrong or is it not available in the uk yet?

cheers,

damsel in distress

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:25:37 +0000

I am REALLY hoping Rhapsody works with the Pre — especially if it allows streaming right from their Rhapsody’s website. From what I hear that would require Adobe Flash. But I also understand that Flash is expected to be written for WebOS. I see this as the best option. No need to buy song by song. And no need to store the mp3 files. Whether that works or not might be a deal breaker for me. I LOVE Rhapsody and server based storage and music subscription services are the way music buying is headed. Why buy song by song and take up memory when Rhapsody has just about any song you could ever want (aside from Digital holdouts like the Beatles, Led Zep, AC/DC, etc. but you can’t find them on ITunes either).

By: JeffGr

JeffGr — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:59:26 +0000

Wow! I hadn’t heard that the next generation iPhone is going to have a physical keyboard and true multitasking. Obviously, it must be adding both of those if there are no obvious reasons why someone would prefer a Pre…

By: Dan Palmer

Dan Palmer — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:30:32 +0000

Well for me, the reasons are: (1) I really don’t like Apple’s DRM policies and that my wife’s iPhone can’t get its music from any computer but hers (2) I don’t care for iTunes in general (3) I subscribe to Rhapsody To Go, which doesn’t work on the iPod (it won’t work on the Pre either, so my 30gb Zen Vision will continue to be my music player).

I think the 8gb is a mistake, but not a deal breaker.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:37:48 +0000

if you’re that strapped for space, can’t you just delete the mp3s you don’t need on your phone, and re-download them again later from amazon? amazon does let you download purchased albums as much as you want. in other words, they already store it on their server–they just don’t stream it.

By: q

Sun, 24 May 2009 15:48:25 +0000

I think overall the Pre UI is better than the iphones and of course its new, and many people like the new. IMHO iphone 3.0 upgrades aren’t substantial enough. I’m also not sure how important this GB war really is. I and many others have 50 or more gigs of music. An iphone of any type will not hold that, so I have to make choices of what will be stored on the device. So I just find the cheapest device (8 GB) and just manage special playlist for it. Who can really listen to 30 days of music. Storage/stream services would be cool if they had a flat rate based on size.

By: bulls96

bulls96 — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:24:59 +0000

Forget the S3 service. Thats not gonna take off in the next few years.

Just give the Pre the ability to play their “Video on Demand” videos and they make themselves an instant competitor to the iPhone and iTunes.

By: Griffon

Griffon — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:35:47 +0000

One of the real shortcomings of the CDMA design is that the phone can not do data and voice at the same time. So any time you get a call your data connection get’s truncated this can create a lot of issues with cloud storage.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:19:43 +0000

Good catch David. That was a lack of paying attention to the calendar on my part. I’ve sort of lost track of the days in May due to lost time at work after my Dad’s passing on April 30. My bad… fixed!

By: David

David — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:06:48 +0000

How are you getting a Pre next weekend? The rest of us have two weeks from today.

By: Julius Hibbert, M.D.

Julius Hibbert, M.D. — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:39:43 +0000

I like Pandora too but It’s not the same as having your own music library. You don’t have much control over the music with Pandora. I often like to rewind and repeat songs or I may be in the mood for a specific song. Pandora isn’t that much different from listening to a regular radio station.

By: David

David — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:27:50 +0000

Pandora is a good option too and guess what it’s a built-in client on the Pre too. Amazon and Pandora, pretty strong. BTW, there will be over 7GB avail for use.

By: Janusz

Janusz — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:22:54 +0000

Ive been reading your posts guys but i dont understand why anyone would want to keep buing mp3 if you can stream newest music FREE from Pandora. I dont even have time anymore to search for music and then orginize it… I dont thing that a storage will be a problem in future.

By: tnkgrl

tnkgrl — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:25:23 +0000

What if this went one step further?

What if Amazon automatically cached/synced 4-6 GB of your most-listened-to/favorite music in the Pre’s built-in storage, with the rest being streamed on demand…

Make it seamless for the user!

As an aside :) Amazon S3 supports WebDAV, right? Most high-end/Nseries Symbian phones support WebDAV, right? Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

By: oneAwake

oneAwake — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:36:37 +0000

How do we know Amazon won’t allow you to store music in the cloud and stream it as well? To my understanding webOS allows you to store “files” in the cloud, it was said the Amazon app will allow an online file as well as native, Amazon is one of the app’s which need access to the browser. We just have to wait and see.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:27:45 +0000

Thanks Tom. I double-checked the link and it’s working for me. What likely threw you is that it’s a link to our prior coverage of ZumoDrive, so if you scroll down, you’ll see a few posts referencing that coverage. ;)