Palm's CEO reflects and would've wanted shorter exclusivity with Sprint

17. APox posted on 09 Apr 2010, 16:32 0 0

The flop of the Pre has little to do with Sprint, and a lot to do with the horrible experience / build quality Pre users had. A small list of problems with the Pre: -Very little / slow application development from the start, most applications you have to pay for. -The "Oreo Effect," after you use your Pre a lot, the top part of it starts to be able to slide back and forth, it feels like it is about to unscrew itself. -If you shut the slider a little bit too hard, the whole phone reboots itself. -At the beginning, batteries were being developed that were too small, so when the phone moved a little bit the battery disconnected from its connectors and the phone shut off. -The screen itself would shatter and have this "hair-line" crack around the silver button at the bottom of the phone. -A lot of interface errors, there are complaints of an error that tells the user the "phone is out of memory and cannot open another card," even when no cards are open. -The volume and headset jack malfunction and the phone things you have a headset plugged in when in fact you don't, making it impossible to use without a bluetooth. Those are just SOME errors that I can come up with on the top of my head. Keep wearing your tin-foil hat, the dismal results of Palm sales were in result of a faulty phone with weird advertising. It was a cool idea, but badly implemented.... But don't fret, Apple is charging on with the multitasking ability that the Pre boasted about and will do the job better.

18. Vegas89 posted on 09 Apr 2010, 18:37 0 0

Sprint is definitely not at fault on this one. Palm had a good idea with the Pre, but sucked at making it a reality, the thing felt like it was made of the cheapest plastic ever, the screen on it and the Pixi are way to small for multi-touch to even matter, and the lack of a sizable app market like what Android and Iphone have makes the whole webOS platform second rate. Now had they launched a year ago, things might've been different, but they didn't and now they're struggling in a battle that they're really not even part of, it's Android vs Iphone now, and we'll see if palm can survive the crossfire

19. TechSquad posted on 09 Apr 2010, 18:50 0 0

Those palm commercial were awful, it scared the kids, cause people to have nightmares. Palm, should have done a better job in marketing their brand. It represents the company and its products. Take a look at Apple commercials its something that make you want to run to the Apple store and purchase a Apple product

21. cuddybonz posted on 09 Apr 2010, 19:42 0 0

Lol if all else fails blame Sprint!!! Wow way to throw your business partner under the bus. Lol!! like Sprint is the reason you released a phone that couildn't forward texts out of the box or even to this day has a pitiful app catalog. or llike Sprint asked you to make your qwerty keyboard just perfect for a 12 year old girl. The fact is that while I personally like WEBOS the great majority of Pre users don't like they're phone as evidenced by the Customer ratings 3.8 out of 5 or a 76% 2404 reviews according to CNET. The Moment has a 4.2 the Blackberry Tours clocks in a 4.5. The HTC Hero 4.6 Proof is in the pudding Jon and Bill Cosby you aint.

24. ohenebajoy posted on 10 Apr 2010, 02:28 0 0

Palm Issues has nothing to do with sprint. Jon Rubinstein, after taking over palm didn't utilize the 100s or 1000s of patents palm had. He put together a phone with the cheapest material's the construction of the phone is not to a standard smartphone. also releasing only two phones a year dont put you in the race for popularity. Look at motorola, samsung, htc etc. they constantly releasing phones with latest technology also exclusivity dont have nothing to do with a phone. T mobile has the worst data and voice service in US and they still sell phones so that being said, sprint would have sold over a milliom pre's if the quality of the phone was high.Like whateverman said " the biggest problem was they had nothing in the app catalog at launch. At a time where apps rule the cellular industry." Jon Rubinstein leave sprint alone and go back to the drawing board and developer big capacitative screen, solid hardware and please spend some money on the geeks to develop productive apps, utilities, games etc for your next generation webos smartphone. Good luck