This is a great description:

” Palm’s WebOS is the best mobile operating system in existence, in our humble opinion. But the hardware is, at best, a B.”

the ability to merge all contacts and multitask is disgustingly above and beyond. every day i use it im more and more amazed by the operating system and thought that was put into it. THe phone is a cool little design, however it lacks in some areas,but in my opinion which is most likely right- it outweighs the negatives of the hardware.

Keyboard could be larger, but its better than typing on a screen.

No arrow keys for moving around up down left right etc.

Its nice plastic, but could be used out of better material.

However, those are just the cons and not all of the pros that i could list for days on in. I;m very amazed by the palm pre and i can’t wait till they start popping out other models.

BTW , ive used all models of phones, windows mobile, blackberry, etc. all very extensively and this has by far the best OS.

The PRE is a WEB BASED PHONE. In other words, you MUST have the everything plan because it needs to send constant data streams to the servers that store the phones information.

In yet other words, the PRE wouldn’t function correctly without a constant internet connection, thus the reason for the Everything plan (which btw, is a great deal)…

I for one would have a PRE right now if I could get one for use on my current plan… I don’t want unlimited everything… I just want my shared minute plan and a cool phone..

I think Sprint is cutting off their nose to spite their face. I’m sure there are lots of folks out there that would like to have the PRE, but don’t need an everything plan.

You guys really don’t do this reporting thing very well. Tell me how you confirmed the delivery of 150k Pre’s in June and then I’ll think about being impressed. Truth is, no one knows. You’re guessing…. and I’m guessing that you’re wrong.

Let’s see some sources for this claim, because this article is the only place I’ve seen make this claim. Everywhere I’ve read has said that the Pre set a record for Sprint and is sold out. How much better can they do? Clearly they can’t sell more units than they have on supply.

Palm shares dipped heavily earlier in the week but rebounded and broke the $14 barrier.

That’s really good considering the size of Palm. It’s difficult comparing Apple iPhone and Palm Pre rollouts given the disparity in company sizes, marketing spend, and leveraging of spring-board products.

Put it this way, Apple leveraged it’s goodwill and branding from it’s already successful iPod line. Apple had already been on the upswing for years with solid products and proven roll outs. It had plenty of cash on hand to tackle a new product. Plus it’s product, the iPhone, included it’s already popular iPod brand/technology.

Contrast that with Palm, a much smaller company, which has been struggling for years. Low brand recognition, no breakout products, low stock price, layoffs, slipping market share, finite capital to rollout new products, etc.,.

In spite of the disparity Palm is projected to sell a quarter of a million units in the first quarter of sales which parallels Apples iPhone sales (Apple sold a little over a quarter of a million iPhone it’s opening quarter http://en.wikip...per_quarter.svg).

Each device is a different configuration. The Pre is the touchscreen handheld we now recognize, with a vertical slide-out keyboard. The Pixie is smaller and “candy bar shaped”, with a horizontal slide-out keyboard. And the EOS is similar to the Pre, except that its vertical keyboard is fixed, similar to configuration of the Tungsten series.

Apparently Palm is very comfortable with its level of sales of the Pre, describing it as being “on track” with their expectations. They acknowledge supply issues, apparently due to the incredibly small circuit board configurations and the difficulty of maintaining top drawer quality control within that structure, however supplies are being delivered and are in the pipeline to satisfy the current demand, which has been primarily (60%) Sprint customers who want to upgrade their device.

The rollout of the other two devices will rest not so much on whether WebOS takes off, but whether the market can handle two additional devices from Palm, and whether customers from the other carriers request enough of them.

Frankly, I think Palm has been doing a fine job with sales considering the brilliant (and dirty) trick Apple pulled on Pre launch day by dropping the price of the iPhone 1G down to $99. Since the Pre was being promoted as an iPhone challenger, many of those who would have purchased one because of its pricing shifted over to the “genuine” iPhone as a result, undercutting potential Pre sales.

According to any data I have seen, iPhone purchasers typically (not all) make their decision to buy an iPhone not because of its technical advantages, of which there are almost none, but because of it’s “cool” factor. So when Apple started dumping $99 iPhones of ANY type onto the market, even when those phones are outdated, those “vanity” purchasers saw their opportunity to join what they percieve to be the “in crowd” and did so, which is no reflection on the excellence of the Palm product.

An interesting task would be to figure out who Arrington’s source is. Sounds like someone with a vested interest to me. I don’t think anyone at Palm or Sprint would give this guy the time of day. If they are, then I question whether Palm or Sprint should continue to employ them.