Palm pre community is pathetic

[YourMobileGuru]

I do have to disagree as far as the platform dying, I think HP just gave them a second life. It is going to be really interesting to see what they come up with. I do think HP taking them over was a good thing as it gave them money to play with. I also see that community growing when they release more devices. They crippled themselves by putting all their eggs in one big basket with Sprint, and they completely mishandled their initial release. .

The HP CEO said it himself, "we did not buy palm to get into the mobile phone business" at a stock meeting a moth or so ago. Yes the next day after they were inundated with irate palm users did they "clarify" that the simply meant that they were planning to use it on their business overall not (just) phones. They were very careful with their words though and did not actually promise any new phone hardware.

In the recent months has Palm put any devices through the FCC, have there been any leaked prototypes or even spec sheets for one? No. It's daily safe to say that none are in active development.

What this means is that HP is not in any rush to release any new phones (if they indeed intend to at all,which I am not convinced of). Even if they do it will be too little too late.

The Palm community has shrunk over the years and while the Pre/Pixie gave them a little boost last year, overall the various Android and bb devices that have come pout since then have taken most of not all of that away. Even the revised hardware that actually worked (the plus models) barely sells and is a joke.

I really don't care what platform people like (I have BB, Android, and iOS myself) but the writing is on the wall. WebOS in the smartphone incarnation is all but dead and no stupid poll is gonna change that. Let them have their silly poll and feel better about themselves about cheating for their win.

 

[Qazme]

The HP CEO said it himself, "we did not buy palm to get into the mobile phone business" at a stock meeting a moth or so ago. Yes the next day after they were inundated with irate palm users did they "clarify" that the simply meant that they were planning to use it on their business overall not (just) phones. They were very careful with their words though and did not actually promise any new phone hardware.

In the recent months has Palm put any devices through the FCC, have there been any leaked prototypes or even spec sheets for one? No. It's daily safe to say that none are in active development.

What this means is that HP is not in any rush to release any new phones (if they indeed intend to at all,which I am not convinced of). Even if they do it will be too little too late.

The Palm community has shrunk over the years and while the Pre/Pixie gave them a little boost last year, overall the various Android and bb devices that have come pout since then have taken most of not all of that away. Even the revised hardware that actually worked (the plus models) barely sells and is a joke.

I really don't care what platform people like (I have BB, Android, and iOS myself) but the writing is on the wall. WebOS in the smartphone incarnation is all but dead and no stupid poll is gonna change that. Let them have their silly poll and feel better about themselves about cheating for their win.

You sound a bit defensive? It's not that big of a deal Palm will always be in the smart phone market in one sense or another. Rather it's under the Palm name or the HP name parts of their IPs or something will always be in there. I've used everything from BB to iPhone/Android and everything in between. I find as of right now you basically have three roles in needing a smart phone. You are either a media person, business person, or a tinkerer. Or a mix of all three like me, and I prefer Android. And I'm an extremely hard sell on swapping devices and the Incredible brought me to Android because, like Palm, Android phone were lacking on the hardware side in my opinion. It finally matured out and here I am. Maybe Palm will do the same, I remember when the G1 came out within the first couple of months, people were saying it would never last and was just a bound to be failed experiment. So we shall see.