Comments on: Palm at CES 2010: 3D Games, Video webOS 1.4, Recording, Verizon, and PreCentral -- The Competition

By: rlopin

rlopin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:49:56 +0000

@brian

Are you kidding me? I had to re-read your post several times to make sure I didn't misinterpret it. It's because they don't make me wait two years for a new model that I am sticking with them.

Sprint let's premier customers (all Pre and Pixi customers are automatically premier customers after 3 months) upgrade phones after just 1 year.

I am ecstatic that when the Pre2 hits Sprint this summer I will be eligible.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:24:02 +0000

palm should come out with new phones every TWO years so that customers will continue to stick with them. Not a smart choice doing it so soon.

By: cardfan

cardfan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:11:48 +0000

It's really looking like Apple is the one with catching up to do. Apps will catch up (enough) on other platforms.

If i'm going to keep paying a premium to stay with iphone, it needs to be kept worthwhile. Multitasking, better notifications, ability to customize, improved screen, an answer for flash, better BT, etc.

This is a year we really got no updates with iphone. 3.1 still. No features added.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:35:48 +0000

@OSCAR DO YOU GO AROUND YELLING ALL THE TIME? I can't even read your post because it is very annoying.

By: OSCAR

OSCAR — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:15:49 +0000

I AM 100 % SURE NOW TO SAY THIS PALM PRE HAS NOTHING TO ENVY IPHONE ANY MORE AND EVERY TIME IS BETTER A GOOD ADVISE FOR APPLE WOULD BE THAT THEY SHOULD START SELLING IPHONES AN VERIZON AND SPRINT AS WELL TMOBILE OR OR THEY GONNA GET SCREW BY PALM AND GOOGLE

By: zeagus

zeagus — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:04:01 +0000

Ah, the Pre grows up and becomes the PreGS we always knew it could . Seriously, Rubinstein, did you have to follow the Apple path so exactly? Web apps only, no hardware access, then next event - oh, hey, native apps with access to hardware! I mean, granted, he did work on the iPhone, but the guy is being very literal in trying to recreate the success of the iPhone at Palm.

By: Freaknasty

Freaknasty — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:29:09 +0000

Palm really impressed me today. Good to see.

By: apple king

apple king — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:06:59 +0000

good news for my second favorite company! but palm i know the pre 2 is do in june on sprint so who in the world is gonna buy the pre plus.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:49:40 +0000

@UntidyGuy are u serious?? These are direct ports even the description in the catalog is the same as the iPhone app store!! It mentions "for iPhone and iPod touch" lol. Webos looks really good now. I'll wait for pre plus to hit sprint before I dump AT&T Or maybe pre plus on AT&T except i can save like 50 bucks per month on sprint!

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:25:19 +0000

"However, the plug-in program is a far cry from a powerful SDK that fosters a lot of innovation from smaller developers like the iPhone SDK does."

Could you explain where you got this idea? The new SDK is based on the SDL with OpenGL|ES support. It's tools and languages people are already familiar with.

By: UntidyGuy

UntidyGuy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:52:21 +0000

It looks, to me, like they are trying to shoehorn some ports of games in from the likes of EA since that kind of thing has glaringly been absent since launch. However, the plug-in program is a far cry from a powerful SDK that fosters a lot of innovation from smaller developers like the iPhone SDK does.