Comments on: G.S.M. Palm Pre spotted in Vietnam

By: Drone

Drone — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:51:36 +0000

Yessss…. Let’s hope they don’t saddle the phone with some sort of greedy overpriced contract. Thats what the iPhone did here in Indonesia and the take-up is horrible. Unlike in the U.S. We actually have alternatives to being ripped off out here. Apple can’t compete in that kind of environment.

Please Palm – don’t get greedy and tie the Pre to contracts or over-price it. You’ll only hurt yourself.

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By: velvetk

velvetk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:32:43 +0000

This a rough translation of what is being said in the video:
“This is Palm Pre phone, GSM version. This is one of the first Palm Pre GSM in the world and arrived in Viet Nam. This is brought back by Khanh, a member of giaima.com forum. The exterior design is no different with CDMA version. This is an unlocked phone and could be used with any carrier. A Mobile Phone SIM is inserted in. We could text, make call and use GPRS signal. All the features are identical to those that are found in CDMA version. The only difference is that this one runs on GSM network. Let’s take out the back cover. SIM slot, camera and flash are being pointed to. They then make test calls with a HTC magic. SMS is tested after that. They open up tinhte.com page with GPGS/EDGE. As you could see, it’s pretty fast with Edge.”

Note: 3G does not exist in VietNam yet. It is being developed and will be launched in the near future.
In the forum, they also noted this is not a “FOR SALE” version, that’s why the interior is not painted.