Pricing details are as follows:

It will cost just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate and be available at Sprint stores, online at www.sprint.com, through telesales at 1-800-SPRINT1, and at Best Buy, RadioShack and select Wal-Mart stores.

To refresh your memory, the Palm Pixi is the second WebOS phone, this time with a Treo-esque keyboard.

Palm Pixi Available Nov. 15 for just $99.99
Exclusively from Sprint
Application development for Palm webOS devices powered by America’s most dependable 3G network will be a leading topic at Sprint’s Open Developer Conference starting today
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Oct. 26, 2009 – Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced Nov. 15 as the first day of nationwide availability for Palm® Pixi™, exclusively available on America’s most dependable 3G network1 from Sprint2. It will cost just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate and be available at Sprint stores, online at www.sprint.com, through telesales at 1-800-SPRINT1, and at Best Buy, RadioShack and select Wal-Mart stores.
“We are excited to offer the new Palm Pixi to our customers in time for the holiday season, and it’s a great addition to Sprint’s industry-leading device portfolio,” said Kevin Packingham, senior vice president – Product Development, Sprint. “Simply put, this phone is fun and easy to use; with its multi-touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard, it’s a great device for messaging and social networking at a price everyone can enjoy, and delivers so many of the great features people love about Palm Pre™ in a fantastic new form factor, making it a huge hit for consumers.”
Running the Palm webOS™ mobile platform, Palm Pixi lets the user keep multiple activities open and move easily between them, like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them. Universal search also makes finding things easy, providing results from both the device and the Web.
Palm webOS brings together the user’s most important information from their phone, at work or on the Web into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google™, Facebook®, Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® and LinkedIn®, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo!® integration to Palm Synergy™3. Palm Synergy offers:
• Linked contacts – A single view that links contacts from a variety of sources, so accessing them is easier than ever.
• Layered calendars – Calendars can be seen on their own or layered together in a single view, combining work, family, friends, sports teams or other interests, and the user can toggle to look at one calendar at a time, or see them all at a glance.
• Combined messaging – See all the conversations with the same person in a chat-style view, including MMS, even if it started in IM and switched to reply with text messaging. The user can also see who’s active in a buddy list right from contacts or email, and start a new conversation with just one touch.
A new Facebook application will be available with Palm Pixi, so users can see and comment on all the latest news from friends and easily update their status. Palm Pixi features an exposed full QWERTY keyboard, multi-touch screen and a durable, removable rubberized back cover.
While Palm Pixi comes with a charger included in the box, Palm recently introduced the Touchstone™ charging dock, the first inductive charging solution for phones. Touchstone, along with the Touchstone compatible back cover (both sold separately), allows Palm Pixi to be set on top of the dock without worrying about connection, orientation or fit. The device remains active while charging, allowing access to the touch screen, movies or video, or the speakerphone option. Touchstone is available in Sprint stores nationwide for $79.99 and includes a Touchstone charger and USB wall charger. The Pixi Touchstone back cover is also available for $19.99 (plus taxes).
Palm Pixi requires activation on a pricing plan including unlimited data, such as Sprint’s Everything Data plans with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM, which give customers unlimited mobile calling on the Sprint network to and from any U.S. wireless carrier, unlimited nationwide texting, email, Web browsing and much more, starting at just $69.99. The Simply EverythingSM plan from Sprint offers a truly unlimited experience for only $99.99 per month, a savings of $1,200 over two years versus a comparable AT&T iPhone® plan4. (All price plans exclude surcharges and taxes. Other exclusions apply.)
Customers who subscribe to an Everything Data plan are also automatically enrolled in Sprint Premier, the industry-leading loyalty program. The Premier program provides customers with great benefits such as annual upgrades, discounts on accessories, anniversary rewards, rate plan checkups and “first to know” information about the latest at Sprint.
Palm Pixi will take advantage of the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (inclusive of data roaming), which reaches more than 269 million people, 18,652 cities and 1,838 airports. The Sprint Networks (inclusive of data roaming) have more than twice the coverage of AT&T’s current 3G network and more than 15 times the coverage of T-Mobile’s current 3G network, both based on square miles5.
Sprint is also the only wireless carrier to offer Ready Now with trained retail associates to work one-on-one with customers to personalize their Palm Pixi, set up features and demonstrate how it works before the customer leaves the store. Customers have the choice of sitting down with a Sprint retail associate at the time of purchase or they can schedule an appointment for a later time at www.sprint.com/storelocator.
Application developers will have a chance to learn more about Palm webOS at Sprint’s ninth annual developer conference beginning today in Santa Clara, Calif. The Sprint Open Developer Conference is open to all developers and will feature information through speaker sessions and coding camps on developing applications for a range of platforms, including webOS. Palm is a premier sponsor of the conference, and Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, directors of Developer Relations for Palm, will be giving a keynote address in addition to running several breakout sessions and coding camps focusing on the webOS platform. For details, go to http://developer.sprint.com/devcon2009.
Customers who would like to register to receive additional information about Palm Pixi can register at www.palm.com/pixi.

iSync 3.1.0, to be shipped with Snow Leopard, has struck another blow against Palm. What is it this time? They’ve removed Palm HotSync support, relegating thousands of Centro, Treo, Zire, Tungsten, and Palm Pilot users to the darkest corners of Obsoletia. When will this arms race end?

Writes AppleInsider:

It does not appear that the discontinuation of legacy Palm OS support in iSync is at all related to efforts by Palm to trick iTunes into syncing data with the new Palm Pre as if it were an iPod. While Apple doesn’t provide a public syncing system for using iTunes, it does provide public APIs for any developer to hook into Mac OS X’s Sync Services.

No, it does not appear this way because Palm is busy trying to forget it’s decade of madness and missteps and couldn’t care less for you and your Life Drive.

The Palm Pre—you may have heard of it—comes out on Saturday, but all sorts of media “outlets” have already published their reviews; I don’t know when our review will go up. And since it’s my feeling that most of you already assume the phone is “good,” I’ve gone ahead and collected a few excerpts of the more critical points. You know, the part of the review that goes something like, “Now, the Palm Pre isn’t perfect; we found a few problems with it. And they are…” That part. So let’s get on with it.

From the Wall Street Journal :

The Pre’s biggest disadvantage is its app store, the App Catalog. At launch, it has only about a dozen apps, compared with over 40,000 for the iPhone, and thousands each for the G1 and the modern BlackBerry models. Even worse, the Pre App Catalog isn’t finished. It’s immature, it’s labeled a beta, and Palm has yet to release the tools for making Pre apps available to more than a small group of developers.

In fact, during my testing, one of my downloads from the App Catalog caused my Pre to crash disastrously — all my email, contacts and other data were wiped out, and the phone was unable to connect to the Sprint network or Wi-Fi. Palm conceded the catastrophe was due to problems it still has getting the App Catalog to work with the phone’s internal memory, and explained that this is one reason it hasn’t widely distributed the developer tools.

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There are only a handful of buttons, and my only real criticism of the industrial design is that these were rubbery and protruded too little from the body, making them hard to press unseen. The power button is clumsy to use when the keyboard is open.

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But the Pre has a few other important downsides. Battery life between charges is relatively weak. While it’s in line with competitors with a claimed five hours of talk time, and matches the iPhone’s claimed five hours of Web surfing time, it offers only half the iPhone’s 24 hours of continuous music playback and claims just five hours of video playback, versus seven for the iPhone.

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Another downside: the Pre’s autocorrect system, for instantly fixing mistyped words, is puny. Even with a physical keyboard, people make typos, and Palm only fixes about 2,500 common words, like “the.” By contrast, both the BlackBerry and iPhone have tens of thousands of autocorrections built in, including fixes for long, complex words.

From USA Today :

Still, I encountered occasional sluggishness and bugs. At one point, the clock was out of whack. At another, I had to shut down the Pre because the onscreen icons kept dancing around. I also longed for the visual voice mail feature of the iPhone — Pre’s unobtrusive “notifications” dashboard flagging incoming messages, system alerts and such is no substitute. And I wish Pre had more third-party applications at launch.

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Too bad, as with the iPhone, there’s no video camera.

Pre poses no immediate challenge to the iPhone when it comes to robust apps. Only a dozen or so are available at launch, including Pandora Internet radio, Citysearch, The New York Times and Classic, an emulator that lets you run old Palm (Treo) programs.

From Gizmodo, which must have just finished playing Max Payne:

But the hardware? Cheap. Flimsy. Dangerous even.

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The first thing you’ll notice as you slide open the Pre is the absurdly sharp ridge digging against your palm. Nowhere—not on the iPhone, the G1, the G2 or any of HTC’s other smartphones—has a phone been so threatening to the integrity of my skin. If you’re pushing up screen from the bottom of the phone, as you’d instinctively want to do, prepare to get sliced. It’s just that irresponsibly sharp… Maybe I’m being a perfectionist here, but this is the one biggest flaw in the hardware; one that’s not a dealbreaker, but really detracts from the overall experience.

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[The keyboard] is not good enough for a smartphone. Each of my thumbs take up the width of four keys, ensuring that only a fingernail approach would get me anywhere near accurate typing.

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Dialing is somewhere where Palm’s reliance on Universal Search becomes an over reliance on Universal Search. To dial a contact, you either have to pull up the contacts app and manually scroll down to the person you want (there’s no alphabet shortcut) or start typing. So, when you have hundreds of contacts, your only reasonable choice is to use the search.

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Opening multiple apps at once really does slow down the phone enough to be noticeable. In fact, if you’re doing something particularly intensive, you’ll actually notice your music stutter, which we’ve never experienced once on the iPhone. Ever. [Me: Remember, kids: one-word sentences look “more important” than multi-word sentences.]

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Also, the actual act of launching the app is a little frustrating: When you tap an icon, the launcher disappears and all you see is the home screen, as if you did something wrong. You don’t know whether or not your app has opened successfully until it has.

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The hardware, on the other hand, is a liability. If Palm can get someone else to design and build their hardware—someone who has hands and can feel what a phone is like when physically used, that phone might just be one of the best phones on the market. [Me: Note that that's the complete opposite of what USA Today said (“I can't think of a more comfortable cellphone in my hand.”), which is partially why I think reviews, across the board, are dumb. It's so subjective it's a waste of everyone's time.]

From Engadget:

Besides the standard issues we had with the construction of the phone, we did spot another peculiar problem we hope is just a one-in-a-million fluke with the test device we were given: it physically broke… There is a small flap that covers the MicroUSB port, and while attempting to get the thing open, a thin piece of plastic which runs along the bottom of the casing just snapped. Now, we’re not saying this is a widespread problem—in fact, reps at Palm claimed this was the first time they’d seen it happen—but it was a little disconcerting.

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Touch sensitivity was more than acceptable, though we do take issue with tracking and accuracy in some instances, particularly when you’re close to the edges — taps sometimes go unregistered and your aim can feel off.

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Our biggest gripe is actually with the software, which omits some no-brainers like double-tap spacebar for periods (though in the phone’s defense, it does have a dedicated period key). Auto-correction is in effect here, fixing your lowercase i’s, un-apostrophe’d contractions, and the occasional misspelling, but it pales in comparison to the iPhone’s intelligent input recognition.

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Mostly, these gestures are intuitive and helpful, but we do question a few decisions Palm made here. For instance, when you want to bring up the launcher and you’re in an app, you have to swipe up to zoom out to the card view, and then swipe up again to get the launcher up. Why the extra step? We have no idea.

From Phonescoop:

The seams aren’t as tight as they could be, and the phone does have a somewhat “plasticky” feel to it.

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Because the Pre is covered in shiny black plastic, it’s an absolute magnet for fingerprints. Not just on the screen, mind you, but all over the entire phone, including the back. I can’t think of a phone in recent memory that collected more finger oils and grime. It’s easy to clean off by rubbing it on your jeans, but still, wow does it get dirty fast.

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OK, the keyboard. First, there is a very sharp edge outlining the bottom of the phone, and it also surrounds the keyboard when the Pre is open. I found this edge very annoying and distracting. Granted, you’re not touching it all that often, but when you do, you sure will know it.

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On more than one occasion while testing, the “EV” symbol that sits next to the signal strength indicator changed to “R”. The user manual tells me this means the Pre was roaming. In all the years I’ve tested Sprint phones, I have never seen one roam before. The Pre couldn’t perform ANY network-dependent activities when the “R” symbol was present. This is goofy behavior that could be attributed to my review unit in particular and it is likely something that could be fixed with a firmware update.

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The ringers were not loud enough to suit my tastes. Set all the way up, it would be quite easy to miss phone calls in loud or noisy environments.

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Palm’s webOS is an absolutely battery hog. Because it is constantly pinging the network for information and data (aka, email, etc.) the battery often drains in less than two days. This was consistent across the whole time we spent with the device. Heavy use drains the battery even faster. I was easily able to kill the battery in one day with heavy web use, camera use, MMS use and some phone calls. Keep in mind, this is with no Bluetooth and no Wi-Fi active.

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In terms of general usability, webOS ranks below iPhone OS, is about on-par with Android, and rests above S60, WinMo and BlackBerry OS.

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There’s one major kicker. When the Pre is attached to a PC to sync media, it cannot make or receive calls or text messages!!! What the what?!? Palm doesn’t provide an explanation, but that’s just ridiculous.

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The hardware comes off as feeling a little bit on the cheap side. That’s unfortunate. Some will find the QWERTY keyboard difficult to use, though I thought it was okay. The lack of expandable memory means it is limited to the 8GB of on-board storage.

Phew! I sure am beat, and I now know more than I ever wanted to know about the Palm Pre’s shortcomings.

I hope this has been educational at best, and time-saving at least.

Usability expert Jakob Neilsen says Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998. He lists a handful of major problems, from slow download speeds (even with 3G), to tiny little viewports, to bloated designs geared for desktop browsers on big monitors. “Using a mobile makes you a disabled user, and we all know that most sites ignore accessibility,” he observes. How true that is.

Although devices will get better, the big advances must come from websites. Sites (including intranets) must develop specialized designs that optimize the mobile user experience. Today, few sites have mobile versions, and those that do are usually very poorly designed, without knowledge of the special guidelines for mobile usability.

Neilsen offers a number of suggestions for improvements. For example:

Moderately rich sites should build two mobile designs: one for low-end cellphones and another for smartphones and big-screen phones. This strategy is especially good if you’re targeting a broad consumer audience with many feature-phone users. The small-phone experience is so different that it needs a dedicated and deeply scaled-back design, whereas the bigger phones benefit from a design that’s mobile-friendly but not bare-bones. Feature-phone browsing is essentially a linear experience, whereas smartphone and full-screen browsing provide more of a GUI experience — albeit through a limited viewport.

Most interesting, though, Neilsen suggests that the best solution is a dedicated application to deliver your content to your mobile users. As smartphones get cheaper and more prevalent, I think this will be the real solution. From a site as robust as Amazon to something drastically more focused like EverNote, I’m much happier to use a dedicated iPhone app to access these offerings than I am to load up Safari to access the actual web site on my phone.

If you’re a web designer, or you manage web designers, please read Neilsen’s comments. I don’t always agree with everything Neilsen promotes, but in this case I’m with him 100%. The mobile web sucks, and requires a different approach from traditional desktop web design.

If yesterday’s news that the Treo Pro’s launch date had slipped from February 15th to “TBD”, this latest bit of hearsay probably won’t help: “TBD” apparently means a full month later, with Sprint now hoping to get the Treo Pro onto the shelves by March 15th. Worse yet, that’s not even set in stone – it’s just Sprint’s hopeful launch target.

That’s the latest update to come from BGR’s whisperers, at least – and they brought some more details, too:

It’s not quite the February 15th rumor from a couple weeks ago, but BGR is reporting that the Palm Pre might be launching around March 15th according to an end-of-life (EOL) list of Sprint handsets leaked from somewhere inside the company.

The February 15th phone appears to be the Treo Pro, which will replace the Palm 800w. The Palm Pre has a “target in-stock” date of 3/15 and will replace the Palm 755p if the leaked document is to be believed.

Unfortunately, the actual document hasn’t been posted anywhere so, as always, take info like this with a grain of salt. The list below shows end-of-life dates for current devices, with each device followed by the device that’ll replace it (if applicable).

Device Name – Projected Warehouse EOL – Replacement (if available)

• Sierra Compass 597 USB – Early February – Sierra 598 USB
• Motorola ic602 – Early February
• LG 160 – Mid-February – Samsung M220
• LG Rumor (blue) – Mid February – LG 265 Rumor II (target in-stock 2/15)
• Motorola i325IS – Mid February – Motorola i365IS
• LG Rumor (green) – Mid March – LG 265 Rumor II (target in-stock 2/15)
• Franklin Wireless U680 USB – Early April
• Palm 800W – April – Palm Treo Pro (target in-stock 2/15)
• LG Rumor (black) – Mid April – LG 265 Rumor II (target in-stock 2/15)
• Motorola i615 – Mid April
• Samsung M520 Lumina – Mid April – LG LX370 (slider)
• RIM BlackBerry Pearl (red) – May
• LG LX400 – Late May
• Palm 755P (blue) – Late May – Palm Pre (target in-stock 3/15)
• Sanyo 6750 Eclipse (pink) – June
• Palm Centro (berry) – June
• Motorola Q9C – Mid June
• Sierra 597E – July – Sierra 2-in-1 Aircard
• Palm Centro (green) – July
• Palm Centro refresh (black) – July
• Motorola VE20 – July
• HTC Touch Diamond – July
• RIM BlackBerry 7100i – August – RIM BlackBerry 8350i

[via BGR]

Best Buy is ready to take orders for the Palm Treo Pro for those not willing to wait for the Sprint-subsidized model. It’s going to take a special (read: loaded) gadget freak to plop down seven large on a WinMob phone that’s backordered until the middle of February which is when the phone is rumored to launch on Sprint anyway. Granted, that person might be purchasing the phone outside of contract and will have to spend that much anyway. If that’s the case, the Palm Treo Pro seems to be available for immediate in-store pickup at most locations. Run, Palm fanboy, run!

Best Buy via AOL

The above image from Mobility Today is self explanatory, isn’t it? The Treo Pro has been delayed until February 15th according to a Best Buy Mobile employee. That stinks considering the fact that they’re in stock right now and were supposed to go on sale tomorrow.

No word on whether this affects Sprint sales as well. Something tells me that it will since the BBM Treo Pros can’t be activated until the 15th. But I could be wrong. And who cares with the Pre coming in a month or two or three or five according to Sarah Lacy.

Palm and Sprint might have a pickle on their hands. Now that the Palm Pre is the hottest upcoming phone of 2009, how are they going to sell the Treo PRO when the Pre is rumored to launch next month? Sprint thankfully has priced the PRO well with to a $200 price cut and a $100 MIR which brings the MSRP down to a respectable $249. Still, Windows Mobile on the PRO or the sexy, new webOS powering the Pre? Eh? At least the Treo PRO’s aggressive pricing shows that Sprint is willing to cut Palm’s outrageous pricing down to a reasonable level cause the iPhone is $199 and the Pre/PRO are hardly iPhone’s; okay, the Pre is hot, but you get the point.

• 4:26 PM ThePeterHa - here it is http://tinyurl.com/7jrhoz
• 4:19 PM ThePeterHa - I want the palm pre. Really bad. Too bad it’s going to be on sprint :(
• 4:08 PM Peter Ha - And we’re done.
• 4:06 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 4:05 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 4:04 PM Peter Ha - 20 million people are accessing FB using a mobile device daily to date.
• 4:04 PM Peter Ha - Facebook Connect for Mobile coming soon.
• 4:03 PM Peter Ha - Facts and figures. FB Mobile launched in ‘06, etc.
• 4:02 PM Peter Ha - FB has over 150 million users worldwide.
• 4:01 PM Peter Ha - Facebook COO Sheryl somethingorother is on stage.
• 4:01 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 4:00 PM Peter Ha - The Pre should be up on Sprint’s site for pre-order. They haven’t mentioned anything on price, yet. First half of 2009.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha - Sprint will set up your Pre for you in the store.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha - Symbian and WinMo are done.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha - This is an iPhone, Android, Palm race now.
• 3:57 PM Peter Ha - Sascha Segan noted that all they have to do now is launch three or four phones this year – a GSM Pre is a must in the next quarter – and they can bury WinMo
• 3:57 PM Peter Ha - Hess is just talking. I’ll take a moment to say that this is Palm’s big turnaround. Straight up.
• 3:53 PM Peter Ha - Pre is set apart from the competition
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha - This thing BETTER be a world phone.
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha - Here comes Dan Hesse.
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha - SPRINT
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha - This is EVDO. Here come some partners…
• 3:51 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:51 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:50 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Touchstone – Bluetooth speaker – sorry, it’s actually an inductive charger.
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Hell, it’s the best looking non-iPhone phone I’ve seen. Peppy, attractive, multitouch. The design is excellent.
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Friends, this is the best looking Palm phone I’ve seen in ten years.
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha - Peter Ha just had an orgasm.
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:47 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha - Put in any controls or graphics you want. Totally programmable.
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:45 PM Peter Ha - Notifications hide in a queue.
• 3:45 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha - You can place some things at the bottom of the screen – IM convos, for examples. Notifications.
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:41 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha - Open as many browser windows as you want.
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha - Browser is just right. Multitouch zoom.
• 3:39 PM Peter Ha - This is actually like watching an old, stinky, retarded dog with one leg beating a bigger dog.
• 3:39 PM Peter Ha - This is like watching a small, old, stinky dog beat a bigger dog. Finally, Palm, finally.
• 3:38 PM Peter Ha - Launcher runs like spotlight – type BL and it starts finding contacts and apps. Intuitive opening of content.
• 3:38 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:37 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:37 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha - This is totally the coolest thing ever.
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha - Text messages and IM show up in one place.
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha - Takes threaded SMS and combines it with IMs
• 3:35 PM Peter Ha - AIM, GTalk, just like the desktop
• 3:35 PM Peter Ha - IM built in. Gtalk.
• 3:34 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:34 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:33 PM Peter Ha - Email autocomplete
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Email works with attachments and inline images.
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Single list of all email accounts.
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha - No “New” button
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Tap on an event to make a new one.
• 3:31 PM Peter Ha - Accordian folds close up to show empty time.
• 3:30 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:29 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:26 PM John Biggs - cards are live. this is like the Sony Ericsson X1 phone but good
• 3:26 PM John Biggs - zoom out to see all your activites.
• 3:26 PM John Biggs - press center button
• 3:26 PM John Biggs - new paradigm. deck of cards.
• 3:25 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:25 PM John Biggs - right.
• 3:25 PM John Biggs - this is the newness you were hoping to see, right?
• 3:24 PM John Biggs - drag up for icons
• 3:24 PM John Biggs - the flick gesture happens under the screen. just slide your finger along the bottom of the screen.
• 3:24 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:24 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:23 PM John Biggs - launcher slides up like a sheet of glass.
• 3:23 PM John Biggs - gestures move you back and forth in the UI
• 3:22 PM John Biggs - Flick and tap. No buttons.
• 3:21 PM John Biggs - gesture based
• 3:21 PM John Biggs - slides like iphone
• 3:20 PM John Biggs - Big image, favorite application icon at the bottom.
• 3:20 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:19 PM John Biggs - 4.8 ounces
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:19 PM John Biggs - Ergonomically curved. Red hot, people.
• 3:18 PM John Biggs - SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD
• 3:18 PM John Biggs - here it comes, people
• 3:18 PM John Biggs - oh shit
• 3:18 PM John Biggs - USB Mass storage support. 3.5 mm jack.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs - Looks like our keyboard rumor was false. :(
• 3:17 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:17 PM John Biggs - Remove back and replace the battery.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs - 3 megapixel camera with LED flash.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs - gesture area below the screen. Accelerometer, proximity, ambient light
• 3:17 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:16 PM John Biggs - 3.1-inch display. 320×480 display, touch screen
• 3:16 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:16 PM John Biggs - Look at that. Beauty, eh?
• 3:16 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:15 PM John Biggs - EVDO Rev A Bluetooth 802.11b/g 8GB storage GPS with turn by turn
• 3:15 PM John Biggs - Rear speaker, camera. Looks like a pebble (PEBL?)
• 3:15 PM John Biggs - Looks like a little iPhone with a 2-inch screen. Thinking ahead for you.
• 3:14 PM John Biggs - Very small.
• 3:14 PM John Biggs - Fre small
• 3:14 PM John Biggs - New Palm Pre
• 3:13 PM John Biggs - This is kind of what Steve Jobs said about two years ago. No new languages to learn.
• 3:13 PM John Biggs - Built with developers in mind. HTML, CSS, javascript, Ajax.
• 3:13 PM John Biggs - It’s not called Nova
• 3:12 PM John Biggs - Palm WebOS
• 3:12 PM John Biggs - New platform. Redefine the center of your access point on the Internet. Connect to the cloud.
• 3:12 PM John Biggs - Essentially he’s saying that the new OS will bring in all of your “accounts” into one platform. You could see images from Facebook on your contacts list, for example.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - Come on, dude. He’s talking about facebook.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - Wait for it…
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - Wait for it…
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - Here comes the big reveal.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - OK
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - But Colligan is saying it over and over again.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - That’s what Palm is trying to say here.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs - Information is everywhere, people.
• 3:10 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:10 PM John Biggs - Now everything is online. Bringing things together in a seamless way.
• 3:10 PM John Biggs - In the old days we needed a media player so we had the Treo.
• 3:09 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:09 PM John Biggs - Today there is a new twist on the old problem of the smartphone.
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs - Which could lead to genetic diseases down the line, incidentally.
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs - Mobile is in our DNA
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs - Making the tech invisible.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs - A couple questions all the time: How can we simplify people’s lives?
• 3:06 PM John Biggs - They wanted compete with pen and paper.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs - They didn’t think about competing with the newton when the invented the Palm Pilot.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs - not buttons, rather. The point is they care more about usability.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs - Fingers, not button. Pockets, not processes.
• 3:05 PM John Biggs - Palm is the right company to bring you a great new platform and product. Improving people’s lives.
• 3:05 PM John Biggs - Ed Colligan President and CEO of Palm coming up.
• 3:05 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 3:05 PM John Biggs - Perhaps a Palm phone?
• 3:05 PM John Biggs - What could that be?
• 3:05 PM John Biggs - and you need the RIGHT PLATFORM.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs - You need to have the RIGHT PHONE.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs - Take all that information in your hand. Let all that date interact.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs - We keep our information all over the place
• 3:04 PM John Biggs - Great phone is important. Companies have forgotten that. More than a bunch of applications bolted to a phone.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs - Palm is positioned to create some of the best mobile devices in the industry.
• 3:03 PM John Biggs - Rubenstein describing move from Apple to Palm – he was pulled off of the beach. Rubenstein was Apple’s product guy.
• 3:03 PM Peter Ha -
  
• 2:46 PM Doug Aamoth - Peter’s waiting to get in. The show will start at 11:00 Pacific.

We already know that these two phones are Sprint-bound in January but BGR is reporting that Best Buy stores will see the Sprint Treo Pro 850 and a pink version of the Samsung Instinct in the near future. A pink version? That’s their answer to everything!

Looks like the unlocked price of the Treo is $699.99, though that’ll likely be subsidized when it shows up. The number’s cut off from the Instinct shot, but I betcha a buck it’ll cost the same as the regular Instinct. It’s just pink, after all.

Although both screens say that the phones entered Best Buy’s system on December 8th, that’s apparently normal and means that the devices are on their way. None of this is 100% set in stone — as it was sent in via an anonymous tip — but it’s much too boring to be fake.

via Engadget

Also absolutely shocking to me is that women make up nearly 60% of Treo customers. That means that out of the approximately ten Treos sold last year, six of them belong to ladies.

Uh-oh, There seems to be numerous reports about bezel cracking on the Palm Treo Pro. From the pictures, it seems that cracks are hairline and around the side of the device. Chances are that if a person actually bought the $549 Palm, they would pamper it a bit and not throw it off their roof like I do with my BlackBerry. (7130e; built like a tank) Anyone else experiencing cracking? Did anyone buy the Palm Treo Pro?

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