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Palm Pre: “It’s a very, very powerful device” and sure to increase your monthly bill!
Only a few more hours until Bell officially releases the Palm Pre! Bell has started to send out reminder e-mails to those who registered for updates.
With the final countdown happening Wade Oosterman, President of Bell Mobility, said “It’s a very, very powerful device. The longer I use it, the more I like it”. He also stated that with the ability to run multiple applications at the same time, surf the web and send messages will increase wireless customers monthly bills and basically increase Bell’s ARPU (average revenue per user). So with that said, you can make sure you get the right plan and even take Palm’s advice: “unlimited plan strongly recommended.“
The Pre will be available for $199.95 on a 3-year with a minimum $45 voice and data plan, or $599.95 no-contract. No exact numbers on how many have been pre-ordered but Claire Gillies, director of marketing at Bell Mobility, says “We’ve seen unprecedented demand on our Webs site. The list grows every day as we approach launch”.
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Got mine today…great addition to the Palm Pilot, the Palm Pilot Pro, the Sony Clie, The Palm Treo 650, the Palm Treo 755p…hmmm…seems to be a trend here. Will take some getting used to and a lot of the apps don’t work in Canada (even Fandango) so they need to work on that so I can keep up with my boy and his iphone. Will have to play around with it a few days to get a real feel for it.
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Hard to imagine Wade would say otherwise, don’t you think? As if he would describe it as the last ditch attempt to keep going from Palm – nice but too late. Android apps gushing like water and Apple apps for everything. WebOS too late in the day, I’d say.
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Business side: Works great with Exchange server. However you cannot create a new appointment with invitation. But you can accept from other. Hope they will have a solution for this in future. Otherwise it’s hard to get in Business Corporate side.
Style and design: It really stands between Iphone and BlackBerry. Pretty small unit for a touch screen device with a real QWERTY keyboard. Way better then the HTC Touch Diamond. And if you love the phone, I would suggest getting a better protection case or something like invisible shield from Zagg. The Demo unit we have in Bell Store got a few scratches on the back already. The keyboard is okay to use once you get use to it. It feels alright with the gesture rubber key. It’s okay to be tiny.
Browser: Excellent, besides Iphone, it is the best browser for phones that Bell carries.
Youtube: Liked it too! You are able to watch High quality video. I don’t have iphone so I can’t compare it. Besides Pre, HTC Touch Diamond does have the build in Youtube player that you can watch in High Quality.
* DOA policy is sucks. 30 Days with zero minutes. I strongly suggest you play around with the Phone as long as it takes before you leave. Have your number forward to another phone to remain zero minutes. Make sure the phone works properly otherwise your device will end up send for repair for weeks or more. And make sure the screen body and keyboard mechanic is not loose in between. Slide open and close a few times to test it out.
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