Palm Pre to arrive on Sprint on June 6

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2009/05/palm-pre-availability.html

by sant0sk1 • 17 years ago

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sant0sk1• 17 years ago

I guess they figured it's better to release it 2 days before WWDC than 2 days after WWDC...

mikecuesta• 17 years ago

Either way it's dangerously close to Apple's product launch... seems like they're playing with fire.

rbanffy2• 17 years ago

It's a bet on an underwhelming Apple product launch.

They must absolutely do it before Steve Jobs comes back from his vacation.

If, however, in those two days, the Pre is perceived as a real threat to the iPhone, Jobs may experience a miraculously quick recovery.

callahad• 17 years ago

If they can make enough of a splash, they'll be able to co-opt Apple's post-launch publicity. If the Pre is seen as a credible threat, it'll be mentioned in the vast majority of articles covering Apple's new product, and dedicated comparisons will inevitably follow.

falsestprophet• 17 years ago

literally D-Day

tdonia• 17 years ago

anyone explored their sdk and/or the Palm WebOS/mojo documentation yet? i'm curious to see how low they can set the app-creation bar, as development without the app store curatorial process could be an interesting differentiator.

mtinkerhess• 17 years ago

I'd also be curious to hear from anyone who has some hands-on experience with the emulator. From reading some of the documentation they've put out and watching a webcast about Pre development, it looks like building Pre apps is more or less like building web pages. On the plus side, this means they're easier to build than an obj-c gui. On the minus side, you have to use javascript for logic.

I'm predicting apps on the Pre will look a lot more like web pages and a lot less like desktop or iPhone apps. I wish you could use c/c++ and opengl on the Pre -- that's what would get me really excited about it as a platform.

randallsquared• 17 years ago

On the minus side, you have to use javascript for logic.

That's not really a minus, in my opinion. Most of the problems with Javascript are really the DOM and lack of libraries, and I don't have many problems with the DOM these days due to jQuery and friends, so if they have the libraries...

jmtulloss2• 17 years ago

Why would C/C++ get you excited about the platform? The iPhone offers a native development platform already, wouldn't that just be more of the same?

iigs• 17 years ago

One of my must-have applications for a smartphone is a SSH client. I'm really looking forward to seeing if that type of application can be built using the HTML/javascript API that has been such a hot topic, or if there will be another way to deploy something like this, or if it's even going to be possible at all on the Pre.

wmf• 17 years ago

Sounds like Bespin + Comet + a protocol translator could do it.

jrockway2• 17 years ago

It's kind of a shame that the smartphone universe is becoming so fragmented; iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Pre, whatever Nokia uses and Android. The result is a bunch of OK apps for each platform, rather than really good apps.

For me, owning a smartphone has been a big waste, since it doesn't actually do anything smart. When my contract runs out, I think I am going to get the simplest phone possible, and a 3G USB dongle so I can use a real computer for real computing. But it disappoints me, and I hope the market fixes itself.

jmtulloss2• 17 years ago

What are you looking for in a smartphone?

old-gregg• 17 years ago

Even though you didn't ask me I just couldn't resist anyway: I'm looking for a 100% POSIX-compliant machine, i.e. I walk into my house, it grabs my Wi-Fi, I ssh into it, compile and run any POSIX-compliant C code leveraging thousands (if not millions) of POSIX programs and libraries: from Python, Haskell and vim to RoR, Apache or MySQL if I wanted to... I could also run a proxy, establish ad-hoc WiFi network to several laptops to tether via 3G.

I want to write software that runs on my Linux, Mac and my phone simply by recompiling. I see no reason why not - these phones are equivalents of Pentium II of late 90s, they ran Linux just fine.

I don't need custom platform-dependent "development kits", fuck that - we've been through this on the desktop and it seems that unixes are winning, why going back into dark ages of platform APIs?

Yes, there are phone-specific things like graphics/GPS/address book integration, etc - give us specs and we'll write open sourced multi-phone libraries that abstract all that crap away, but the core should be POSIX/libc, not a locked up proprietary toy - there's no fun in it.

Palm Pre to arrive on Sprint on June 6

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