news.cnet.com - 3/5/2009
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This morning there was a bit of a Palm Pre false alarm when Sprint announced the March 15th availability of the Palm Treo Pro . The one-letter difference in the product names can be oh-so-misleading. However, I just received a very enticing e-mail in ...
Will Palm Pre Steal Former iPhone Customers?
mobilewhack.com 3/8/2009 — [1]
The Palm Pre [2] arrival date hasn't been announced yet officially but Roger McNamee is making bold statements. That hairy founding partner of Elevation Partners [3], that investment firm working on Palm's rescue plan surprised everyone when he ...
Palm investor says customers will give up iPhones for Pre smartphones
MobileBurn.com 3/9/2009 — Palm investor Roger McNamee says that customers will give up their iPhones for Palm Pre smartphones because they want "the coolest product on the market," and because BlackBerry and iPhone operating systems are based on decade-old technology.
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Palm’s major investor believes iPhone users will defect for the Pré
solsie.com 3/6/2009 — According to a Bloomberg report, McNamee, the co-founder of Elevation Partners, the investment firm that agreed in December to pay $100 million to lift its stake in Palm to 39 percent from 25 percent, firmly believes that when the Palm Pré on Sprint network is released, Palm will ...
Reminder: Sprint Palm Pre webcast tomorrow morning
intomobile.com 3/12/2009 — It’s probably safe to assume that, as you read this, you’re waiting eagerly to see what Sprint ( NYSE: S ) and Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ) have in store for us tomorrow morning . The Palm Pre is most definitely going to be the highlight of the ...
Palm announces sales results Q3- cash position needs strengthening
jkontherun.com 3/4/2009 — Palm addressed their Q3 sales results today and it looks like they can’t get the Pre released fast enough. Their falling financial position has led many to believe that the Palm Pre is a make or break proposition for the smartphone maker and ...
Palm backer sees Pre luring iPhone users
electronista.com 3/7/2009 — Palm's upcoming Pre is likely to poach customers away from the iPhone, Elevation Partners founder Roger McNamee said in an interview late yesterday. The investor in Palm told Bloomberg he's confident that those who bought the iPhone on its 2007 ...
Roger McNamee's wild predictions shot down -- by Palm itself
engadget.com 3/10/2009 —
Remember wild-man McNamee's predictions last week of death to the iPhone and all sorts of other Pre-related wonderment? We read and we chuckled and we moved on, but someone took his statements a little more seriously -- Palm. Yes, the company ...
Corporate legal scrambles to withdraw inflated Palm Pre claims
appleinsider.com 3/11/2009 — After Palm investor Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners made wildly optimistic claims about the forthcoming Palm Pre, attorneys at Palm and Elevation Partners issued a free writing prospectus 'clarifying' facts that were misstated and 'withdrawing' ...
Palm Pre Bits for the Week —
jkOnTheRun
It’s time for my weekly summary of Palm Pre news and there didn’t seem to be much. That will hopefully change next due to the first bullet point on our roundup:
Palm and Sprint are co-hosting an invite-only webcast on Thursday, March 12th. We’ll be there for the show and ...
The Palm Pre does Jimmy Fallon —
jkOnTheRun
The Palm Pre is getting closer and closer and geeks the world over are holding their breath for it to appear. If you don’t believe the Pre is big news then you didn’t see the Jimmy Fallon show last night as our friend from engadget, Josh Topolsky, appeared on the show with a Palm ...
Financial Burden of Palm Pre Launch —
PR News:
Palm Inc (NASDAQ:PALM) have a lot riding on the launch of their latest Smartphone, the Pre, but the phone is going to be very costly for the company. The problem that Palm has is their product line is getting old now and as yet; there is nothing else in the pipeline.
Launching a new phone ...
New Palm Pre phone to get marketing push —
PR News:
Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) are doing all they can to help the launch of its Palm Pre, which is why they have announced plans to sell 18.5 million shares. Palm have took this action to help pay for the marketing campaign of its new touch screen device.
These shares represent 49 per cent of the ...
Can Palm Pre be the saviour for the company? —
Phones Review
There has been the usual excitement surrounding the supposed Palm saviour, the Palm Pre smartphone, and all that notice concentrated on the Palm Pre drags attention away from the long-awaited carrier supported Palm Treo Pro.
This obviously has a knock on effect, and Palm has now put 18.5 ...
Palm Pre News, Help & Tips —
Phones Review
There has been a wealth of information posted over the net waves on the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone, far too much info for our small team to gather all together.
So I was wondering if any of our readers would whilst surfing the internet and happen across any Palm Pre news, tips or help, like ...
Nokia 5800 or Palm Pre: What would you buy? —
Phones Review
We’ve been inundated with information and hype on Palm’s latest and greatest smartphone the Palm Pre for a while now; even Roger McNamee is claiming the Palm Pre is so great it will snatch customers away from the Apple iPhone.
All talk or what? So I’ve been thinking and wondered which would ...
Pre Community relaunch: say hello to My Pre —
SlashGear
We kick off the new week with a little network news. In the run-up to the Palm Pre launch, SlashGear’s sibling-site Pre Community has rebranded to My Pre . There’ll still be the same community, same high-quality content and editorials, but with a new, personable perspective on ...
Will Apple iPhone owners change to Palm Pre? —
Phones Review
The other day we had Verizon Wireless surveying if they sold the Apple iPhone would customers come back, and now Roger McNamee is making bold statements concerning the Palm Pre and that he believes once the Palm Pre is out it will pull custom away from the iPhone.
Brash statement I would say; ...
Palm Investor: iPhone users will switch to Pre —
Tech Ticker
Ok, being a major investor in Palm would want you to say good things about it, but Mr. McNamee let us be practical. Roger McNamee, the co-founder of Elevation Partners has a 39% stake in Palm and is making bold claims that Pre will make iPhone users to switch to Palm’s new webOS ...
Palm Pre To Snatch iPhone Users —
Ubergizmo
Roger McNamee, founding partner of Elevation Partners who have a 25% stake in Palm has gone on record to state that huge swathes of iPhone users will be switching to the Palm Pre, since the two-year contracts of the iPhone will be over when the Pre is released. He said: “June 29, 2009, is ...
Some guy says the Palm Pre is “officially delayed” —
CrunchGear
Some guy over at some blog is spouting off about the Pre being delayed. He says a Palm design employee tipped him off “that the Pre is officially delayed.” Palm went on the defensive this morning on Twitter and said it was still on track for first half of 2009. Yeah, because the Pre was dated ...
Palm Pre launching soonish? —
CrunchGear
Starting next week, the 12th to be exact, Sprint and Palm are inviting press folk to a series of webcasts to showcase the Palm Pre. This may or may not be an indication that the Pre is getting closer to a launch date, but we wonder if they’ll show us anything new. I mean, if it’s close to ...
Sprint Palm Pre Webcast today at 11am PST —
Phones Review
For those that are eagerly keeping up with all things Palm Pre and are waiting to see just what Palm and Sprint have to say, you’ll probably be tuning into the Sprint Palm Pre Webcast which kicks off at 11am PST today.
The word is the Palm Pre will definitely be the highlight of the Webcast, ...
Palm Pre Arranges A Webcast This Morning – Don’t Miss It —
PhoneArea.net
We know how much most of you are interested in mobile phones and how you would love to know more about the new ones arriving or already arrived in the market. Here is great news for all of you, if you do not know this already. The Palm Pre is going to be the undisputed star today. We hope to ...
Videos: My Pre on the Palm Treo Pro for Sprint —
Phones Review
The guys over at My Pre have got hold of a Palm Treo Pro on Sprint and have given it the once over in a review to clarify a couple of aspects that have been carried over to the Palm Pre.
The reviewer says the piano black shell feels great in the palm, (excuse the pun) while the QWERTY ...
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