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Touchstone. Overpriced?

Jenny Sanderson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:09:46 +0000

Across the tech blogs, not least this one, recently you’ll have seen a lot of information about the Palm Pre and the cool touchstone charging device that works with it. In case you haven’t been about recently, the touchstone is a piece of kit that can charge your Palm Pre wirelessly, all you have to do is rest it on top and it uses something called ‘inductive charging technology’ to top up the juice on your phone.

The wireless charger has caused quite a stir, the buzz generated around it leading Palm to believe that they can get away with charging the hefty price of $70 for the device. This has shocked people slightly, since at the end of the day, cool or not, it is just a charger, something that comes free with every other phone. The feeling that this price may be just a little unreasonable has been underlined by the recent revelation that the device actually only costs a mere $5 to make, in terms of components.

A 1,400 percent mark up is a big margin in anyone’s book and has been taken by some as evidence that Palm are nervous about their ability to make back the huge outlay already poured into their make or break device.

Palm Pre release could be only a Month away

Matt Thomas — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:33:25 +0000

The release of the Palm Pre in the US may be as little as a month away, that’s according to sources and leaked documents that indicate that not only are Sprint employees being trained in the sale of the phone, but that the company is planning a May 17th release date. There are also indications that the company has put a ban of holidays for its employees in May which, if true, mirrors exactly what AT&T did before the release of the iPhone.

Other reports indicate that a release date of June the 29th has been set. This is being talked about as the fallback if Sprint cannot get their inventory in order for the May release. The 29th would appear to make sense since Palm have themselves said that the middle of the year will be the date of release, which would make the timing almost perfectly in line with their promises.

Another piece of evidence that points to an imminent release is the fact that photos of the device have started appearing around the Internet. Until now, Palm has been closely guarding access to its brainchild, the fact that at least one or two are out in the world now could be a sign that they are relaxing a little on this front.

Ludicrous Fighting talk from Palm investor

Matt Thomas — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:42:55 +0000

Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners has been quoted as saying that all iPhone users are going to be switching to Palm Pres when their contracts expire. Now, this site has been as complementary as anyone about Palm’s new venture and we really do hope that they can finally compete with Apple. However, claiming that the Pre is so good that every single iPhone user is going to toss their prized possession aside in disgust and embrace the device may be slightly overstating the case. Here’s the quote in full…

“You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.”

The chances are that you either are, or know, someone that has an iPhone. Have a think, are those people proud of their phone? Do they keep it in a special case and polish it with a cloth when they think no one’s looking? Probably.

In my experience, iPhone users are a very happy set of consumers. All I can say is, the Palm pre must be incredibly good.

Spring Release possible for Palm Pre

James Oliver — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:35:52 +0000

Despite the fact that the Smart Phone market is already hugely crowded, the launch of the latest addition, the Palm Pre, really is a highly anticipated event. The pre-release publicity and reviews have been almost uniformly positive and an impressive showing at an otherwise fairly boring CES has left people champing at the bit for a release date.

I’m afraid I don’t have an exact date for you. However, due to reports from various sources we can say with some degree of confidence that the Pre will be in stock at phone stores by March. However, don’t make any plans to join an overnight queue just yet, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be out in March, the actual release date could quite feasibly be in May or even as late as June.

From a PR point of view an early release would be best. The Pre has built up a very good word of mouth thus far and the pre release opinion of the device is probably as good as it’s going to get, if people are made to wait too much longer there is a risk of the frenzy peeking too soon, also there’s no telling what their rivals might come up with in the mean time.

However, Palm will also be mindful of the Blackberry Storm debacle – the device was rushed to shelves in time for Christmas and wasn’t really ready. Palm will be keen not to repeat this mistake.