One Week until the Pre is Out!

This is it! The Palm Pre comes out this Saturday and I am excited!! it has been demoed all over the place, but not really advertised to the general public. This advertising will start this week probably, but maybe they started off slower than usual because of the low amount of units manufactured. Who knows. This phone is definitely going to be a really fun toy, but there are some new Win Mo phones coming out too; not to mention maybe a new iPhone. I have used all the Palm devices including their phones and loved them all. It is going to be interesting to see how it compares to my iPhone. The idea of having apps run in the background is very appealing. Anyway, let's see what happens. I am supposed to be getting one a few days after launch, sent to me by Sprint, but I don't know if I will actually get it then. $200.00 is the price, so no, I didn't win one or get one for evaluation even though I should have. I still think it will be sort of like the G1, where it will launch with so so apps and firmware, but again, who knows.

Pre Launch May Make People Very Mad

Ok, so we have two weeks to wait until the Palm Pre cell phone is released to the public. The problem is, it is being released in 4 ways: Radio Shack Stores, Best Buy Stores, Sprint Stores and of course online at Sprint. This is bad because the inventory will be spread out to 4 places. That means, according to rumors and comments by the higher ups, that the amount of phones will be very few at these spots. The other thing is that Best Buy stores will not make you pay $300.00 and then mail in a rebate for $100. They are supposed to just charge $200.00 out the door (for 2 year and upgrade contracts). This of course would be a good choice to pick up the Pre, but the Best Buy Stores will only have maybe 4 to 8 phones if you're lucky. So, what do I do? What does anyone do who wants one on launch day? Well, this situation is really not good for us. I figure an awful lot of folks will be pretty pissed that they waited in line or whatever and can't get one! I want one and don't know what I'm going to do yet. I'll figure it out a few days before June 6th, but I bet I will just be frustrated like a everybody else.

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Sling App For iPhone

I was really pissed when I heard the Sling Box App for iPhone wouldn't work on 3G. In fact, I decided not to buy it. It also wouldn't work with my Sling Box AV which really got me mad. Here we have AT&T trying to rip us off so that we can't have our unlimited 3G use and probably will try to make us buy some crap from them, and we also have Sling Media trying to make us buy their newer model of Slingbox. Just a bunch of sales ploys. Well, of course when this crap goes down, people with brains work around it. I found out that if you have a jail broken iPhone, there are two programs to trick the iPhone in thinking it is using wi-fi, but it's really using 3G. Now that's a nice thing! So of course if you have a jailbroken iPhone you just read the forums and download the app. Then you buy the Sling Box app (which is a rip off, but this makes it worth it) for $30.00 plus tax (unbelievable) and you can use the app on 3G! Also, they lied: it works fine with the older Sling Boxes. Cool!! See, when you try to screw the people, the people screw back!

Palm and Sprint Don't Have Their Act Together

The longer Palm and Sprint wait to release the Pre, the worse off they will be. Apple may have a blockbuster in June and this Pre excitement really can't get any better than it is now. If they wait too long into June they may have a problem selling this phone. Apple is not sitting around as we all know. The best thing they could do is release the Pre now or in a week or so. At least in this Month of May. These guys better do well because really they are both losers. Sprint and Palm are in bigger trouble as time goes on. Even if they have to have some updates, they should get that Pre out sooner rather than later.

More Interesting Net Books Coming

Seems like the Net books are still hot and more are coming every day. The new thing is that they are being built with 3G access so the cell phone carriers are gonna make a killing. Again!!
The new Acer One coming out will be tied to AT&T's 3G service. This is all good except for one thing: The service costs too much. If these carriers had any brains they would offer this service for the Net Books at a better deal and they'd sell tons of these and pick up a lot more users. At the price points for the service, they will only get the business users, but actually I have never met anyone who sees a Net Book and doesn't want one. When will these carriers wise up? Never. They are idiots and too greedy! $60.00 a month and more is way too much for slow 3G (actually the speed is good for the little computers, but just too much dough). For that kind of money it should be 10 mega bits!
Anyway, there are other ways to get wifi for less and use it on the go. That is a whole different story for a later date.
I just hate AT&T and the others.