Palm Pre Smartphone stories
Last week we bought you a story about the Palm Pre Smartphone unveiled at D: All Things Digital. Today we bring you more stories about the Palm Pre Smartphone.
Sprint breaks its sales record with Palm Pre
Sprint Nextel executives said Monday that the launch of the much anticipated Palm Pre on Saturday hit a new sales record for the company.
Neither Sprint nor Palm is discussing specific sales figures, but Tim Donahue, vice president of business marketing for Sprint, said that the launch exceeded the company’s expectations.
A J.P. Morgan report estimated that more than 50,000 phones were sold in the first two days the phone was available. The Wall Street Journal cited analysts who said that between 50,000 and 100,000 Pres had been sold.
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Palm Pre’s big day
The much-anticipated Palm Pre Smartphone may have gotten almost as much hype as the Apple iPhone over the past six months, but its opening day fell short of the attention iPhones grabbed on their first days.
Unlike the huge crowds of people that formed long lines and camped out in front of Apple and AT&T stores days in advance of the iPhone’s launch, crowds for the Palm Pre Smartphone were much smaller and tended to arrive in the morning just before stores opened.
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Sprint CEO: Expect Palm Pre shortages
Apple iPhone aside, it’s pretty safe to say that there hasn’t been so much hype and anticipation over an upcoming smartphone as the Palm Pre. The tech community was all abuzz on Tuesday when Sprint and Palm finally announced the pricing and release date, but could there already be rough waters ahead?
Speaking at an investor conference on Tuesday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse warned of likely Pre shortages:
"We don’t intend to advertise it heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while. We won’t be able to keep up with demand for the device in the early period of time."