NYTimes: Palm Pre Due First Week of June
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Palm has been cagey about when its next-generation smartphone, the Palm Pre, will be coming out. Now the normally reliable New York Times cites “people briefed on the company’s plans” who say that the Pre will be released the first week of June.
If it comes out then, it will be facing stiff summer competition, from — among others — a revamped iPhone (also expected to be announced in June, at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference) and Samsung’s first Android-based smartphone, the i7500.
And it will have to sell at least a million units to be considered a “hit,” the Times reports.
Our take: It will have to sell a lot more than that, because Palm has staked the company on this ambitious phone. The company fanned the flames with over-the-top hype at CES, preserved a nearly Apple-like shroud of secrecy around the phone since then, and has only now allowed what we assume are a series of carefully staged “sightings” around the San Francisco Bay Area. Result: Geeks are anticipating this phone more eagerly than anything since, well, the first-generation iPhone.
Cellphone Makers Hope for a Blockbuster Summer – NYTimes.com.
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