5.10.2009

Sprint Palm Pre: Running out of time

I know that Sprint people are reading online comments to see how people are handling their current marketing plan of leaking small amounts of information on their new upcoming phone, the Palm Pre. What don't seem to realize, or care about, are customers who've been putting off decisions on new phones as they wait for these clowns to release information.

Well Sprint, we've got a Plan B. When May 19th happens and my current contract is over, if you're not releasing (a full release, not a trickle release through Best Buy with just 350,000 units, because I'm too old to be camping in parking lots all night) by the rumored June 7th date, we're moving on.

The January promise of a release in the "first half of 2009" is coming to an end. By now companies that aren't having problems have released information about their new phones. To me this is no longer about building hype, it's become obvious that Palm must be having problems and no one wants to talk about it. Production problems? Programming problems (with the new WebOS)? Integration problems? Or simple problems like not being able to answer the phone while plugged into a USB port (a phone killer, in my opinion).

So you've got nine days, Sprint. Let's hear some news.