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  Looks like a neat product, at a decent time. But Apple's app store and Google's openness, plus the carrier lock-in, mean that Palm might not be in for an easy ride.

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Live From CES, It’s All Things Digital
BoomTown — ... Solution columnist Katie Boehret traveled to Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show. They’re navigating the crowds in order to bring you the most important, the most interesting, and the most entertaining moments of the CES melee. They’ll also probably have some interesting tidbits about boring stuff as well. All CES coverage from AllThingsDigital.com will be centralized here, and updated frequently throughout the day(s). Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap. LIVE from CES: ...

LIVE from CES: Palm Unveils Nova and the Palm Pre
Futurelawyer — ... LIVE from CES: Palm Unveils Nova and the Palm Pre | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD. Along with the WebOS, Palm is, this afternoon, demonstrating the PalmPre, a smart phone with a 3.1 inch screen, slide out keyboard, multi-touch interface, a removable battery, AND it handles EvDO and WiFi. It has 8 Gigabytes of memory, and looks like a device designed to have the best of both worlds. Will it be an iPhone or iPod Touch killer? Too soon to tell, but it looks like Palm is back in ...

CES-tastic!: No Taxi Lines, Barry Manilow and a Geek ZZ Top (But, As Always, Scoble-Stalked!)
BoomTown — ... But CES is still a reliably noisy, often pointless, gadget cavalcade–with introduction of a new smartphone from Palm (PALM), called Pre, as the highlight so far. ...

Palm’s Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES
Between the Lines — ... Availability is vague - first half of 2009 - and I haven’t come across any details on pricing. [image] But I did raise an eyebrow when I read an entry on Media Memo . Peter Kafka writes: The biggest unknown is price, which went unmentioned during the demo. My assumption is that Palm (PALM) would try to take market share by coming in significantly lower than the $200 or so Apple wants for its iPhone. But when I ran that theory by Palm CEO Ed Colligan, he looked at me liked I’d peed on his rug. “Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product,” he asked, then ...

Palm To Price Itself Into Oblivion?
Digital Daily — ... Well, Palm (PALM) bet the company on a new handset today. It’s called the Palm Pre, although given the company’s faltering business a better name for it would have been the Palm Hail Mary. It features a touch screen as well as a sliding QWERTY keyboard that slides out from underneath a large touchscreen. Also on board, a 3-megapixel camera with flash. A nice addition. It supports EvDo, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. And it runs on a brand new operating system called Web OS, whose UI boasts more than a handful of Apple-esque design flourishes. ...

Palm Copies Apple's Ego Trip
Gawker: valleywag — ... But the most glaring way in which Palm has rebuilt himself in Apple's image is in its executives' raging superiority complex. Take this exchange between AllThingsD blogger Peter Kafka and Palm CEO Ed Colligan: ...

Sounds Like Palm Pre Won't Come Cheap [Palm Pre]
Gizmodo — ... Although the Pre is set to be released in the first half of 2009, the pricing for the phone "has not yet been determined." What is lacking in its audio and video capabilities, the Pre compensates with a slide out QWERTY keyboard and other iPhone-esque features—including multi-touch and gesture manipulation. Because of their similarities, it is reasonable to think that the Pre would be priced around the iPhone's $200 mark. However, when CNet's Peter Kafka mentioned this theory, Palm CEO Ed Colligan replied, "Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product?" ...

Awww: Sounds Like Palm Pre Will Be Over $200 [Palm Pre]
Gizmodo — ... When Peter Kafka asked if the Palm Pre's price would be less than the iPhone's $199, Palm CEO Ed Colligan replied, "Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product?" ...

Pre Historic
Digital Daily — Palm’s long suffering investors have apparently drunk themselves silly on Palm Pre Kool-Aid (here at ATD, we tasted it briefly and promptly spit it out). Shares of the much-diminished handset maker climbed almost seven percent to $4.45 Thursday after the company uncrated the device and Web OS, the new platform it will run on. Wall Street seems convinced that the Pre is not a postscript for Palm (PALM), but the beginnings of its rebirth. A historic turning point worthy of a trading bacchanal. Indeed, expressing a “renewed confidence in ...

Palm surprises with Pre smartphone running new webOS
AppleInsider — ... department, and some common ties exist between the two companies in Palm's PR department.  Palm Director of Software Chris McKillop worked on the iPod and iPhone teams as well. Features Availability and Pricing It comes to the United States first from Sprint in the first half of 2009 with a world-ready UTMS version for other regions to follow.  Pricing has not been determined, although we do have some indication that Palm won't look to aggressively undercut the iPhone's pricing.   All Things Digital's Peter Kafka  asked chief executive Ed Colligan if the Pre would be priced ...

The iPhone Non-Killer
Digital Daily — The biggest unknown is price, which went unmentioned during the demo. My assumption is that Palm would try to take market share by coming in significantly lower than the $200 or so Apple wants for its iPhone. But when I ran that theory by Palm CEO Ed Colligan, he looked at me liked I’d peed on his rug. “Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product,” he asked, then walked away. – Peter Kafka, MediaMemo Palm (PALM) evangelists and CEOs convinced the company’s new Pre handset is anything more than ...

Palm Pre Roundup: $399 Price? Most Love It, Om Is Unimpressed
mocoNews — ... ), although obviously that's not confirmed. Palm has said the cost will be competitive, but CEO Ed Colligan replied to a question from All Things Digital about whether then device would cost less than the iPhone's $199, by saying: "Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product?" There will also be a ...

Palm CEO: Why would we price ‘Pre’ less than iPhone when we have a significantly better product?
MacDailyNews — ... biggest unknown [with the Palm Pre] is price, which went unmentioned during the demo. My assumption is that Palm would try to take market share by coming in significantly lower than the $200 or so Apple wants for its iPhone," Peter Kafka reports for AllThingsD. Kafka reports, "But when I ran that theory by Palm CEO Ed Colligan, he looked at me liked I’d peed on his rug. 'Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product,' he asked, then walked away." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: More unwarranted hubris from a deluded man who for years has done ...

Weekend Update 1.11.09
Digital Daily — ... (SNE). MediaMemo also caught the much anticipated introduction of Palm’s (PALM) new smartphone, the Palm Pre, and its new Web OS, a combo Palm deems superior to the iPhone and that many others consider Palm’s last chance for survival. The product’s success or ...

Kara Talks to Roger McNamee About the Palm Pre
BoomTown — ... BoomTown did a video interview with Palm’s sugar daddy investor Roger McNamee at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, after the debut of its Pre smartphone. ...

Palm “New-ness”: A Share Price of $6.10
Digital Daily — ... Palm’s long-suffering investors are today basking in the company’s “new-ness”–specifically, a stock that’s continuing the big rally it began last week after the announcement of the Palm Pre handset and Web OS. ...

Palm Pre: Possibly as low as $149?
VentureBeat — ... Now that everyone has seen Palm’s new phone, the Pre, and wants one, the biggest question remains pricing. Initially, it seemed that Palm planned to charge more than the $199 (and $299) that AT&T and Apple charge for the iPhone, since Palm’s chief executive Ed Colligan indicated it was a better device, and as such could command a higher price tag. This seemed confirmed by ...

Palm May Sell Pre For $149 (PALM)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Initially, it seemed that Palm planned to charge more than the $199 (and $299) that AT&T; and Apple charge for the iPhone, since Palm's chief executive Ed Colligan indicated it was a better device, and as such could command a higher price tag. This seemed confirmed by ...

iPhone Nano Spoiling Pre’s Party? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — ... The Pre, whose niche is not yet exactly clear (it isn’t a dedicated multimedia phone, nor is it really a powerful business machine, according to AllThingsD), will be available in the “first half of 2009,” according to Ed Colligan, Palm’s President and CEO. Now, I’m pretty sure they were hoping to have the time to themselves, but it looks like they might be out of luck. Chinese business newspaper Economic Daily News is ...

Palm Shares Up 157 percent; S&P Down 5.9 Percent
Digital Daily — ... Now, not two weeks after the announcement of its Pre handset and Web OS operating system, Palm shares are trading up 157 percent, versus the S&P 500 — which is ...

Palm Prē pre-order price: $399
PalmAddicts — ... P4 in short; or as you’ve read it up there: Palm Prē™ pre-order price, is set at $399 apiece. As reported by PreCentral; a web retailer MobileCityOnline (MCO) has revealed Palm’s newest and upcoming Prē™ price, it has been a long speculation whether Prē™ will also be fighting the iPhone in price. The price offered by MCO is mirrored before by Palm CEO Ed Colligan’s answer when asked by Peter Kafka from All Things D (via Gizmodo) if the Prē™ would be priced less than iPhone: "Why would we do that when we ...

Palm Pre
The Tao of Mac — ... Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap ...

Palm Pre
The Tao of Mac — ... Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap ...

Palm Pre: June 6, $199.99
Digital Daily — ... Seems that in the end, Palm (PALM) decided it would be folly not to match the $199 price of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, though according to CEO Ed Colligan the Pre is far superior to it. Asked at CES if Palm would try to take market share by undercutting the iPhone on price, Colligan told MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka, “Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product.” ...

Palm Pre
The Tao of Mac — ... Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap ...

Palm Pre
The Tao of Mac — ... Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap ...