[Verizon] enV Touch, Storm2, or Palm Pre?

I'm getting the Pre when it comes out. I hope it lives up to its hype.

 

I'm due for a Verizon upgrade and I have NO IDEA what to do. Part of me wants to drop Verizon and switch to AT&T to get an iPhone. The other part of me wants to check out these new phones you mentioned in the thread title.

I'm curious to check out this supposed "iPhone Killer". It looks cool from the pictures and reviews I have seen. I played around a bit on a BlackBerry Storm and wasn't feeling it. Maybe the Storm2 will be better? And the EnV Touch is just the Voyager called a different name, right?

 

Palm pre definitely. Or else wait for what the new iPhone have in store or what the top secret Microsoft phone supposed to announce this summer.

But if you not that kind of phone geek, go for the Palm Pre. THe software is where it's at and the Palm Pre is top of the list.

 

I thought the Pre was Sprint? Has something changed?

 

Palm Pre is Sprint only (for now).

However, AT&T users fear not: the Pre's b*stard junior brother, the Palm Eos will allegedly be making its debut this fall for a princely $99.

 

the exclusive window is very short, Verizon announced it'll release it within the next 6 months

 

The new iPhone will knock all 3 of these phones, I don't think you should get any of them... just wait for the iPhone announcement which will happen next Monday (June 8th).

 

LOL. I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that Apple chose to announce their "new iPhone" two days after the Pre's launch. They're not worried about Palm at all.

Verizon fans, sorry. You won't be getting the Pre this year. Sprint just confirmed they have exclusivity through 2009.

 

I've seen you say this a couple times but it's not necessarily correct.

Not saying the Pre doesn't look awesome, but this will be the third summer in a row where Apple has released an update to the phone. They do something similar with their computers. It's looking like a pretty regular thing. It was going to happen anyway, Pre or no Pre.

 

Uh.... Apple does their WWDC conference around the same time every year buddy... failure. Apple isn't afraid of any phone out there... you really think a phone like the Pre is going to come close to outselling the new iPhone. Think again...

 

I'm due for an upgrade in July. I will be able to get the Storm for about $49 with my VIP discount, employee discount, and upgrade discount. I'm wondering if I should just wait for 6 months and get the Storm 2. Or maybe I should get the Storm now, and pay for the Storm 2 when it comes out. That just sounds like a waste.

 

This might not be necessarily correct, either. The Pre has a lot of great features and the Palm name carries some weight.

Using Sprint might be the only thing hurting it right out of the gate. But if they are truly going to expand beyond more carriers, that will also make a big difference.

Still, it will be a solid seller IMO. Probably not iPhone level, but still impressive. And while Apple might not be too worried about it, they aren't going to ignore it either. That's the great thing about all this. Just like the iPhone's success has helped push some other companies to generate better products to cash in, so too will the competition push Apple.

It's win-win for everyone.

 

when is the new iphone coming out?

 

Pre is the only phone out of the three with a next gen microchip. By next gen, I mean it can do cool stuff such as using several programs like a desktop.

 

Sometime in mid July.

 

some exclusive, 6 months? Really? I think people are going to wait 6 months to have it on Verizon rather than Sprint. Sprint wasn't smart enough to have it exclusive for a year like the G1 with TMobile, iPhone with AT&T (3 years), and Storm with VZW (1 year I believe).

Every carrier has that phone that makes people break their contract from other carriers.

Yea, I'm a Verizon/Tmobile fanboy, but Sprint is going through hard times as business goes.....

 

I really don't get why people people are still so anti-Sprint these days. I've been a Sprint customer for the better part of 9 years and I can't remember the last time I had a major problem with them. The only thing I remember was some 3G connectivity issues when I first bought my 755p, which magically got resolved a few days later. I've had unlimited Internet access for $15/mo for as long as I can remember and I laugh at people from other networks who actually have to measure how much they use the web (especially T-Mobile). To me they've always been ahead of the curve technologically as far as their network goes, and the only rub is that the network isn't GSM so I can't use my phones if I travel abroad.

I really would like to know what it is that makes people not want to switch to Sprint, other than just brand loyalty to their current network.

 

Where I work at Sprints coverage sucks! I'd be lucky if I got two bars on my phone. I can't remember the countless "signal faded; call lost" messages after every dropped call followed by this: I switched to At&t and wow, what a night and day difference.

 

Oh no, you might very well have a good experience with Sprint. You're just part of a company that'll go out of business or be asbsorbed by another company since no one uses it