[From Dierk Seeburg, E] If my visit to the local Sprint store is any indication, Palm and
Sprint are doomed. The less than enthusiastic Sprint store employees
were standing around while I was searching for the Palm Pre display in
the store. After finding the display I was disappointed to see that
neither one of the two Palm Pres on display were in working order -
what gives? I alerted the store personnel who tried to fix one of the
Palm Pres by adjusting its charging position on the Touchstone
charger. Apparently it needs to be positioned just so to make it
charge. The other Palm Pre was frozen and trying to push some buttons
didn't do anything, so the other clerk reset it in which state it got
stuck so she reset it again. After all this it finally worked but it
turns out that it was not very usable because the welcome video
apparently takes up so much processing power that the device is at
times painfully slow and makes it look like a lemon.
Really a bummer because I quite like the device! Feels good in your
hand and very intuitive to use!
However, I echo some of the sentiments in the article here.