Comments on: Review: Palm Pre (Sprint)

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By: nitussi

nitussi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:00:02 +0000

What you are saying “pappa2″ sounds kool with a new customer who just switched to get a better deal, but for someone like me who has been with sprint for 10 years and was content of spending $80 a month for 3 lines, to spending $150 a month for 3 lines just because you get a new phone(which is turning out to be crap). It ain’t about sprint trying to give you the best experience, it’s about the cartel getting more money out of you by forcing you to pay for more stuff that you do not want or need.

By: pappa2

pappa2 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:40:13 +0000

I work for Sprint. The Palm Pre does not require you to have the Everything Plan. The Palm Pre works just fine with any of the minute plans you choose plus unlimited message / data plan which includes sprint tv, sprint music, navigation, and unlimited data use. If you want you can have the most basic plan we have on the phone but we just suggest to get the best use/all feature use out of the phone is to have an everything plan. Looking at the plan price wise its great at only 99.99 compared to verizon unlimited plans. Another nice feature is it can run 4 applications at once vs an I-phone can not! AT & T ’s I-phone is a great phone don’t take me wrong. The palm pre is a great phone too but you can get it on a less expensive plan.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:13:43 +0000

Just wanted to add my comments/2cents to this discussion.

I have been a Sprint Subscriber for close to 20 years, ya Im OLD. The customer service maize you have to work thru to get ANY satisfaction with those people is mind numbing, but IF you can hold your ground and get to what is called the Retention Department, they sometimes CAN go above and beyond what the front line CS idiots can do.

That said, I have been a Palm user for about as long, going from just plain palm, to Treo, to now Centro, and having interest in the new Pre.

It was very interesting to read here that there so called “requirement of new plan” is just their own greed/marketing. What they tell people, is that the Pre wont WORK on the old Power Vision network, which did not make sense to me, but so be it.

To learn/confirm now, that all that is , is pure GREED angers me further and sure makes me rethink my whole Sprint loyalty thing.

My thoughts run with one poster here, to maybe buy the phone independent of their so called discount (I can get it on ebay for about 340) , change the plan, but do NOT sign up for another 2 year agreement, so IF after changing plans, and getting the Pre, I am not just over the moon happy with it all, I am NOT at their mercy for another 2 years. The phone itself would have decent resale numbers, and I would be free to to to ATT for an iPhone.

Just makes ya shake your head huh?

By: Tris

Tris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:29:47 +0000

If you go to sprint.com and look at the list of phones, under the pre it says “about plans for this phone”. click there and you will see that you can use it with the $99.99 everything plan, everything Data plan 900 for $89.99, Everything Data 450 for $69.99, Simply everything family $189.99 for 2 and $89.99meach added phone, everything data family 3000 for $169.99 for 2 phones $20 each added phone, everything data family 1500 for $129.99 for 2 phones $20 each added phone, and a business essentials plan also. So those of you paying for the everything plan need to look at sprints website, then call and change your plans. I asked before the pre came out what plans were required to have this phone and I was NEVER told ONLY the everything plan $99.99. They told me the family data plans would be fine with this phone. Like I said, the info I just posted here I got from the sprint site just now as I typed. So please go take a look and change things around to save yourselves some money.

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:28:49 +0000

@lilly

Are you sure you got the Palm Pre? I know my wife and I had to upgrade to everything plan just to get the Pre.

By: lilly

lilly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:24:21 +0000

Actually, I went to the sprint store yesterday and you don’t have to get the everything plan. I share a plan w/ my mom (don’t judge) and i could get 1500 minutes plus unlimited messaging PLUS umlimited data for 129.99 a month for 2 people. that 189.99 if it was the everything plan…. just saying.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:51:45 +0000

It was more Palm decision i think. the choice to only produce $50,000 units and distribute them is decided by the manufacturer.

By: F1

F1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:21:32 +0000

@ Dan
Here is the copy of my response to you, originaly sent one hour ago:

Agreed, on that you have a valid point, however, was that Apple’s fault, or Palm’s marketing decision? Still, if any one has the breakdown of the sales figures, kindly share it with us.
How many units were sold in the U.S. alone? This way we get “them” Apples and Oranges straight !

P.S.
On a different subject,I don’t now why, but Yahoo and Opera 9.6 combined become a complete nightmare, it took over 20 minutes, for me to log in into the Yahoo account, get to my sent folder, copy the above message, any other page loads in seconds, but not so Yahoo email, loading speed drops to 5-6kbs!

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