Poll Results: PalmOS, Sprint Lovers Switching to Pre 19
Yesterday we ran a quick poll to find out: What are you ditching to get the Pre? The results? A lot of people are upgrading from their PalmOS handsets to the Pre.
The more surprising result is that the vast majority of y'all are already Sprint customers. In retrospect it makes a lot of sense -- we already knew that Sprint has a larger number of PalmOS users than any other carrier. Still, our highly scientific (ahem) poll may suggest that Sprint will have its work cut out for it getting Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile customers to make the switch for the Pre. Our guess is that many of you folks are just waiting for Sprint's exclusivity to run out.
If the carrier results interests ya, we have those after the break. You might also take a gander at the huge number of people responding to our earlier query - Are you Switching to Sprint for the Pre?
(We'll post the full numbers in this post later this week after the poll closes)
19 Comments
As a current Verizon customer, my contract is what will hold me back. I won't be a free agent again until November of 2010. Big bummer. With all of my family (parents, siblings, kids) on Verizon, moving to a new carrier is a big deal. I'm hoping the Pre or an even greater WebOS phone will be on Verizon by then.
Sorry Sprint
I'm coming from verizon. I will be breaking contract on our family plan. It will cost us $285 on 4 lines (1 is out of contract).
Why? Well, I need 2 phones to replace two broken ones. I've already spent a bit on some out of contract (ebay) phones, and the hinges keep breaking. I'm not spending anymore. None are eligible for discount pricing straight from VZW.
Those will be normal phones, and we will get 2 pre's. The cost of data with Verizon, assuming they even had the pre, is crazy vs. Sprint.
So breaking contract hurts, but not so much in the long run.
If you combine all carriers other than sprint customers, Sprint will still get a significant boost. Looks like half of the current sprint customers. Pretty big boost IMO.
I love my iPhone, but the Pre is like a iPhone for the power user, with settings easily available, and multitasking... And, I am DONE with AT&T's sh***y network. I drop more calls in one day than my friends on Sprint drop in a year. In Austin, Sprint just works well. I didn't want a CDMA phone, but am DONE with AT&T.
I dropped my call twice just now while talking to my friend about the Pre. That's it...
I for one went through a long line of Palm smartphones (starting with the Kyocera 6050). Switched to BB Storm. Sorely miss the much, much better PIM features available in a Palm OS device.
Excited to someday return to Palm. BB's are horrible at PIM, great at email.