Pre 2 demo units showing up at Rogers stores 41
by Derek Kessler
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 9:55 pm EST
Sat, 20 Nov 2010 9:55 pm EST 
Need any more proof that the Pre 2 is coming to Rogers Wireless? How about a dummy unit showing up at a Rogers store? That, along with everything else, should just about do it for us. And dummy units generally show up not too much longer before the units hit the stores. Hey, Rogers and Palm, how about announcing this sometime before it actually hit shelves. Or not, that’d be fun too.
Thanks to Brian on Twitter for the tip!
41 Comments
silent but... deadly?
or maybe just Dead on Arrival?
Disappointed and jumping ship is one thing, but posting like this is called trolling.
ya ya ya keep rubbing it in.
*twittles thumbs waiting for Sprint to finally come out with a superior phone that won't be topped in 6 months*
same minus the twittle thumbs.
I'm twittling with you man.
....that didn't sound right.
"chuckle" nope, it sure didn't :)
booourns. Stupid Bell not having the Pre 2.
I just got my friend and his family to join Sprint. Too bad I couldn't recommend a WebOs phone to him. I told him to get the Evo for him and his wife. Which is going to be funny because their last phone was an antique Flip phone. Talk about tech shock!!! We have 4 Pre's in my family and love them. Waiting for the next HP/Palm super phone. And a Palm Pad.
Sounds like me with my wife and friends, telling them all to hold out until Jan to see what HP brings.
Wife wants an Ipad, told her no no no honey, lets wait for the PalmPad.
lol, my wife wants an iPad too. I keep telling her, this is not an apple house, we'll wait for a palmpad. she says something to the effect of "why would I want that? I don't want some techy thing I can't use, I want an iPad". It's tough to win against apple's marketing success when a woman who's never even touched an iPad (or iPod or iPhone) and has only seen one once just "knows" she wants one and rejects all other potential options sight-unseen as "too hard to use".
That's funny. I think webOS Internals proves that you don't need tech knowledge even to get homebrew.
I think she was just giving an excuse to not skip on the iPad. You know if she gets one she'll be flaunting it around all her friends. If there's anything a woman wants, it's to be the envy of her friends.
Apple products are a fashion and coolness accessory. Hard to fault their marketing model though given their success. The main achilles heel is Apple drops important features trying to make the device pretty. No usb slots, SD card slots. I'm waiting to see what HP PalmPad or netbook offers. I still need and want a keyboard (bluetooth).
Not to be a downer, but when I got my palm pre plus on verizon I convinced my fiance to get one as well (they were doing buy one get one offers) and she returned it in a week. She hated the lack of voice dialing, she didn't like that it was 'hard' to answer and make calls, and didn't care for the multitasking because it made her have to worry about leaving things open. She is essentially the perfect case for iOS. We have an ipad and she really likes it, but gets annoyed by certain webpages not working correctly and other issues.
I had a 3GS on at&t before we switched to a verizon family plan. I noticed amazon running a get any high end android phone for a cent deal and asked if she was interested, and her answer verbatim was, "No, I'm not interested in a non-iphone on verizon". Keep in mind she doesn't even like using Apple computers since she is used to Windows. I think people that are really into tech forget about how difficult certain concepts are to explain and grasp for most users. You may dislike Apple's policies and less than open stance on certain things, but I don't really think it can be argued that for the tech adverse that there is a better platform out there.
Incidentally, I'm always shocked when a friend shows me their new 'droid how terrible the OS is to use. I mean it truly does feel shitty, despite the myriad of cool features. I really think the fandroids underestimate how quickly WebOS could grow if it gets some more apps and a plethora of decent hardware on a variety of networks. I think HP could have a really storng 2011. Windows Phone 7 could grow quickly as well, but I tihnk it will run into problems with the tablet formfactor because Microsoft has too much vested interested in regular Windows in that form factor they won't be able to move quickly enough.
That's weird. There are apps out there that let you make a call pressing just two buttons. Even without the app, you can call someone in your contacts launching the phone app, pressing the contacts button, and pressing your contact, so it's three buttons. The next easiest thing to that is voice dialing. And for answering calls, just press the button on-screen. Sorry, but takes a special kind of person to say that's hard.
Thank you for that thoroughly condescending answer. How about the times where you go to move the unlock circle away to unlock the screen and it just stick in the upper left? Or perhaps when the phone refuses to hang up despite tapping the end call button numerous times? How about when you manually dial a number and it doesn't register a key press only to do so a second later after you've already hit the button? The frustrating parts of using the Palm Pre don't come from the best case scenarios; they come from the annoying bugs that frustrate people.
None of that has ever, ever happened on my Sprint Pre. You practically invited that answer with how you described your fiance anyway.
What does this have ANYTHING to do with Rogers?
it was rather off-topic wasn't? I guess it's along the lines of 'look, another carrier getting pre 2 but not sprint' frustration.
Rogers probably won't release them for a while.. maybe till after the new year when something new is announced. That way, they can be their usual "fashionably late" and charge premium price while they get the phones for next to nothing since new technology would be announced.
I actually posted about it in the forums. I saw a unit yesterday. It felt nice, solid. But the guy in the store said that only a couple of stores in Toronto will have one.
Meanwhile, back at Bell, a customer rep said that Palm showed Bell a super phone this past summer that they will carry next year.
I'm going to sit on my hands until Jan CES, then make my decision.
I'd love a Pre 2. But I don't want to go over to Rogers, get it and then watch Bell get something even better.
Excellent, glad to see the Pre 2 coming to a carrier that only has about 10% coverage in my province! (and i'm being generous with that estimate).
Very few people use Rogers here.
I dont understand dummy phones.
It just proves how consumers dont even give a fuck what the phone can do, they just want to know how it looks.
finally, somebody figured it right
I recently saw the iPod Touch and iPad on display at Target. Yep, they are all dummy models. The look catches them, and when the sales rep starts shooting numbers such as CPU speed and number of apps, they get reeled in.
Dummy phones are obviously cheap and not desirable enough to steal. It must be difficult to keep functional units working with 10-12 hrs/day of consumers poking and prodding the devices. Some of these consumer retailers don't have any expertise in truly demoing the devices anyway. ?Target, Walmart? no way. Even Best Buy, and carrier stores aren't impressive.
At least some phones will ship during the holiday season!
some people just wants a phone. not all needs a super phone. mostly old timers i guess. ive ranted more than a few times about the pre 2 not having what i would like in a webos phone but i think sometimes we/i obsess too much about our phones
Sure we do. But that's OK. I Can't understand why Palm wouldn't get vis vmail, front facing cam, autofocus or voice dialing. It ain't superphone without at least 2 of those features. But webOS is still the best OS out there. Hands down.
I'm fairly certain that it is being released on December 3rd. There is an HP Store opening in Vancouver (and possibly other cities) on that day, and it would be a perfect launch-day prize and/or product to drive traffic to the store. I'd expect an announcement about this sometime next week.
yeah uhm I don't really care because this phone is kind of pathetic....
You obviously cared to a point you added a (worthless) comment.
No UK Networks are wanting to carry the Pre 2. Seems the experience that o2UK had has seen the others to not want it, HP are selling it though sim free for
What is ROGERS?
They're the guys that own the stadium where the Toronto Blue Jays play.
What is TORONTO BLUE JAYS?
Rogers is the largest communications company in Canada.
After attending the webOSdev conference, we swung by the Engadget Show near Port Authority. We ran into two Palm guys at the show with working Pre 2's. Their carrier.....Verizon. I thought it was pretty cool because it shows that the Verizon Pre2's are right around the corner.
Right around the corner......I remember someone saying that a month ago.
The Verizon Iphone is right around the corner too.......better get the damn Pre 2 or any other webOS phones out before then.
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anyway. Where is the verizon announcement of this phone? I have yet to see or hear any more news of this phone for them. All the buzz is coming from beyond the states and so on. Kinda peeved that I'm still using the sprint pre- while everyone on other carriers were getting pre+ and now pre 2. I'm biting dust.