Rumor: Palm Pre 2 headed to Israel? (& some Hebrew/Judaica tips for webOS) 30

When will it be america's turn

Hip hip...

The only thing I care about is there next new device. Which I hope is a nice little candy bar.

jews need love too =)

Can a stupid engineer intern or whatever please get drunk and leave his unreleased Palm Phone at a bar please?

Cripes.

Who seriously cares about a Palm Pre 2? This is coming from a guy who has been dealing with a Pre1 since June 6th 2009.

I know Palm screwed over other countries with most of the apps in the app catalog being available ONLY in the US, but why the FUCK is every other country getting the PP2? Who the hell is behind this? WHY must we keep getting slapped in the face this way? Like every time I come to this site, there's an announcement (or rumor) of the Pre 2 being available in another country!

I hate to throw salt on the wound but rumor has it that in order to keep tensions down in the middle east, a Palestinian version of PP2 will be available as well. LOL

Well, now I've seen it all. I just received snail mail from Sprint featuring the Palm Pixi. And I quote, "Get the amazing Palm Pixi for just $29.99."

Guys...

You have to understand exactly who Palm has been slapping in the face. You ignorant narcissistic Americans think the world revolves around you. It doesn't! It is the rest of the world that has been getting slapped in the face, and by logical extension, Palm shooting itself in the foot. 300 million vs. 6 billion potential customers. The rest of the world could care less about the Sprint or VZW. HP 5% of the potential market.

I've (we've) had to listen to you guys whining about your carriers for long enough to know something you have maybe missed. Palm, as an independent company, was probably killed by it's need to kowtow to American carriers. Yes it seems to be an easy way to sell lots of devices to few customers, but you can see from just this thread alone how disadvantageous it is not only to individual customers, but also Palm itself. I do pity you folks who are stuck on CDMA (and we can leave the foolishness of that to another rant), but the world is GSM. Until the smartphone became the leading edge the North american market always got the least exciting hardware late, or not at all because it was a pain in the pigu to make a CDMA phone and have to put up with tantrums from Sprint/VZW/Bell, let alone ATT not using the same frequency bands as the rest of the world.

You may have the best army, and have the biggest economy, but you were never the smartest (the Asians win in global educational ranking, you're in the 30's), the eurotrash beat you hands down in quality of life (ie health/happiness). So rather than petulantly making unreasonable demands based on "exceptionalism", realise your model is flawed, join the rest of the world, and be happy when we, the rest of the fracking world, are "allowed" to be sold good products by american global capitolists!

Oooops, sorry..capitAlist

Even though my family has homes in the US I'm quite happy with my country of origin. In theory it is a great country, but in practice it is increasingly not great. The countries that I call home consistently top the lists of great places to live, have much higher outcomes in health and education by most objective measurements. Those lists always show you guys way behind all the other western democracies, and some of the Asian ones too. This should be, if not outright embarrassing, at least disconcerting enough to give you pause to reflect.

I do enjoy tweaking exceptionalists I will admit, but my main point remains... only you care about yourselves, and a little too much for your own good. Thinking yours is the only market is demonstrably false when you look at Sammy/LG, HTC, and Nokia. HP does business throughout the world and it gets the fact the rest of us want good phones ... and they want to sell them to us. It's your carriers, and your foolish addiction to credit/subsidies, that screw you. I've always paid full freight for my unlocked GSM devices and popped a new SIM in when I go to other countries/continents saving a boatload of cash and hassles. I use the Latin alphabet only, but have seen how Palm screwed itself out of lots of good customers in my adopted affluent country because they didn't support that country's language, but Winmo (iPaq's), and now apple did/do very successfully.

I hope HP sells this PP2 all over the world like Nokia is going to do with it's C20. The C20 will be Nokia's ambassador and will cement allegiances the same way my first PalmOS device did for me. It looks like HP is going to use the PP2 to these same ends. A mid grade affordable first smartphone for the masses. I hope they do like Nokia does and make a keyboard with Latin letters, and Hebrew/Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Hindi/Thai/Cyrillic/Arabic as a secondary input method and sell it through their vast global sales network. This will attract developers from all over the world giving us all more apps!

This will hopefully give HP some leverage to get you poor folks faster updates (2.0, or we go) from your carriers. This will also be the template for HP's future device releases that see a global release of devices, not a pitiful single CDMA carrier.

If you are here with a login you are probably a fan. Ruby said it best when he said PALM is the pioneer in this space, not apple, not winmo. All we hear is static about apple now because Palm spent too much time playing wall street games, and not enough time taking care of it's (global) customers. HP has the reach to make this happen. When this happens Ruby'll get to be in his "four or five" players in this space. When that happens we all win because the best, most open OS gets the global mindshare it deserves and we get more, and better, devices faster. We all win!