So Canada! Your Pre is Native Now! 47
In Canada? Waiting in line? Already got your Pre? Giddy as a schoolgirl? Feeling the sting of a brand new 3 year contract? Is that contract offsetting the joy of not having to hassle with a mail-in rebate? We really, really want to know because we're happy for our Canadian readers (we just wish more of them could feasibly use Bell).
Hit us up in the comments, email your photos into news@precentral.net, let us know what you think!
If you're still on the fence about the Pre, be sure to hit up our insanely comprehensive full Palm Pre Review and Guide. Toronto's Globe and Mail (thanks tipster who for some reason wanted to be Anonymous) has an article up on the launch and why it's good for Bell as a network:
“There's no doubt the Pre will have a positive impact on our market share and there's no doubt the Pre will have a positive impact on ARPU [average revenue per user] because it's so easy to use, so our data revenue will grow,” said Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility and chief brand officer of Bell Canada.
Don't you wish you lived in a world where you didn't know what APRU meant? Also, and we say this gently, why do you think Palm decided to start their Pre launch with two smaller (some might say struggling) networks?
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Who cares about the pre? It's my birthday!! GOO MEEE!
You are a nincompoop. Post your list of 200 things. Heck, post your list of 20 things that this phone cannot do that all other phones do.
Anonymous troll postings. Gotta love it.
STFU forum troll!!! You are an early adopter of a BRAND NEW DEVICE with a BRAND NEW OS!
This is still a better phone than my TREO & CENTRO were!! AND it's better than EVERY Blackberry out there! For ME, it's even better than the iPhone.
So it doesn't have $2.4 billion in apps sold yet...get over it. YOU chose to be one of the first to buy this device KNOWING it was BRAND NEW!!!
Shut your piehole & sell it on ebay to ME so I can put it on my 2nd line! You are lame.
Can you rotate your Google Maps to landscape mode?
@ Anonymous
You are just another IPhone Fanboy Smacktard.
Walked into the Bell store 5 minutes after they opened this morning. Walked out 30 minutes later with my new Pre. I was amazed the number transfer was instant. It only took so long because I had lots of questions about Bell service. I'm the sort of customer Bell was hoping for: someone who switched to their service just for this phone. Hell, I even broke my contract with Fido with 6 months left.
Too bad they didn't have the Touchstone in yet. Too bad the Precentral.net store charges an outrageous $30 for UPS shipping to Canada (plus the inevitable UPS brokerage fees), else I'd buy it from them.
Got my Pre today, so far Pandora wont work in this country (canada), according to MY pre... :(
"Also, and we say this gently, why do you think Palm decided to start their Pre launch with two smaller (some might say struggling) networks?"
Because its still beta and we just happen to be the Beta testers! I don't mind though.
I think by year end when they launch on all the popular networks its going to be a very polished product and webos will probably start making its way into other phones and dare I even think of other vendors challenging android.
Actually, Bell's Smartphone plans are VERY reasonable in comparison to the competition.
Smaller struggling networks? How so in Bells case? They have the same user base as Rogers and the coverage for 3G is double that of Rogers, so I don't understand. By the end of the year they are also rolling out their HSPA network, which cost them over 1 billion dollards. I don't know how you can call that struggling.
When I bought mine, I wasn't told anything like that. We set up the profile instore, ran through a little gesture tutorial, and that was it.