Rumors abound that the Palm Eos will, or won’t arrive this year. Anonymous sources everywhere are suggesting that the phone is shipping to Palm in October, while analysts are claiming that the phone won’t see daylight until 2010 because the Pre hasn’t done that great, which is a further detail that no-one can confirm.
Basically it’s all non-sense, and no-one really knows anything. If the phone was arriving in October, there would be more concrete chatter about it. Palm would more than likely have announced the model considering they announced the Pre a full six months before release. Note that we have only ever seen one image, via Engadget, of the Eos, that could quite easily have been fabricated.
Personally i like the look of the Eos, and i hope it is being produced, and the sooner the release date the better. The more webOS phones available, the more i think Palm will rebuild their reputation is a strong contender in the smart phone market. While it a lower spec handset than the Pre, the Eos looks like it will do the simple things right, feel and look good, and offer a serious competitor to the Blackberry.
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ken
In order to be a serious contender to any Blackberry, Palm will need to fix the awful keyboard that they had on both the Centro and the Pre. For most men and half of the women out there the keys were just too small. I sat through the training, so I know that you are supposed to pitch the fact that you can easily hit and dig into them with your fingernails, but that is a skill that most people do not want to learn when they can hit keys with their thumbs on a Blackberry.
Aug 21st, 2009
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