You would think with the Droid being launched in the new few days that Spring and Palm would be making sure that no mistakes are made with their advertising for the Palm Pixi. So when the above advert claims that the Palm Pixi has Wi-Fi capabilities then it is beyond belief.
Everyone knows the Pixi is the little sister (is it a girl) of Palm Pre and that it doesn’t have Wi-Fi, so is someone totally losing the plot over at Sprint. Sprint in the past has claimed that the Palm Pre had tethering capabilities when it didn’t.
It is simple , you cannot make mistakes like this in such a competitive market!!
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Good and bad news sometimes come at the same time and it is one of life’s wonders how and why this happens. Just a day or so after the Palm Pre was ranked at 14 in PC Worlds (US) top 100 products of 2009, came the news that Palm shares (or stocks as they are known in the US) lost significant ground, in fact you could say the ground swallowed them up.
Palm shares lost a whopping 23% in the month of October 2009 and lost 6.3% on Tuesday October 27th alone , this isn’t good reading by any measure. To Rub salt into the wounds of all Palm lovers a leading analyst Tim Long at BMO Capital Markets said the company would not meet expectations (I don’t think anyone will be rushing to buy Palm stock now) he said “Android will step up in importance at many operators, which, ex-Sprint, would put PALM in the position of fourth OS (AAPL, RIMM, Android) and sometimes even lower.”
He basically means that Palm will not and cannot compete with the likes of Apple, Blackberry or Android, something I wrote about just yesterday and the argument is right for a number of reasons. The other companies are well established Apple and Blackberry have the customer base already , Android has the uptake of many phone manufacturers who are willing to install the Android OS onto their phones. Palm well all Palm has at the moment i one phone out on the market (Palm Pre) and one ready to launch very soon Palm Pixi, so it is a case of 2 phones against the rest of the smartphone industry.
The new trend of exclusivity of new devices on mobile networks is also something that will strangle growth, in the US Palm is Sprint obsessed and will not launch a product with any other provider. Sprint by all accounts is small fry compared to AT&T and Verizon. In the UK Palm went for O2 which is not a bad bet but there are millions of customers on the other networks, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodaphone who do not want to switch providers for a phone. Palm really does need to broaden it’s brand quickly and begin to touch and appeal to many more customers.
All is not doom and gloom because the Palm Pre continues to impress the industry this time PC World has ranked it in it’s top 100 prodcuts of 2009, the Palm Pre was ranked 14th which is a great result. It was the highest ranking smartphone with the HTC Hero at number 21, these were the two significant smartphone releases of 2009 thus far. The Apple app store was ranked at #1 which does take some gloss of the Palm’s rank but not too much.
Things are not going to be easy for Palm in 2010 that is for sure but onwards and upwards they must go.
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