According to an internal memo passed to Best Buy employees this week, Sprint has pushed back the launch of the Treo Pro smart device to February 15th for as yet unknown reasons, although Sprint representatives had stated earlier this week that the device was still undergoing the final phases of testing before launch.
1,900 units were sent in total to Best Buy stores and are still being held back until February 15th with the delay also affecting other Sprint sales channels, as the memo goes on to state that neither Sprint nor Best Buy will be allowing activation of any retail Treo Pro devices before the new launch date.
This new development clears up initial confusion this past week when Sprint inadvertently added the Treo Pro to its sales page before its then current launch date of Sunday, January 25th.
Think they’ll end up canceling this in lieu of the Pre?
I would bet that it is only delayed at best buy stores, and will still be available at the sprint store. (I was at best buy, and this uber Nerd… really, not a pun… was looking at an internal memo which looked just like the one which I have seen floating around the web. Has anybody who has any sprint contacts actually heard it from them?
This device has been delayed in retail stores too. 2/15 looks to be the new nationwide release date in all channels.
what kind of ignorant stubborn fools put less memory in the newer device than their previous gsm one???
Palm can basically write the book on how to loose in the PDA game, and let your competitors tear you apart.
They have nothing selling currently except for centros which they dont make a buck on. The GSM version of the Pro cant be purchased with a plan, so that phone has close to 0% market share, and it looks like they took a large crap on the sprint CDMA version.
Something tells me the upcoming pre will be missing one feature that will destroy its usefullness, and holding it back from being an excellent device.
Palm just cant do it, they dont know how to win, what a bunch of losers. Just do everybody a favor and shut your doors please, and stop wasting peoples time with this crap.
I predict the only threat to the iphone and Rimm in the coming years will be the android phones and symbian if it comes more prevelant in the US. I am sick of windows mobile devices too sporadically glitchy to be used as solid business phone.
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