Palm began life as a software company (anyone remember bailing out their Newton's testy handwriting recognition by installing Graffiti?), and who the heck knows -- perhaps a software company again it will be. Okay, okay, it's
way too early to be sounding the death knell on Palm's hardware operations, but let's be honest, wouldn't a
Motorola Q9 running Palm OS instead of Windows Mobile make for an absolutely fabulous device (read: Treo / Centro killer) for the Palm OS faithful? We think so, and this Sprint promotional site makes mention of a "Q2" that, by all appearances, seems to be the aforementioned Palm-based Q9. We can't verify the legitimacy of this thing for a couple reasons: one, we've heard nary a peep about a Q2 on Sprint's or Motorola's roadmaps, and two, this same site makes no mention of the Q9c, a device that
we do know is coming to Sprint in the next few weeks. Who knows, maybe this is all some well-executed ruse by a Sprint staffer -- but if not, we say kudos to Moto, Sprint, and Palm (and ACCESS, for that matter) for putting together what may be the best Palm handset on the market come the holidays.
[Via
Boy Genius Report]
Update: Sure enough, the
detail view for the Q2 lists Windows Mobile 6 among its specs, so it seems the Q9c will be officially known as the Q2 when it hits; the 'shopped Palm screen is nothing more than a major league screw-up on Sprint's part. Thanks, commenters!
posted Nov 10th 2007 6:20PM
There is a back button and two unlabeled softkeys. Palm OS ain't runnin' on this thing. This is just a really bad (or maybe purposeful) mistake by the graphics/marketing department. Too bad. Besides, you guys (conveniently) forgot to mention that Sprint's site for this says Windows Mobile 6 on the specs.
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_15
Never happening.
It's some graphics mistake.
Even the site says that phone is WM6:
http://www.sprintspecialoffers.com/holiday/index.html#phone_15
Beat you to it!
Close, though! You win this one.
Would have been nice, though. I just picked up a Centro. I really like it, it's just a little 'dainty' feeling in my big mits.
the Q9M was my first choice when I was going to switch to Verizon, but I'm satisfied. Despite its age, I still love Palm OS. Wish they would've updated the look a bit for this phone, though.
The Sprint official launch date for the Q9c will be November 23, 2007. The same day Sprint will launch the Blackberry Pearl 2