The manager here at the Sprint store said the Pre works with the applications on My Space.

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I just held the Pre and the screen is amazing! I am going to be so bumbed if I walk out of here without one.

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The line outside the Sprint store is starting to grow. With reported short supply of the Pre, I'm glad I got here early to ensure I get mine today.

30 minutes until the Pre goes live.

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The first Sprint employees just drove by and stopped to chat for a minute.

It's official, we all agree, I'm crazy! Crazy about the Palm Pre! What did you expect from a Smartphone Fanatic!

45 minutes until the Pre goes live.

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Today is shaping up to be agreat day! The sun is shining, the sky is blue, birds are singing, and the morning air is cool!

What a great day to buy a Pre! If you read the article in Forbes about how the Palm team designed the Pre, it is all about mornings like this one.

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If you haven’t seen this Pre “commercial” of Roger McNamee poking fun at himself, you are doing yourself a disservice.

http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/atd/microPlayer.swf

And just remember kids, the Pre eats iPhones for breakfast!

If you have no idea what I’m talking about or why I think this video is so funny, you have to go back and watch this video of Roger shortly after the Palm Pre was unveiled back in January at this year’s CES show.

Jimmie over at GadgetsOnTheGo.net is reporting that Palm will be making an appearance at this year’s All Things Digital conference. Walt Mossberg, of the Wall Street Journal fame, has been quoted as saying:

“The Palm guys are coming, they not are only going to come and talk in more detail about the Palm Pre than you have seen before, but they’re actually going to introduce some things that haven’t even been speculated, that the Palm Pre is going to be able to do, that haven’t even been speculated on the blogs and they’re going to show some cool features.”

http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/microPlayer.swf

Let’s hope that this appearance at “D” is better than Palm’s last high-profile appearance when they wanted to talk about their last “new” device, the Palm Foleo.

[Via GadgetsOnTheGo.net…]

Palm held their quarterly earns conference call last week and the revenue numbers didn’t look good. According to Palm, they won’t look good at the end of next quarter either. Eric Savitz over on Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blog as a nice summary. Mr. Savitz writes:

“For investors in Palm, the company is now in a sort of spring training period – what matters is getting ready for opening day. No one really cares if the Yankees have the best record in in the Grapefruit League; and likewise, the Street has decided to simply ignore the absolutely nightmarish numbers Palm posted for the February quarter. Palm has one more free pass ahead; May’s report will be even nastier still, and investor won’t care unless there is an acceleration in cash burn. Palm is a company that, by design, is going down in flames, with every hope of rising Phoenix-like from the ashes.”

I’ve loved using Palm’s products over the last 10 years so I’ve always been a glass half full kind of guy when it comes to Palm. Regardless of what happens, Palm is betting the farm that the Palm Pre smartphone and it’s new mobile operating system, webOS, are going to a hit. During the conference call, Palm’s executives continue to stick to their guns and are porting that the Pre will ship before the end of the first half of this year.

Back in January, many expected Pre to ship in February, and then again by March 15th. That hasn’t happened. I’m sure Palm and Sprint are both scambling to get this phone out the door. The challenge is that the phone and the software need to have a flawless execution once it gets into customer’s hands. During 1SRC Podcast 205, I talked about the Pre likely shipping in late May as did the Treo 700p and 755p smartphones did. However, Mr. Savitz summerizes the situation a little bit differently by writing:

“The Palm Pre is expected to ship before the end of June; some analysts think it happen before the end of the May quarter, but most figure it will be later than that.”

Let’s hope that Palm and Sprint have that flawless launch. There is a lot riding on Pre and webOS.

You can read the full Barron’s artilce on the Tech Trader Daily blog.

There are only two frakin’ episodes of Sci-Fi’s popular Battlestar Galactica left! Don’t miss out any any of the toaster pounding action! You can use your smartphone to access Sci-Fi’s BSG mobile portal at:

http://mobile.scifi.com/bsg

Daybreak, Part 1 airs on Friday, March 13 at 10pm ET on Sci-Fi Channel.

Palm is reporting, by way of a SEC Form 8-K filing, that Donna Dubinsky has left her post on Palm’s Board of Directors. Ms. Dubinsky has been replaced by Rajiv Dutta, who was designated by private investment firm, Elevation Partners.

“Under the Agreement, Elevation has the right to designate an additional director for election to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”).

On January 26, 2009, and in light of the Board’s desire to maintain its current size, Donna Dubinsky offered to resign from the Board immediately in advance of the election to the Board of a director designated by Elevation. Ms. Dubinsky’s offer to resign as a director was not the result of any disagreement with the Company.

On January 30, 2009, Elevation designated Rajiv Dutta for election to the Board. Mr. Dutta retired as the President of eBay Marketplaces and Executive Vice President of eBay Inc. in October 2008 and as a member of eBay’s board of directors in July 2008. The Board is expected to meet shortly to consider Ms. Dubinsky’s offer to resign from the Board and Mr. Dutta’s election to the Board.”

The full Form 8-K report can be found on Palm’s Investor Relations website.

In addition to working at eBay, Mr. Dutta has also recently worked at PayPal (June 2006 – January 2008) and at desktop VOIP pioneer Skype (October 2005 – June 2006) according to an executive profile on Forbes.com.