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The Centro giveth and the Centro taketh hkklife @ 3/20/2008 7:39:41 2 w' x" ^% L$ i6 M! e0 n8 |! R
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5 x7 J! ?/ \2 t. L! {( lOfcourse Palm's new products are keyboard-based! Do we REALLY expectanything else other than SSS (small square screens) from them? Ofcourse we don't!As far as Colligan's complaints (declines in thehandheld business, Palm's aging Windows Mobile product line & thelower than average selling price of the Centro), ALL of that is theirfault.5 m2 N6 t8 z6 n+ h" A3 j
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#1 Had Palm not totally abandoned the handheld market ina fenzy of greed to cozy up to the carriers (namely Sprint &Verizon) they'd still be treading water, even if they had kept tweakingthe same 3 (or even 2) existing PDA formfactors/price points.
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#2Aging WM line? Again, entirely Palm's fault. To not be the firstcompany out of the gates with a 320x320 WM6 smartphone is just absurd.The 755p formfactor would have made for an ideal first WM6 device. Oh,what's that you say? The carriers didn't comission a 320x320 WM6 CDMATreo from Palm? Oh well, that's what you get by selling your soul tothe carriers and then repeatedly bungling one release after another.6 \$ U. I* p! V/ p* L- t" C% {
( p! `6 t! V3 Z: j/ Z8 k#3Lower than average selling price of the Centro? Again, entirely Palm'sfault. Had they not tried to sell the SAME smartphone 3x in a row (Treo700p, 755p, Centro) perhaps they could have commanded a higher price.Or even (GASP!) tried to introduce SOME compelling new hardware featureon the Centro to make it worthy of a higher price (128mb RAM, 2mpcamera, 2/4gb internal flash screen are all perfectly functional underGarnet). Heck, a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack would have given theCentro SOMETHING that the other Treos do not have. Instead, thatpitiful stock battery and tiny scren & keyboard aren't worthy of apremium pricetag and everyone (including the carriers) knows it./ P8 K+ [+ W( a
' d2 y( p2 l/ W# {: H2 n% |, B2 r#4.Oh, and the Treo 500 not selling well in Europe? That's Palm's faultfor comissioning a "me too" device that isn't even quad-band so it canbe sold in the US. Quite foolish if you ask me. Heck, had Palm just hada quiet 500v launch in the US and sold it through AT&T as a WMversion of the Centro (or, as a Moto Q competitor) or even justunlocked on their website it'd at least have gotten SOME attention. Andan utter lack of differentiating features over every other WM phone onthe market doesn't help matters either.
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* k# {% H7 o/ k" `Has-been smartphone maker Palm is having some luck selling itscheap, tiny Centro smartphone at Sprint (S) and AT&T (T): It helpedthe company sell a record 833,000 phones last quarter, up 13%year-over-year." Y2 E# D z( b# p @: r. h: ?" t
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' d: ]6 s3 I2 Q( Q* tBut business still stinks: The company swung to aloss and missed the Street's sales and EPS projections. Palm (PALM)shares are down 6% in after-hours trading - at $4.45, they're just 20cents above their 52-week low.
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2 @5 J1 p9 j- h9 @1 _Palm (PALM) posted $312.1 millionof sales, down 24% year-over-year and missing the Street's $315.3million consensus. Adjusted EPS came in at a 16 cents per share loss,below the Street's expected 15 cents per share loss. And the companyreported a $31.5 million net loss, a huge drop from its $11.8 millionQ3 profit a year ago.
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