Palm opened its first retail store in the Bay Area this week (Stanford, Palo Alto). OSNews was there today and we are sharing our quick look at it via pictures, here and here.In the meantime, there are new PDA models rumored online, the Tungsten TX (312 Mhz, 128 MB, HiRes+, Bluetooth, WiFi, SD slot, no voice recording) and the Zire 22 ($99, 160×160 color, 32 MB, no SD slot or headphone jack).
Palm Opens Retail Store; New Tungsten/Zire Models Rumored
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wow, this is something that probably should have happened a while ago. Too little too late i’m afraid. Maybe they should have split the rent with Tivo, heh.
A little too late. I can’t see how a retail store will be successful selling only Palm units and accessories. It’s not like the Apple store that sells many items. I cracked up laughing when I saw this headline! LOL.
This is not true. The store also sells third party software and accessories, just like Apple Stores do.
If they’re not too ambitious it could be viable. They will obviously have studied the Apple model. Don’t open too many stores, keep a careful eye on turnover for each one. I wish them success, and not to repeat the Gateway stores fate!
In the first picture, there’s an iMac G5…
I think theyve had stores around the place for a while. This isnt the first store.
I’ve seen several in Airports around the country. The sad thing is, the people working those small palm stores in the airport look as abysmally bored as the people in the osnews pics.
Yeah, real busy place they’ve got there.
Meanwhile, I’ve never been to an Apple store that wasn’t hopping.
It’s a rather shitty idea in my opinion… They only sell Palm crap. Little software, recharge adapters, cases, keyboards, some weird little extensions, palms, and some other boring stuff… They probably should have stuck with the booth, like they had/have at the Embarcaderro center in SF. Palm had good business at Franlin Covey too, because Franklin Covey not only sold palm crap, they made their own custom palm crap and sold many other things. Planners, stationary, computers, etc. Theres more to look at at a Franklin Covey then a Palm store, they get just as much business at the Franklin Covey… Palm, what a bad move
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>Little software
I don’t know if it’s “little” or not, but there are 28,000 software titles for PalmOS.
Yes, but it’s all commercial crap. All the Palm store sells is the few petty titles they think are “premium” when they are LOYAL crapola
. Open Source is the way mein fruend and Palm OS doesn’t offer much of that, now do they? I am a Palm user, but I am really thinking of getting a Pocket PC to install the Handheld.org Linux distro on it. At least that way, I’ll get what I believe to be “premium” software, open source.