Sweet mother of whatever you find holy, I thought that 400,000 was bad! If Ashok Kumar of Collins Stewart investment bank is to believed, Foxconn manufacturing of Hong Kong is having major problems building the Palm Pre. He was quoted in Barron’s saying:
“About two weeks ago, Foxconn was having problems with the flexible printed circuit board for the Pre and having trouble getting adequate yields for the capacitive touch-screen display. Now, it appears Foxconn has found more hardware problems, and it’s not clear if the problem is with Texas Instruments’s OMAP application processor, or with some basic design issue.”
Apparently the problems have forced Foxonn to check each Pre by hand instead of running the devices through an automated testing process as normally be done for such a high-volume production run.
It is worth noting that Mr. Kumar does not officially cover Palm as part of his duties at Collins Stewart. One of his areas of concentration is Qualcomm, which manufactures the radios for the Pre, and Kumar does not expect that any problems the Pre may be facing will have an appreciable impact on Qualcomm’s shares.
[Originally posted at precentral.net]
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Palm Pre Fact Sheets, User Guides Leak out
Mahootzki points us to Coal's post over at Sprint Gurus leaking a bunch of Palm Pre box documents in PDF form. We have all the (heavily watermarked) action after the break!
Leaving aside the feeling that it's relatively difficult to distinguish between a manual and three different kinds of 'guides,' we're feeling pretty happy about the full user guide. It's fully of crunchy tidbits -- some new and some not -- like:
Synchronization of Facebook and Google accounts is scheduled to happen every 15 minutes. (we hear that Gmail is IMAP-idle-sytle push, but that's still unconfirmed)
You hold down the orange button to switch to moving the cursor around character by character, you hold the shift key to go into text selection mode.
If you're 'throwing' items to the right off-screen to delete them (as with the notifications area, for example) and you get a delete confirmation message, you can just throw a 2nd one off screen to confirm it. Very fast!
Notifications for Operating System updates and 3rd party application updates are automatic and give you "install now" and "install later" options - Plus "Install All" and "Install Free" for 3rd party apps.
Palm will offer "Palm Music Assistant" to aid in transferring music over USB from the Pre to your computer.
Confirmation that you can view DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and PDF
You can switch the online backup service off or switch it to manual as well as delete backups.
You can switch the "full swipe" gesture from two different behaviors -- switching between apps or just 'back'
MP3 ringtones are in full effect, but it uses 'the first few seconds of a song' instead of letting you pick.
Removing and re-attaching the battery cover takes up no fewer than 4 pages, so it's apparently not easy.
We could go on, but you get the picture. There's plenty to see here. We are almost a week away, folks!
[Originally posted at precentral.net]
Leaving aside the feeling that it's relatively difficult to distinguish between a manual and three different kinds of 'guides,' we're feeling pretty happy about the full user guide. It's fully of crunchy tidbits -- some new and some not -- like:
Synchronization of Facebook and Google accounts is scheduled to happen every 15 minutes. (we hear that Gmail is IMAP-idle-sytle push, but that's still unconfirmed)
You hold down the orange button to switch to moving the cursor around character by character, you hold the shift key to go into text selection mode.
If you're 'throwing' items to the right off-screen to delete them (as with the notifications area, for example) and you get a delete confirmation message, you can just throw a 2nd one off screen to confirm it. Very fast!
Notifications for Operating System updates and 3rd party application updates are automatic and give you "install now" and "install later" options - Plus "Install All" and "Install Free" for 3rd party apps.
Palm will offer "Palm Music Assistant" to aid in transferring music over USB from the Pre to your computer.
Confirmation that you can view DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and PDF
You can switch the online backup service off or switch it to manual as well as delete backups.
You can switch the "full swipe" gesture from two different behaviors -- switching between apps or just 'back'
MP3 ringtones are in full effect, but it uses 'the first few seconds of a song' instead of letting you pick.
Removing and re-attaching the battery cover takes up no fewer than 4 pages, so it's apparently not easy.
We could go on, but you get the picture. There's plenty to see here. We are almost a week away, folks!
[Originally posted at precentral.net]
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