While the Pre stock may be holding up for now, the Touchstone stock may not be faring quite as well. MyPre reports that according to feedback from early shoppers, the $69.99 Touchstone inductive charger kit is in short supply. Palm's accessory department may have really underestimated the demand for the nifty inductive charger. "Got the last Touchstone, they only had 3", Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun states on Twitter. By comparison, the same store had 25 handsets for sale.
Also, in one of the more interesting stories we've seen so far, NBC Chicago reports that a woman drove her car right into a Sprint store that was preparing to sell the new webOS device. "An elderly woman apparently couldn't wait to get her Palm Pre from a Calumet Park cell phone store", reads the article.
The woman smashed through the front window, before coming to a complete stop inside. Employees Jesus Leal Jr. and Rich Kelly "got the surprise of their lives", knocking down an oversized Pre cutout in the scramble. We couldn't help it, but was that a Pre he's using to call 911? Unfortunately, she may have forgot to submit her application to the WWYD for a Palm Pre contest over at Precentral, for which winners did things such as getting a Tattoo of a Pre, risking their career by dressing up, and eating the spiciest curry in America.
Saturday, 06 June 2009