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Photo Taken With Verizon Pre 2?

By: , 11/29/2010 8:03 pm | 16 comments

Thanks to a tip from one of our readers (oldmanhorton) we have found a picture that could possibly have been taken with a Verizon Palm Pre 2. As you can see from the included screencap and the Palm Facebook page:

We caught a great sunset with a Palm Pre 2 on Thanksgiving.

Moonlight State Beach.– Sent from my Palm Pre on Verizon Wireless

With a little digging we discovered that the image was uploaded to flickr by Palm’s very own Justin Ried. His photostream actually has two images titled “Palm Pre 2: Lense Flare” that were uploaded from a “Palm Pre on Verizon” .

This does not definitively prove that it was a Verizon Pre 2 as the image could have been uploaded with a normal Verizon Pre Plus. However, it could very well have been taken with a Verizon Pre2. So Justin was these shots taken with a Verizon Pre 2? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Thanks for the tip oldmanhorton!]

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  • http://www.twitter.com/jpartain89 Justin Partain

    From what I’ve learned about Palm, when they make a phone, they make it for every carrier. So this could be a phone that IS made for Verizon, but are still far from being released

    • http://twitter.com/zhephree Zhephree

      This is accurate. I know of someone with an official Sprint Pre 2 that will never see the light of day to anyone else.

      • Anonymous

        You should tell this to those “loyal customers” that are complaining all the time. Maybe then they will realise that it’s not in HPs interesst to NOT sell them Sprint, Verizon, AT&T etc. Pre 2s…

        • Jospeh Ziehm

          HP and Palm want to sell them, as a former sales trainer I can tell you that management sucks. They do not want to sell anything they themselves do not understand. Awhile ago we laughed at WebOS or rumors except for me. Sales staff hounded me because Maine is not a big time market. Wish we could have sold Treo’s but even District Managers were fearful; hint, hint two hospitals nearby!

      • Brad

        Official Sprint pre 2? Prove it.

  • http://twitter.com/bshedwick Brad Shedwick

    If there was a way to determine the size of the original photo, you may be able to tell whether it was taken on a Pre Plus or Pre 2

    • Ryan St. Andrie

      It was taken with a Pre2 however it could have been emailed/uploaded to flickr with a Pre Plus

  • Rich

    Was at the verizon store in north jersey. The verizon employee said the palm rep came in and gave training on the 2.

  • Fullnesstherof

    WebOS news is pretty slow latley huh?

    • Caleb Rodriguez

      Yeah Webos News has been really REALLY slow… I been elegible since oct.1… And am thinking of the unthinkable.. :(

      • WatchingHP

        “With a little digging” we found a puppy had planted a bone. Let’s see. Pre2 is “out” there but not being sold on US carriers yet. That’s big news if you ask WHY. WebOS 2 is “out too” but isn’t yet on the original phones, and again we ask WHY. I wish I could have a few minutes with a high level HP person in Cal Lightman’s lab. Get to the real story behind the SLOW roll outs.

  • Elpollodiablo1

    From the Meta (exif) information of the Photo is says it was taken on a Palm Pre. Has there been any Palm Pre 2 photos that can be used to compare it to see if it is really from a Pre 2 on Verizon?

    source:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ried/5218527303/meta

    • http://twitter.com/arthurthornton Arthur Thornton

      The Pre, Pre Plus, and Pre 2 all identify themselves as “Palm Pre” as model.

      If the image were available full sized, that would tell us the device used to take the photo (3MP Pre, 5MP Pre2)

  • Putnamyr

    The Pre2 comes out on verizon early Jan. Mock units are in stores now.

    • Cbalcom03

      I was told by a Verizon employee that it was coming out in Fed.

  • Guest

    There where Palm people at the Developer Day with Verizon on their Pre 2.