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• An initial one-carrier deal at first is pretty much standard for all high-end mobiles these days. RIM and Apple are doing just fine with such deals. Hooking up with Sprint for the Centro is what kept Palm alive recently, so it is no shock that they went with them for the Pre. You can bet on there being a VZ model and both carrier-custom and unlocked GSM/UMTS/EDGE models eventually, just as there are now for the Centro and the Treo models that have started on single carriers.
  
  That said, i understand the irritation. I live in an area (Detroit) where AT&T's coverage is a bad joke and Sprint's is great, so I've stuck with my Treo650 rather than getting an iPhone. I did love AT&T's coverage when I had to take a weekly rotation of an on-call phone for work however: as long as I stayed in my house, I never got any calls. In reply to: "Answers to burning Palm Pre questions"

  January 8, 2009

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• As a longtime mostly happy Sprint and PalmOS user, I'm happy to see a new Palm offering on Sprint that is worth buying. One thing I don't see mentioned *anywhere* regarding the Pre is the desktop sync capabilities. One thing that I've loved about my Palm devices is that I've been able to sync it with my personal desktop (a Mac) and with whatever Windows machine(s) I am saddled with for work, and to keep calendars and contacts coherent where appropriate and segregated where appropriate. The new OS clearly will demand new sync tools, and that is a huge concern for me because that multiple-desktop multiple-OS sync magic has only been possible because Chapura has made useful sync add-ons for Windows and Mark/Space has essentially taken over the market for PalmOS sync tools on the Mac since Palm abandoned maintenance of their Mac software. What I really want to hear from Palm is that they are either including new robust sync tools of their own or that they are making WebOS open enough to third-parties that there can still be serious third-party software to enhance whatever they provide. In reply to: "Answers to burning Palm Pre questions"

  January 8, 2009

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• The presence of perchlorate salts does not preclude even earth-like life. Humans who like a working thyroid shouldn't be chowing down on the Martian soil, but there are plants and microbes that survive significant levels of perchlorate salts in the soil in very dry places like the Atacama desert.
  
  Perchlorate may actually argue for past Martian life because it implies that there once was free oxygen in the atmosphere, which is hard to model without life. It also offers an interesting potential for how Martian soil microbes might survive today, using perchlorate as a metabolic oxydizer. In reply to: "Martian soil turns up toxic chemical"

  August 7, 2008

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