The Guardian has reported that Carphone Warehouse is now offering two free airline tickets to people that buy a Palm Pre before the end of January.
The suggestion therefore is that not many of the devices have been sold, compared to the volumes that were expected – which is a puzzler since every review I’ve seen praised the Pre in many respects.
That said, my personal view was that everything on the UI was great, but as soon as you pressed a button that made a call in to the operating system (e.g. ‘store contact’), things slowed down quite a bit…
I haven’t yet seen the details of exactly what the deal is, but I’d suspect it’s going to be rather restrictive – much like those deals you see in newspapers from time to time. If retailers are able to give away a PS3 with a device on contract, then perhaps we could estimate the two tickets are maybe worth around £200-300 in value between them? That’s not going to get you too far methinks 🙂
Check out the article in the Guardian here.