The last we heard about a GSM webOS products in the U.S. was FCC documents, and scattered rumours of a May 10 launch, but analyst Peter Misek from Canaccord Adams thinks the Pre and Pixi (Plus?) will not land until the summer. The delay comes from AT&T’s end, apparently, who has a laundry list of technical problems with the devices that Palm needs to fix This is bad news for Palm, who, despite some interesting new developer tools for 3D games and a new marketing campaign, Palm is still not doing so great in sales.
Palm Pre and Pixi Plus made their debut on Verizon with a few marginal upgrades – a bit of extra RAM, some added storage memory, and ditching the nipple in the gesture area.; in short, nothing to really write home about, but there’s no reason to assume AT&T wouldn’t get the most recent handset from Palm if they are, in fact, getting anything at all. Obviously landing a deal with Verizon was a good move for Palm, but even though VZ is the biggest carrier in the U.S., there are still other carriers to hit up. Once AT&T is offering a webOS device, it will just be T-Mobile that’s left without something.
In any case, here’s still hoping Palm can pull it together, although I’m getting the impression they’re doing all they can but are still drowning regardless.
[via AllThingsD]