{"id":569552,"date":"2010-05-18T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/18\/sprint-cfo-pre-didn-t-work-out-like-we-hoped\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:30:00","slug":"sprint-cfo-pre-didnt-work-out-like-we-hoped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569552","title":{"rendered":"Sprint CFO: Pre didn&#8217;t work out like we hoped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/105514-8350-main-medium-palm-pre.jpg\" alt=\"Sprint Palm Pre\" width=\"250\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the Palm Pre most likely brought several new customers to Sprint during their exclusivity period of the device, it&#8217;s clear that neither the Pre nor the Pixi did wonders for Palm and Sprint.&nbsp; Sprint&#8217;s CFO Robert Brust recently echoed that sentiment to investors when he said, &#8220;The Pre didn&#8217;t work out as well as we hoped.&#8221;&nbsp; Brust went on to blame Palm and its supply issues for the lackluster performance and said that Sprint has learned a lot since the launch of the original Pre.&nbsp; Hopefully Sprint is more prepared for the launch of the EVO 4G in a few weeks which, judging by Internet buzz, should do extremely well for the No. 3 wireless carrier.&nbsp; When asked about his concerns about the iPhone, Brust simply said, &#8220;We&#8217;d love to have it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts about the Palm Pre and Sprint? We&#8217;d love to hear them!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2010\/05\/sprint_says_pre.html;jsessionid=A5CALUENFWTUZQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN\" >InformationWeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SGnt08twpOa4RX7OII0MkWGTFYE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SGnt08twpOa4RX7OII0MkWGTFYE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SGnt08twpOa4RX7OII0MkWGTFYE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SGnt08twpOa4RX7OII0MkWGTFYE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/cjewTjrxDyc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Palm Pre most likely brought several new customers to Sprint during their exclusivity period of the device, it&#8217;s clear that neither the Pre nor the Pixi did wonders for Palm and Sprint.&nbsp; Sprint&#8217;s CFO Robert Brust recently echoed that sentiment to investors when he said, &#8220;The Pre didn&#8217;t work out as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}