i've got 2 sero plans and while I love the discounted rate, I hate the limited phone options. My understanding is that sprint will likely limit the pre forever (as they have with the instinct). Everything coming out of sprint in the past few weeks, including some internal documents posted on the web, specifically disallow sero plans. Maybe someone somewhere will get it to work, but it won't be me. Additionaly, I've also heard that sprint doesn't like the old sero plan as they end up losing money on it overall, so I'd imagine sprint will only make it harder and harder to hang onto your old sero plan.

I tried to get it on sero, they said you could in about 3 months. But they mean that new sero $59.99. Said, even the employees can't get that phone for another 3 months. That said, I tried to buy one w/an everything plan $99. First one I got had bubbles in the glass of the screen. Second one did not close properly. Third one had dead pixels on the screen. By the third one, I was convinced the quality control guy in the hong kong plant needed to be fired, and I would wait a few months until a new quality control guy is hired. Phone is pretty cool though, software-wize.

I don't get how anybody would try this right now? I am going to try to port my pre on to a sero account but not until after I get my rebate. Everybody had a $100 rebate for buying the pre and you can't port the phone anywhere within 30 days or you lose your rebate.
I am going to port it after I get my rebate and will let you guys know.

Zoot said:One guy kinda did on the second post of this thread on TreoCentral.

He had to get a new line and activate the Palm Pre on it first, but then he was successful at porting the Pre to his SERO plan and porting his old phone to the new line.

Not exactly what everyone is looking for since he still had to sign a 2 year non-SERO contract in addition to his SERO, but I could see this being helpful in certain situations.

But since the above is possible, I'm now wondering if in 6 months I'll be able to buy a used activated Pre and successfully port it to my SERO. I guess it depends on what exactly it means to "activate" and whether you can transfer an activation to another person or they need to re-activate.

(after all, we now know that it's the just ACTIVATION that is blocked with SERO, not using the Palm Pre hardware on a SERO plan)

Palm Pre is just a phase like when TPro came out last nov and inst. last june.
Wait until the hotter phone comes out this year like TPro 2 w/winmo 7.
Pre will just be another phone.

Im on the TP/Sero w/my contract expiring 1 1/2 yrs from now, wondered what kind of phone will sprint have.
iphone 4g on sprint? got my finger crossed, att/apple contract only last 5 years

I've noted that the best way to keep your sero plan is just to buy phone at eBay and activate as replacement phone. I have done this the last 3 years. Yes, I have the $150 rebate as a bargaining chip so they won't mess with my account. They never charge me to activate phone and also if they change my plan I just tell them that I will leave. So far so good. They keep all the perks an paying only $22 after tas and discount. You can get HTC TOUCH PRO at eBay for $ 240 (brand new after live Cash Back). No tax and waiting for rebate.

You should never logon to your bank on your cell. Only not so smart ppl does that. What you can't wait until your reach work or home to logon to your bank!

alx2 said:I love, love, love my Palm Pre. I had the ic902 so I could still use Nextel direct connect but that thing never did anything for me. Today, I logged onto the bank, had Google maps running, texting with my daughter and e-mail from the office all open in "cards" at one time. Truly multitasks. I love it. I have the everything plan and share with my daughter, the 1500 anytime minutes so can't contribute much on the SERO thing but I saw someone say they didn't really like it so I had to throw out one I love it.

Yes that true, it's easier to tap your cell for conversation. I have ton of IT friends and asked them is it safe to login my acct. thru my cell and they said yes but, the signal from cell tower to your cell is not secured. This is how they tap your cell and this how they could steal your info.
Where do you based your info that is safe to login to your acct. w/cell?

thebestpkever said:phatkrazy said:You should never logon to your bank on your cell. Only not so smart ppl does that. What you can't wait until your reach work or home to logon to your bank!

alx2 said:I love, love, love my Palm Pre. I had the ic902 so I could still use Nextel direct connect but that thing never did anything for me. Today, I logged onto the bank, had Google maps running, texting with my daughter and e-mail from the office all open in "cards" at one time. Truly multitasks. I love it. I have the everything plan and share with my daughter, the 1500 anytime minutes so can't contribute much on the SERO thing but I saw someone say they didn't really like it so I had to throw out one I love it.

You should never talk on your cell phone too. "Only not so smart ppl does that". People may hear your conversation.

ymarker said:I went and tried out a pre @ the store and was not impressed. It's still laggy and I'm coming from a slow winmo htc touch pro.

The Sprint store rep told me that the demo software on the store phones makes them laggy and that the natural Pre is faster.

I called just last week as I was hitting the 22 month window for a new phone. Got the same speech about losing my $30 SERO plan and having to switch to the $59.99 plan to get a Pre or Instinct.

Just upgraded my mogul to WinMo 6.1, a bit peppier, so i'll just keep waiting. Apparently you can get the current Sprint HTC phones with the cheap SERO plans, so thats an option for anyone with something crappier that can't wait for the Pre to be "just another phone".

With the iphone 3G S launch and supposed launches of the newer android phones "any day now", I think the Pre is going to drop off lots of radars quickly. And since WinMo 7 is going to be delayed forever (from what the intertubes are saying), I'd love to be able to pick up a Pre for a couple of years until WinMo gets it stuff together. I love my wife's iPhone, but the cheapest you get get for a monthly is around $90 with taxes. Thats a plan comparable to my $36/mo. incl taxes with SERO. No way will I ever pay that much more for a phone.

rlundy said:I called just last week as I was hitting the 22 month window for a new phone. Got the same speech about losing my $30 SERO plan and having to switch to the $59.99 plan to get a Pre or Instinct.

Just upgraded my mogul to WinMo 6.1, a bit peppier, so i'll just keep waiting. Apparently you can get the current Sprint HTC phones with the cheap SERO plans, so thats an option for anyone with something crappier that can't wait for the Pre to be "just another phone".

With the iphone 3G S launch and supposed launches of the newer android phones "any day now", I think the Pre is going to drop off lots of radars quickly. And since WinMo 7 is going to be delayed forever (from what the intertubes are saying), I'd love to be able to pick up a Pre for a couple of years until WinMo gets it stuff together. I love my wife's iPhone, but the cheapest you get get for a monthly is around $90 with taxes. Thats a plan comparable to my $36/mo. incl taxes with SERO. No way will I ever pay that much more for a phone.

I dont think the PRE will EVER be "just another phone". As you mentioned you cant even activate the Instinct on SERO and that phone has been out for over two years... Hope im wrong