In spite of Pre shortages at Sprint stores, Best Buy and the like, the demand appears high enough that analysts like Mark Abramsky of RBC predict sales of as much as 550,000 units by the end of the quarter. This bodes well for Palm given that they are hoping that Pre sales are strong enough to compensate for the reduction in sales of their Windows Mobile Treo devices and their Palm OS handsets like the Centro.

Optimism is running high enough that Abramsky even increased his expectations for Palm’s 2010 and 2011 sales performance, driven mainly by the Pre, from 3.2 – 4.6 million phones up to a range of 4.1 – 6.5 million. Of course, these kinds of figures take into account other carriers likely to sell either the Pre or Eos once Sprint’s exclusivity ends, both in the U.S. and in Europe. Since Palm has placed all their bets on webOS phones at this point, let’s hope these numbers play out. If they do, then Palm’s future is looking better and better.

Source: electronista

The Palm Eos became famous as the second webOS smartphone the world has heard of. As a whole, it is a thinner, candybar version of the Pre, mounting a front-facing QWERTY keyboard. However, everything we know about the Eos so far has come straight from the world of unofficial rumors and speculations. Now, some PreCentral forum users have posted a piece of webOS code that hints at the existence of the device. Here is the code:

# Start novacomd service
if [[ "$hostName" == "castle" ]];then
modprobe g_composite product=0×8002
elif [[ "$hostName" == "pixie" ]];then
modprobe g_composite product=0×8012
else
modprobe -q g_composite
fi

Alright, and the “Pixie” is actually said to be a codename for the Eos. So, there you have it – a good piece of evidence that another webOS phone is already in the works.

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