Touchstone and its battery cover will be available as a bundle or separately
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If you're getting the Touchstone when it's available (Does not come with the Palm Pre, sold separately), your Pre is required to have this matte back cover on to work with it. Reason being the Pre needs "magnets" that will hold it in place and align with the correct position for charging. Well, the standard back cover doesn't have these magnets, the matte cover does. And it would make sense if this Touchstone back cover came with the Touchstone as a bundle right? Well, according to Palm reps, it's yes, but on Palm.com's Touchstone page, it's no.
Requires Palm Pre Touchstone back cover, sold separately. Wall charger provided with Pre is also required for use.
It turns out that both sources are right, Palm cleared it up in the form of a tweet by tweeting that the Touchstone and its back cover will be available as a bundle or separately. Good to know.
[Thanks for the heads up, John]
Reader Comments (5)
If ur asking why u would not want the bundle its because people think that the regular back cover can get finger print so they might want the matte cover for no finger prints and some think it looks better ONCE IT COMES TO VERIZON ill be getting the bundle and the pre cuz i have been waiting for this phone so long but i dont want 2 switch 2 sprint cuz verizon is awesome here
@Shason Briscoe
I second that.
Uggh, nickel and dime us to death, they will!
I'm curious what sorts of issues may arise with having a magnet in your pocket. Might it interfere with USB thumb drives that live in that pocket as well?
@ dannyid
no, that magnet isn't close to being powerful enough to interfere with a flash drive. However, portable hard drives, floppies (anyone still even use these?), CRTs (ASEUT), etc... will be affected if you bring it very close =D