Palm’s decision to go with Chi Mei could very well have been caused by concern for leakage prevention: the manufacturer has little experience with mobile devices, and thus doesn’t have the elaborate rat lines found in other manufacturers.
Unfortunately, this idea seems to be on its way to backfiring – linuxdevices reports the following:
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Palm may have trouble meeting such a timetable due to manufacturing troubles with its unnamed ODM (original device manufacturer) partner, suggests Maisto’s eWEEK story. The article quotes an April 30 research note from Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Collins Stewart, stating that due to “multiple hardware and software issues, Palm has dramatically reduced its production orders for Pre with its ODM partner.” As a result, Kumar was said to have opined, it is highly unlike that Palm will meet the 1 million units predicted by industry analysts to ship in 2009.
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Palm has had issues with its manufacturers at least since 2007: back then, a source inside HTC told this journal (met him by chance) that “Palm’s shipment numbers are too small”.
The Pre has been rumored to have stock issues for quite some time…and there rarely is smoke without fire…,
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