Bell Canada Palm Pre - Second Class Citizen

I've had my pre for a while now and really enjoy using it. I love the touch screen, I enjoy the multi-tasking abilities and am generally a fan.
Unfortunately I've been made to feel like a second class citizen time and time again from Bell Canada.
I cannot get updates at the same time as my Sprint Brothers and Sisters.
I cannot get an answer as to when this will occur, or why the delay exists on Bell's end.
I cannot purchase applications that I want to use and as such cannot reward publishers and programmers for their hard work, and incent them to continue to create applications for an OS that i think is quite amazing.
In short I feel that Bell mobility has let me down, and in effect let Palm down.
Once my contract is up, i will not renew with Bell.
Hopefully some one else will carry Palm products in Canada and will fully support them.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Bell)

Well i can agree with this post up to a certain point. Most of the previous Updates were released at the same time as the ones in the states....however this update has improvements for Sprint.  So bell has to take the update and switch over there programming to benefit from the features that the update will bring for us.  But i do agree that the lack of information given to bell employees about up coming updates is pathetic (Should call support not the bell store).  However this will not stop me from using bell. The update is coming. and we will have to be patient about it.  I am also against the fact that canadian users can't purchase Apps....and that most of the good apps are submitted for US only....what is the point of even putting it up?  U wish palm would hurry up and give us the things they have told us about and stop putting out useless updates that really don;t fix anything.  Yes the space limitations are gone...but even after 1.3.5.  its still slow and laggy and this is Unacceptable.  I should just buy a blackberry!

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