The Palm Pre has been hacked to run the iconic game Doom.  The mod hacks the root directory of the Pre.  Even without Palm releasing an approved SDK, developers are working.

Check out the wiki for a how to. Pre Dev Wiki

The Palm Pre launch this past weekend wasn’t a anything to dismiss, JP Morgan estimates sales of over 50,000 units in the opening weekend.  That is a pretty respectable amount for only 2 days, but compared to nearly 1 million iPhone 3G’s sold it’s first weekend it falls short.  The point that the Palm Pre sold out at every store it was available is understandable when you look at the stock each store had.  Some Best Buy stores were only allocated 5 units, really?  Investors are not convinced that this weekend is indicative of Palm coming out of the gutter financially.  Palm stock has dropped 10 percent as of this morning.  For a company that is all but basing a Chapter 13 filing on this one device, I don’t see much light.  I believe we will see what really will happen to Palm after this coming weeks sales.  Palm has a tough opponent in the Apple marketing machine and the iPhone 3V expected to be announced in the coming minutes.

Whether you got up at the crack of dawn and got in line to be first or you chanced it and arrived at one of the Sprint, Radio Shack, Best Buy, or Walmart stores at opening, I hope your new wonder device does not look like this.

The guys at Rapid Repair have done the unthinkable and dissected the Palm Pre in order to value the guts of the device.  The Pre seems to be a bit easier to disassemble then the iPhone but comes in at just about the same value for the components at $170.

Reports are coming in from today’s nationwide release and everything seems to be pretty smooth.  Let us know how your experience was.  I’d love to hear from somebody that has also endured the iPhone launch lines as well.