Palm is also working hard to make its application developer environment attractive. There are now 2,000 apps in the Palm catalog, he said.

Even though Rubinstein said that Palm would be doing better if it had beat the Droid to Verizon, he also said such successes are unusual and urged analysts to be patient. "It takes a while to get the momentum going to get to that tipping point. It's rare to see something take off," he said. While sales figures for the Droid have not been officially released, the phone is thought to have sold well.

He also said that the reason the Pre wasn't offered by Verizon sooner was because of an exclusive arrangement with Sprint that prevented sales at other operators during a limited time period.