Sprint: June 6 D-Day For Palm Pre
The touchscreen Pre will be sold through Sprint retail stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and Wal-Mart stores, as well as online at sprint.com. While Sprint didn't detail a pricing plans for the new phone, it said the Pre will take advantage of the wireless carrier's "Everything Data" plans, which go for $70 or $90 a month, depending on the number of minutes.
The operator touts the Pre's ability to run multiple applications and Web pages simultaneously. Users navigate them via "activity cards" -- large icons on the display that can flip through or rearrange like a deck of cards. The phone also includes software for combining personal and professional calendars, contacts and email into one centralized view. Other key features include a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth with stereo support, a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and 8GB of built-in storage. Sprint is also separately offering the Touchstone wireless charger for the Pre for $70.
The Pre is launching just two days before Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company could potentially unveil a new iPhone. Avi Greengart, research director for consumer devices at Current Analysis, said a mid-May launch would have given the Pre a launch window to itself.
He called the timing of the June 6 release "unfortunate," but in keeping with Palm's promise to introduce the Pre in the first half of 2009.
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The noise on message boards and some talk around the office could be good for Sprint, they may have a real winner on their hands, more business like in it's layout then iPhone, and the videos I saw were impressive. Sprint is also rumored to have the HTC Touch Pro 2 coming in June (won't hold my breath) and if so, that will also rival iPhone, since the HTC TP2 is all business with a after hours capability to it.
Endgadget Review on HTC/Sprint
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/htc-touch-pro2-for-sprint-spotted-in-the-wild-mid-june-release/