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All the rumors about the Palm Pre coming to Verizon have been confirmed. Earlier today in a conference call with analysts Verizon stated that the Palm Pre would be coming to their network “early next year“. This is not good news at all for Sprint.
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It looks like now that just about everyone who was willing to spend $200 on a Palm Pre has, Best Buy has lowered their price down to $99.99 on a 2-year contract hoping to capture those consumers that couldn’t see spending twice as much as they would on an iPhone 3G.
Sprint should probably think about lowering their price as well. They really need to do everything they can to keep from churning customers over to AT&T and Verizon.
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Even though the Palm Pre has been available for well over a month, believe it or not, you were not able to order the device online. That was the case, at least, until today, as the Palm Pre is now available through Sprint’s website.
The Pre will cost you $199.99 on a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. You still are going to have to shell out 300 bucks up front to get yourself one. This is kind of unfortunate seeing how the Pre’s biggest competitors, the iPhone and the BlackBerry, can be yours for $100 or more less out the door. At least those who still really want a Pre will probably be able to get one.
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Can’t say that we didn’t really see this coming, but, Apple has released iTunes 8.2.1 that apparently nixes the Palm Pre’s ability to sync your library. Fortunately, drag and drop still works or you could always use a third party utility like doubleTwist.
I wonder if Palm and Apple will get into a cat and mouse game of updates that allows then prevents Pre/iTunes syncing?
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I just read an article that quoted analysts that stated Palm has sold 150,00 Pres since it’s its launch. Other hearing that the keyboard is way too small, the screen and case are a scratch magnet, far too few applications are available, and not being able to get your hands on one until mid July, reviews of the Palm Pre have been mostly positive.
The question that I want to toss out is can Palm actually sell enough Pres to truly contend with the likes of the BlackBerry, the iPhone, and even Adroid and, dare I say, Windows Mobile devices.
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Back in the day when Palm was king of the hill the knock on the devices was that, although the OS was good, the hardware sucked. This is what allowed the BlackBerry to knock Palm off their pedestal as RIM put out devices with both a stable OS and and a stable operating system and stable hardware.
It looks like Palm still hasn’t figured the hardware thing out yet.
I hope that history doesn’t repeat itself… I am actually pulling for Palm.
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We’ve been hearing the Best Buy stores wouldn’t have many Palm Pre devices on hand June 6th, the date the Palm Pre launches. It looks like those rumors were correct…
Some stores will be lucky enough to have a dozen or more devices to sell, however, the overwhelming majority of them will only get a handful.
If you really are tying to get a Pre from a Best Buy store this coming Saturday I strongly suggest that you get their ridiculously early.
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The other day when we first told you that the Palm Pre would ship on June 6th and cost $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate, I voice a little conern about the device being priced too high. Well, Best Buy has decided to address those concerns and is pricing the Palm Pre at $199 out the door without a mail-in rebate.
So, you can etither head over to the Sprint Store, fork over 3 bills, sign up to a two year contract, and hope that you remember to fill out the papework for a mail-in rebate that you won’t see for a month of Sundays, or, you can pick up the same device with the same contract and only have to shell out $199 out of pocket from Best Buy.
Seems like an easy choice to me.
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To make a long story short, the Palm Pre will be hitting Sprint’s network June 6th (the week after next) with a $199 price tag after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Pre is definitely aiming to bridge the gap between the all work or all play perceptions of the BlackBerry and iPhone.
From what we hear the Palm Pre is one heck of the device that goes a long way to tie work and play in a single device. Unfortunately for Palm, however, I believe that Sprint has set the price too high.
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