It’s 6 June, 2009 and Sprint launched already too much talked Palm Pre, as promised.
As always you have to choice. One is to sign a 2-yr contract, and you’ll get Palm Pre for the price of $199.99, after a $100 mail-in rebate. The second choice, of course, is off-contract and Palm Pre costs $549.99.
As Sprint announced before, Pre stocks are low, and plus to that, Palm’s “hope” is not available online, though it is featured on Sprint’s website. Taking all this into account, you’ll have to hurry and look for it in Sprint’s retailers stores across the US (including BestBuy, Radio Shack and WallMart).
With Palm Pre you get: Standard Li-Ion battery, AC travel charger (both musts), 3.5mm stereo headset, USB cable and a carry pouch. So the Touchstone charging dock and the Touchstone back cover are sold separately, for $49.99 and $19.99, respectively.
Most of you already know Palm Pre is a full touchscreen smartphone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard?
The smartphone’s main attraction is not the hardware side, but the new WebOS, unveiled by Palm back in January. The new platform comes with Palm Synergy, a feature that includes linked contacts, layered calendars and combined messaging – so that your contacts, e-mail and personal/professional calendar are gathered into “one centralized view”.
WebOS also offers Activity Cards, which allow users to perform many activities at the same time. There’s also universal search – letting you search Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and Twitter, all from one search box.
Find WebOS Review here.
Palm Pre was announced by Bell Canada too, and it should also be launched across Europe and in Australia sometime later this year.
Verizon and AT&T might get the Pre as well, but only after 2009 ends, since Sprint has exclusivity on the handset for more than 6 months.
