AT&T Might Get Palm Pre in May

Wireless carrier AT&T already announced at the beginning of the ongoing year that it had a great deal of plans when it came to the smartphones offered to its users during 2010, and it seems that some of them might come to fruition in the following few months. Among these plans, we can count the launch of webOS-based mobile phones from Palm, something that now seems set to happen in May.

According to a recent article on Engadget, AT&T might launch Palm mobile phones before the summer is here, and some FCC documents recently brought to light suggest exactly the same thing. “Historically, Palm's US releases have come very close to their FCC confidentiality lifts, meaning that we could see this thing on AT&T by the time Summer rolls around,” the news site notes, pointing at a document which shows that confidentiality in Palm's US FCC filing regarding the Pre with North American 3G capabilities will expire in mid-May.

As most of you might know by now, the Sunnyvale-based handset vendor Palm already delivered its webOS-based mobile phones to two of the largest wireless carriers in the United States, Sprint and Verizon. However, the Pre and Pixi models that arrived at these operators are CDMA versions, and AT&T will receive different variants, which are still at FCC, it seems, and won't be unveiled until May.

Unfortunately, this also means that there are no exact details on what capabilities the handsets will include when available at AT&T. At the beginning of January Verizon launched a Palm Pre Plus and a Pixi Plus, with boosted hardware specs, and the same might apply to AT&T too. For what it's worth, it would indeed make more sense for Palm to push newer versions of its handsets to the market rather than delivering the older flavor, which landed last year, but nothing is certain until the official details emerge, so stay tuned to learn how things will turn up in the end.