Palm Pre Goes to Verizon in Early 2010

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is already known to plan on adding to its offering the still new Palm Pre smartphone running under the recently released webOS platform, and now it seems that all roads are heading towards the same point: an early 2010 release time frame for the high-end device. Nothing new here, as most of you might have learned already that Big Red will launch the Palm Pre next year, yet now it comes from Verizon itself, via Twitter.

“We will be carrying the Palm Pre smartphone early next year,” is what a recent tweet from the mobile phone carrier states. This is not the first time when Big Red says the Pre will come to its users, yet it is the first time when a rather specific launch window is provided. Only rumored until now, it is almost official: Sprint will lose Pre exclusivity in the beginning of 2010, and Verizon will add the device to its offering around the same time.

However, no official announcement has been made, and this tweet can only be seen as an unofficial official notice. When exactly the Palm Pre will land with Verizon and what price tag it will feature are details that will emerge in the future, most probably by the end of the ongoing year, when the release date will be much closer to us.

As many of you might already know, Verizon has been criticized for not offering great high-end devices to its users, yet things are about to change in the really near future. The Android-powered Motorola Droid is expected to make an appearance in Big Red's lineup in November, the BlackBerry Storm2 should come this week (in case rumors pan out), and Palm Pre will be included in the offering next year. Other devices are also expected to surface, including an Android phone from HTC, yet exact details are missing at the moment.