14 DAY TRIAL // Wireless carrier Sprint announced today the nationwide availability and pricing of the highly anticipated Palm Pre phone. The handset, which will be launched on the US market exclusively with Sprint, will become available for purchase starting June 6, with a price tag of $199.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
According to the operator, those who would like to purchase the handset will be able to find it in Sprint's stores, at Best Buy, Radio Shack and select Wal-Mart stores, as well as online on the carrier's website. The new Palm Pre runs under the company's Palm webOS platform, which can bring together on the handset all kinds of information, no matter where it resides.
“The argument that you need one phone for work and another phone for play, or that you have to make compromises between business and lifestyle productivity, is over,” said Dan Hesse, president and CEO of Sprint. “With Pre, compromises of the past are history.”
The new Palm Pre can bring on the same device both the business features that one needs, as well as personal entertainment ones to make users rejoice. The handset puts together all important information, professional, social and personal, in an attempt to reshape the mobile experience, without making compromises regarding one feature or another.
Moreover, says Sprint, the new Palm Pre will work on the most dependable 3G network in America, while coming with the carrier’s industry-leading, value-oriented Everything Data plans, which provide high savings when compared to the offerings coming from other mobile phone operators. More information on the Pre and on Sprint's plans can be found here.
“The Palm Pre takes full advantage of Sprint’s Everything Data plans,” said Avi Greengart, research director for Consumer Devices at Current Analysis. “The Pre has been expressly designed for multitasking among multiple web pages and applications. It also builds on Palm’s heritage in PDAs by managing your digital information – whether that’s on a corporate server or on the web.”