Sprint to Sell Palm Pre on June 6 POSTED May 19, 2009 OVERLAND PARK, KS -- Sprint announced pricing and nationwide availability for the highly anticipated Palm Pre phone, offered exclusively from Sprint. Palm Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and online at Sprint.com for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Running on the new Palm webOS mobile platform, Pre brings together your important information from where it resides – on your phone, at your work or on the web – into one logical view. The Pre goes on sale two days before Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote in San Francisco on June 8, where Apple is expected to announce a new version of the top selling iPhone. "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 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." The Palm Pre phone will be available from Sprint on June 6 for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate with a new two-year service agreement on an Everything Data plan or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plan. Palm Pre features include the following: * High-speed connectivity (EVDO Rev. A or UMTS HSDPA) * Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g(6) * Integrated GPS(7) * Large 3.1-inch touch screen with a vibrant 24-bit color 320x480 resolution HVGA display * Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation * Slide-out QWERTY keyboard * Email, including Outlook EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers), as well as personal email support (POP3, IMAP) * Robust messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)(4) * High-performance, desktop-class web browser * Great multimedia experience and performance (pictures, video playback, music), featuring a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack * Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support * 8GB of internal user storage (~7.4GB user available) * USB mass storage mode * MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed * Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear * Light sensor, which dims the display if the ambient light is dark, such as at night or in a movie theater, to reduce power usage * Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective * Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch * Removable, rechargeable battery * Dimensions: 59.57mm (W) x 100.53mm (L, closed) x 16.95mm (D) [2.35 inches (W) x 3.96 inches (L, closed) x 0.67 inches (D)] * Weight: ~135 grams [4.76 ounces] Return to SVDaily Home Page © Copyright SVDaily.com