RSSPalm Pre and Sprint reveal plan pricing options
By Angela Gunn | Published March 12, 2009, 7:25 PM
They won't say when it'll arrive and they won't say how much it'll cost, but representatives from Palm and Sprint on Thursday were willing to talk about stuff like service plans for the wildly anticipated (though not anytime soon) Palm Pre.
It'll be the Everything plans for would-be Pre users: The available individual service plans, according to company officials will be for 400 minutes, 900 minutes, and the $100 all-you-can-eat Simply Everything option. For families, the options are 1500 minutes, 3000 minutes or (again) Simply Everything for $190. Beyond that, they say testing's going well, including on the Touchstone inductive charger, and Palm officials reaffirmed that they're not out of the Windows Mobile business yet, with more devices on the way. (David Owens, director of consumer acquisition for Sprint. also assured the webcast audience that really, they've heard every possibly Pre pun by now; no reason to offer more -- though your writer feels that pre-empting such things pre-liminary to launch is just... pre-posterous.)
This phone looks and sounds amazing. I have been a sprint customer for over 7 years. So please don't Pre-tend you don't want one too.
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|I'm not sure that amazing is the appropriate term for it, but at least, it's not another broken Samsung device. If this one doesn't make it, I'd think that Palm is pre-tty much finished. I doubt that Centro sales have been enough to encourage anyone, even though that's their best seller.
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|Wouldn't dream of it, slipdisc2 -- I'm been pretty up-front in other articles about my plans to ditch my current Sprint smartphone when the time comes, as long as voice quality's high. (My Sidekick is another matter; I expect I'll stick with it 'til the end of the line, unless they REALLY hose up the keypad on the upcoming iteration. What a wild year this is turning out to be for smartphones.)
I just "pre" I don't have to stand on line in front of the Sprint store to get mine, though it would be pre-sumptuous to hope I'd get mine faster than anyone else!
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|I've seen the Pre pre-view. I won't be pre-ordering. I've pre-viewed the plans, and I'll take the 400 minute one.
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|wow, sounds pre-fect
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|Pre-yew.
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|Like the horror of the puns could have pre-vented them. (Would that make them pre-scient?)
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