Palm Pre from Sprint Released on June 6 Sells Out Quickly

The Palm Pre from Sprint made a bigger splash than Palm Sunday did this year. But was the impression a lasting one?

It sold out within an hour. Still, the numbers selling out were
small, maybe 50 or 60 in stock -- just enough to feed smaller skeletal
crowds with Palm on their minds, nothing like the iPhone mania. Sprint
Nextel itself seems vestigial compared to the giant it was when Sprint
was a byword for telecommunication. Now Sprint's days selling the Palm
Pre are numbered, less than 200, until January 10, 2010, when Verizon
becomes the exclusive vendor. They're a new smart phone touted by Palm
groupies everywhere, but is this commotion just a conniption?

You could be the first octogenarian on your block to buy a Pre with
its nouveau WebOS, but Palm Inc. is dying, and the wireless carrier
Sprint is no longer so wired.

Palm Pilot users are like devotees to Marihesh Mahaha Yoga, but will
they have the last laugh? Many do prefer a QWERTY keyboard to an
iPhone's touchscreen. It's relatively cheap too. Sprint sells the Palm
Pre for $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate, plus a two-year service
agreement which is better than you can get now with most American-made
cars.

Selling out might be deceptive to speak about. Sprint wouldn't say
how many units were available nationwide, certainly not thousands at
any one outlet, probably not even hundreds. The Pre is great for
sorting through emails using a common interface – the secrets of Yahoo,
Google, revealed by this smart phone with a QWERTY. The octogenarian
might sync his Pre to iTunes -- there's no law against it -- and he was
heard saying, "I love iTunes," to his granddaughter, a young woman
wearing a cowboy hat from Nevada who prefers Blackberries and calls
them fruity. But the Sprint deal will expire sooner rather than later
and Verizon will bound onto the scene, with its stability for such
issues as service and maintenance, although an Indy repair shop for
cell phones might be a better answer for the Sprinters in the interim.
Is it Palm pre Sunday yet?

Jeff Gasner is with CPR-Cell Phone repair. The leader in Cell Phone
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