Yesterday we had reports that AT&T was playing with the idea of bringing the Pre on board once Sprint’s exclusivity period with the device is up. Well Reuters released a report today that dropped an even bigger bombshell.
Verizon will be carrying the Palm Pre within 6 months according Lowell McAdam who is a top exec over at Verizon.
To quote McAdams: “Over the next six months or so you will see devices like Palm Pre and a second generation Storm.”
Bringing the Pre to other carriers makes sense, considering that Sprint continues to lose subscribers every quarter. Palm is also in trouble as a company and NEEDS the Pre and webOS to be a success to survive. Walt Mossberg recently did an interview with Yahoo Finance and stated that he thinks Palm as a company is “running on fumes” and really can’t compete with other phone makers because of the huge amounts of cash their competitors (Apple and RIM) have to throw around.
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This is great news! Guess I won’t be switching to Sprint after all! I can wait another 6 months.
I have had the same flip phone sanyo mm-8300 since fall 2005.
Current ’smartphone’ line up @ Sprint is lacking. Instinct S30 might be ‘cool’ if it was open and you could program for it.
No wonder sprint continues to bleed. No cool phones.
Looks like I have 0 chance of getting a PRE next week. Freaking waiting till end of July/August is not appealing. Might as well wait for Storm 2.
Wait, they will have the Palm Pre or “devices like Palm Pre”? If that’s a verbatim quote, he didn’t actually say they’d be stocking a Pre!
Like verizon needs the palm pre, give me a break such losers let sprint have something nice for once an stop trying to copy cat fags!
I don’t care how many customers Sprint loses. With price plans like the $70 everything plan, you can’t lose! ESPECIALLY since they added the unlimited mobile-to-mobile ANY CARRIER portion of their plan. As long as I can pay $70 for unlimited EVERYTHING, I don’t need anyone else for my carrier. AND I get a Palm Pre to boot!
Verizon didnt need 2 take the palm away they really are copycats and it makes me angry they are such copiers