Comments on: Devastating rumor puts Sprint’s Palm Pre at $399 at launch

By: Sad82

Sad82 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:57 +0000

Fear of the unknown, of what could happen. ,

By: Palm Pre News

Palm Pre News — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:54:33 +0000

I thought Best Buy leaked it would be $199 with contract and $299 without a contract?

By: Palm Pre Blog

Palm Pre Blog — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:46:24 +0000

Guys Should we be even fighting about the prices, till anyone have a official data on Sprint Prices.

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By: Palm Pre pricing update: $399 is indeed sans contract

Palm Pre pricing update: $399 is indeed sans contract — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:46:31 +0000

[...] the rumor mill set the Palm Pre pricing at $399, outcries of shenanigans were shouted through the halls of CES (and the comment corners of [...]

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Palm Pre pricing update: $399 is indeed sans contract — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:42:03 +0000

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More Rumours on Palm’s WebOS « Whatever lah! — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:46:49 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:35:53 +0000

Oh fer crying out loud innumeracy laden lasses, US$399 is before Sprint applies their discounts…

I have the HTC TouchPro which started life at US$600…minus the automatica US$300 Sprint discount, minus the two months free (US$200), minus an additional 50 duckets…WHICH once you the mathematics are applied beyond rumor mongering, means I paid US$50 for the best touch based full qwerty keyboarded phone out (for now)…

By: The Palm Pre Smart Phone — Bill Bolmeier

The Palm Pre Smart Phone — Bill Bolmeier — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:43:24 +0000

[...] The Palm Pre will come out on the Sprint network which is good because that’s what I’m on now. However, there seems to be no pricing information out yet except Internet buzz of $399.00. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:38:49 +0000

I gotta agree with Gaines on this one. The iPhone is around $399(ish) if you buy it without a 3 year plan (which I don’t think you can do anyways). But the phone companies always subsides the prices. My guess is it will be around $199 with a 3 year plan like most of the next gen phones are now a days.

By: notmyname

notmyname — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:12:39 +0000

Do you understand what “$399 with contract” means?

In any case, the rumor is probably just that, a rumor. Perhaps someone is trying to coerce Palm/Sprint to release the actual price level earlier :-p.

By: tcblack

tcblack — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:07:15 +0000

The key question indeed is, “Where’s the extra memory slot?”
That is a major oversight on this phone.
That and the fact that it’s AGPS (instead of regular GPS) according to the press release on investors.palm.com

By: jesse

jesse — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:37:38 +0000

I’d pay $399 for it without feeling like I was getting the shaft. I’m not rich or anything, but I recognize that this is a sweet device.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:11:36 +0000

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By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:50:52 +0000

It will not be priced that high. Sprint will foot the bill like they did with Samsung’s Instinct. This device (OS aside) is huge for Sprint and will definitely help their bottom line and they’ll do whatever it takes to sell millions of them.

By: coldsmoothie

coldsmoothie — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:35:54 +0000

snitty is right but thats not even the big issue. why was this almost perfect cell missing a memory card slot? who would want to use 1 of those usb memory cards that would stick out & damages if you leave it plugged in as an extra storage space? this cell is stuck with a 7.4 gb user available storage which wont be any close to enough. palm still did not officially release this they still have an option to remodel to add 1 it needs to be the ultimate amazing new gadget of our time. who can i forward this too to save this cells life for a full life usage that no one will ever get bored of?

By: Funion

Funion — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:29:13 +0000

Cracks me up that 1) the guy who started this rumor from all the way out in Russia is assumed to have credibility (even Nicholas concedes this by using the word “apparently”) just by predicting the death of a Motorola product and 2) if you stop and think, $399 makes sense for a smartphone *without* a contract discount. The iPhone without a contract costs $599 and $699!

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:22:00 +0000

The facts were checked, but my math wasn’t. A thousand apologies, Snitty.

By: Snitty

Snitty — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:13:27 +0000

The 8GB iPhone is $199, and the 16 GB is $299. That makes the $399 Pre $200 more than the 8 GB and $100 more than the 16 GB.

Yeah fact checking!

By: Gaines

Gaines — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:00:22 +0000

Come on. Since when did people pay retail price for cell phones anyway. It could be $1200, but if Sprint gave a $1100 discount with new contracts it wouldn’t much matter, would it? We’ve even started a community over at http://www.SprintPre.net to chat about it.