It’s Official: Palm Pre Launching June 6th for $199 on 2-Year Contract
By James Falconer on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 6:13 AM PST In Palm, Palm Pre, Sprint

Here we have it folks, FINALLY some solid information regarding the Palm Pre launch and pricing. I’ll keep this short and to the point… Here are the details:
- Pre will launch on June 6th
- $200 after $100 Mail-in Rebate on 2-year contract
- Purchase from Sprint (NYSE: S), Best Buy, Walmart and Radio Shack
- When purchasing you must pick up one of the following two plans: the Everything Data Plan or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data Plan (those start out at $70/mth).
- Palm Touchstone will be available for $50
- Back cover for the Touchstone available for $20
- Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Touchstone ‘kit’ available for $70 (both the Touchstone and back cover together, duh!)
If you don’t believe me, here comes the official press release from Sprint. More info to come I’m sure… This is exciting! I think I know what I’m going to be doing on June 6th…Oh, and just FYI… June 6th is a Saturday…


This phone is gonna be sweet! If you don’t want to deal with the mail in rebate just go to bestbuy to get instant rebate for $200. I need to start packing my camping gear