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Palm Pre goes to Verizon in January

The WSJ is reporting that Sprint has about 7 months to milk its Palm Pre exclusivity for all it's worth.

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Mobile | by Barb Dybwad | Tue Jun 9, 2009 12:04PM | 1 comment

After some fine puffery between Sprint and Verizon over the length of the former's exclusivity period for Palm's new second coming smartphone the Palm Pre, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the official date for Verizon's launch will be January 2010. That means that while Sprint CEO Dan Hesse blustery exclamation that "it's not six months" is technically correct, all the angry posturing about people who "need to check their facts" is a bit spurious when the real figure is actually... 7 months. Still, with millions of dollars potentially in the balance I might get a bit huffy over Verizon's "creative rounding down" as well.

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Anonymous (9:58 PM on Tue Jun 9, 2009)

Bad deal for Verizon! The Palm Pre was made for Sprints Super fast network.Maybe Sprint should get the Storm and Iphone to let people see the speed difference.

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