$150 Price Point Confirmed By Palm Employee

by Jason Wilk on April 27, 2009

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  • A contact of mine at Palm was finally able to give out a little info regarding the Pre. Mostly everything about pricing and an official release date have been unbelievably tight lipped over there. Things must be getting a little more lax, because today my guy said that the general executive consensus is that the Pre will drop for $150. Does that price point make you any more incentivized to ditch your current phone for a Pre?

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  • Haha... Sprint is great, Customer Service sucks, but fortunately, I never have to call them because their network kicks ass.

    I'll gladly pay $150 for the Pre. I currently have 2-phones on the Unlimited plan. I pay $140/month and that's it... everything included. Unlimited Data, Navigation, Sprint TV (CNN, MTV, Comedy Central, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox) can't beat that.

    Just release the damn thing already!
  • jynx
    People really need to get over the "Sprint is the devil!" comments. Sprint ranks right up there with Verizon in speeds and their CS has drastically improved. I've been w/ Sprint for 7 years and I've noticed the difference in the CS quality. As far as the pricing of the Pre, that's exactly where it needs to be to compete w/ the other phones.
  • RKLN
    I'd pay that, although I've paid under $75 for my 2 previous Sprint phones.
  • Jason Wilk
    I'm still paying $80 a month for my iPhone right now. Can't justify the drive to Sprint unless I'm paying half and they have MafiaLive for the Pre.
  • Josh H
    @PrePricing.
    You will need a "Simply Everything Plan," which range from $69-$99.
  • PrePricing
    forget the initial investment, what's the monthly data pricing. That's where they need to beat the iPhone. Should be $10 a month unlimited while they are with Sprint. That's the only way I'd switch
  • Ty Eliad
    Good find. @SeanG, hilarious with the construction comment. Agreed.
  • themterribles
    f you SeanG, sign me up at $150. I'm in.
  • seanG
    They could give me a free Palm Pre and I still wouldn't switch to Sprint, nuff said. I don't know how they are projecting 1.3M of these things to be sold, when half the demographic of sprint is a 'nextel using' construction employee.
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