[NEWS] Palm Pre Rumor: June 7th Best Buy $199 on contract $999 no contr

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Palm Pre Rumor du Jour: June 7th, Best Buy, $199 on contract, $999 no contract!

Take this one with a grain of salt as these early Best Buy inventory screens are often wrong, at least when it comes to pricing. But ...

BGR is reporting on some intel they just received regarding a Palm Pre "trial launch" at Best Buy. The big box retailer will supposedly be getting 4,500 Pres to sell starting June 7th at $199 with a two-year contract for new Sprint customers. Existing customers will be able to upgrade to Pre for $299, and for a cool grand you'll be able to walk out of BB with a contract-free Pre. Yup, $999.99 is your (alleged) price for having first WebOS device on the block with no committment weighing you down.

Bear in mind there are a lot of Best Buys across the land, and 4,500 ain't as many phones as you might think. Each BB outlet will have at least one Pre on hand, which sounds both sketchy and in line with recent omnious reports that Palm is going to release Pre all trickle-stream-like in order to inflate consumer demand. Blech. No info on a Sprint launch date, and one more time people, this is just a rumor right now. Don't go standing in line at Best Buy a month ahead of time just because you read something on the InterWebs, okay?

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i dont see it being a grand but i could do the 300 bucks in best buy on that date for this device..... i feel it would be well worth the cash to do so. but also if you walk in there and the price is a grand you purchase this device and tell anyone that yo dropped that money on a phone you will be laughed at, pointed at, ridiculed, flamed, owned, etc by many people.

[crazaytalent]

Hahaha... im sorry, it looks lie an OK device... but sill its up in the air and not much is known about it...300 200, sure... but whoever pays a g for that thing, Deserves to get teabagged...lol!

I wouldnt pay a G, if they launched the tp2 tomorrow with wm7 and a built in sype cam and blowjob port....lol

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Originally Posted by crazaytalent

Hahaha... im sorry, it looks lie an OK device... but sill its up in the air and not much is known about it...300 200, sure... but whoever pays a g for that thing, Deserves to get teabagged...lol!

whoever pays 1000 bucks for a ppc period needs to get a screaming seagull..... thats just ridiculous considering that for 1 grand you can build yourself a pretty damn descent computer.

[GokuSS3]

A grand for a phone Hmmm that phone better be able to do whatever i want it too lmao.

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Originally Posted by GokuSS3

A grand for a phone Hmmm that phone better be able to do whatever i want it too lmao.

no goku not even the pre would want to or agree to do that :) hahahaa

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Originally Posted by crazaytalent

Hahaha... im sorry, it looks lie an OK device... but sill its up in the air and not much is known about it...300 200, sure... but whoever pays a g for that thing, Deserves to get teabagged...lol!

I wouldnt pay a G, if they launched the tp2 tomorrow with wm7 and a built in sype cam and blowjob port....lol

I don't know crazytalent...that last kind of port u mentioned would be very tempting...lol