Spring Release possible for Palm Pre

Despite the fact that the Smart Phone market is already hugely crowded, the launch of the latest addition, the Palm Pre, really is a highly anticipated event. The pre-release publicity and reviews have been almost uniformly positive and an impressive showing at an otherwise fairly boring CES has left people champing at the bit for a release date.

I’m afraid I don’t have an exact date for you. However, due to reports from various sources we can say with some degree of confidence that the Pre will be in stock at phone stores by March. However, don’t make any plans to join an overnight queue just yet, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be out in March, the actual release date could quite feasibly be in May or even as late as June.

From a PR point of view an early release would be best. The Pre has built up a very good word of mouth thus far and the pre release opinion of the device is probably as good as it’s going to get, if people are made to wait too much longer there is a risk of the frenzy peeking too soon, also there’s no telling what their rivals might come up with in the mean time.

However, Palm will also be mindful of the Blackberry Storm debacle – the device was rushed to shelves in time for Christmas and wasn’t really ready. Palm will be keen not to repeat this mistake.

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