The pairing of Sprint and Palm for the launch of the Pre was romantic. Don’t laugh, you thought it too. Erstwhile smartphone leader Palm put its best hope for survival in the underdog wireless carrier who, without the Pre, has no ultra-competitive exclusive touchphone. Both companies have endured declining market share, and together they could take on the world and get some of it back. Well that romance is over, and it ended a little more than a week before the Pre even hit consumer availability. Lowell McAdam, President and CEO of Verizon Wireless, yesterday announced that his company will offer the Pre “in the next six months”.
Just enough time for them to get their hands on it and cripple the phone!
TELUS does the same thing up here =(
Tying the Pre to Sprint wasn’t romantic, it was a blatant message to me, saying “don’t buy our phone”. My Sprint contract is up soon, but it might be worth sticking with them for a few more months until I can get the Pre somewhere else.