Ok, here’s the howler of this week, guys. We always knew that Bell would be the official carrier for the Palm Pre in Canada. Now Bell has introduced its new “You Could Win A 3G Palm Pre Contest”, which will supposedly give away a Palm Pre to one lucky participant. Of course, this is great – getting your hands on a Palm Pre, that too free, is almost too good to imagine. But there’s something hilarious that happened here.
When you visit the page that gives you the entry rules, it opens a PDF document that, on the header is a picture of the Palm Treo Pro and not the Palm Pre. Click here to go to that page and you’ll know what we’re talking about.
There is one more thing here. The contest rules state that the “approximate retail value” of the device is $650 CDN. So we can probably assume that this device will cost $649.95 outright, for an unlocked version of the smartphone. Click here if you want more info on the contest. This one goes on till August 31st. Go ahead and try your luck, guys!
You guys may recall that the Palm Pre was supposed to debut in the UK last week. But there is no sign of it arriving there yet. Residents of the UK are still waiting impatiently for news of the iPhone contender hitting the markets out there.
There is rumor, though, that the Palm Pre smartphone will make its grand entry in that region sometime next week. But we can say nothing for sure yet. One thing cloying our minds is, “who is going to be the official carrier for the device?” We are betting on O2 at the moment.
Of course, there are those other lovelies just waiting to be picked up too, like the HTC Hero, iPhone 3G S, Samsung Jet and so on. If you guys were to choose, what would you go for?
Some of you may recall that the MyPre or PreCommunity was initially seen in a Palm Pre, making use of a GSM SIM card at the Mobile World Congress that had been held in February this year. Now, Palm is believed to be making another GSM Palm EOS for AT&T.
Palm Pre GSM
The rumoured Palm Pre with GSM has supposedly leaked in a video on YouTube. This runs on Vietnam’s GSM VN Mobifone Network. Take a look at the video below and let us know your thoughts.
For those of you who are still waiting to order your Palm Pre, do not worry at all. The webOS run smartphone has far more demand than supply, so there are a lot of folks like you out there, who are waiting impatiently to get a feel of the new handheld. In any case, the latest news is that the second shipment of Palm Pre is coming to Best Buy very soon, as soon as around July 8.
If you want to pre-order, you will have to loosen your wallet of $50 for a gift card, which can then be used to purchase your Palm Pre. This is good in many ways, as you need not stand in that long line and wait for hours before you can get your hands on that smooth, shiny thingy.
Just make sure to visit the Best Buy store near you asap and enquire about the pre-order policy and other stuff. You don’t wanna miss it this time round, right?
