Poor Sprint – Palm Pre soon getting into bed with everyone else on the block

• Mike Norris

• May 28, 2009 1:59 pm

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While Sprint probably hoped that the Pre was its saving grace in regards to stopping the bleeding of customers by bringing a new, exciting, and exclusive device to the once great carrier, it appears as one particular part of that equation, the ever important “exclusive” part, is simply a short stay. Matters took a turn for the worse when an AT&T sourced document leaked comparing a Palm Pre to an iPhone in more friendly, what-device-are-you form. Further stomping on Sprint’s face is now courtesy of Verizon as Lowell McAdam, the top executive for the venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone announced that Verizon too would be carrying the Palm-ified Jesus phone in as little as 6 months. I hope Sprint has some radical plan shuffling going on or at least a few sweet deals because I know a lot of people who would be more than happy to wait 6 months to get the Pre if it meant not having to deal with Sprint. Should we start picking a grave plot?

Update…According to a Sprint spokesmen (BG):

We have the Pre through 2009.

Do they really, or is it just a PR move to keep shares from tanking and to force anyone on any other carrier that was going to stay put for the Pre to come to them having to now do the moving themselves? The plot thickens.

Source: Engadget, Image Source