Pingie: HTTP:: 039 Palm Pre Will Come to Us 039 Verizon Says

HTTP:: 039 Palm Pre Will Come to Us 039 Verizon Says
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Verizon Wireless has not left aside its plans to offer its users the possibility to taste the latest Palm device on the market, the webOS-based Pre. Previous rumors suggested that the carrier might have moved over the Pre, being interested in other high-end handsets, yet it seems that, starting with January 2010, the smartphone will become available for purchase on its airwaves. According to a recent piece on E-Commerce Times, Big Red and Palm are currently negotiating the introduction of the Pre in Verizon's offering, and it seems that they cannot agree on how much the carrier will subsidize the handset. However, Jim Gerace, executive director of media relations at Verizon, has reportedly stated that the phone will be launched in January 2010. At the same time, an issue might also be the presence on the market of both a Verizon app portal and a Palm storefront. Allen Nogee, a principal analyst at In-Stat, E-Commerce Times notes, stated the following: “Verizon has been !
talking about its VCast Store, and Palm is setting up its own app store, so that could be the problem. It's possible that Verizon wants to keep the number of app stores available to subscribers to a minimum.” Whatever issues the negotiations between the two companies might face at the moment, the one thing that shapes up p...
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