Best Buy (cheapest) For New Palm Pre 3G Smart Phone Exlucive on Sprint

Palm Pre via kwout

The rumor is true, Best Buy for Palm Pre 3G smart phone is going to be exlucive, that’s means that Best Buy will be the only place – Sprint stores, Palm Pre Best Buy exclusive deal will be short-lived, lasting only 60 days or 2 months from the start of sales, separate rumor has placed the Pre’s price at somewhere between $200 and $250, when tied to a service contract.

Palm Pre smart phone use the new operating system called the Palm webOS, which will have to attract developers willing to write new programs for it. It is a clean break from Palm’s previous hardware and software.

Here’s about the specs on the Palm Pre smart phone:

- High-speed wireless (EV-DO Rev. A or HSDPA, depending on version)
- 802.11b / g WiFi with WPA, WPA2, 801.1x authentication
- 3.1-inch 24-bit color 480 x 320 display
- Dedicated gesture area below display
- Slide-out portrait QWERTY keyboard (banana slider)
- Integrated IM, MMS, and SMS messaging
- Email: Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Direct Push Technology
- POP3/IMAP (Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc). So it does push exchange email, but the rest is not push.
- Built-in GPS
- Bluetooth 2.1 EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
- High-performance browser
- 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- 8GB of internal storage (~7.4GB user available)
- USB mass storage support
- Phone as laptop modem – Bluetooth tethering
- MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- Proximity sensor for detecting when phone is near face
- Light sensor to automatically dim display
- Audio Formats: MPS, AAC, AAC , AMR, QCELP, WAV
- Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 Image Formats: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP
- Ringer mute switch
- Removable rechargeable battery
- Width: 59.5mm (2.3 inches) Height: 100.5mm (3.9 inches) Thickness: 16.95mm (0.67 inches)
- Weight: 135 grams (4.76 ounces)

Palm Pre is a great smart phone, it will be the rival for apple iPhone 3G and BlackBerry