http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/02/19/sprint-to-have-us-exclusivity-on-palm-pre-until-2010/ Wireless news, views and reviews Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:47:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.unwiredview.com/2009/02/19/sprint-to-have-us-exclusivity-on-palm-pre-until-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-21885 Ben Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:42:12 +0000 http://www.unwiredview.com/?p=11331#comment-21885 It's pretty clever - Sprint need something to turn their fortunes around, and Palm need to make a slow launch. They won't have seen the demand they are going to get for this thing for years, so it's only sensible they want to launch with only one carrier, and the smallest of the major ones at that. It's better for Palm to have a hitch-free launch - they don't want to have a similar situation to Apple with MobileMe. I can see Rubinstein's fingerprints all over this: <a href="http://thephonelounge.com/?p=64" rel="nofollow">http://thephonelounge.com/?p=64</a> It's pretty clever – Sprint need something to turn their fortunes around, and Palm need to make a slow launch. They won't have seen the demand they are going to get for this thing for years, so it's only sensible they want to launch with only one carrier, and the smallest of the major ones at that. It's better for Palm to have a hitch-free launch – they don't want to have a similar situation to Apple with MobileMe. I can see Rubinstein's fingerprints all over this: http://thephonelounge.com/?p=64

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