The Palm Pre is supposed to be many things to many people. The iPhone Killer. Palm’s Only Hope. The Best Smartphone Out There. The Crushing Response to Capacitive Keyboards. Whatever the Pre means to you, you might be lucky enough to get it cheap.
Analysts at Credit Suisse believe Sprint network’s smartphone could retail for as low as $150. Sprint and Palm have both stated that the Pre would be priced competitively, and $150 just might be low enough to steal the would-be iPhone converts looking for any network but AT&T. The phone will need to be more than cheap, though. Plenty of people a predicting Palm’s demise by 2010, in which case that $150 sounds like 150 reasons not to buy.
