• Rumor: Palm Pre getting a price cut?

    Monday, September 7th, 2009

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

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    Palm picked a pretty nasty time to stage their own revival. Smartphone prices are plummeting. If an iPhone 3G S at $199 wasn’t enough, HTC’s Hero for Sprint further mucks things up by coming in at just $180. The only choice Sprint and Palm have at this point is to undercut everyone – and it looks like they’re about to.

    PreCentral just got a tip containing a brand new pricing sheet for an unnamed retailer, with prices apparently good from tomorrow (9/8) till the end of October. Follow the trails until “Net price to Consumer after MIR” and “Palm Pre” cross, and there it is: $149.99.

    That’s a full $50 bucks off the current going price, dropping the cost of entry by right around 25%. What do you say, Palm-holdouts: is that enough

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