This has been a great week for Palm pre – and not necessarily a good way. First, Sprint and Palm have confirmed the launch date – will pre sale June 6 It was notable in and of itself, because it meant the palm will stick to its commitment to launch Consumer Electronics Show in first half of 2009.

But even the palm which ia to the deadline which has been self-responsibility, my colleague Ginny Mies began to wonder, at what cost? Sprint and Palm manipulate these pre ’s launch with the verve? After all, the Sprint phone can actually have a shot to challenge AT & T and the iPhone with. He la ’s also Palm ‘ s challenge of the best to breathe new life into the company le ’s aging line set by hand.

Yesterday, the cost became clear: In an interview with Reuters that President Dan Hessenotes Sprint ’s the company doesn ‘ t plan to announce a strong pressure. He explains: We believe that we are going to have gaps of time Hesse said. We won ‘t able to follow the system in the early period.

Translation: To keep to its announced launch time – something Palm has notoriously dragged before – Palm will launch on the market with inventory that won ‘demand for rally t.

Hesse ’s comment is odd, because the early launch period is exactly when a company should build the marketing and stir interest in its hot product. Also odd: In admitting to shortcomings now for two weeks prior to launch, Palm and Sprint have given AT & T carte blanche to start promoting the iPhone to third-generation traditional buyers who want a smartphone pointed. It is expected that Apple announces third-GEN iPhone to Apple ‘filmmakers global s “conference the same week that the upcoming launch.

Naturally, Hesse ’s comments also serve to encourage the pre-mania. It will be interesting to see the day of launch so can pre order the same level of devotion that the line-childcare iPhone showed in the past.

Palm pre, supposed iPhone killer, is set to start June 6 in the United States, the post-rebate $ 199.99, and will only be available through Sprint, Palm said. Now the big question: Will this be enough to replenish the palm ’severely damaged the reputation of s and, more importantly, to give the iPhone by race for market share?

There is much to love about pre, its multitasking operating system with tight coupling to its users ‘contacts social networking. Sector gesture at the bottom of the screen, listen again to palm pilots, may be less than victory. He, however, seem well known to millions as asylum le ‘t have seen a palm in the last 5 years or longer.

The maker of personal digital assistance and a modern first player in smartphones, Palm has dropped the amazing grace when the PDA market has imploded early in the era of the smartphone. New investors and management have developed pre with the idea of giving the iPhone and Blackberry serious competition.

The exclusive carrier, Sprint, and was omitted from the cold of late and should see pre as its acquisition potential, too.

The strategy will work to?

We won ‘t know until Apple puts out what is common (and presumed) to be a new line of iPhones this summer. Pre ’sync start of s is positioned to beat Apple to the punch by two days if Apple plans to introduce its new iPhones at the beginning of his lecture as a director on 8 June

My guess was that new iPhones will be announced after the conference, but the exaggeration of pre palm may be too much for Apple to ignore.

Pre ‘introductory price of S $ 199.99 required by the two-year contract normally. The company will also provide a wireless charger for $ 69.99 additional.

Sales immediate evaluation of service plans can be an incentive for new customers choose a smartphone over the other, but in the longer term, applications become important. With the large number of applications available for iPhone, Apple appreciates the leadership that Palm has in the past had.

The big question will be if the palm and can recover if there is room for another major player in the smartphone market. The world of smartphone, previously divided into people and people Crackberry iPhone is about to become tighter. In a welcome manner.