So far, Sprint has been extremely defensive about its exclusivity on the Pre – they even went as far as to officially rebuke the statements from Verizon officials about the device at some point in 2009. Thus, I am not sure if the carrier would accept an European competitor selling the device.
However, the boys at PhoneArena.com have claimed the following:
…across Europe by the end of September, according to the distributor I.R.I.S., cited by the Romanian newspaper Ziarul Financiar. The newspaper informs that the revolutionary handset is coming to Eastern Europe at a non-contract price similar to the one of its CDMA brother – about EURO 400 ($550)
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As of now, no further information is available – let’s wait and see how it all turns out.
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I don’t see what the problem would be… The European carriers are for the most part not really competitors of sprint’s. Its a different network architecture (for the most part). Therefore, for sprint it would be all of a “aaw, we’re not so special anymore to carry this device all on our own” and for palm it would be something of “woo hoo, we just doubled our market exposure”.
Hi,
it IMHO is something different: customers could buy the boxen retail in Europe and take them to the States!
All the best
Tam Hanna