Sprint recently sent out an internal e-mail stating, "Employees can expect training to start in April as well as multiple communications to get them excited and ready to help our customers." The Pre-centric blog, PreThinking got a hold of the memo and asked the wireless carrier to confirm that employees had in fact begun training had in fact begun training on the eagerly awaited Palm smartphone.

Sprint responded with the following oddly worded statement,

I would like to inform that Sprint is in the process of providing the training for the new Palm Pre. Once it's launched, Sprint will be ready to serve their valued customers regarding the Palm Pre.

Of course the real (almost) news here is that, if Sprint has begun training employees on the handset, then the sale of the Pre is no doubt imminent--say, the late April/early-May dates everyone's been tossing about...