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Wednesday May 6, 2009
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 Bell Mobility became the world's second carrier to adopt the Palm Pre earlier today, and after the press release I tried to ask Palm and Bell representatives how this Pre might be different from Sprint's Pre, and how many Canadians will be able to get hold of it. Here are some answers I got.
- The Pre will be available nationally in Canada, not just in Bell's 3G areas. This is important for folks in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where Bell's coverage is mostly 2G. In a 2G area, the Pre will work on Bell's 1X network.
- Yes, Bell is building an HSPA network, but they're not launching that until 2010. To get the Pre out in 2009, this will be the EVDO version of the Pre, running on Bell's existing EVDO 3G network.
- Bell hasn't yet determined how they're customizing the Pre. But a few things are clear. It won't have a Pandora app, because Pandora doesn't work in Canada. And it will support a French-language UI, because, well, vive la difference!
Bell says the phone will be showing up during the second half of the year. Back in February, Palm announced a GSM/UMTS version of the Pre, but they haven't announced any carriers for that model yet. Sprint has the exclusive US contract for the Pre for an indeterminate time.
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