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AT&T Pre Plus Now Available Through Palm's Developer Portal at a "Discount" 9

by Robert Werlinger Tue, 18 May 2010 3:35 pm EDT

 

 If you're a developer looking for a GSM Palm Pre Plus but don't want to enter into one of those pesky two year contracts, you're in luck: Palm has made the AT&T Palm Pre Plus available through its developer portal for $479.99, a full 20% off the usual $599.99 asking price, with free 2-day shipping.  To qualify for the discount, which runs through June 30th, you have to be an active webOS developer.

The device is still SIM locked to the carrier - there's still no truly unlocked GSM webOS device available with US 3G bands - but tools such as the webOS Meta-Doctor, developed by the webOS Internals team, enable devleopers to bypass carrier activation.

Update: Obligatory scare quotes added to the headline above, as the price is still $80 over the cost of the phone off-contract at AT&T, $399. Palm tweets that there's a pricing update on the way [via everythingpre]

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9 Comments

Posted by ToniCipriani on Tue, 18 May 2010 1:02 pm EDT

Problem is, 599.99 isn't the full asking price of an AT&T unit right now, it's 399.99. So you're actually paying 20% more...

Also this can be unlocked via Nextgen's unlocked, confirmed in the forums.

Posted by chav1to on Tue, 18 May 2010 1:05 pm EDT

I was thinking the same, how's $479.99 a discount if from AT&T you can get it with a "No Commitment Pricing" at 399???

Posted by koolin on Tue, 18 May 2010 1:28 pm EDT

some discount, 20% addon is more like it.

Reduce the cost of your developer phones across the board, there is no way this phone is worth that much for any of the carriers.

Posted by tsaunders on Tue, 18 May 2010 1:30 pm EDT

Might as well buy it from AT&T at no commitment since it's 399.99

Posted by Corey Gordon on Tue, 18 May 2010 3:09 pm EDT

Don't forget the two year contract it would be closer to two thousand than 479.99

Posted by ToniCipriani on Tue, 18 May 2010 4:01 pm EDT

Price update eh... 399.99 - 20% would be SWEET.

Posted by bjs188 on Tue, 18 May 2010 4:40 pm EDT

why doesn't palm make developer phones even cheaper? more devices for Devs to test their apps on and more hands-on time for them to get used to webos means more apps for the rest of us!

Posted by gkomsky on Tue, 18 May 2010 10:19 pm EDT

I just bought this phone from NEGRI electronics to send to my friend in the Ukraine. When I read this post, i as scared when it said "The device is still SIM locked to the carrier - there's still no truly unlocked GSM webOS device available with US 3G bands" so I called AT&T and asked if it would work in the Ukraine... she said yes no problem. What gives? Who do you think is right?

Posted by chillrobot on Wed, 19 May 2010 9:08 am EDT

there's still no truly unlocked GSM webOS device available with US 3G bands

Don't the O2 phones count?