GSM Palm Pre passes through FCC, doesn't fry brains 16
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 7:20 pm EST 
Remember that Palm P100UNA that was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance back in August? Yeah, that’s a GSM Palm Pre made for the United States. To break it down, P100 is the Pre (as seen by the P100 on Sprint), U is for UMTS (3G GSM), and NA for North America. While we haven’t heard anything on this front for over two months, the FCC database trawlers at wireless goodness noted that today a new Palm device passed the fed’s certification process: the P100UNA.
There’s not much too be gleaned from the FCC documents on the P100UNA that we couldn’t figure out from the name: it’s a Pre that will be compatible with US 3G GSM bands, e.g. AT&T and T-Mobile (and our friends up in Canada on Rogers, Telus, and Bell). When will the GSM Pre finally make its way to Palm’s home shores? We don’t know for sure, but if we had to guess we’d say sometime after Sprint’s US exclusive on the Pre expires at the end of 2009. Let’s just hope that an unlocked version is in the mix.
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The more networks the Pre and WebOS are available for, the more money Palm can make, which leads to less stories about the sky falling in.
I'm happy.
I seriously hope this is for Bell since they finally launched their HSPA network. No point on carrying a CDMA version now and once they do (if they do) offer an HSPA version I'll finally be all over it
More like Telus will carry it.
But I'm getting mine to run it on Fido.
thou true, it would be dumb of Bell not to swap and start carrying the HSPA version, right?
Yes but I wouldn't bet on it. After all they still need to clear the CDMA stock first.
Mobile Syrup claims it's going to Telus, not bell : /
That FCC sticker always looked like a middle finger to me, lol
Actually it doesn't have T-Mobile's 3G bands.
My guess is that UNA stands for Unlocked North America.
Whoops! Corrected.
also it has the NOM symbol (NOM= Norma Oficial Mexicana, like the mexican FCC)
If nokia has enough money, why not buy palm?
To you Guru Analyist, palm just gave you the middle finger to your crystal ball.
The prospects look good for the pre,
GSM, CDMA coming to our shores, with them already released overseas.
App catalog getting the final touches for its official release.
Hate it or love it, the underdog will be on top.
damn.. I forgot about that song lol
I'm confused.
Derek, can you confirm that the european Pre is Quadband 2G?
And I thought it was Triband 3G (850/1900/2100). If I'm right, why would there be a different phone for america?
i think mexico's telcel will carry it.
spectralfish its already been anounced that telcel will be carrying it!
"Made in China." I found it amusing.