Palm Pre sales top 300,000

US buys into new multitasking phone

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30 June 2009 20:13 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Palm has reportedly sold over 300,000 Palm Pre handsets since its launch earlier this month, according to analyst firm Charter Equity Research.

The news, which falls short of Apple's iPhone 3GS launch and Samsung's supposed 2 million Jet handset pre-orders, is no doubt still being seen as a positive by company staff keen to see the company come back from the grave.

Ed Synder, the analyst who is making the claims, reports that the company is now making around 15,000 handsets a day as it hopes to push sales further, following out-of-stock issues experienced in the first week of the handset.

It means Palm should reach the "magic" 1 million handsets by the end of the quarter, giving it a nice headline with which to launch in the UK.

Outlining rumours already doing the rounds, Synder believes that other webOS devices from Palm are coming, and not just to mobile operator Sprint in the US, suggesting that Verizon will get a webOS powered handset some time in 2010.

In the UK Palm has yet to announce an operator for its new multi-tasking handset with some believing it will be either Vodafone or O2 to bag the deal when it eventually launches later this year.

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