Sick of
Pre rumors? We certainly hope not, because some magical font of believable Pre data seems to have started gushing fresh information recently with no signs of slowing down. Latest to the table is a sticker price for the
Touchstone dock, an inductive charger that'll work with a special magnetized non-stick battery cover for the Pre to juice your baby's batteries without a plug -- and it looks like you're going to have to pony up some serious cash for the pleasure. Screens on some computer somewhere deep inside Sprint are apparently pegging the Touchstone at a stiff $69.99, which is an awful lot to pay to simply charge your phone in style; cool, sure, but $70 worth of cool?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iMike47 @ Apr 13th 2009 4:31PM
Although $69.99 is high, I was expecting around $100 dollars or more
James villan @ Apr 13th 2009 7:50PM
Dude! someone is going to get fired for this ...
cell um @ Apr 17th 2009 7:31AM
Ya a definite shout out to the jackass putting screen shots online and thinking they wont get caught...and if your a PRE advocate thanks...crap like that will end this awesome program for us who CARE about our jobs
soydeedo @ Apr 13th 2009 5:13PM
In other news, you can now order Treo 650's for free so long as you don't care about a camera. I'll take 20.
Dan @ Apr 13th 2009 5:28PM
Yes Chris, it is $70 + tax worth of cool! I also was expecting it to be more than that.
Max @ Apr 13th 2009 6:30PM
This will be a multifunction charging station that will probably also charge a bt headset and some other products down the line. That's an acceptable retail price for it. I won't buy one, but it's tempting.
Park @ Apr 13th 2009 7:03PM
$70 is WAY too much for a charger. If it came with an extra battery, then maybe. It should be $30, maybe $35.
jeff @ Apr 14th 2009 1:45AM
i agree....someone is gonna be fired for sure.. not only showing OUR SYSTEM, but showing SKUS and prices for stuff that hasnt even been released
NeonLeon @ Apr 14th 2009 6:50AM
Um, I'm going with...let's see now...HELL YEAH it's worth $70.
JaXX @ Apr 14th 2009 12:14PM
Calm down everyone... It's only a late April's fool: look at the update date :-) (though I'm not used to that M/D/Y notation being in .eu )
steve @ Apr 21st 2009 2:39PM
the $0.00 treo 650 sku is an exchange sku for warranty replacements. But yeah, I would agree that someone should get fired, they were just smart enough to not display any store information and this will be the first charger I actually pay money for.