Palm Eos headed to Sprint as well?

by Joshua Topolsky posted May 1st 2009 at 10:58AM

Okay everyone -- grain of salt goggles on? According to PhoneNews, not only is a GSM version of the Palm Eos (AKA Mini Pre, AKA Pixie, AKA Castle) coming to AT&T sometime in the near future, but Sprint will be getting its version of the Centro-like device come Q3 2009. The site claims that "sources within Sprint" have "confirmed" the launch window for a phone with specs similar to those on the device we hit yesterday, and that said device is actually in testing right now. Of course, just as we mentioned with the Eos news, this isn't actually confirmed by anyone at Palm (or even close) right now... and you know how much the internet loves a rumor. Still, this would make a lot of sense as Sprint and Palm are all but joined at the hip, and it helps jibe some of the differing reports we / the blogosphere has heard about carriers. Obviously there's much, much more to this story -- you'll know about it when we do.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Handsets, Palm, ATT, Sprint

Tags: att, castle, eos, mini pre, MiniPre, palm, palm castle, palm eos, palm mini pre, palm pixie, palm pre, PalmCastle, PalmEos, PalmMiniPre, PalmPixie, PalmPre, pixie, pre, rumor, speculation, sprint

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chris @ May 1st 2009 11:07AM

Can we try out the first WebOS first??

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Russ @ May 1st 2009 11:12AM

Note to Sprint/Palm; get the Pre released.

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Seriously? @ May 1st 2009 11:20AM

Beautiful photoshop job ... hell of a prank to start the next round of speculative journalism that plagues each of these tech sites. Good grief ... get a life. It'd be nice for one of you sites to actually write about REAL things instead of rumors. Rumors are like porn for people that can't get the real thing. And to write about the "porn" is even less admirable. Get off the teet of the rumor mill and get on the circuitry of providing USEFUL information.

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Rob @ May 1st 2009 11:36AM

I have an amazing idea, if you dont want to read anything involving rumors... then dont read them!

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Smartphone @ May 1st 2009 11:28AM

I have a contact who works at Sprint getting phones certified for their network prior to release/launch. He said there are 4 devices from Palm, in addition to the Pre, that are based on the new WebOS and currently in testing/development - he has seen the actual devices. Hope one of them in a Netbook! This could get very interesting!!!

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Albert @ May 1st 2009 11:59AM

I still believe the whole castle mini-pre is just bogus. How could this fly under the radar for nearly 5 months? Too many people would have to have seen it and leaked it by now. Also why would Sprint agree to pimp the Pre if there was another version of Pre becoming available on another carrier?

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