Palm has announced that it will make its new Palm Pre phone available under the Sprint Nextel provider on June 6 (Saturday) for a $200 two-year plan and after a $100 rebate. You need to get at least an Everything Data plan for home users, a Simply Everything plan, or a Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plan.

The Palm Pre boasts of a true multi-touch display and a unique interface for multitasking. It comes with a fully accurate browser and a slide out QWERTY keyboard for those who still prefer typing on actualy keys. The Palm Pre will debut its new operation system called webOS which was built from the ground up and focused more on internet connectivity. Palm plans to use webOS more on its other upcoming products. But still has to see if consumers will like it or not before they roll it out.

The Palm Pre comes with a built-in 8GB storage which is great for videos and photos. It comes with a 3-megapixel camera for those quick photo shoots. Also, it supports 3G over EVDO Revision A, GPS and Wi-Fi so you can stay connected anytime.

The Palm Pre offers additional accessories such as the Touchstone Charging Kit (Touchstone dock and Touchstone back cover) for $69.99.  Although, you can buy the dock and back cover separately for $49.99 and $19.99, respectively.

The Pre will be sold online and at Best Buy, RadioShack, and some Wal-mart stores. With Wal-mart having more than 2,000 stores in the United States alone, the Palm Pre can be at the hands of many potential customers by June 6. Talk about heavy pushing of the product against the iPhone which claims to be the number one mobile phone today. Interestingly, the launch is just two days before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and is rumored to be full of iPhone goodies. Will this affect the sale of the Palm Pre.

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ELECTRONISTA, CNET, INFORMATIONWEEK