Best Buy to Sell Palm Pre for $200 with Contract

From DailyTech: The Palm Pre is shaping up to be a hot property when it’s released next month. The Pre features Palm's new webOS and will become only the second smart phone on the market to use multi-touch (the iPhone being the first). The phone hits the market on June 6.

Brick and mortar retailer Best Buy, eager to cash in on the demand for the phone, has announced that it will be selling it at its 1,067 Best Buy Mobile locations. The company is offering a unique promotion -- it will be selling the phone for $199.99 cash with a contract. Even Sprint itself can't exactly match this offer -- while it will also be offering it at a final price of $199.99, it's via a $100 mail in rebate.

Best Buy hopes the special offer will save customers the hassle of a rebate. It also is giving its employees special training so that they can properly demonstrate and describe the Pre's features.

Best Buy's Scott Anderson states, "We believe the ability to keep multiple applications open at the same time will be a very popular feature of the Palm Pre. It promises to be one of the best-selling smartphones of the year."

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