The Best Mobile Phone blog reports that Verizon is working hard to add the Palm Pre to their lineup this year. We can’t wait!

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Software developers will be able to start charging for applications downloads to Palm Inc‘s high-profile Pre smartphone with the company’s launch of an e-commerce beta program set to start in mid-September.

Developers will still have the choice of giving apps away for free, but Palm said on Tuesday that software providers who want to charge for Pre apps will get 70 percent of revenue from the sale. The remaining 30 percent would go to Palm in an arrangement that mirrors Apple Inc‘s app store.

Read the full story in Reuters

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The Pre has helped Palm salvage its previously rapidly declining smartphone business but is suspected of only having a short-term edge at present because of its exclusivity to Sprint in the US and international sales that will only start next week, when Bell Canada offers its version. The Eos is rumored to be the first webOS phone for the US outside of Sprint and could cost half the price of the Pre. In 2010, the Pre is expected to reach AT&T and Verizon.

Read the full report in electronista.

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Check out what Nate D’Amico thinks at Silicon Angle.

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Palm Pre owners love their smartphones, but not as much as owners of Apple‘s new 3GS iPhone love theirs. Full survey result are at cnnmoney.com.

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Source: RBC/ChangeWave

What do Pre users don't like?

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This patch is “pre-alpha” and not yet ready for prime, but on-screen keyboard is on its way for the Pre.

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Both Cnet and LA Times confirmed that Verizon will get the Pre on early 2010 – Yeah!

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Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS and noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a day. Read why at MobileCrunch.

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Recent analytics from online behavioral research company Compete.com shows that Verizon Wireless may not see quite the boost some expect from a forthcoming Palm Pre launch on its network.

Elaine Warner, director of Consumer Technologies for Compete, took a look at which wireless customers were “shopping around” for a device not offered by their current carrier. For example, a customer on Verizon Wireless who might be shopping for the Palm Pre over at Sprint. Warner calls these customers with wandering eyes “pre-churners” and identifies them by their having accumulated 10 or more page views per month on a competitive carrier’s Web site.

“There’s been this question of could this device do better on Verizon or AT&T?,” Warner says.

At first glance, it appeared that Verizon customers were either satisfied with their current network or simply not interested in the Palm Pre. In fact, only 1.7 percent of Verizon pre-churners were interested in the Palm Pre, suggesting that bringing the Palm Pre to the carrier won’t actually help it retain some of its riskiest customers.

While that was all good and fine, Warner took things a step further, wondering how many Verizon Wireless customers might be exhibiting pre-churner behavior with a hankering for AT&T’s iPhone 3G S.

According to Warner’s data, a whopping 14.8 percent of Verizon Wireless’ pre-churners were checking out their Apple-branded options over at AT&T, specifically the iPhone 3G S (surprise, surprise). That’s 40 percent higher than that of pre-churners from Sprint or T-Mobile USA.

“I think that suggests Verizon might still have something to worry about in the iPhone,” Warner concludes.

Do you agree with the research mentioned in Wirelessweek ? [source: Wirelessweek]

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