The Palm Pre 2 UK price and launch date have just been shoved into the public domain by HP and Palm. Want to know when the second gen webOS smartphone goes on sale here? Read on! Hint: it’s really, really soon.
HP, which bought Palm earlier this year, announced the Palm Pre 2 a few weeks ago, along with a juicy webOS 2.0 update for existing Pre and Pixi owners, but now we know just when you’ll be able to get the 1GHz, five megapixel camera phone with a slide out keyboard here and for how much.
The Palm Pre 2 UK price will be £399 when it goes on sale on Monday 15 November, sold SIM free through palm.com/uk. It’s an unusual approach when network subsidies are so important in making powerful smartphones affordable, and it’s not clear what happened to Palm’s relationship with O2. Still, we’ll take this in place of a four month delay behind US launch, as we were beginning to get used to with Palm.
As well as the new hardware, the Palm Pre 2 comes with webOS 2.0, which has a rejigged card multitasking system, expanded Synergy and universal search support, and Flash 10.1 video streaming support. HP says the HP webOS 2.0 update for existing webOS phones will hit “in the coming months”.
Will you be buying one? What do you make of the Palm Pre 2 UK price? Let us know in the comments below!
Out Monday | £399 | Palm
