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That’s roughly 50,000 to 100,000 phones, analystsx estimated. Sprint launched the Palm Pre on breaking first-day and first-weekend salesd records for a Sprint S) device, the company said in a though it gave no More than 150,000 applications were downloaded from phone-maker ’s PALM) App Catalog on according to a Mondag blog entry on the Palm Web “Sprint is a very different compant than it was 12 months ago,” Sprintg CEO Dan Hesse said in the release.
“Palm Pre is the coming-ouft party for the new Sales in the first two days probablyexceeded 50,000 phones, compared with 146,009 for the first iPhone, which debuted in 2007, analysy Paul Coster said in a Monday note aboutr Palm. Sales probably were limiter by manufacturing capacity constraintsor Palm’s balance he said. Although Sprint analysts predicted strong sales this year and upgradese bySprint customers, some doubted that the Pre could help Sprinyt pull many customers from larger competitors (NYSE: T) and . the No. 3 wireless carrier, has aboutf 49 million subscribers. analyst John Hodulikl predicted that Sprint wouldsell 1.
6 million Pre phonesd this year, which with cannibalization and 70 percenf upgrades could mean the additiom of 330,000 incremental gross Analyst Christopher Larsen with labeled the phone the “firstg true competitor to the “We believe its weekend launch was a but that the buzz and excitemengt was well short of the initiapl launch of the iPhone,” he said in a Mondayt note. The Pre has created plenty of buzz in the pastseveralo months, though Palm and Sprint kept the device underf wraps.
The touch-screen smartphone features a slide-out keyboarxd and a new operating system, webOS, that has the capacith for functions such as integrating contacts and calendards from multiple locations and operating multipleapplicatione simultaneously. Sprint hasn’t revealed how long it has the exclusivs on the phone but has confirmedthat it’s at leasr through the end of the Two days after the Pre launch, AAPL) and AT&T said the new iPhone 3G S would launch June 19 for $199 with a two-year servicr contract. Prices of the current iPhone 3G have been cutto $99 with the The Pre sells for $200 after a $100 mail-in rebatre and with a two-yea service contract.
Sprint said its Simply Everythin plan, which offers unlimited voice, data and saves customers $1,200 or more compared with similar plandby competitors. Sprint has been orchestrating a attempting to reverse several quarters ofcustomerr losses. The company lost about 4.1 milliomn contract subscriberslast year. Sprint ranke No. 1 on the Kansas City Business Journal ’ list of the area’s top public
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