DAN HESSE COMMENTS ON SPRINT PALM PRE RELEASE DATE

Dan Hesse the CEO of Sprint/Nextel recently sat down to an exclusive interview with the folks at RCR Wireless News to discuss the future of the company. As expected, Dan Hesse was asked about the Sprint Palm Pre release date and the length of the handset's exclusivity with his company. Here is Dan Hesse's response to the question on the Sprint Palm Pre release date:

We haven’t announced that. The plan of both companies is to have it on the market in the first half of the year. Obviously when you’re bringing out a new device with this level of sophistication and functionality, there’s a lot of work required. The guys at Palm are working 24/7 and we’re working 24/7 to bring it out as soon as we can, but we’re not going to bring it out until we’re really confident that the launch is going to be really successful in terms of how it operates. Of course to be able to produce the devices we want to make sure that there’s enough. Clearly it’s going to be a device that’s going to be in high demand and it is going to be in shortage no matter when we launch it, but we don’t want it to be too early where there’s only a handful of Pres in the whole country. We want to make sure that we can also have production ramped up at a reasonable level before we launch the product. There are a lot of variables that go into when we’re going to launch it. But both Sprint and Palm are very focused on launching as soon as we can and our target is to launch in the first half. There are also no price details yet.

It's clear that both companies are unwilling to disclose a solid Sprint Palm Pre release date. Hesse's answer indicate that the Sprint Palm Pre release date relies heavily on Palm's production process. Hesse also said that both Sprint and Palm have agreed to decline to release any comments with regards to the Palm Pre's exclusivity period. Tune in to this blog for further information on the Sprint Palm Pre release date.

[Via: PreCentral]