Sprint is kicking off an exciting little contest that'll ultimately award two lucky winners with their very own
Pres,
Touchstones, and one year of
Simply Everything service -- pretty awesome stuff. Both Sprint and Palm have been famously tight-lipped about pricing for the Pre thus far, but using a few basic calculations derived from the game's legalese, an eagle-eyed tipster pointed out that it seems that we can probably get within a few bucks of the full retail price. Here's the deal: we know that Simply Everything runs $99 a month. After federal taxes, FCC surcharges, and some fudge factor for local taxes, you're looking at, say, $105 to $110 a month. We can say with some confidence now that the Touchstone itself
will run $69.99 at retail -- and that leaves the Pre itself. Sprint's rules say that the prize package's approximate retail value is $1,800, so if you subtract $105 for the plan (since Sprint can't be factoring in local taxes here) and $70 for the Touchstone, that basically leaves you with a nice, round $469.99. That sounds like a big number at first, but first off, very few folks will be paying $470 for a Pre -- they'll either be upgrading or adding new lines at a significant subsidy -- and to put the number in perspective, AT&T charges $549.99 full retail for the BlackBerry Bold. We're basically just thinking out loud here, but $470 seems like it'd give Sprint plenty of wiggle room to blow this thing out on contract, doesn't it? Check out shots of Sprint's mind-blowing contest for the ages after the break.
[Thanks, Jonathan]
posted May 13th 2009 6:11PM
Wow, 2 whole winners of a grand total of 3600 dollars... Don't over extend yourself there Palm.
Hey now, give Sprint some credit... They're on the downward spiral. Don't have much to give right now, their only future hope is the Pre..
where is the free Apple iPhone giveaway? or the free Blackberry Storm? enough said. now hush and go sit in the corner for your time out.......
There was a Storm give away. They gave away 50 in the NY Storm hunt, and many more in the country tour of the Storm Grab booths.
you are 30 bucks off
Actually, $28.73 - but who's counting? :)
So is anyone taking into consideration that maybe the people who win have to pay taxes for everything?
Or at least pay taxes on the plan every month?
Does anyone know (or can guess) if the Pre will be unlockable for other networks?
Its a CDMA phone so your other option in the US is Verizon and they won't activate a Pre on their network. So NO its not unlockable you are currently stuck with Sprint at the moment if you want a Pre.