Video: Palm Pre caught playing with GSM SIM in Vietnam

Having the Palm Pre on Sprint might be good for Americans driving their pick 'em up trucks down the CDMA data highway, but it doesn't do Europeans (or Palm's bottom line) any good over in the Old World. Now we've got video and images of a GSM-loving Palm Pre on the loose in Vietnam. Why 'Nam? Easy, as workers gain more rights and higher wages in China, manufacturers of all our fancy consumer electronics are heading further south in search of cheap labor. While this doesn't mean a damn thing regarding launch, it's still good to see a functioning GSM Pre in the wild on the way to launch sometime before the end of the year, possibly sooner. Video after the break, as the saying goes.

[Thanks, Enzo]

[PEZOLLA @ Jun 30th 2009 7:34AM]

It is likely a Verizon model, covering both CDMA and roaming overseas GSM only.

[Jamar @ Jul 1st 2009 9:55AM]

And since when has Verizon ever released a phone with "roaming overseas GSM" that's not locked to their Verizon-Vodafone SIM?

[haX0r @ Jun 30th 2009 7:52AM]

p0wned in Vietnam!

[Givemknowledge @ Jun 30th 2009 9:32AM]

no 3G just edge is painful

[saul good @ Jun 30th 2009 6:29PM]

Uhh dude that's pick-up truck, not pick EM up. Silly Brit.

[roparom @ Jul 1st 2009 10:42AM]

i think he was being ironic... silly yank.
;)

[d.j.hebert1 @ Jul 3rd 2009 11:17AM]

It's a sad day when nobody remembers the slang term pick-em up truck.

[korey @ Jul 14th 2009 7:09PM]

wow that can't be good for palm. well i hope my wife loves her palm pre