Sprint reportedly will start to sell its new advanced phone, Palm Pre, in the first week of June, after suffering dearly earlier in the decade for it focused on customers who are not really creditworthy.
To recover from the suffering, the company once struggled to integrate Nextel, a business-centric wireless carrier, with its more populist and mass-market promotional efforts.
Now the question is, could the Palm Pre be the device that brings lasting harmony to Sprint? Generally, the makers of a new generation of advanced phones - from the iPhone to those based on Google’s Android operating system - have characterized them as potentially satisfying both corporate users who have heavy data demands and consumers with growing demands for mobile media.
It seems natural for the company to make such an assertion, and to be sure, Sprint had some well-received phones in recent years, notably the Instinct, which was introduced last summer. But Sprint has particularly high hopes for the Pre.
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