Palm Pre Coming to Canada's Bell Mobility

Posted By: Kris Keilhack Wednesday, May 6, 2009 9:19:20 AM

Palm Inc. today officially announced that Palm Pre will debut in Canada exclusively on Bell Mobility's 3G high-speed mobile network in the second half of 2009.

"Bell is excited to be only the second carrier in the world to announce the 3G Pre," said Adel Bazerghi, senior vice president of Products for Bell Mobility. "With the unique user experience of the world's first webOS phone, running on the country's largest 3G network, we're confident that Canadians will embrace Pre as the phone for their lives today."

"We're excited to bring Pre to Canada with Bell Mobility," said Brodie Keast, senior vice president of marketing for Palm, Inc. "We've seen enormous interest from mobile operators worldwide and fully expect to continue to expand distribution for Pre, putting it within reach of more and more customers."

This has been a busy week so far for Pre-related availability announcements, what with today's Bell Mobility CDMA announcement and Tuesday's rumor that Telstra will offer the Pre this August in the Australian market, presumably in GSM flavor.

Palm Pre is scheduled to be available in Canada exclusively from Bell Mobility in the second half of 2009. Bell Mobility's pricing for the phone has not yet been determined. Bell has setup a dedicated page with more Pre info and a email signup.

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Pre on Bell Mobility

Brent @ 5/7/2009 6:03:24 AM #

As a current Bell Mobility customer nearing the end of my contract with my Treo 700p, I was actually hoping the Pre might come out from its competitor, Rogers Wireless. Bell had better plan on revamping its wireless plans, or the Pre on Bell is going to be pretty much useless, or at least far too expensive to use. Currently I have to pay an additional $40 on top of the voice plan for Bell's Data plan. This only gives me 8 meg, however, with overages being very expensive. Contrast this with Rogers' iphone data plan where you get a more reasonable 1 GB for $30, or 3GB for $60, and a flex-rate plan as well. Since the Pre is going to be very web-centric in use, with its webOS, that means lots of data being transmitted back and forth to be useful, so Bell will have to come up with better plans for this device to be worthwile.

RE: Pre on Bell Mobility

imfallen_angel @ 5/7/2009 10:32:21 AM #

I was going to say almost exactly the same thing.

I just renewed my contract with Bell, and I can go in and get a new phone anytime now, the thing was that I was hoping to hear about the Pre coming to Canada in the hopes that Bell would get it.

But, before I change my plan to add data, they better have one hell of a deal for it, I'm kinda getting sick to hear about the unlimited data plans (or very low monthly fees) from just about every other country but here in Canada.

I still might get it if I can use the WIFI access, and if I can have my old Palm applications to work on it.

RE: Pre on Bell Mobility

Brent @ 5/10/2009 2:19:22 PM #

Apparently Bell has now updated their data rates, possibly because of the upcoming Pre. Still a little more than Rogers, but better than before. We'll see if they let me switch to the new plan with my Treo, or not.

from their site:

Smartphone Combo Windows/Palm 45 – Fab Five – 500 MB
(others available too)

Minutes included:
250 local minutes plus 50 bonus minutes

Night and weekend minutes:
Unlimited nights (9 p.m. - 7 a.m.) and weekends (9 p.m. Friday - 7 a.m. Monday) local calling

Extras:

* 500 MB for personal email, instant messaging and Internet browsing
* Unlimited nationwide talking and texting to and from any 5 numbers
* Bonus: Unlimited NHL

Additional minutes: 35¢/minute
Long distance - Canada: 35¢/minute
Long distance - USA: 35¢/minute

Long distance charges are 35¢/minute Canada to Canada and/or Canada to U.S. Roaming charges are extra.

Features included:

* Call Waiting
* Conference Calling

Monthly fees:

* System access fee: $6.95
* e9-1-1 emergency service fee: Rates vary by province

Other details:

* One-time activation fee $35

Listed under data plans for their turbo cards and stick is the following:

For further details on monthly access and usage click here.

Up to 500 MB: $30.00
500 MB to 1 GB: $35.00
1GB to 2GB: $50.00
2GB to 3GB: $65.00
3GB to 5GB: $85.00

Data usage exceeding 5GB: $0.03 MB

maybe we will get similar with the Pre. Lets hope so.

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