You have always wanted a Palm Pre but you didn’t want to leave your current network, well now you can as the video above shows European customers can now unlock their Palm Pre’s with the Rebel Simcard II. The Rebel II sits between the simcard and the phone allowing you to use any carriers simcard. The phone in this case a Pre thinks it has got an O2 / Telefonica simcard slotted into it.
The question is where do you get your Palm Pre from as going on an O2 contract will mean that you are paying monthly and I am not too sure that O2 are doing phone only deals at the moment, well last time I was in there they said they weren’t. So paying £35 a month and then unlocking to another network is a little pointless as data access will cost even more for using other networks. As a purely academic exercise this is great but how many actually unlock their phones won’t be that great in number.
You could however use the alternative which is that you could buy a German Palm Pre fully unlocked, only issue is the QWERTZ keyboard . If you can get over the keyboard layout then you can get hod of a Plam Pre for £499 over at Expansys.
