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If you want to get your hands on an unlocked Palm Pre then you can already pre-order them from 2 UK websites, these Pre’s have the normal QWERTY keyboard as opposed to the QWERTZ one of the unlocked German Pre. The price isn’t cheap but relatively normal for a new smartphone , ranging from £450-500.
To get your hands on one pre-order the Pre from either SuperEtrader or Total PDA
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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.
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With recent launches of the Palm Pre in the UK and Germany under the O2 branding it has meant that the Palm Pre has been available as a unlocked unit for the first time. Expansys the UK based mobile phone site has now started shipping unlocked Pre units to the US, this means that the cartel who controlled the Pre ever since it’s launch is effectively broken.
As the units are virtually identical in the US and Europe there are no worries in terms of usability and performance, also as added bonus you get the special German keyboard which rather then being Qwerty is more Qwertz, with the Z and Y swapping places on the keyboard. I am sure for any really enthuasitist can put up with this little oddity, as well as the O2 branded boxes etc. The only major catch is that you won’t be able to take advantage of the 3G speeds.
The phones are shipping for $714 each but were out of stock the last time I checked.
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