Earlier this month we reported on rumors of the Palm Pre coming to Verizon. At the time the CEO of Verizon Wireless was heard mentioning that the Palm Pre would be on the Verizon network over the next six months.
Hard sales numbers on the Pre are hard to come by, so we’re going to grab whatever we can. In the great news departments, medialets dug into App Catalog numbers and found [via Engadget Mobile ] that as of a week ago, there have been around 700,000 downloads of webOS apps from the App Catalog.
With the Pre now in customers’ hands and reports of webOS hacks in the news, we know that you are more anxious than ever to get access to the SDK and start developing for webOS. We’ve been working very hard on the SDK and are eager to open access on a wider scale, but the software and the developer services to support it just aren’t ready yet. Our goal is to make the SDK available to everyone by the end of this summer, and to get there in stages: Beginning immediately, we’ll accelerate the growth of the early access program, expanding as quickly as resources allow
Yesterday we had reports that AT&T was playing with the idea of bringing the Pre on board once Sprint’s exclusivity period with the device is up. Well Reuters released a report today that dropped an even bigger bombshell. Verizon will be carrying the Palm Pre within 6 months according Lowell McAdam who is a top exec over at Verizon
