Crazy for the Palm Pre

It appears that Deutsche Telekom, the parents company of T-Mobile is calling in banking advisers to research a possible multi-billion dollar  deal to take over Sprint Nextel, the third largest US based cell phone carrier. Currently T-Mobile is ranked fourth, and a merger would put the two companies in line to challenge AT&T for their second-place position.

SlashPhone Palm Pre Slows, So Sprint Hopes Android Will Be Its Hero GigaOm Sprint had been betting big on Palm Pre to make a strong play in the fast growing and lucrative smartphone business. Unfortunately, things have not worked … Sprint bringing HTC Hero to the US on 11 October ZDNet Blogs Sprint Unveils Its First Google Android Phone > S Wall Street Journal Google's New Phone Is Bad News For Palm (GOOG, PALM , S) The Business Insider PhoneNews.com