Palm Pre News: 370,000 Palm Pre Sold, GSM Coming & More Orders/Chapters

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There is more Palm Pre news today and momentum for the Palm Pre is growing. Numbers of shipped Palm Pre units were greater than expected.  Other webOS devices are coming including a GSM version.  Production has almost doubled and developers have more chapters to read. They can also get a leaked MAC SDK. 

According to Charter Equity Research analyst Ed Snyder, Palm sold 300,000 units of the Palm Pre smartphone in June and 70,000 in May . While selling 15,000 devices a day the Palm Pre is still in short supply due to the Palm Pre's unexpectedly high demand.The initial inventory of Palm Pre smartphones of 120,000 units sold-out in the first few days.

Snyder expects another webOS-based device to launch with Verizon in early 2010, and a webOS-based "Centro like" device with AT&T soon after that.

With numbers like thesed Palm is expect to sell million Palm Pre smartphones within the first quarter of its availability.

In other Palm Pre news, a GSM version of the Palm Pre was shown in a Palm Pre forum in Vietnam.

StreetInsider.com reported that an OTR Global report suggests that sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain claim that Palm has almost doubled its order of the Palm Pre to assembler Foxconn from 650,000 units to 1.2 million.

For developers there are new chapters of the official Chapters 10 and 11 of Palm webOS Rough Cut from O'Reily covering background applications/notifications and localization/internationalization issues. The book is available online at Safari Books.

There is now a leaked version of an SDK for webOS for the Palm Pre on the MAC.

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