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The latest in the never-ending quest to find a confirmed launch date for the Palm Pre suggests that we will see a release on June 6.  Honestly, I would like to leave this post at that and just assume this is an accurate date, however I cannot help but point out that June 6 is a Saturday.

Sure, Sprint and Palm can choose to launch a major product on a weekend, and it may be a good thing considering more people generally have time off and in turn more people would be able to attend the launch event.  But that said, a Saturday launch just does not fit in with a release from Sprint.

Otherwise, this latest rumored date is based off a countdown timer advertisement (shown to the right) that has been revealed by Notebooks.com.  Of course, while the advertising banner looks official and it does mention June 6, more specifically “Countdown to June 6” I have not been able to see that timer in action.

Bottom line, I am thinking that this unannounced release date may be a new advertising tactic by Sprint and Palm.  It just may be that by not announcing the release publicly, they are actually drawing up more hype and anticipation.  After all, if they were to publish the release date, it would warrant one post from each tech source on the Internet.  This way, they are getting quite a bit more attention thanks to these rumor posts.  Personally I am hoping the June 6 date is accurate, but I am not fully convinced just yet.

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