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This latest roundup of Palm Pre information includes some availability, or actually lack of availability information, discusses how you will not be able to download MP3s over 3G and confirms that the camera does not suck.  So, with that, lets gets right into the news.  First up we have learned that the Palm Pre will not initially be available online or by calling telesales.  It seems that if you are planning on getting a Palm Pre on the launch then you will be required to visit a store. 

“Palm Pre will be available through sprint.com and Telesales sometimes after the initial launch date of June 6th.”

Thankfully, as we have already seen there will be plenty of stores to choose from such as Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and more.  Moving on from there, another tidbit that was discovered in the Palm Pre manual that was leaked lets us know that we will not be able to download music from the primary (Amazon MP3) music store over Sprint’s 3G connection.

“You can preview music files and queue them up for download over the Sprint network or a Wi-Fi network. However, you must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to download music files.”

Instead you need to be on a Wi-Fi connection.  (and with a little sarcasm)  How generous of them to allow us to preview and queue them up for download while on the Sprint network.  Sounds a little like a tease.  Personally, I can understand no video files over 3G, but no music sounds a little stingy—after all, even AT&T allows that with the iPhone.

Finally, we have confirmation that the camera does not suck.  Well, truth be told, the images appear to be pretty standard and nothing special.  Of course, that is realistic as the camera is your standard 3-megapixel phone camera.  You can check out the image below, which also means this girl, who is obviously to big for that horse will be immortalized as “that girl in the first Palm Pre image to hit the Internet.”  She must be so proud.

Wow, three bits of Palm Pre related news and surprise surprise, none of them were all that earth shattering.  Maybe the Pre is not going to be the ultimate savior after all, it seems there will be plenty that is just average, or maybe even slightly below.  That said, I still do love Palm and continue to hope they do well.

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