Go get your calendar and mark down this date: April 30. According to some recent rumor coming from a beta tester of the Palm Pre, the smartphone is on its way and it will arrive on April 30. It will cost $299.99 with a two-year contract. Is Palm desperate enough to hurry up with the release? It had a bad quarter and we would definitely understand if it’s trying to change all that.

On the other hand would Palm or Sprint allow a beta tester to tell everyone that the phone is coming? Is it a marketing trick? The source of the information is Jim Van, a guy working for Logicomm, an IT company from Rhode Island. And why would a beta tester give out his name? And how come does he know the actual release date? We’ll know more for you in about a month.

via Jim Van

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