The buzz going into this week was the release of the Sprint Palm Pre which debuted on June 6 across the US.  Early estimates for sales from the weekend were between 50,000 and 100,000 units.  Palm had originally ordered 500,000 units for launch, but manufacturing problems left the company with about 30 percent of that total.

Monday brought us the Apple WWDC 2009 where we first learned about the iPhone 3G S which will be released on June 19.  The main improvements of the iPhone 3G S over the existing 3G are support for 7.2Mbps 3G, a faster processor, more memory and a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and video recording capability.  Apple also announced that the iPhone 3.0 OS update which will bring MMS capability, Cut Copy and Paste, and over 100 new features will be available for all iPhone owners on June 17.  Following the announcements At&t and Apple began taking pre-orders for the 3G S and by Saturday June 13, At&t retail locations had run out of pre-order units. Read More →