Palm Pre Price and Date: $200, June 6

We’ve subsisted on hype long enough. The final details on the Palm Pre have come into view. All we do now is wait for June 6, when you can plunk down $200 (after rebate, natch), sign your soul away in a two-year service agreement with Sprint and raise your new smartphone in triumph. We’ve known the specs for a while now: 3.1-inch 320×480 resolution display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash and 8 GB of built-in flash memory. Palm’s also talking up its WebOS platform, which makes for smooth multitasking between business and entertainment uses. With service plans that mimic those of AT&T and the iPhone — $70 for 450 minutes and so on — will the Pre be able to sway those who haven’t joined the Church of Apple? We’ll see. [Sprint via Crave]