Bell Canada launching the Palm Pre on August 27

It didn’t happen in June, and neither in July, but it will definitely happen this month: Bell Mobility and Palm have just announced the release of Palm Pre across Canada, starting August 27.

The long-awaited webOS smartphone will cost $199.95 with a 3-yr agreement, or $599.95 free of contract (a minimum 500 MB data plan is required).

As you can see, the pricing is similar to Sprint’s offering in the US – of course, the main difference is that Sprint has 2-yr contracts instead of 3-yr ones.

Canadian customers can already preorder the Palm Pre, via Bell’s official website.



The main features of Palm Pre include: 320 x 480 pixels touchscreen display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, Palm Synergy, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.2MP camera, 3.5mm headset jack and 8GB of internal memory.