In the last couple of weeks there have been quite a few reports leading up to the release of the Palm Pre, some saying that it was the iPhone killer and others not agreeing. Yesterday morning in the USA the Pre was released on the Sprint network and some people were queuing up from the night before for it (not more than 50 so not too big)

So at the moment reading comments and articles about the Pre its going to be at least the 2nd coolest Touch phone out there and whether or not its the iPhone killer remains to be seen. Remember that Apple may have some announcements this next week regarding the new iPhone.

My list for phones I want keeps growing – iPhone / HTC Magic / Nokia N97 and now the Pre…

Here is a video of how the software on the phone works, looks freakin awesome.

On Techcrunch there have been quite a few people envious of people who managed to receive the Pre to review before the launch and looks like it even got a bit heated, check out the video below of Leo Laporte having a good go at Michael Arrington from Techcrunch who wasn’t sure until the end if Leo was been serious or not.

They way its going it certainly looks like it… I wonder where the common sense is in these big corporations when they just don’t get together and launch one common App store? Do they really think that developers will create and maintain Apps for each different store – what a nightmare!

So far the following have or are indicating that they will launch an App store soon: