Sprint seems to hope so. The folks over at Precentral.net got ahold of some new documents showing upcoming prices for Sprint phones. On this list is the Palm Pre for $150. They have the HTC Hero, one of the more attractive Android devices, priced at $179. If you are on Sprint, this is starting to look like a decent deal. Of course, when the price drop goes live, you are still probably better off shopping at BestBuy or Radio The Shack since, unlike Sprint, they will give you the rebate without you having to actually mail it off.

I just returned my third Palm Pre over the weekend, and I have to say that I am not sure it is worth it quite yet. I love…absolutely LOVE the potential of webOS. Too bad the Pre is plagued by sub-par hardware. I really want Palm to succeed, but at the same time I think I would rather see them just license webOS to someone like HTC that knows how to make some quality hardware. Then maybe they can focus more on optimizing the OS to get rid of the lag and some of the other quirks.

So, in the days when you can buy a $99 iPhone 3G, what do you think about Palm selling the Pre for $249? Remember, you only get it for $149 if you are one of those people that follows through with a mail-in rebate.

[via Precentral.net]

UDPATE: Well it looks like the majority of the US are not eligible for this deal yet.  PreCentral has issued an update to this issue.  What it boils down to is that the only markets that are eligible for the $249 – $100 mail-in rebate are the IPCS markets.  To read more about this update, check out the PreCentral article here.