Finally, the Old World will be getting some New World love from Palm.   From theThe Official Palm Blog:

Today, O2 announced details about pricing and availability for Palm Pre in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany. The webOS phone will be available on 13 October in Germany and on 16 October in the UK and Ireland.

Details on tariffs for the phone and service plans will be available here for the UK, here for Ireland, and here for Germany. As with our network partners in the U.S. and Canada, O2 will be the exclusive carrier for Palm Pre for its launch in these countries.

Currently only the details for the UK market are available:

Palm Pre is free to O2 customers taking out a 24-month contract and to customers taking an 18-month contract at £44.05 or £73.41 per month. See attached table or the O2 website for full tariff options. All customers will receive unlimited UK data browsing over O2’s HSDPA network and unlimited access to 7,500 Wi-Fi hotspots through both The Cloud and now BT Openzone.

The Palm Pre will also be sold with some innovative accessories. The Palm Touchstone Charging Dock allows connectionless charging of your Palm webOS™ phone. Palm Touchstone is based on inductive technology based inside the Touchstone Charging Dock which allows you to charge the handset without connecting a wire directly to it. The Touchstone and Back Cover will retail at £44.11, a saving of £10.

So at 44.05 £ (24 months) or 73.41 £ (18 months) per month all customers will get the phone for free and will receive unlimited UK data browsing over O2’s HSDPA network and unlimited access to Wi-Fi hotspots.

Not to be left out, the Touchstone will also be available to European customers.

It sounds good!

Hopefully the other European Countries will be able to get the Pre soon, now that the distribution of the webOS device has officially started.

And now the most difficult part:

• should I buy a HTC Touch Pro 2, or;
• should I wait for the Pam Pre distribution in my Country?

Please, help me!!  Leave your opinion in the comments section.

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