BGR was able to grab the retailer’s director of merchandising, Scott Anderson, and ask him some questions about the upcoming launch of the Pre. Anderson admitted that the device could be in short supply for the first 4-8 weeks following the June 6th release. To deal with the expected crowds and lines, Best Buy plans on using a “ticketing process” starting June 6th, and once a store runs out of stock, names will be entered on a log in chronological order. In other words, there will be no deposits taken for the Pre. Every Best Buy store that offers Sprint products will have some inventory of the handset to sell on the launch date.

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With summer just around the corner, Sprint is gearing up their new advertising campaign right now for the spring. The carrier touts how mighty its 3G network is and how it is the best carrier in the world  - the one that will offer the webOS powered Pre exclusively. 

The Sprint Now Network(TM) is more than just a physical network – it features America’s most dependable 3G network,^* the largest push-to-talk community, and it is the only national carrier to offer wireless 4G services and award-winning phones and devices, including the most-anticipated wireless product of the year – the Palm Pre.

http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/