Rumor or wishful thinking? According to a tipster from precentral who attended the Sprint Open Developers Conference, Palm presented a demonstration of the Pre operating on AT&T’s GSM network. Surely this must mean that Palm was using an unlocked GSM Pre, which begs the question — when is it coming to AT&T?

It wasn’t long ago that Palm offered the unlocked version of the Treo Pro on their site, so perhaps we could see the same strategy for the Pre? It would come at a price (unlocked, no contract required), but there are likely many business and consumer users that would pay it. Or, hopefully AT&T will join Verizon in the near future and offer the Pre at a subsidized price. At this point, we can only hope, but Palm running this demo at the conference is a good sign.

source: precentral