New Pre Numbers: A 300,000 June?

Palm Pre sales into the channel in June were above 300,000 units with another 70,000 in May, according to Charter Equity Research analyst, Ed Snyder.

To put that into perspective, last quarter Palm shipped just 351,000 phones, though the folks in Sunnyvale continue to be silent about any number specifics, sticking to the words of Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, that “sales have been strong and growing.”.

Other numbers Snyder released included:

• 120,000 - the number of phones in stock due to start-up problems with manufacturing and uncertainty in demand.
• 15,000 - the number of units being produced a day
• 1 million - projected number of units to be shipped to Sprint in the first quarter of production.

Snyder also asserted that a WCDMA (That's a GSM Pre to you) version of the phone “appears imminent,” which he said means the company will reach cash flow break even sooner than expected. Our own sources also point to the GSM Pre arriving sooner rather than later.