Sprint Nextel executives said Monday that the launch of the much anticipated Palm Pre on Saturday hit a new sales record for the company.

Neither Sprint nor Palm is discussing specific sales figures, but Tim Donahue, vice president of business marketing for Sprint, said that the launch exceeded the company’s expectations.

“We experienced our best one day of sales and individual weekend sales for any phone we’ve launched

in our history,” he said. “We sold out of the device by the weekend in most of our store locations. And it happened at a much faster rate than we had planned on. “

While the crowds that showed up on Saturday AM to buy the Pre at Sprint stores and other retail locations where the phone was offered were small in number compared to the […]

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