Four Palm Pre per Best Buy, few as two per RadioShack?

Talk of limited numbers of Pre handsets on launch day continues, with word from one Best Buy insider that the retailer will only get around four handsets per store on June 6th. According to the tipster, Best Buy will get roughly 4,250 devices to share between its stores. The retailer themselves have previous confirmed that around 1,000 locations are taking part in the Pre launch.

Meanwhile a source connected with RadioShack, another of Palm’s launch partners, has said that 721 of the company’s locations will be stocking the Pre. Specific figures are unknown, but that tipster estimated just two handsets in stock at each of these locations, which “are limited to high coastal areas like New York, New Jersey, California, Miami, Texas, etc.”

One My Pre forum member has been told that Best Buy will begin building a waiting list from this weekend, May 23rd. According to what chronofire was informed, once individual Best Buy stores find out how many Pre’s they’ve been allocated, they’ll contact people from the waiting list and reserve a handset for them.

[Originally posted at palmpretouchphone.com]