We know the Palm Pre smartphone will be coming to the UK on the O2 network to sit alongside the iPhone 3G S, but product-reviews was reporting it wouldn’t arrive until Christmas.

Well now according to a report on softpedia, the launch date for the Palm Pre is now in September, which no doubt will make O2 quite happy knowing they will have exclusivity on the 2 hottest smartphones in the mobile arena.

The Palm Pre launch didn’t appear to be that great of a success mainly due to limited Palm Pre stock, and there have been reports of problems with the handset ever since launch including screen cracking.

The iPhone 3G S is to launch on the 19th of June and pre-orders are already sold out, while every iPhone is waiting for tomorrow’s launch of the iPhone OS 3.0 firmware to get their handsets rocking with 100 new features.