Scaredy pings us to let us know that the O8F-CASY has landed at the FCC. That’s the Palm101UEU to you. Ok, actually we are thinking that it’s the European / GSM Palm Pre Plus. ToniCipriani chimes in on the forums to say that the photo date for lifting photo confidentiality (a fairly reliable sign of release date in the past) is September 11th, 2010.

Palm had previously submitted a plan jane North American Palm Pre that we saw back in November, the P100UNA - which is the non-plus, GSM, North American Palm Pre which we were hoping to see in May. What we’d actually like is for the standard Palm Pre to get end-of-lifed and replaced by the GSM Pre Plus. Scaredy had caught the North American Palm Pre Plus, the P101UNA at a German certification site before, so hope springs eternal we’ll have real GSM Palm Pre Plus phones in the US and around the world. 

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Remember that Palm P100UNA that was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance back in August? Yeah, that’s a GSM Palm Pre made for the United States. To break it down, P100 is the Pre (as seen by the P100 on Sprint), U is for UMTS (3G GSM), and NA for North America. While we haven’t heard anything on this front for over two months, the FCC database trawlers at wireless goodness noted that today a new Palm device passed the fed’s certification process: the P100UNA.

There’s not much too be gleaned from the FCC documents on the P100UNA that we couldn’t figure out from the name: it’s a Pre that will be compatible with US 3G GSM bands, e.g. AT&T and T-Mobile (and our friends up in Canada on Rogers, Telus, and Bell). When will the GSM Pre finally make its way to Palm’s home shores? We don’t know for sure, but if we had to guess we’d say sometime after Sprint’s US exclusive on the Pre expires at the end of 2009. Let’s just hope that an unlocked version is in the mix.

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