The misfortune of Palm’s fears may be over now that HP has played a knight-in-shining-armor purpose, though Sprint — a States’ series three carrier — still has the ways to go before it can explain it’s out of a woods, having left the solid string of mercantile building right away but posting a distinction or the net benefit in subscribers. Of course, this is the kind of incident that puts dudes with a word “financial” in their titles on a hot seat, as well as certain enough, Sprint CFO Robert Brust came out overhanging during an investor discussion this week. Brust points to narrowing waste and an expanding prepaid presence as reasons he thinks the company can grow revenue by year-end, not to mention an expanding 4G footprint as well as — upon the closely related note — a approaching recover of a EVO 4G. Showing a bit of piety, he additionally pronounced which a association has “schooled the lot” given a launch of a Pre, acknowledging that the phone “didn’t work out as good as [they] hoped.” In alternative words: you wouldn’t design any more funny two-phone exclusive deals with Palm durability a improved partial of a year any time shortly.