The dark satanic rumour mill has churned out a story that Palm's new Palm Pre will flogged as an exclusive deal with Vodafone.

Citing leaks from Vodafone officials, several blogs claim that the new Palm Pre will head to the UK via Vodafone. This will be news to O2, Orange UK, Three and T-Mobile who are also apparently chatting to Palm over flogging the phone.  It is not clear if Palm is going for an exclusive deal with anyone.

Following the madness that happened when the iPhone was released under exclusive deals, we would think that Palm was mad as a box of frogs to try it.