Can any Palm Pre be used for development?

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We're about to start developing software for the Palm, using WebOS.

Though an emulator is available for testing, I always feel more confident seeing it run on a physical device as well.

I can't find anywhere on Palm's website that tells me whether I can just buy an off-the-shelf Palm Pre and run my app on it, or if I have to buy one with a particular type of contract/ have it unlocked in some way/ whatever.

Does anyone know? Have you done this?

(Sorry this is barely programming-related, but I couldn't think where else to ask. I'm sure someone has done this and can give me a quick yay or nay. Thanks.)

Oh - I'm in the UK, if that makes any difference.

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