Crazy for the Palm Pre

It’s hard to mention the word “Palm” without also mentioning either “takeover” or “shakeup” in the same sentence these days, but the company was able to change the subject — rather refreshingly, may we add — to the more pleasant topic of new webOS features coming down the pike at its Developer Day conference in Sunnyvale this weekend.

Jon Rubinstein dropped the news only minutes ago that the new Palm devices—the slightly-upgraded Pre Plus and Pixi Plus—would be arriving on Verizon later this month. I got some hands-on time with them, and while the Pre Plus has had the navigational button removed, little else has been touched aesthetically.