Crazy for the Palm Pre

Amazon has slashed the price of the Palm Pre to $79.99 with a two-year contract from Sprint.

Palm’s new Pixi just got $5 cheaper, less than 2 weeks after its launch, selling for $25 at Wal-mart and now Amazon.

Man, the Pixi has a tough life. For starters, it launches at a price point that simply makes no sense when you consider that the Pre could be had for the exact same price via third-party channels. Next, Palm’s second-ever webOS device falls to just $25 on contract , making it worth a glance once more.

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As we suspected, many new Palm Pixi phones came out of the box with webOS 1.2.9 installed. That’s all well and good, since webOS checks for updates on a regular basis and downloads them in the background while you carry on with your daily business.

Hope you didn’t pay $100 for a Palm Pixi on launch day, because the same phone now costs $25 through Amazon.

Mit dem Update auf WebOS 1.3.1 behebt Palm vor allem Fehler und verbessert die Bedienung.

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It’s late here at PreCentral HQ and it’s been a harrowing night: Palm released paid apps in the App Catalog , then they had to temporarily pull them due to a critical bug that, while it wasn’t a threat to users, caused significant heartburn for developers. While we waited for Palm’s team to resolve that situation with code fixes, we were elated to learn that the entire situation had just been solved with a policy fix .

Today we’ve got three more Palm sightings to bring you: two Pre, a Pixi, and even a Treo Pro. First up we’ll look at NUMB3RS , where Dr. Charlie Eppes is seen sporting a Palm Pre early in the show, only to be talking on a Treo Pro twenty minutes later

Palm Pre (Sprint): Unboxing Palm Pre.