The boardroom drama behind the HP acquisition wasn’t the only Palm news today — the company also launched the AT&T Palm Pre Plus . No surprises here — it’s going to $149, decidedly more than Verizon’s $29 with free Mobile Hotspot service — but hey, at least it’s out there, and you get a free Touchstone in the deal, so that’s nice. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Palm Pre Plus launched on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 May 2010 19:43:00 EST.
Starting May 16, you’ll be able to pick up the Palm Pre Plus at AT&T . It will sell for $150 with rebate, and for a limited time, that deal will come with a free Touchstone charging dock. Ooohhh! More
Looks like Verizon is having a bit of a blowout on the Palm Pre Plus : it’s fallen to just $30 on a two-year contract. That’s the same price as Big Red’s Pixi Plus and a pretty substantial discount over Sprint and AT&T, both of which will charge you $149 — and man, AT&T hasn’t even started selling the thing yet , so someone’s going to look awful silly on launch day.
We still don’t have a firm date for when Palm’s current wunderphone will be hitting AT&T’s soothingly-colored retail establishments (the site still says “coming soon”), but we do now have confirmation that at least one handset has reached its destination. A tipster was kind enough to send us these photos of an AT&T Pre Plus escaping its creamsicle confines and powering on for the first time.
Yes folks, it’s finally really happened. Today Palm announced that its dynamic duo — the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus — will be making their way to AT&T’s network “in the coming months.” We won’t bore you with too many details on the devices, since you can read our review of the non-Plus Sprint variations here and here , and the Verizon versions right here
Oh Palm. Just a little over a year ago your future seemed so bright, so renewed. You walked away from CES 2009 reborn, held aloft by a completely innovative new mobile operating system, a striking piece of hardware, and a feeling amongst the press and investors that you were back in the game and playing to win
Palm might be able to use a bit of good news right about now, but it looks like it may not be able to count on that coming from AT&T. As AllThingsD ‘s John Paczkowski reports, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek is now saying that Palm’s still as yet unconfirmed launch on AT&T has been pushed back from its rumored April debut to June or July.
We aren’t trying to lump these two together or anything, but we figured we’d give those of you who opted for Palm’s second set of webOS handsets an opportunity to pool your thoughts in order to make the smartphone landscape an even better place to survey. We personally didn’t find too much new to laud on Verizon’s Palm-branded twofer compared to the original Pre and Pixi , and those of you who were hoping for all new hardware from the company at CES were undoubtedly let down. Still, there’s something to be said about a webOS product on America’s “largest 3G network,” and frankly, we’re interested in hearing how you’d change things
If you ask us, the Palm Pre Plus pretty much sells itself . So if we were working out a promo campaign for it, we’d just display the competitive pricing front and center and get the hell out of the product’s way
Palm has gone and spilled its Verizon pricing info, and the news is pretty encouraging. The Pre Plus is hitting shelves at a cent under $150, closely followed by the Pixi Plus at $99.99 — both after $100 mail-in rebate and on two-year commitments.
The Palm Pre plus removed the navigation button, has 2x internal RAM, 16GB storage, and a built-in inductive back cover for Touchstone inductive charging. The Pixi Plus is still “thin and lightweight”, but now has Wi-Fi, more colors for back covers (all Touchstone enabled). And both these phones are only for Verizon
Phone Arena ‘s got leaked specs for Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus . There’s not much being revealed for Verizon’s Web OS Phones other than the Pre getting 16gb storage and the Pixi getting WiFi. [ Phone Arena via Engadget ]
And just like that, you’ve got specs. We’d already heard that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus were headed to Big Red for some more EV-DO action, and now we’ve got a leaked image of the phones’ spec list. Guess what
