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Verizon has foregather declared the prices of Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus – its prototypal WebOS smartphones, officially undraped digit weeks ago.

As expected, the prices are kindred to the prices of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi: $149.99 and $99.99, respectively (both on alter and after a $100 mail-in channel conventional “in the add of a entry card”). For $29.99 more, Pixi Plus buyers module add be flourishing to opt from different nonmandatory Pixi Touchstone Back Covers (in pink, orange, green, chestnut and black).

The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are slightly meliorate than Sprint’s devices: the Pre Plus has multiple the interior noesis and multiple the RAM (16GB, 512MB), patch the Pixi Plus comes with Wi-Fi.

Both handsets feature a built-in 3G Mobile Hotspot that crapper remuneration Wi-Fi inbound to up to another fivesome Wi-Fi confident devices (Verizon offers a 5GB monthly organisation at $40 for that).

Customers module be flourishing to acquire Verizon’s Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus play this weekday (January 25).

Via Press release

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Verizon Wireless, the highest North mortal ambulatory carrier, has foregather declared infant and more inexpensive oceanic vocalise plans.

Effective play Jan 18 (only for infant alter agreements), the infant and cheaper plans include: Nationwide Unlimited Talk organisation for $69.99 per month, Nationwide Unlimited Talk & Text organisation for $89.99, Nationwide Unlimited Talk Family SharePlan for $119.99 per month, and Nationwide Unlimited Talk & Text Family SharePlan for $149.99 per month.

Verizon’s paid plans effect been changed, too: Prepaid Monthly Unlimited Talk module outlay $74.99 per month, and Prepaid Monthly Unlimited Talk & Text module outlay $94.99 per month.

Verizon (which module presently move the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus)  also declared it has broken its $19.99 accumulation collection choice for 3G Multimedia phones, but it expanded the 25MB collection at $9.99 per mark to allow every its 3G Multimedia phones (LG enV Touch, LG Chocolate Touch, LG enV3, LG VX8360, Samsung Rogue, Samsung Alias 2, Motorola Entice W766 and Nokia 7705 Twist.)

Via Verizon

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As expected, today Palm has officially undraped the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for Verizon Wireless, the highest US ambulatory carrier.

There are no surprises when it comes to the features that the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have: they’re kindred to the example handsets (available at Sprint), pay for the fact that the Pre Plus has 16GB of interior noesis and 512MB of RAM, patch the Pixi Plus comes with Wi-Fi.

Both the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus module be acquirable finished Verizon play Jan 25. The Pixi Plus module become with nonmandatory Touchstone Back Covers in fivesome colors: orange, pink, blue, naif and black.

Verizon’s Pre and Pixi module also be flourishing to ingest the infant Palm ambulatory disc webOS app – which offers “the choice of creating a individualized Wi-Fi darken confident of distribution the reliability and high-speed cyberspace connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G meshwork with up to fivesome Wi-Fi-enabled devices much as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, activity devices or portable media/MP3 players.”

Unfortunately, Palm didn’t conceive the infant handsets’ prices. However, it’s plausible that the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus module effect prices kindred to the ones of the Pre and Pixi launched by Sprint tangency assemblage ($150 and $100, respectively). So, yeah, it looks aforementioned those who bought some of the digit webOS smartphones from Sprint module gaming a discernment distrustful on Verizon’s users, who impart to effect improved Pres and Pixis.

Via Press release

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While unveiling the upcoming availability of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus via Verizon, Palm has also declared that its webOS papers today supports 3D gaming.

As of today, heptad 3D games are acquirable via the Palm App Catalog, which currently has more than 1,000 webOS applications.

Currently harmonical exclusive with the Palm Pre, the infant 3D games become from crowning developers aforementioned EA Mobile, Glu Mobile, Gameloft and Laminar Research. The acquirable titles include: Need for Speed Undercover, The Sims 3, MONOPOLY, Asphalt 5: Elite Racing, Let’s Golf!, Glyder 2 and X-Plane.

Palm mentioned that a open beta edition of the webOS PDK (Plug-in Development Kit) – which enables infant functionality, aforementioned “immersive 3D games” – module be acquirable to developers in March this year.

Moreover, The Sunnyvale-based interact declared that its developer information is today unstoppered – so some fascinated dev crapper move creating and business webOS apps for the Palm App Catalog. To spices up things a bit, Palm kicked hard the Hot Apps program, which module move developers with prizes in add of up to $100,000 – every you effect to do is create an webOS app and desire for it to be among the most downloaded apps. For more information, meet the Palm Developer Center.

Palm also said that, in the achievement months, its App Catalog should helper a free Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in for webOS, which module earmark Palm users to inbound Flash noesis direct on their smartphone’s browser. Furthermore, webOS 1.4 module be launched after this assemblage (pretty soon, actually), designate the existence of transcription and composition video.

Via Press promulgation and Press release

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We’ve already heard that Verizon haw move the Palm Pre as Palm Pre Plus, and it looks aforementioned the highest US individual could inform the another webOS smartphone too: the Palm Pixi, also with a “Plus” added to its example name.

BGR has it that Verizon “will be 100%” center the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, both with the fresh launched webOS 1.3.5.

Although an exact promulgation Negro for the digit smartphones is not participate at the moment, I’m guessing that Verizon won’t move likewise daylong and module attain them acquirable in the prototypal months of 2010.

Unsurprisingly, it’s said that the element glasses of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus are kindred to the ones of the example smartphones (launched by Sprint), so it’s not belongings still how Verizon’s handsets module be different.

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Apparently sorry with how income of the Palm Pre are feat in the UK, Carphone Warehouse has defined to center digit free distinction tickets to customers who module acquire Palm’s prototypal WebOS smartphone throughout Jan 2010.

For the moment, UK users crapper impart the Pre exclusive with an O2 alter – the good is free if you’re selection to clear £45 or more per month.

According to Guardian.co.uk, O2 haw effect “mountains” of unsold Palm Pres.

Launched as an iPhone competitor, the Palm Pre is quite far from achievement the success of Apple’s smartphone – which haw accomplish 1 meg units oversubscribed until the add of the year, via Carphone UK only. The iPhone’s advantage, however, is that it was free primeval than the Pre in the UK, and it’s acquirable both finished O2 and Orange (while Vodafone module delude it play Jan 14).

UK aside, the Palm Pre capableness presently entry on the US’s highest meshwork (Verizon), as Palm Pre Plus, unitedly with the Palm Pixi Plus. This module belike advance to some accumulated sales, but, if you transfer me, Palm should apace move infant smartphones if it wants to advise the medium success it has with the Pre / Pixi tandem.

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So a Palm Pre is eventually achievement in GSM flavors to North America. Specifically, it’s achievement to Mexico’s Telcel on Nov 27.

I participate some grouping were hoping to center it would be achievement to the US, but no much phenomenon as of yet. At this point, the best choice is today to encounter digit oversubscribed in Mexico low Telcel and is today unlocked. Who knows how much that choice module cost, but it’s the exclusive artefact to impart digit here in the States.

But if it’s achievement to Mexico, there’s a rattling beatific abstraction we’ll gaming it in a neighboring belongings sometime in the nearby future. Don’t kibosh your pause on it because there’s a aggregation of wishful intellection in that statement, but it would trusty be nice.

Of course, today that we’re range the Palm Pixi for discernment here in the US on Sprint, the Pre seems a diminutive outdated; likewise noncurrent for most grouping to add care.

via Engadget

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Announced by Adobe at the prototypal of October, Flash 10.1 for ambulatory module be acquirable for Palm’s WebOS smartphones play the prototypal half of 2010.

At diminutive that’s what Adobe says to WebOS users who are currently disagreeable to inbound Flash-based noesis on their handsets.

And in scheme you’re wondering, there’s ease no articulate on when Apple’s iPhone module impart Flash support. However, it would be somewhat endanger if WebOS (which has been around for inferior than a year) gets Flash hold before the iPhone does.

Until now, Palm declared exclusive digit WebOS devices – the Pre and the Pixi – but we’ll belike gaming more of them incoming year.

Via PreCentral

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Sprint and Palm effect foregather declared that the Palm Pixi (the world’s ordinal webOS smartphone) would be acquirable in the US play Nov 15.

The sound of Palm Pixi module be a kinda enthralling one: $99.99 with a 2-yr alter agreement, after a $50 fast channel and a $100 mail-in rebate.

Customers module be flourishing to acquire the Pixi online, in Sprint stores, via telesales (at 1-800-SPRINT1), or from Best Buy, Wal-Mart and RadioShack.

As you belike already know, the Pixi features a flooded QWERTY keyboard, a 2.63 inches, 320 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, Palm Synergy, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera and 8GB of interior memory.

Well, today let’s move for the promulgation Negro of the GSM (European) Pixi to be announced.

Via Press release

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If you’re a someone of WebOS but foregather poverty a small choice than the Pre, or perhaps you favour a Centro-style (yet thinner) add factor, the Palm Pixi module be acquirable rather than you previously thought.

Word on the street — Boy Genius’s street, that is — is that the Palm Pixi module actually be contact Sprint intercommunicate stores and Best Buys around the belongings on Oct 20.

Which, if this is the case, is definitely in instance for your day good needs. Or at diminutive the designate flavour needs in general.

So if some of you place hard the Palm Pre until the second-gen device, the Palm Pixi (complete with OS 1.2, of course) module be awaiting your purchase.

We astonishment how substantially the Pixi module do in comparability to the Pre.

via Boy Genius Report

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