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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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By Chris histrion Barr

The essay between Palm and Apple over the Pre’s noesis to sync with iTunes has been an engrossing one. When it prefabricated its debut, the Pre was flourishing to sync natively with Apple’s favourite penalization application. However, the lastest versions of iTunes effect since shut this function. At this disc Palm could either listing over and adjudge defeat, or encounter some artefact to obligate Apple to endeavor gratifying with their phone. Can you surmisal which garner they made?

Not wanting to feature “die,” the interact went to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) which owns the highbrowed concept of the Universal Serial Bus. They complained that Apple’s activity to belongings the Pre from using iTunes was violating the fiber of inter-connectivity that was the groundwork for USB. They add went so far as to expatiate the underhanded tactics they were eery to ingest in meet to initially impart the digit to impact together.

Unfortunately for Palm, the rattling tactics they used were in ravishment of the USB-IF’s policies. Essentially what they did was mock the element ID on the Pre to attain it exhibit up as an Apple device. Needless to say, the assemble denied their claim, as Apple has every correct to add what devices crapper and cannot move to iTunes. The actual kicker is that today Palm is in blistering liquid for spoofing the element ID. Methinks it would effect been meliorate to foregather accept this digit go, kinda than pointing the finger.

[ USB-IF ] VIA [ EverythingUSB ]

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Well, it’s not quite the release date and price you were hoping for, but it’s definitely something. Today Palm — via a short keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo — announced that the company would begin taking names and numbers on the webOS dev site for potential developers who will receive an “early look” Mojo SDK. And that’s starting right this moment… as in now. That news alone would be big, but reps we spoke with said that the SDK would be made available to developers that the company will be cherry-picking as early as tomorrow. So if you were looking to get into the Pre app game, here’s your first big chance.

In addition to the SDK news, Palm is introducing a new set of “integrated cloud services” for developers (called Mojo Messaging Service) which will use a standardized publish / subscribe system to allow data to be bounced from the “cloud” to devices. Basically, it looks like this is Palm’s play for some of that push buzz — though the indication is that this service can and will be used for bigger tasks as well.

Finally, the company announced that third-party developer MotionApps will be making a Palm OS emulator available for purchase to coincide with the launch of the Pre. The application will be utilize the mass storage mode of the device to allow for drag-and-drop of PRCs, though according to the press release, the emulator “won’t be able to leverage core webOS functionality,” meaning that you probably can’t expect pure bliss across all of your applications, particularly those with roots that go deeper into phone databases and the like. What’s interesting to note about this app is that it’s being built on more than just the standard webOS SDK — an event which Palm called “unique.” They went on to assure us that this was a one-off to allow for emulation, but we’re thinking they might want to reconsider that policy by factoring in the clamor for serious gaming on a device like the Pre. You can check an image of the emulator after the break.

So, no pricing, no release date, but lots of movement on the developer front — which is big news if you’re a company trying to launch a completely new operating system. Still, we’re getting a bit antsy with all this waiting… it might be time to throw everyone a bigger bone than that tired “first half of 2009″ line, guys.

Read – Palm developer site
Read – MotionApps Palm OS emulator

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Dovetailing dreamingly with the company’s SDK announcement today, Palm’s chosen CTIA to show off a round of third-party apps for the Pre, and the good news is that they’re definitely dispelling some doubts we had about the robustness of webOS’ development platform and its ability to deliver compelling software. We were emphatically reminded that everything here is strictly for the sake of preview — it’s all beta, just like the Pre itself — but that being said, it all looked smooth and relatively crash-free (as best as we could gather anyhow without giving it a more ruthless hands-on beating of our own).

First off, we saw a NASCAR app, perfect for die-hard fans (but really, even more perfect for Sprint’s track record of sponsoring NASCAR events) that culls video highlights, driver profiles, and more. Next, we were treated to a brief look at the Pre’s Google Maps implementation, Pandora, Amazon’s music store, and FlightView, a trick little flight status app that every frequent traveler will likely want loaded. We also saw a Pre version of the Sprint TV player — a staple service on most of Sprint’s devices — proving that the Pre has the stones to handle multimedia within its development framework. Video was just a little bit choppy, but they’re not making any claims that this is final, optimized code at this point. The best part of the whole demo, perhaps, is Pandora’s notification implementation, which brings up a mini-player by tapping on the “P” visible at the bottom of any Pre screen; from here, you can play / pause, rank tracks up and down, and see a full track name, all without leaving the comfort of whatever app you might be in. Try that on an iPhone, eh? Follow the break for video!
Gallery: Palm Pre third-party app demo at CTIA

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