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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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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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O2 UK has eventually declared the promulgation Negro of Palm Pre: Oct 16.

Already on discernment in the US and Canada, the webOS smartphone module be acquirable direct from O2 (in stores or online), as substantially as from Carphone Warehouse, Phones4U and different O2 partners.

O2 subscribers who opt for a 24-month contract, or an 18-month alter at £44.05 or £73.41 per month, crapper impart the Palm Pre for free.

The Pre is also free to activity customers who kibosh activity tariffs of at diminutive £30.91 per mark on 24 or 36-month contracts.

O2 (which plans to move a infant MVNO named Giffgaff) module center the Palm Touchstone Charging Dock too, for £44.11.

Via Press release

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By Shane McGlaun

I hate to have to plug my iPhone in to charge. My wife keeps my office as dark as a cave to shave five cents off our electric bill so I usually can’t see where to plug my iPhone in. After over a year of use the charge port is rather lose as well. I really want an iPhone with something like the Pre Touchstone charger.

Today I got my wish with a new product form WildCharge for the iPhone that allows Pre-like charging by just sitting the iPhone down. The good news is that the charge system works on any iPhone from the original to the new 3GS.

The WildCharge Skin is a durable form fitting case that can protect the iPhone from drops and has a little part on the inside that plugs into the charge port of the phone. Then all you need to do is sit the phone on the WildCharger Pad to get power to your phone. The skin is available for $34.99 and a kit with the skin and the charge pad is about $80. The only downside I can see is that it appears you have to remove the case to synchronize your phone.

[ WildCharge ]

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Sick of Pre rumors? We certainly hope not, because some magical font of believable Pre data seems to have started gushing fresh information recently with no signs of slowing down. Latest to the table is a sticker price for the Touchstone dock, an inductive charger that’ll work with a special magnetized non-stick battery cover for the Pre to juice your baby’s batteries without a plug — and it looks like you’re going to have to pony up some serious cash for the pleasure. Screens on some computer somewhere deep inside Sprint are apparently pegging the Touchstone at a stiff $69.99, which is an awful lot to pay to simply charge your phone in style; cool, sure, but $70 worth of cool?

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We’ve got this image burned in our brains of the Pre as this slick, black, streamlined, ultra-glossy pebble of a phone, and by and large, that’s an accurate image — unless you spring for the Touchstone. The inductive charging accessory — which seems like an almost automatic purchase for any Pre buyer with a single geeky bone in their body — needs magnets in the Pre to hold it in place when it’s attached, but it turns out that the standard glossy battery cover doesn’t have those magnets. Instead, the Touchstone will include a replacement cover that has the magnets and loses the gloss for a stickier matte soft-touch surface, ostensibly to help secure the phone against the charger’s slanted top. For some, the soft-touch is going to be perceived as an upgrade — but others are undoubtedly going to be bummed that they won’t be able to see their own reflection against the shiny Palm logo dead center. What’s more, if you want the matte without the Touchstone, you’re out of luck (at launch, anyway) — it won’t be available separately. Whatever; it’s not like you weren’t planning on getting this thing Colorwared anyway.
Gallery: Palm Pre’s Touchstone charger requires matte, soft-touch back

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We thought we’d seen all that Palm intended to reveal about the magical company-saving Pre at CES a few weeks back, but quality footage continues to roll in — and it just gets even better when it’s being shown off by an exec instead of your standard-issue PR type. Peter Skillman, Palm’s design VP, does the honors here with a 4-plus minute overview of some of the cooler things the Pre has to offer, including a demo of the Touchstone inductive charger at about 2:26 in (curious fact: it apparently uses the “same technology that are in gecko feet” to stick to the table). At the 2:06 mark, he puts down the Nokia N95 for looking like a post-apocalyptic industrial design nightmare of exposed hardware and mechanisms (our words, not his), which is kinda funny since we’d never really considered the N95 as a Pre competitor. Finally, he wraps up with a quick look at the Amazon music store starting around 3:19 — and at a first glance, it looks a heck of a lot prettier than the one we get on the G1. Not to say we’re going to let the prettiness of the store affect how much DRM-free music we buy. Wait, yes we are. See the full video after the break.

[Via PreCentral]
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We can’t say we really blame Fujitsu for thinking outside the box on their latest phone to be sold on NTT DoCoMo’s network. The Fujitsu F-01A, as it is being called, will be completely waterproof and secured by a fingerprint sensor.

Now, this certainly will appeal to every Japanese James Bond out there who happens to have a secret underwater Batcave, but perhaps it may appeal to other everyday folks as well. The fingerprint sensor, nicknamed TouchStone by AuthenTec, will allow all of your personal and corporate data to be secured in much the same way you would see a fingerprint sensor used in a movie.

The Press Release claims that most cell phone returns are due to moisture, and that “Fujitsu’s F-01A waterproof cell phone meets IPX5 and IPX7 specifications, making it capable of submersion in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes.” Not bad, but will it go through the wash?

The F-01A will also feature a 3.5 inch touchscreen, 5.2 MP camera with autofocus, Symbian OS, GPS with Google Maps, and a tuner for mobile TV.

Let us know what you think in the comments. Is this a practical idea? Personally, we feel it’s refreshing to see new ideas out there. That’s where innovation comes from — thinking outside the box.

via Press Release

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Although CES 2009 was undoubtedly smaller and perhaps a little more subdued than last year’s HDTV-dominated extravaganza, the products we did see were a lot more interesting — and of course, Palm stole the show with its blockbuster Pre announcement. We’ve rounded up the highlights below, make sure you didn’t miss anything!

Palm Pre news:
Palm’s app store christened App Catalog, games not a priority
Palm Pre Touchstone eyes-on
Palm Pre / webOS launch roundup

Computing:
VAIO P, now with more Windows 7
Video: Intel’s convertible Classmate PC hands-on
Video: ASUS AIRO laptop with amazing sliding keyboard
VAIO P in-depth impressions
Dell Mini 10 hands-on
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 in action
Dell Studio XPS 13 and 16 hands-on
White Dell Adamo pictures leak out
Dell Adamo hands-on! (Update: now with video!)
HP dv2 and dv3 hands-on
HP Firebird with Voodoo DNA hands-on
Microsoft announces availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live
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It was just a short year ago that we went to Fulton Innovation’s tiny booth at CES and failed to get a working wireless power demo, but a lot’s happened since then — the company is at CES 2009 in force, with a much larger, swanker booth, partners like Energizer and Motorola demoing working products, and tons of working real-world examples of the tech in action. We were particularly taken with the modded Dish DVR that automatically turned itself on and off when the remote was placed on top of it to charge up — oh, and the remote featured super-capacitors instead of batteries that charge fully in 10 seconds. There were also a ton of cell phones (including a modded iPhone, of course), new cooking demos featuring a blender, and a super cool Leggett & Pratt power tool charging workbench. Extremely impressive, all in all — we’re starting to think that 2009 could be the year that wireless power could really take off. Gallery below, video after the break!

P.S.- We asked if Fulton had anything to do with the Palm Pre’s sexy Touchstone wireless charger, but the guys in the booth didn’t know. We’ll let you know if we find anything out.

Gallery: Fulton Innovation Wireless Power

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