HP Drops Plans to Update Original webOS Lineup to 2.0
Jon Rubenstein, HP Senior Vice President and General Manager of the newly merged Palm Global Business group has confirmed that the long promised update to webOS 2.0 for the first generation of webOS products (Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus) will not be released. This essentially freezes those devices at version 1.4.5 of the operating […]
AT&T Announces Palm Pre and Pixi Plus
AT&T has announced the forthcoming launch of its own variants of the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus after months of speculation. Both versions are identical in technical specification to the versions sold on Verizon save for the difference in cellular radio from CDMA to GSM/W-CDMA with 16GB of storage, GPS, WiFi radio and Bluetooth […]
Verizon Eliminates Mail-in-Rebate for Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus
Verizon has eliminated mail-in-rebates for the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. The price for the Pixi is now $79.99 and the Pre Plus is $149.99 with new two-year contracts. There has been much speculation on the current sales performance of the Palm WebOS handsets but according to a report, a Verizon spokeswoman explains that […]
Verizon Confirms Palm Pre/Pixi Plus Pricing
Following up on a previous report, Verizon has confirmed pricing details for its forthcoming launch of the Palm Pre and Pixi Plus variants. As expected, the Pre Plus will cost $149.99 after $100 mail-in rebate and the Pixi will cost $99.99 after $100 mail-in rebate. Both devices will require a voice plan at a minimum […]
Verizon Pre/Pixi Plus Pricing Leaks
Pricing for the forthcoming Verizon variants of the Palm Pre and Pixi has surfaced and it is inline with current Sprint pricing despite featuring increased memory on the Pre Plus from 8GB to 16GB and a Wi-Fi radio on the Pixi Plus. Pricing for the Pre Plus is expected to be set at $249.99 before […]