Verizon and Palm have finally announced that the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will go on sale January 25.
The Palm Pre Plus has a touch screen; high-performance
processor; and slide-out keyboard. The Pam Pre Plus also comes with the Palm
Touchstone Back Cover, making the
phone compatible with the inductive Touchstone Charging
Dock (sold separately). Verizon Wireless Pre Plus customers will also
get 16 GB of storage (approximately 15 GB user available) for
applications and media.
Feature-rich, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus have Wi-Fi. Through the Palm mobile hotspot software, customers can setup a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of sharing the to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks, netbooks,
cameras, gaming devices or portable media/MP3 players.
Social communicators and first-time smartphone buyers who want an
affordable and customizable phone and instant access to messaging and
Web content will love Pixi Plus. User can buy snazzy artist covers for the phone.
Following are key features and specifications available on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus:
- webOS - Allows customers to run multiple
applications simultaneously and provides over-the-air software updates
delivered automatically to their devices - Palm Synergy™ - Brings customers' information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view
- Unobtrusive notifications and universal search
- Palm App Catalog - Currently offers more than 1,000 webOS applications for download
- High-speed connectivity
- Gesture area - Enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- High-performance, desktop-class Web browser
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Integrated GPS
- Robust messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
- E-mail, including EAS (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal e-mail support (Google Gmail™ push, Yahoo!®, POP3, IMAP)
- VZ
Navigator(SM) - Allows customers to get audible turn-by-turn directions
to more than 15 million points of interest and share the directions
with others - USB mass storage mode
- Proximity
sensor - Automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the
display when consumers put their phones to their ears - Light sensor - Reduces power usage by dimming the display if the ambient light is dark
- Accelerometer - Automatically orients Web pages and photos
- Ringer switch - Easily silences the device with one touch
- Removable, rechargeable battery
- Multimedia
options, including pictures, video playback and music as well as a
camera with LED flash and a standard 3.5 mm headset jack - Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
- Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Additional Palm Pre Plus Specs
- 3.0 megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field
- Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
- Dimensions: 2.35" x 3.96" x 0.67"
- Weight: 4.89 ounces
Additional Palm Pixi Plus Specs
- 2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash
- Fixed QWERTY keyboard
- Dimensions: 2.17" x 4.37" x 0.43"
- Weight: 3.26 ounces.
The first version of the Palm Pre received many good reviews for its near psychic ability to co-ordinate social networking and calendars.
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