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Verizon Wireless has now put up the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on store shelves, the Palm Pre Plus cost $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, and Palm Pixi Plus cost $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate, each with a new two-year customer agreement. Buy a Palm Pre Plus or a Palm Pixi Plus and get a Palm Pixi Plus free after a mail-in rebate through Feb. 14. 
Both Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus come travel-ready with a built-in 3G Mobile Hotspot – a Wi-Fi hotspot that can be shared among five Wi-Fi-capable devices. 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 * 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 * 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. Source |