Sprint’s Palm Pre marked for End of Life?
We don't quite know how to break it to you, but if PreCentral sources are correct, Palm's hit a very interesting landmark: its comeback device, the Pre for Sprint, has reportedly reached End of Life (EOL). Warehouse quantities are said to be limited, and after that... well...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: ebay, engadget, eol, friend-via, hp palm, palmpre, pixi, quantities, ride, sequel, web os, webos, wild
Sprint lowers Pre and Pixi pricing at long last
Resisting pressure from AT&T and Verizon , Sprint had stubbornly held out and refused to significantly lower pricing on its aging Palm Pre and Pixi -- despite the fact that they're not even the Plus versions offered by the other guys. Well, that finally changed a few days ago: you can now score a Pre for $50 and a Pixi for a nice, fat zilch on a new two-year contract after rebate (the Pre's deal will require a $100 mail-in, unfortunately)
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: corner, entry, free-smartphone, pixi, pressure, resisting, sprint, webos
webOS 1.4.5 finally coming today on Sprint?
Looks like a long-overdue maintenance release is inbound for Pre and Pixi users on Sprint -- and if the changelogs on Sprint's site are accurate, it's getting pushed as soon as... well, right now.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bug, engadget, fixes, maintenance, pixi, pre, result, sprint, tad, the-changelogs, today-on-sprint, users-on-sprint, webos, webos1.4.5
Palm Pixi Plus now free on AT&T
Wow, that didn't take long! A couple days ago, you were paying $50 to take this thing home, but AT&T has moved perhaps quicker than any carrier in memory to adjust pricing on the Pixi Plus down to a more reasonable $0 -- on contract after rebates, of course. The only catch appears to be that you'll have to sign up for a data plan of at least $15, which corresponds to the carrier's recently-introduced DataPlus package that includes 200MB per month with overage of $15 per additional 200MB. That might seem low for your average power user on your average smartphone -- but this is a Pixi Plus we're talking about here.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, Carrier, couple, entry, more-reasonable, per-additional, pixi, pixi plus, pixiplus, result, thing
Palm Pixi Plus now available on AT&T
We knew it was coming, and here it is: you can now grab up a Palm Pixi Plus on AT&T.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: classic, full-review, much-the-same, palm, palm pixi, pixi, pixi plus, pixiplus, the-classic
Confirmed: AT&T’s Pixi Plus launches June 6
We said it was coming on June 6 , and we weren't lying -- the Pixi Plus, that is, rife with GSM compatibility for AT&T's airwaves. The Pre Plus is already available (with a free Touchstone thrown in, no less), but if you're looking for something a smidge smaller with a little less horsepower, you might be holding out for this one
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, entry, largely-because, mobile, palmpre, pixi, promotion-won, result, smidge-smaller, touchstone, webos
Samsung Seek gets real for Sprint: touchscreen and QWERTY for peanuts
So that rumored Seek for Sprint from Samsung turned out to be totally real -- and what's more, it's available a few weeks earlier than we'd expected (in other words, you can buy it right now).
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, entry, peanuts, pixi, press, qwerty, release, samsung, slider, sprint
Palm Pixi: zero dollars with two-year contract on Sprint
This doesn't really come as a surprise, but it's welcome news regardless. Sprint is now offering the Palm Pixi free with a two-year contract on its website. The deal isn't to be had in retail stores quite yet, but we assume that's also in the cards as well.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cards, cards-as-well, chance, contract-scheme, handsets, now-offering, palm, palm pixi, palmpixi, pixi, retail-stores, sprint, welcome-news
Radio Shack nixing sales of Sprint’s Pre and Pixi, but what does it mean?
So it looks like Barron's and The Wall Street Journal have talked to enough store clerks and Sprint reps today to confirm that Radio Shack is definitely dropping the original Palm Pre and Pixi from its in-store lineup. For what it's worth, Sprint says that "this is in line with Radio Shack's normal product planning process -- there is a designated amount of space in stores for handsets and they work to keep the line up of devices as current as possible," and we actually tend to believe that story since the phones (the Pre in particular) are getting awfully long in the tooth and we wouldn't blame the retailer for trying to cycle in some fresh stuff. The bigger question is whether the move indicates that Palm has some hot new gear for Sprint around the corner; if not, this gives Palm one less avenue for sales at a time when it needs all the help it can get, especially since you won't find these guys hawking Verizon's versions.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: does-it-mean, entry, palm, pixi, radio, radio shack, radioshack, result, shack, sprint, webos
Palm Pixi Plus for Europe granted student visa, hangs out at FCC HQ
Just a few days after earning its all-important GFC wings , the European flavor of Palm's Pixi Plus has caught a jet plane over to the good ol' US of A where it's picking up FCC approval -- you know, just in case an owner or two ends up deciding to spend some time in the States.