Engadget’s back to school guide: Mobile phones
Welcome to Engadget's Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we're here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we have mobile phones in our sights -- and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 2010, 8520, apple, droid x, evo, gadget-buying, nuron, pixiplus
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
Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus now live on O2 UK
If you bundle the original Pre in with the Pre Plus -- and you pretty much can, considering how closely related they are -- this is quickly becoming one of the most protracted, phased mobile product launches in memory. Yes, that's right: as promised , O2 UK has now launched both the Pre Plus alongside its scrappier little sibling, the Pixi Plus , and you can get either one for as little as zero quid depending on how you play your cards. The Pixi Plus goes in your pocket for free on any plan, while the Pre Plus stays free as long as you spend at least
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: both-the-pre, cards, engadget, entry, palm, phased-mobile, pixiplus, result, sibling, some-awesome, spend-at-least
Verizon’s Pixi Plus drops to free on contract
Say what you will about the Pixi Plus ; it may not be the best smartphone in the world, and heck, it might not even be the best webOS device on the block. But you know what? When your net cash outlay is a big, fat zero, it's pretty tough to argue -- especially when you've got dumbphones running $20, $50, $100, or even more
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cash, cash-outlay, entry, heck, hotspot, less-upfront, mobile, nothing-else, pixi plus, pixiplus, price, question, upfront, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless
AT&T scheduling Palm Pixi Plus, Vu Plus, and others for early June launch?
So we know the Pre Plus is hitting AT&T this coming Sunday -- but what about its little brother? We're hearing that AT&T has lined up the Pixi Plus for a June 6 launch for $49.99 on contract after rebate, $100 less than it'll be charging for the Pre Plus -- in other words, you'll be able to get a Verizon Pre Plus or an AT&T Pixi Plus for the same price, and the latter won't include free mobile hotspot service. Voodoo math aside, we've got a few more goodies in here for you: the aging LG Vu will apparently be replaced on June 6 with a Vu Plus model for $149.99 on contract with rebate, Samsung will re-up the rugged Rugby with the Rugby II for $129.99, and Pantech's Pursuit swings in for $49.99
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, coming, include-free, mobile, pixi plus, pixiplus, pursuit, rumor, samsung, vuplus, webos
Palm Pre Plus, Pantech Breeze 2 dummies showing up in AT&T stores
It's pretty wild that neither Palm nor AT&T have fessed up to a release date for the GSM-ified versions of the Pre Plus or Pixi Plus yet -- especially considering that there are already unboxings going on -- but we've now got confirmation that dummy units (of the Pre Plus, anyhow) are filtering into retail stores, so it definitely shouldn't be much longer now. Dummies of an updated version of the ultra-simple Pantech Breeze (uncreatively named Breeze 2 ) is also coming in, so between these two, you should pretty much be able to outfit every member of the family from grandpa to the newborn.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breeze 2, clamshell, dummy, family, flip, newborn, outfit-every, palm, pantech, pantech-breeze, pixiplus, pre plus, result, webos
HP and Palm: what happens next
HP announcing that it's going to buy Palm in a $1.2b all-cash transaction certainly took everyone by surprise, but in many ways the deal makes perfect sense. HP is a gigantic player in the tech industry but has no appreciable presence in rapidly-growing mobile space, and Palm -- well, you should know how we feel about Palm by now. Even still, we can't say we were expecting this one, and it looks like most of you weren't either -- HP only got two percent of the vote in our "who should buy Palm" poll , while Engadget (that's us!) got..
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: around-the-news, call-announcing, conference, mobile, news, pixi plus, pixiplus, pre plus, result, sense, shake-out-over, transaction, vote
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you're gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice -- both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, firmwareupdate, operating-system, os update, palm pre plus, pdf, pixiplus, softwareupdate, Stuff, subzero, update, verizon, 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.