webOS 2.0 coming to ‘all’ Palm devices in the coming months
We're hoping he wasn't speaking out of turn here, but for what it's worth, Palm developer advocate Josh Marinacci has said on stage at webOS Developer Days today in New York that webOS 2.0 will be coming to "all" Palm devices in "the coming months." Now, we're going to go ahead and assume he's not talking about your Treo 650, your Palm III, or your LifeDrive, but we're taking that to mean that Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus, and Pixi Plus owners on all carriers around the globe can expect official upgrades for their phones -- and hey, considering how mild of an upgrade the Pre 2 is (and the fact you can't get it on some of the older devices' launch carriers), that's fantastic news.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: all-carriers, break, fantastic, globe, hp palm, iii, launch-carriers, marinacci, news, phones, pre plus, speaking-out, update, webos 2.0
webOS 1.4.5 for Palm Pre Plus on Verizon and AT&T finally arrives
Palm first started telling us webOS 1.4.5 was coming "soon" back in May , but after an interminable wait it looks like Pre Pluses on Verizon and AT&T are starting to get an OTA update.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, breakingnews, currently-down, entry, first-started, page-on-palm, palm, pre, pre plus, release-notes, verizon, webos
Pre Plus out of stock online at Verizon and AT&T — so what does it mean?
We can all agree that some fresh product is desperately overdue out of Sunnyvale, so the eternal optimists in us want to believe that the departure of the Pre Plus from Verizon's and AT&T's warehouses right now means that we can expect new goodies soon. Of course, it's entirely possible that the two carriers just happened to run out of phones at the same time and that fresh batches are on their way, so it's too early to say these phones are out for the count; then again, when you consider that Sprint somehow still sells the Centro , anything's possible.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, eternal, house, inventory, leave-the-house, optimists, outofstock, pre plus, preplus, underwear, your-underwear
Sprint Pre Plus hack detailed in step-by-step guide
WebOS device hacking has reach some considerable heights recently with a mod to bring WiFi to a Sprint Palm Pixi , but it looks like even that's now been topped by this hack that finally brings the Pre Plus to Sprint. As you can probably guess, that involves a Sprint Palm Pre , a Pre Plus (from either AT&T or Verizon), a slew of software tweaking, and plenty of tricky hardware modding to get the Sprint Pre coms board into the Pre Plus. Will it actually work?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, hack, palm, palm pre plus, pre plus, preplus, sprint
iPhone 4 vs. the smartphone elite: EVO 4G, N8, Pre Plus, and HD2
We know how the iPhone 4 sizes up against the aging 3GS -- but how does it fare against its fiercest competitors from all the major platforms? We wish we had some production Windows Phone 7 kit to check out here, but in the meantime, take a look at the results against the gruesome foursome of the EVO 4G , N8 , Pre Plus , and HD2 . You might be surprised by some of the results -- and sorry, RIM, you don't get to play until you bring some fresh, media-heavy hardware to the table.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: att, BlackBerry, foursome, ios4, iphone4, platforms, pre plus, smartphone, taleofthetape, the-results, webos, windows mobile 6.5, windowsmobile, windowsphone7, winmo6.5
SIM unlock now available for AT&T Palm Pre Plus
The method ain't new -- it's the same jictechnology developers offering the same code over at NextGenServer -- but it will yield different results when used on the latest and greatest webOS device. Yep, that Palm Pre unlock that enabled international GSM Pre units to work on AT&T, Telus and T-Mobile is now officially certified for use on AT&T's own Palm Pre Plus.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Carrier, nokia, palm, palm pre plus, pre plus, result, Sim, simunlock, unlockcode, unlocks
O2 UK will get Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on May 28, skin you alive with pricing
You didn't think Germany was gonna have all the Palm fun, did you? The UK is keeping pace with its longtime nemesis by matching the May 28 launch date for the Pre and Pixi Plus on O2, and has even supplied us with a handy reference sheet containing all price plans available for the handsets. You'll find it after the break, but sadly it'll only be of interest to true WebOS enthusiasts
Categories: BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: better-price, Bolds, handsets, launch-date, longtime, nemesis, o2uk, pre plus, unitedkingdom
Pre Plus comes to AT&T on May 16, $149.99 with free Touchstone
AT&T has finally sent out the rundown on when (and for how much) its customers will be able to saddle themselves with a Pre Plus and matching two-year contract, and the wait isn't a long one: it launches this coming Sunday, May 16, just as we'd expected . It'll run $149.99 on contract after rebate -- the same that Sprint is charging for the Pre, and $100 more than Verizon is charging for its own Pre Plus -- but buyers will be getting a free Touchstone charging dock along with their purchase "for a limited time" when the phone is picked up in a corporate-owned store. There's no word on the Pixi Plus yet, but hey, at least this gets Palm back on the network after an extended vacation.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, breaking-news, breakingnews, charging dock, its-customers, pre, pre plus, preplus, Purchase, touchstone
AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16
You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, long-enough, lowered-the-ppp, microcell, palm pre plus, palmpreplus, pre, pre plus, preplus, rolling-out, rolling-out-its, signal-boosting
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