Right on time: Verizon phasing out Pre Plus, Storm2, Curve 8530, others?
Judging from some documents we've received, Big Red is looking to clear out a lot of inventory right about now -- presumably to make room for some upcoming models, some of which we've already heard about through the grapevine. Specifically, the Pre Plus along with the BlackBerry Storm2 and Curve 8530 are apparently marked "Phase Out"; in the case of the Pre Plus, we know Verizon's site has had it marked out of stock for a little while now , while rumors of a Storm3 and Curve 9330 have been floating around for some time. Also on the chopping block are a couple netbooks, a USB modem, and the MiFi , a device we've heard would be replaced with the ZTE-sourced, dual-mode Fivespot in the near future.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chopping, curve, dual, mobile, phasing-out-pre, preplus, result, storm 2, storm2, upcoming-models, usb, verizon
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
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
AT&T Palm Pre Plus unboxed in glorious, orange detail
We still don't have a firm date for when Palm's current wunderphone will be hitting AT&T's soothingly-colored retail establishments (the site still says "coming soon"), but we do now have confirmation that at least one handset has reached its destination. A tipster was kind enough to send us these photos of an AT&T Pre Plus escaping its creamsicle confines and powering on for the first time.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, att pre plus, exclusive, month-or-some, orange-detail, palm, palm pre plus, preplus, ship-earlier, slider
Super PreKernel is the one-touch way to make your Pre or Pre Plus fly (video)
If you're a Pre or Pre Plus owner who has been watching longingly as we've covered the recent spread of overclocking hacks for the thing, but didn't quite feel up to wading through page after page of forum discussions to figure out just how to apply them, the process just got a easier. Like, a whole lot easier.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accompaniment, clark, enjoy-it-now, forum, hair, overclocking, preplus, process, selection, super prekernel
Official: Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus hitting Vodafone and O2 Germany on April 28
Palm's news activity doesn't seem like abating any time soon, as the company has just made the Deutsch arrival date for its Plus-ified phones official as April 28. It matches earlier speculation about late April, but also -- very importantly -- introduces a new carrier options for our Teutonic brethren in the form of Vodafone. Formerly locked in with Telefonica (whose local representative is O2), Palm seems to have finally seen the error of its ways and started offering choice as a side dish to its delectable WebOS main course.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: brethren, Carrier, news-activity, offering-choice, palm, palm pixi, palmpixi, palmpreplus, pixi plus, pixiplus, preplus, vodafone
AT&T getting ‘practice’ Pre Pluses tomorrow?
It looks like AT&T will start taking delivery tomorrow of Pre Plus units that are being specifically designated as high-security, SKU-less "practice devices" that are only to be used off the sales floor for training purposes, though when training is complete, they can be moved to a live store display. That certainly lends weight to a launch happening sooner rather than later, counter to rumors earlier in the month that we might not see them on shelves until the peak of Summer
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, certainly-lends, entry, month, palm, practice device, pre plus, preplus, rumor, sales, sooner-rather, taking-delivery, training, until-the-peak, webos
Pre gets a nasty 800MHz overclock patch for all to enjoy (at one’s own risk)
Looking to harness the real power inside of your Pre (or Pre Plus)?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bump, expected-issues, hack, palm-pre, palmpreplus, preplus, variation, verizon