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Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus land on AT&T
In what may be a last-ditch attempt to salvage the company, Palm and AT&T have announced that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus will soon be available on AT&T.
In what may be a last-ditch attempt to salvage the company, Palm and AT&T have announced that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus will soon be available on AT&T.
Soon as in "the coming months," which may not be fast enough after the company reported disappointing earnings last week.
The phones will be available for $149.99 and $49.99, respectively, after a $100 mail-in rebate with a two-year contract. That's also of concern here: these prices just aren't competitive enough to battle the Apple iPhone and Google Android phones in its own backyard.
A quick reminder of the phones' capabilities:
- Palm Synergy, which unifies Outlook, Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and LinkedIn contacts and calendars in one place
- Multitasking and notifications
- Universal search
- Over-the-air software updates
- Palm App Catalog
- High-speed 3G connectivity
- Full QWERTY keyboard and gesture area
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Integrated GPS
- Combined IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
- Music, photos, video recording and playback
- Camera with LED flash
- Standard 3.5mm headset jack
- Email: Microsoft Exchange and personal email support (Google Gmail push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP)
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
- USB mass storage mode
- Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touchscreen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear
- Light sensor, which reduces power usage by dimming the display if the ambient light is dark
- Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective
- Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch
- Removable, rechargeable battery
- Band/modes: UMTS bands/HSDPA 3.6: 850/1900, Quad band GSM/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900, GSM/GPRS/EDGE Class 10
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