Today at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless and Palm, Inc. announced the Jan. 25 availability of Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus, bringing the Palm webOS™ experience to customers on the land’s largest and most reliable radio 3G network.
Palm Pre Plus has a large, vivid touching blind; high gear-execution central processor; and slide-out keyboard. The Pre Plus keyboard makes for quick and easy typing, while the unique gesture expanse provides a sleek looking and intuitive seafaring. Pre Plus also comes with the Palm Touchstone™ Back Cover, devising the earphone compatible with the revolutionist inductive Touchstone Charging Dock (sold separately). Verizon Wireless Pre Plus customers will also get 16 GB of storage (approximately 15 GB drug user available) for applications and media.
Feature-rich, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus pass Verizon Wireless customers greater flexibility for approach to the Internet with Wi-Fi. In addition, the all-new Palm mobile hotspot, a webOS app that can be downloaded from the Palm App Catalog, gives customers the option of creating a personal Wi-Fi swarm capable of sharing the dependability and high gear-speed Internet connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G meshwork with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, gambling devices or portable media/MP3 players.
Social communicators and first base-time smartphone buyers who wish an affordable and customizable earphone and instant access to electronic messaging and Web content volition lovemaking Pixi Plus. Customers have a server of options for personalizing their phones with the separately-sold Palm Pixi Artist Series Back Covers (www.thenar.com/artistseries) and new colour Pixi Touchstone Back Covers, which volition be available in garden pink, Amytal, special K, orange and blackness.
“The Palm experience is all about portion our customers hitch connected so they never misfire a thing,” said Jon Anton Rubenstein, Palm chairperson and chief executive military officer. “We’re constantly enriching this experience with new features and innovations. The Verizon Wireless launch of Pre Plus and Pixi Plus is the next phase in delivering this unique Palm experience to more people.”
“The Palm webOS family is a great summation to Verizon Wireless’ robust line of work-up of smartphones,” said Gospel According to John Stratton, executive frailty prexy and boss selling officer for Verizon Wireless. “The outstanding capabilities and functionalities on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus give customers a riches of customization options to help them manage their lives. Customers get the latest engineering from Palm along with the nation’s largest and most reliable 3G network for an unsurpassed mobile experience.”
Following are key features and specifications available on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus:
* webOS – Allows customers to run multiple applications simultaneously and provides over-the-air software system updates delivered automatically to their devices
* Palm Synergy™ – Brings customers’ selective information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view
* Unobtrusive notifications and universal joint search
* Palm App Catalog – Currently offers more than 1,000 webOS applications for download
* High-speeding connectivity
* Gesture area – Enables simpleton, intuitive gestures for navigation
* Full QWERTY keyboard
* High-performance, background-class Web web browser
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
* Integrated GPS
* Robust electronic messaging support (combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)
* E-chain armour, including EAS (for approach to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers) and personal e-mail documentation (Google Gmail™ pushing, Yahoo!®, POP3, IMAP)
* VZ Navigator(SM) – Allows customers to get audible twist-by-twist directions to more than 15 million points of pastime and share the directions with others
* USB mass repositing fashion
* Proximity detector – Automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the exhibit when consumers put their phones to their ears
* Inner Light sensor – Reduces might usage by dimming the exhibit if the ambient light source is darkness
* Accelerometer – Automatically orients Web pages and photos
* Ringer switch – Easily silences the gimmick with one touch
* Removable, rechargeable battery
* Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music as wellspring as a camera with light-emitting diode flashbulb and a criterion 3.5 mm headset jack
* Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo system Bluetooth support
* Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Additional Palm Pre Plus Specs
* 3.0 megapixel camera with light-emitting diode flashbulb and extended depth of field
* Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* Dimensions: 2.35″ x 3.96″ x 0.67″
* Weight: 4.89 ounces
Additional Palm Pixi Plus Specs
* 2.0 megapixel photographic camera with light-emitting diode flashbulb
* Fixed QWERTY keyboard
* Dimensions: 2.17″ x 4.37″ x 0.43″
* Weight: 3.26 ounces
Availability:
* Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus volition be available online at www.verizonwireless.com and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores beginning Jan. 25. Pricing volition be announced finisher to launch.
* 3G mobile hot spot is a separately-purchased lineament added to a voice and data architectural plan.
* For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, sojourn a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
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