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Wake Up Wednesday Verizon Wireless Phone News 1.13.10

Posted by Cellular Chloe on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 @ 03:50 PM
 

New Palms Wave Hello to Verizon Wireless January 25

I mentioned in my post last week the latest info about the 2 new Palms coming to Verizon Wireless. I now have just enough extra information to put in an article about them. 

So first, they are both releasing to Verizon Wireless on January 25th. I also know what the "plus" is about so let me tell you about them and I put together a handy chart to show their differences between each other and the Sprint versions.

The Plus on the Pixi (compared to the Sprint version) is the WiFi. The Plus on the Pre (compared to the Sprint version) is 16GB of internal memory instead of only 8. 

Okay, here goes my negativity. Hey, lets face it, I'm here to tell you the good the bad and the ugly. I don't sugarcoat things. So I just want you to know that the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus have no microSD capability. Just the 16GB and 8GB respectively. Also neither have video recording capability. There are probably plenty of you out there that don't need either, but for those of you who do, I just wanted you to know.

 

The chart below gives you an idea of size compared to some other devices.

Palm Pre Palm Pixi

 

 

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Verizon Wireless
Sprint

Pre Plus Pixi Plus Pre Pixi
internal memory 16GB 8GB 8GB 8GB
camera 3.0 MP w flash 2.0 MP w flash 3 MP w flash 2.0 MP w flash
touchscreen capacative capacative capacative capacative
form factor slider candy bar slider candy bar
keyboard full QWERTY full QWERTY full QWERTY full QWERTY
dimensions 3.96x2.34x.67 4.37x2.17x.43 3.96x2.34x.67 4.37x2.17x.43
display size 320x480 320x400 320x480 320x400
headphones 3.5mm 3.5mm 3.5mm 3.5mm
chrge connector microUSB microUSB microUSB microUSB
wifi yes yes yes no
browser HTML, WAP 2.0 HTML HTML, Wap 2.0 HTML
navigation yes yes no yes
talk time 5.5 hrs 5.20 hrs 5 hrs 5 hrs
standby time 350 hrs 350 hrs 300 hrs 350 hrs

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COMMENTS

The palm pre plus will have video recording.

posted @ Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:07 PM by Andrew


Also, the pre plus will have the led strip like the pixi instead of the button. And it will have wifi. The keyboard has also been refined.

posted @ Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:10 PM by Andrew


I have learned one thing in this industry, never say never, or as it applies to this situation, I never doubt that someone may have better information than I. I agree about the wifi, I just got specs from Verizon on both devices today. Unfortunately I was jammed yesterday so I wasn't able to look at them, while they were here. So thanks for the info about the LED strip. I still can't find anywhere in the specs any evidence of video recording however. I'll have to keep checking on that. 
Anyway, Andrew thanks so much for sharing your information!

posted @ Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:25 PM by Cellular Chloe


Andrew, 
I have just received 2 more updates since my last posting and according to Verizon Wireless, neither will have video capture. Both will have WiFi. I have just checked my chart against their latest and all the information is correct. They'll be out today so soon we'll know for sure.

posted @ Monday, January 25, 2010 10:47 AM by Cellular Chloe


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