Verizon Wireless and Palm has launched Palm® Pre™ Plus and Palm Pixi™ Plus, with most reliable wireless 3G network.
The new Palm Pre Plus phone gives you double the memory in a refined design. And like the original Palm Pre, it helps you navigate your life with a large, vivid touch screen, high-performance processor; and slide-out keyboard., and the intuitive Palm webOS™ platform, which runs multiple apps at once.
View websites and watch videos in widescreen. The Palm Pre Plus keyboard makes for quick and easy typing, while the unique gesture area provides a sleek look and intuitive navigation.
Bring work and personal events or contacts together in one simple view. All in an elegant design that fits perfectly in your hand and your life.
Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus offer Verizon Wireless customer’s greater flexibility for access to the Internet with Wi-Fi. It gives option of creating a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of sharing the reliability and high-speed Internet connectivity of the Verizon Wireless 3G network with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as notebooks, netbooks, cameras, gaming devices or portable media/MP3 players.
"The Palm experience is all about helping our customers stay connected so they never miss a thing," said Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer. "Were 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 addition to Verizon Wireless robust line-up of Smartphone," said John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless. "The outstanding capabilities and functionalities on both Pre Plus and Pixi Plus give customers a wealth of customization options to help them manage their lives. Customers get the latest technology from Palm along with the nations 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:
Palm Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus webOS allows customers to run multiple applications simultaneously and provides over-the-air software updates delivered automatically to their devices.
Palm Synergy brings customers information from the many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view unobtrusive notifications and universal search.
Palm App Catalog currently offers more than 1,000 webOS applications for download
High-speed connectivity
Unique gesture area provides a sleek look and intuitive navigation.
Full QWERTY keyboard
High-performance, desktop-class Web browser
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and Integrated GPS
Robust messaging support combining IM, SMS and MMS capabilities
E-mail, including EAS for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers and personal e-mail support Google Gmail™ push, Yahoo!®, POP3, IMAP
VZ NavigatorSM allows customers to get audible turn-by-turn directions to more than 15 million points of interest and share the directions with others
USB mass storage mode
Proximity sensor automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display when consumers put their phones to their ears.
Light sensor reduces power usage by dimming the display if the ambient light is dark
Accelerometer automatically orients Web pages and photos
Ringer switch easily silences the device with one touch and removable, rechargeable battery.
Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music as well as a camera with LED flash and a standard 3.5 mm headset jack
Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support and Charger/microUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
Additional Palm Pre Plus Features
3.0 megapixel camera with LED flash 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 Features
2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash
Fixed QWERTY keyboard
Dimensions: 2.17" x 4.37" x 0.43"
Weight: 3.26 ounces
Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus both are available online at www.verizonwireless.com
