In a way, Walmart’s recent price chop to its Verizon Wireless Palm smartphones really highlights the battle handset manufacturers have to endure in order to stay afloat. Almost 9 months ago when Sprint launched the Palm Pre to an awaiting audience eager to test drive Palm’s WebOS platform, the long time smartphone maker has seen [...]
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March 11th 2010 | Posted by WebOsArena
Pixi Plus, Pre Plus, RedZone, Sprint, Sprint Football Live, Verizon, android, blackberry, news, nfl, palm pixi plus, palm pre plus, webOS
March 10th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
Sprint users, say goodbye to the NFL app: Sprint has lost their contract with the National Football League. The Wall Street Journal notes that Verizon users have reason to celebrate (if you are into such things), as Big Red has signed a new four-year contract with the NFL to bring all the coverage and the popular RedZone Channel to Verizon phones. The new deal is valued at $720 million, a 50% premium over what Sprint was paying the NFL. And that’s not all: Verizon users are getting more from the NFL than Sprint did: they’ll have access to live footage of every NFL game and plenty of additional content.
Football fans on Sprint need not fret, though you may find yourself disappointed. With the NFL contract gone, Sprint’s football app will cease functioning at the end of March, as was posted on SprintUsers.com. A new Sprint Football Live app will replace the NFL app, but all that exclusive video won’t be coming along with it. Apparently Sprint Football Live will provide all sorts of live coverage of the NFL draft, games, and more, but in the form of raw data, news, and commentary – not the official stuff with live audio and video that Sprint users have gotten used to.
Sprint Football Live is expected to be available before the end of the month, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see it mixed in with the next webOS update for Sprint devices. Verizon webOS users may be disappointed for a while, though, as Verizon marketing chief John Stratton noted to the Wall Street Journal that their new NFL service will be available for Android and BlackBerry devices. The equally capable webOS devices like the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus? Not mentioned.
Thanks to mu7efcer for the tip!
Amazon, Amazon.com, Pre Plus, Verizon, news
March 9th 2010 | Posted by Robert Werlinger
If there was any doubt that Verizon is looking to turn things around after sluggish initial sales of the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, it’s time to put those to rest. After dropping the mail-in rebates in their own stores, it looks like The Network is making it easier for 3rd parties to sell the Pre Plus at lower prices. Our own Wirefly affiliate has the Palm Pre Plus for $39.99 for new Verizon customers after instant rebate and still has the Palm Pixi Plus for the low low price of free (yes, those are ’support PreCentral’ links). Amazon is also selling the Pre Plus for the $39.99 and the Pixi Plus for one cent.
The best part about the above options is that, unlike what seems to be happening at most Verizon retail locations, when you use them you won’t have a Verizon employee trying to convince you that you should get a Droid instead.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
Verizon, news, price, rebates
March 5th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
As rumored at BGR yesterday, today Verizon has dropped the mail-in rebate on the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. The price for the Pre Plus is $149.99 with a new two-year contract, the Pixi Plus clocks in at $79.99. Wireless Week reports that a Verizon spokeswoman said they were responding to consumer demand: "there was ‘a brief period where we tested mail-in rebates on some phones. We have found that online customers expect instant rebates and since this is a very competitive arena in which to do business, we responded accordingly.’"
Whether this is a response to poor initial sales on Verizon or just a sign that Veriozn is doing right by getting rid of a source of annoyance for customers is an open question – but either way we’re pleased to see the mail-in rebate go away.
Thanks to everybody who sent this in!
Palm, QWERTY, Touch, Uncategorized, Unofficial, Verizon, business, webOS
March 5th 2010 | Posted by WebOsArena
With the fate on Palm still hanging in the balance in the near term, Verizon Wireless is looking to do something that’s considered as a bit unorthodox. One of BGR’s Verizon Wireless connects has informed them that Palm webOS devices on their lineup will not require a mail-in-rebate starting tomorrow. Instead, customers choosing to go [...]
Verizon, data, news
March 3rd 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
Data not working on your Palm Pre Plus? It’s not just you: Verizon appears to be suffering from a nationwide data outage (though it’s working sporadically for some folks). Engadget has confirmed it with Verizon, twitter is fairly lit up, and naturally Verizon being a BlackBerry-heavy network our friends at CrackBerry.com are all over it. We’re not seeing a gigantic outcry in our own forums yet – but perhaps y’all are on WiFi?
We know there’s a healthy Sprint vs. Verizon debate here at PreCentral, but set that aside for a moment. Verizon users: Got Data? Sprint Users: Have Pity.
Update: Data should be working again, via Engadget.
Multimedia, Palm, QWERTY, Touch, Uncategorized, Verizon, software, webOS
March 1st 2010 | Posted by WebOsArena
With Sprint receiving their Palm Pre and Pixi webOS 1.4 update on Saturday, it only took a day later before Verizon customers started to get the 1.4 update on their Pre Plus and Pixi Plus units. The total time it takes to download the 40-some MB file and install it is roughly 1 hour, so [...]
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February 28th 2010 | Posted by Derek Kessler
Everybody who can get their webOS 1.4.0 jollies on can now also ‘doctor’ their way back to a fresh OS install. Palm has released the webOS 1.4.0 doctors for the Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint and O2 as well as the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on Verizon. If you’re not familiar with what the Doctor does, here’s a quick brief: the webOS Doctor is a Java-based computer application (works on PC or Mac) that overwrites corrupted or altered OS files with a fresh install of webOS. The Doctor is essentially the last best hope to restore a bricked phone (because of this, webOS phones are near impossible to brick from a software standpoint). While the webOS Doctor will perform a clean install of the OS, newer versions no longer wipe clean any files you have stored on the Media partition, so no worries about destroying those vacation pictures you forgot to backup.
The following webOS Doctors for 1.4 are available (direct download links):
And to go along with all this doctoring fun, the folks at WebOS Internals have whipped up new versions of their Meta-Doctor tool for webOS 1.4 on Sprint and Verizon.
Thanks to Shadow 360 for the tip!
Featured Articles, Verizon, news, webOS 1.4
February 28th 2010 | Posted by Dieter Bohn
Just about 24 hours after it landed on Sprint, webOS 1.4 is now available for Verizon Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus. Get your update on, Verizon users, then check back and let us know how it goes. Verizon changelog after the break…
Thanks to everybody who sent this in!
Palm, Verizon, apps, doom and gloom, news
February 26th 2010 | Posted by Robert Werlinger
With all of the recent doom and gloom surrounding Palm these days, with recently lowered FY2010 guidance and a number of analysts downgrading their view of the company, Verizon has sent out a very timely press release to the wires titled “Apps for Everyone on Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus”.
Detailed in the press release are business apps like NewsRoom (see our Review) and Top Stocks Lite, student-oriented apps like Translator and Periodic Table and last but not least, “Super-Mom” apps like Shopping List and The Weather Channel. Is this part of that expanded advertising campaign we keep hearing about? We certainly hope so.
Read the full press release after the break.
via @phonescooper