Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus Go On Sale Today

Smartphone Fanatics: Palm Pre Plus, Pixi Plus Go On Sale Today.  Ho, hum. If you had told me a year ago that Palm's new handsets, the Pre and the Pixie, would be finally available for sale on Verizon Wireless today, and that they would be able to be turned, with software, into WiFi hotspots that could support up to five users at a time, I would be jumping for joy, chomping at the bit, ready to stand in line. Today, I am not impressed. Why? Well, in the year that Palm shot itself in the foot by tying its great new handsets to Sprint, the worst cell company in the world, the other manufacturers haven't been sleeping. Android has matured into a mobile OS that really gets the job done, and the new OLED screens are big and sharp and beautiful. The WiFi tethering option for Pre Plus and Pixie Plus will cost $40 a month, on top of the phone and data plans. The upshot is that I have shaken off the yoke of Palm, and I embrace the new age with an Android at my side. 

Comments

[Jay L. T. Breakstone]

"[T]he yoke of Palm[?]" Oh, come on! You abandoned your first and truest love when some new hussy came around. You couldn't wait for your childhood sweetheart to grow up. You went for the obvious; the tart; the all-feathers and bangles showgirl. Like anyone who has partaken of the Kool-Aid, you view the true believer as living under the "yoke" of being denied the enlightenment. You've become the Jim Jones of smartphones. Shocking, I say. Proof, you say? Hey, weren't you the guy who regaled readers with your jiffy pocket Wi-Fi gizmo? Now, when your April Love comes across with, well, that same thing but better, you say "Feh!" Oh, 'ye of the fickle heart!

You may never own a Pre. You are forbidden. You are a Droid-ite. In fact, we're not even sure this is really you. Someone says they found a pod lying on the ground of your blog. Aha!

[rgeorges]

Jay Jay. I am he of whom you speak. We are Droid. We are invincible.
Seriously the wifi router that Cradlepoint sells is a better deal. I can share with up to 15 users. Palm only alows 5. I can use my usb stick with any computer or plug in to the Cradlepoint. Palm didnt take care of me. Palm waited too long to come to the Party.

Sent from my Droid. Adapt. Overcome.

[Jay L. T. Breakstone]

R:

I guess my problem is that I don't even know 15 people.