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Verizon Wireless Introduces New Prepaid Data Plans
Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based Verizon Wireless announced today in an official press release the introduction of new prepaid data plans for both feature 3G smartphones and multimedia phones. This definitely doesn’t come as a surprise, given that we recently saw several leaked internal documents suggesting that the carrier would offer prepaid data plans for its 3G smartphones.
As with the post-paid plans, 3G smartphone owners will have to pay $30 per month for unlimited data. Multimedia phone owners have the option to also pay $10 per month for 25MB of data. Every megabyte over the monthly allowance costs $0.20.
3G smartphone supported include BlackBerry Smartphones, Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, original Motorola Droid, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Droid Eris, and more. Supported multimedia phones include the LG enV Touch, LG Chocolate Touch, Nokia Twist, and more.
Full press release available after the break.
Palm Makes webOS 2.0 SDK Available to Select Developers
Sunnyvale, California-based Palm — which is now part of HP — announced today on the Palm Developer Center the introduction of webOS 2.0. The company states that the software will be released later this year. However, Palm has made available a beta version of the webOS 2.0 SDK to a limited number of developers through the SDK Early Access Program.
The new platform looks very promising. Palm has posted a preview of some of the most prominent features. Make your way past the break to see what they are.
Verizon Wireless to Offer Pre-Paid 3G Smartphones
We had previously heard that Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based Verizon Wireless would offer pre-paid plans for BlackBerry smartphones. However, a newly-leaked document suggests that the pre-paid plans offered by the mobile carrier will extend to other 3G smartphones such as the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus along with Android-powered devices such as the original Motorola Droid, Motorola Droid 2, Motorola Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible, and even the upcoming Samsung Fascinate. In addition, the document confirms that the Samsung Fascinate will be released on September 9, which contradicts the September 8 launch date we heard yesterday.
As far as pricing goes, the document suggest that Verizon Wireless will charge $30 per month for unlimited data, a plan which is apparently required. Voice plans will be priced at a minimum of $45. Chances of Verizon Wireless offering all of the aforementioned devices with pre-paid plans is looking highly possible.
Check out more leaked documents in the full post.
Verizon Wireless Rolling Out webOS 1.4.5 to Palm Pixi Plus Today
Well, it seems that Verizon Wireless is finally rolling out webOS 1.4.5 to the Palm Pixi Plus today. Version 1.4.5 of webOS was originally pushed to Palm devices in several countries around the world back in July. Then, Sprint updated its Palm Pre and Palm Pixi devices at the beginning of this month.
The webOS 1.4.5 update for the Palm Pixi Plus is sized at 14MB. Users can download the new software by tapping System Update under Settings.
Complete changelog by Palm available in the full post.
Facebook 1.3 Released For Palm’s webOS
Facebook fans with a webOS device, rejoice! Today, Facebook 1.3 has gone live and is available for download for both the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi.
New features include the ability to select news feeds, better image tagging, landscape [view] support, multiple notification clearing, and stability and speed improvements.
The announcement came in the form of a blog post on the official Palm blog today, and we’d like to know if you’ve tried this out. If you have, what do you think? Does it stand a chance against Facebook for other smartphone devices?
New Palm Device with 640 x 960 Resolution Shows Up in Developer Logs
A new Palm device codenamed “Roadrunner HD” has been reportedly spotted in a Metrix developer log. The device apparently features a 640 x 960 resolution display. Sounds familiar? Well, it should as that is the same pixel resolution that the new iPhone 4 Retina Display uses. Apparently, the folks over at HP/Palm are trying to go the same route as Apple with their next device. That’s not all though. The same device is logged as running the yet to be released webOS 2.0.
Do take into account that it’s impossible to verify the legitimacy of these logs, as it a trickster could have easily modify any existing webOS device to show up in logs with that screen resolution, operating system version, and name. However, we’ll say that it’s unlikely, given that a device codenamed Roadrunner has previously appeared in analytics.
HP Confirms webOS Tablet Early 2011 Launch
During an earnings call on Thursday, HP Personal Systems Group Executive Vice President Todd Bradley confirmed once and for all that a webOS-powered tablet will arrive in early 2011, sometime after the company releases a Windows-powered slate. Bradley also indicated that potential tablets were part of the reason why HP acquired Palm earlier this year.
Bradley is quoted as saying the following bit to investors:
“You’ll see us with a Microsoft product out in the near future and a webOS-based product in early 2011.”
Bradley said that in response to a question regarding the tablets. We now have yet to determine when exactly the webOS slate will be made available, and whether or not it will be introduced at CES 2011.
HP to Employees: webOS Tablet Coming in Q1 2011
At this point, everyone pretty much knows that Palo Alto, California-based HP is working/developing a webOS-powered tablet. There has been no doubt about it since the company acquired Palm. However, the question haunting everyone’s mind is when exactly said webOS tablet will be made available. It’s now beginning to look as if HP is planning to release its first webOS Slate in Q1 2011.
HP Vice President of Personal Systems Group Todd Bradley reportedly revealed the ETA yesterday during an employee meeting. Additionally, he is said to have confirmed that the webOS tablet project is indeed known as “Hurricane.” HP is currently believed to launch tablets with three different operating systems, which include the aforementioned webOS by Palm, Windows 7 by Microsoft, and Android by Google.
Palm Vice President of Design Peter Skillman Leaves The Company
Ever since Palo Alto, California-based HP acquired Sunnyvale, California-based Palm back in April, many high-profile and renowned employees have left the company. We have witnessed the departure of former Palm User Interface Design Architect Rich Dellinger, former Palm Vice President of Human Interface and User Experience Matias Duarte, and former Palm Vice President of Public Relations Lynn Fox. Now, Palm Vice President of Design Peter Skillman, who is pretty much responsible for the Palm Pre design, joins his ex-colleagues.
After 11 years working at Palm, Skillman has left the company. It’s currently unknown what his future plans are. Now, the only man left standing appears to be Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein.
