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Deal Alert: AT&T and Verizon Palm Pre Plus just one cent for June

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at 11:51 AM

Image showing Palm Pre Plus for AT&TFor those of you out there that aren’t really keen on the Android superphones already on or coming to market in the near future – not to mention the new iPhone 4 dropping next week – your best alternative right now might be the Palm Pre Plus from AT&T or Verizon. Powered by the webOS, which is the biggest competitor to the iOS in terms of intuitiveness and visual appeal, the Palm Pre Plus is definitely a smartphone worth considering. And, for the rest of this month, Amazon is making it even harder to not consider the AT&T Palm Pre Plus – they’re offering the QWERTY slider phone for just one penny and free activation through the month of June!

For those of you not yet familiar, the Palm Pre Plus was the closest thing the smartphone world had to an iPhone killer. Sure, Android is making big advances in the mobile space, but the webOS is really the iPhone’s most dangerous competitor.

The Palm smartphone comes loaded with upgraded storage compared to the original Sprint Palm Pre. With 16 GB of storage memory, 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen (with multitouch support), vertically-sliding full QWERTY keyboard, 3-megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, 3G data connectivity and the potential genius that is the multi-tasking webOS, it’s clear that this is a serious smartphone.

Unfortunately, the Mobile Hotspot feature that Verizon enables for free to Pre Plus customers looking to turn their handset into a portable WiFi router goes unsurprisingly unmentioned on AT&T’s product page.

Find the Amazon AT&T Palm Pre Plus deal here.
Find the Amazon Verizon Palm Pre Plus deal here.

[Via: PreCentral]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Remon

    "The Palm Pre Plus was the closest thing the smartphone world had to an iPhone killer." Holy mole! I love the Pre and think the world of it, but that statement is about the wildest piece of fantasy I've seen in a long time.

    Oh, and sorry to pick nits, but please stop calling it "the webOS." You wouldn't talk about "the Android" unless, I suppose, you were the former wife of "the Donald." :)

  • set2001

    I absolutely love my palm pre plus. It was the quarter of the price from the other phones and its WebOS is awesome. The battery is the only downside.

    I realize that battery life is an issue with all smartphones but the Pre life is definitely terrible. Get an extended battery and all those fears go away though.

    I'm hoping the free mobile hotspot from Verizon stays around forever.

  • Michal

    All of you guys suck