Those who have been waiting for new webOS phones in the UK won’t have to wait much longer; the Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus (which just found its way to AT&T) will be available on O2 as of May 28. The Palm Pre Plus updates the original webOS smartphone with 16 GB of internal memory (verus 6 GB), but keeps the same HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The Pixi Plus, by comparison, now includes Wi-Fi, but has the same ol’ 2.6″ 400 x 320 display, 2 megapixel camera, and 8 GB of storage. Of course, both run Palm’s latest operating system, which features some great gesture controls, and an address book populated by your social networks in a system called Synergy.
O2 was the first carrier to bring the original GSM Palm Pre to the market, and we can only assume that they’re as disappointed with sales as Sprint was. Still, O2 has been pushing out the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus to Germany, and other carriers have picked them up in Spain and France; whether or not those rollouts will be successful, we’ll have to wait a quarter or two to find out.
If you’re thinking about picking one up, head over to Palm’s UK site for a closer look.
[via Palm]