Verizon,AT&T get Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, what does Sprint get?

Based on previous confidentiality dates filed on FCC paperwork, AT&T may be selling the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus as early as May. Other Palm devices have tracked similarly through the FCC and launched very close to the end of the confidentiality date. We expect the AT&T versions will follow the same route.

So far, the Palm Pre Plus is available on Verizon. Now that it looks near when the phones will launch on AT&T, it will be interesting to see how a class smartphone with tethering is priced compared to AT&T’s other big smartphone that lacks AT&T supported tethering.

Sprint, the launch partner for the original Palm Pre and Pixi, still does not show any signs of taking in the upgrade featuring more ram and tethering hotspot. Sprint and Palm have been buddy-buddy since the intro of the Pre back last year. Could Sprint the first to gain a touchscreen-only Palm/webOS device? Clearly, this has to be an area Palm’s considered as many of us find the keys on the Pre and even the Pixi to be less than perfect.

Or will an update to webOS be enough? Rumor has it 1.4 is set to drop on Monday and it will bring a video capture and editing application, a host of calendar and messaging improvements, and enhancement to battery life and usability. It is also popular that Palm could announce that, like in the US, it will add more carriers in Europe.

Or will Pre and Pre Plus owners get an update that will enable Flash 10.1? Word is Pixi is left off this one to help differentiate the devices. Our feeling is this is a reach for Palm.

Arguably the slickest mobile OS out there, we expect big things from the webOS as more and more users come to appreciate it. You can check out Gadgetell’s photo gallery of the new Pre Plus and Pixi Plus launched last month at CES.

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