CTIA to “wow” us with new super-smartphone: Palm Elan?

CTIA is coming up later this month, March 23-25 and is the US wireless biggest event that focuses on mobile carriers and devices. If you were a smartphone maker looking to make an impact in the US, you’d look to CTIA to do so. That appears what Palm may be doing.

According to PreCentral, an AT&T employee posted that the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus had finished testing at the company and now testing had begun on a device named Elan. Could Elan be the touchscreen-only webOS device we’ve been hoping for? Can we expect to see a big splash at CTIA announcing the first soft-keyboard only webOS device?

Maybe. It seems the Elan name was used before and identified the Pixi device. There are two sites up that currently name the Pixi Elan and list accessories for them with an image of the Pixi. Some suggest AT&T changes the name of the device for their network, like most of HTC’s devices. The Palm Centro however, made it onto AT&T with no name change.

The supposed AT&T employee also said the device will launch in Europe first, which would be a new route for Palm’s webOS devices. Of interest, Elan was the name of a company that sued Apple and means “tree” in Hebrew.

Rumors don’t get any more iffy than this.

Read: [Pre Central]