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Palm Pre Plus Reviews

3G.co.uk

08/2010

6.0/10

Palm Pre Plus Review

The first Palm Pre impressed us enough to get a five-star review last year, so we were looking forward to getting our hands on the Pre Plus. But this slightly refreshed relaunch seems somewhat pointless in a market now full of handsets like the iPhone 4 and HTC Desire. Appearance wise, there's nothing to tell the Pre Plus from the original Pre, with its pebble-like shape, 3.1-inch touch-screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. There have been some improvements to the keyboard although the compact keys are quite hard to press and not suitable for people with big hands. And the edges of the keyboard are uncomfortably sharp, something that annoyed us on the original Pre. Internal memory has been doubled, from 8GB on the original model to 16GB on the Pre Plus. It's a good job, because there is no microSD card slot, so not chance to expand the memory. RAM has also been doubled, to 512MB. Bundled in is an extra back cover that lets you recharge wirelessly using the Palm Touchstone charger. It's available on several networks in the USA, but here it's exclusive to O2, which won't help the sales figures.

TechRadar

05/2010

7.0/10

Palm Pre Plus review

One year ago, the world was awaiting the arrival of the first Palm Pre, like a foretold saviour from the boredom of smartphone monotony. This would be the handset to truly grasp the 'iPhone killer' title and run with it, but that plan didn't quite come together.The device wouldn't arrive in the UK until October 2009, nine months after we first saw it, and by that time we had been wooed by the HTC Hero, Apple had again moved to the next level with the iPhone 3GS, Motorola was back on the scene with the Milestone and the Pre was yesterday's news.The Palm Pre Plus is the first device the company has launched in the UK since it was forced to sell-up to HP, which, of course, came as a direct consequence of Pre's poor performance across the globe.The new device we reviewed was on the O2 network, which has a period of exclusivity on the handset, as it did with the original. Now the company has lost its grip on the iPhone, maybe it'll give the Palm Pre Plus the push that the original deserved. O2 didn't seem to know what to do with it last year.As the name of the device suggests, the Palm Pre Plus is a tweak – a step towards remedying faults, rather than a complete overhaul or the creation of a new model altogether.

LaptopMag

05/2010

6.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

Since the Palm Pre Plus was released on Verizon Wireless earlier this year, Palm has found a new owner in HP, but it’s still spreading the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus around to the major carriers. The latest incarnation of the Palm Pre Plus ($149 with a two-year contract and a $100 mail-in rebate) runs on AT&T’s network and, aside from the new carrier and a few different preloaded apps, this Pre Plus is nearly identical to the Verizon model that debuted earlier this year. However, the promised Flash capability of webOS version 1.4 hasn’t panned out yet, and the webOS interface, while still very good, hasn't kept up in terms of performance compared to Android and the iPhone. Neverless, the Palm Pre Plus has a lot of, well, pluses.Editors’ Note:Portions of this review were taken from our earlier review of the Palm Pre Plus (Verizon Wireless). Palm has made only subtle changes to its flagship smart phone, but they’re certainly welcome. Like the Pre, the Pre Plus has a glossy black rounded design that’s reminiscent of a pebble, with a slightly curved profile when the slide-down keyboard is open. It measures a compact 4 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs a relatively light 4.9 ounces. Underneath the 3.1-inch display Palm has replaced the center button (used previously for minimizing apps) with an LED button. The result?

PCMAG

05/2010

7.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

The Palm Pre was the big hit of January 2009. It doesn't look dated in May 2010, which is a testament to this award-winning smartphone's design. But as an AT&T smartphone, the Pre is going up against iPhones past and future, and Palm's seasoned smartphone still doesn't quite cut it - especially at a much higher up-front price than Verizon's version of the same phone. For most of the Pre Plus's features, I suggest you take a look at my existing reviews of the Sprint ($149.99-549.99, ) and Verizon Wireless ($49.99-549.99, ) Palm Pre phones. This Pre looks and works almost identically to the Verizon model, minus one extremely key feature and with some small changes. We'll focus on those changes in this review. If you're totally unfamiliar with Palm webOS phones, the Pre is an attractive little oval with a sliding touchscreen, a full but small keyboard, and an easy-to-use, multitasking operating system. Palm's "Synergy" function pulls in contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, though it doesn't integrate Facebook messaging the way some Motorola and HTC phones do. Calls on the Pre Plus sound great - to the person using the Pre Plus.

CNet

05/2010

7.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

The Palm Pre Plus for AT&T has been a long time coming. It was first teased at CES 2010 and then officially announced at the CTIA spring show. Come May 16, you'll finally be able to get your hands on one. There aren't a ton of surprises here since the smartphone is largely similar to the Verizon variant. Obviously, it's got a GSM/UMTS radio instead of a CDMA one and supports AT&T's services, but otherwise the hardware and software remain the same. Of course, we would have preferred new hardware (guess we'll have to wait till after the HP acquisition), but the Pre Plus finally exposes AT&T customers to the great capabilities of WebOS, most notably, true multitasking. Its well-rounded set of features and general ease of use makes it one of the better touch-screen smartphones in AT&T's lineup right now, since the Motorola Backflip failed to impress and the LG Expo and HTC Tilt2 skews more towards business users. It's certainly one of the top alternatives to the iPhone, but we think it's priced a bit too high. At $149.99 with a two-year contract, it's hard not to look Verizon's way and see that the same phone costs $100 less and includes free Mobile Hotspot service.

DigitalVersus

05/2010

8.0/10

Product Survey: Mobiles & Smartphones

So a long time after the first Palm Pre, the Palm Pre Plus is here and will be available in the UK soon. But has Palm left it a little too late? When we test phones, we've often had the chance to play with them at press conferences or other events, but on some occasions, the unit that comes to the lab is the first one we've ever laid our hands on. That leaves the door wide open to surprises, and with the Pre Plus, they began as soon as we tried to switch it on. Our first impressions weren't great. Why? Because it took a disgracefully long amount of time to power up. Waiting more than two minutes before you can use your phone is really out of order. It was so bad that most people who tried in our lab thought that the handset was broken the first time they tried to switch it on! Well, the coffee's ready, but the Pre is still whirring away, so let's take a look around the outside. It's 10 cm tall and 6 cm across, making it seem relatively compact. However, it's also very thick and heavy. 1.7 cm from front to back ant 140 g on the scales might be reasonable on the , for instance, but here the proportions seem wrong. Palm Pre Plus vs BlackBerry Curve 8520 The rear surface is traditional in a decent enough matte black plastic, but that's much less luxurious than the Teflon or brushed aluminium found on some of its competitors.

DigitalTrends

02/2010

8.5/10

Palm Pre Plus Review

We review the Palm Pre Plus which makes some key upgrades to the already likeable Palm Pre. Last year, Palm turned CES upside down with the Palm Pre – one of the few new smartphones to make the iPhone look dated. After a slow-but-auspicious launch over the summer, Palm returned to CES this year with a much less earth-shattering pair of refreshes: the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. Besides migrating to Verizon, the Pre Plus brings a handful of modest updates, including a handful of exterior tweaks, more memory, and doubling storage from 8GB to 16GB. Verizon charges a reasonable $150 for the fresh model, but the original flavor can still be had on Sprint for $80 through Amazon. Do a few megahertz here and a few MB of RAM there really warrant the upgrade, or even a switch to Verizon? We sat down with the Plus to find out.Put the original Pre side by side with the Pre Plus, and it would take a trained eye to detect the differences.Perhaps the most obvious is that the pearly trackball-look-alike from the Pre has disappeared on this model completely in favor of a white LED strip below the surface, which only lights up to indicate when you’ve made a swipe or tap in the gesture area.

PCWorld

01/2010

8.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

The Palm Pre Plus ($150 with a two-year contract from Verizon; price as of 1/20/10) is really more of an update of the original Pre on Sprint than a completely new product. Even so, the subtle hardware tweaks combined with Verizon's speedy network makes it an overall improvement from its predecessor. Some quirks remain, however, with the keyboard design and the sluggishness of the software. Because there are so few significant differences between the Pre Plus and the original Pre in both hardware and software, I have focused here mainly on the updates and new features in the Plus. For a closer look at its WebOS and most of its hardware specs, see our in-depth review of the original Palm Pre--the two models are that similar. Refined Hardware Right off the bat, you'll notice one small difference between the Pre Plus and the first Palm Pre: The single hardware button that was on the latter has been removed. Palm says that this design choice is mostly a matter of aesthetics--getting rid of the button eliminated one more moving part, resulting in a sleeker profile. Like the Pixi and Pixi Plus, the Pre Plus has a capacitive touch area below the screen with a light-up bar. To shrink an app down to card size, you simply tap this area (on the original Pre, you would press the button).

LaptopMag

01/2010

7.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

Think of it as the anti-Droid. While Motorola’s beast of a smart phone sports a monstrous screen, a blocky design, and lots of muscle, the Palm Pre Plus ($149 from Verizon Wireless with two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate) is all about elegance and ease of use. What makes the Pre Plus different from its predecessor on Sprint is more memory, an improved keyboard, and a unique application that turns the device into a mobile router. Although we have some of the complaints about the Pre Plus as the original Pre (namely sluggish performance and relatively short battery life), it’s still one of the best smart phones available from Verizon Wireless. Palm has made only subtle changes to its flagship smart phone, but they’re certainly welcome. Like the Pre, the Pre Plus has a glossy black rounded design that’s reminiscent of a pebble, with a slightly curved profile when the slide-down keyboard is open. It measures a compact 4.0 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs a relatively light 4.9 ounces. Underneath the 3.1-inch display Palm has replaced the center button (used previously for minimizing apps) with an LED button. The result?

CNet

01/2010

8.0/10

Palm Pre Plus

When Palm officially unveiled the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus at CES 2010, it wasn't a complete surprise. Rumors of the two Verizon-bound smartphones had been circulating the rumor mill weeks before the show, but that doesn't mean we weren't interested in checking out the products. The Pre Plus is definitely the more exciting of the two devices. It includes design enhancements, such as a revamped keyboard, that improves the overall look and feel of the device. Palm also beefed up the internal storage and RAM, giving the smartphone's performance a boost in speed and expanded capabilities. If Sprint Pre owners weren't jealous enough, Verizon customers will also be able to use the Pre Plus, as well as the Pixi Plus, as a 3G mobile hot spot. Now, Verizon has added a lot of great smartphones to its lineup lately, so the Palm Pre Plus will definitely face some stiff competition. But with its added features coupled with the WebOS's easier-to-use interface and great multitasking capabilities, we think it's a perfect device for the consumer who is looking for a smartphone to balance work and play, and who might find Android or Windows Mobile a bit much.

Prices

Retailer	Information	Prices
	Palm Pre Plus Mobile Phone (Verizon)	$122.99	See it
	Verizon Palm Pre Plus P101 Black 3mp Qwerty Phone	$199	See it
PhoneSale.com	Palm Pre Plus AT&T Smartphone	$332.99	See it
	At&t Palm Pre Plus Gsm/3g In Box Lot Of 2	$549.99	See it