This year, Palm’s CES booth brought us the announcements of the Pre and Pixi Plus. We already saw the specs – but the mechanics also got an overhaul:
As one can see in the shot above, the navigation button is gone. Engadget furthermore claims mechanical improvements as follows:
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The company has also improved the action of the slider mechanism, which is now way, way snappier, and clicks into and out of place with a confidence-stoking solidness. Palm has also changed the keyboard a bit, getting rid of the orange coloring, and revamping the action of the keys, making them far clickier (and maybe a bit more raised). The feel is closer to the Pixi, and that’s a really good thing.
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A bit of further info can be had at the URL above!
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They mention France and Germany in the CES video. Anyone you see familiar? The Pre plus gets 16GB but no sd card slot?
Also great is a LA Times article mentioning tethering via wifi up to five devices for Verizon.
Interesting about the improvements to the slider.
I am about to buy a Pre on O2 in the UK. I was going to buy one in October but when playing with one in several O2 shops the slider seemed very slack with no positive feel. However in the last few days I’ve been looking again and the Pre display devices in O2 shops seem to have a much more positive slide, although these are obviously not Pre+ units.
I think it is probably a case of improvements and refinements to the manufacturing process as the manufacturing volume has ramped up and customer feedback has been acted on.
Hi Allen,
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this sounds reasonable to me – the Treo 600 underwent more than three hardware revisions
As for the tethering: more on that in a jiffy. I was very stressed coding, sorry…
All the best
Tam Hanna