{"id":116935,"date":"2009-12-30T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10011\/palm-pre-pixi-plussed-on-verizon-may-add-voice-dialing\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T22:36:01","slug":"palm-pre-pixi-plussed-on-verizon-may-add-voice-dialing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/116935","title":{"rendered":"Palm Pre &amp; Pixi Plussed On Verizon, May Add Voice Dialing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s two tidbits on the upcoming Verizon webOS debut for you, one surprising and one not-so-surprising. Under the latter category, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2009\/12\/30\/verizon-wireless-getting-palm-pre-plus-and-palm-pixi-plus\/\">Boy Genius Report<\/a> today reports that the Pixi is &#8220;100%&#8221; locked in for Big Red along with the Pre, and will also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/6644\/palm-pre-plus-in-the-works-for-verizon\/\">be adding a &#8220;Plus&#8221;<\/a> to its title. BGR also claims that the hardware specs are identical &#8220;in terms of size&#8221;, so those hoping for a memory upgrade may be disappointed. (Your correspondent, however, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/9965\/asiapacific-pre-will-be-secondgeneration-midtolate-2010\/\">heard differently<\/a> on this matter &#8211; although whether the Pre Plus is the proper second-generation model I&#8217;ve been told about is still unconfirmed.)<\/p>\n<p>\nFar more tantalising is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/palm-pre-plus-russell-and-pixi-plus-romo-verizon-voice-dialing\">this screenshot<\/a> from Verizon&#8217;s internal database, leaked to PreCentral, which has an intriguing little &#8220;Y&#8221; in the voice dialing column. As they note, carrier spec sheets &#8211; especially pre-release ones &#8211; frequently get these kind of small details wrong, so it&#8217;s hardly a guarantee. But it is interesting, nonetheless, and if true raises the question: would Palm really deny a <I>software<\/I> feature to the rest of their userbase just to please Verizon?\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=95596aa5a92f0b276432ad5ecf826305&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=95596aa5a92f0b276432ad5ecf826305&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s two tidbits on the upcoming Verizon webOS debut for you, one surprising and one not-so-surprising. Under the latter category, The Boy Genius Report today reports that the Pixi is &#8220;100%&#8221; locked in for Big Red along with the Pre, and will also be adding a &#8220;Plus&#8221; to its title. BGR also claims that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}