{"id":400233,"date":"2010-03-07T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"14929 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-07T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T16:28:06","slug":"rumor-palm-elan-mystery-att-webos-smartphone-update-or-perhaps-just-the-pixi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/400233","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Palm Elan – Mystery AT&T webOS Smartphone? (Update: or perhaps just the Pixi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Never underestimate the investigative search prowess of PreCentral members. Shadow-360 tips us to let us know that he’s done some digging based off some information dropped by TopTongueBarry and the results bring us a sliver of hope that the full-touchscreen, slate-style, high-end halo webOS device we’ve been hoping for could indeed be a reality in the coming months.<\/p>\n

It begins with TopTongueBarry, a self-professed AT&T IT employee who posted saying<\/a> that not only has testing finished for the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, but that testing will soon begin for a mystery device codenamed ‘Elan<\/strong>.’ That matches up well with previous forum sluethery<\/a>, wherein ToniCipriani noted that May 10th looks like as good a date as any for AT&T to release the Pre and Pixi.<\/p>\n

But back to that Elan. It’s new to us and it was new to Shadow-360, who took to the Google and posted his results<\/a>: Several accessory manufacturers had once listed devices as compatible with the Elan but since took that information down. TopTongueBarry also provided some hints<\/a>: AT&T testing for the Elan should begin within about two weeks, scuttlebut within AT&T says that the device should have a ‘soft keyboard,’ be released in Europe initially, but may be made available unlocked in the US. All that points to a iPhone \/ Nexus One slate format, as does the fact that some of the accessories Shadow-360 tracked down were also compatible with the iPhone.<\/p>\n

So where do we stand with all this hunting around? Either it’s smoke and mirrors and Elan is simply another code name for the O8F-CASC \/ US GSM Palm Pre Plus or it’s what Shadow-360 and TopTongueBarry suspect: something all-new and the most exciting thing going for webOS rumors given that Sprint’s mysterious C40<\/a> still hasn’t shown its face<\/p>\n

Bonus rumor-mongering: Why call it ‘Elan?’ Well, another ‘Elan’ in the tech space is a Taiwanese company that sued Apple for multitouch patents<\/a>. If this even comes close to panning out, that’d be schadenfreude-riffic.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Soorma finds this site identifying the Elan with the Palm Pixi<\/a>, in case things weren’t muddy enough for you yet. Shadow-360 also found this site<\/a> showing the same.<\/p>\n

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Never underestimate the investigative search prowess of PreCentral members. Shadow-360 tips us to let us know that he’s done some digging based off some information dropped by TopTongueBarry and the results bring us a sliver of hope that the full-touchscreen, slate-style, high-end halo webOS device we’ve been hoping for could indeed be a reality in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400233","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}