{"id":499090,"date":"2010-04-01T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"15501 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-04-01T11:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:18:25","slug":"official-verizon-slashes-palm-pre-plus-to-49-99-pixi-plus-to-29-99-mobile-hotspot-plan-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499090","title":{"rendered":"Official: Verizon slashes Palm Pre Plus to $49.99, Pixi Plus to $29.99. Mobile Hotspot plan now free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/04\/palm-pre-plus-verizon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"161\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/04\/thumb_450_palm-pre-plus-verizon.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><em>After several hours of on-again, off-again, we have <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/news\/item.php?n=5756\"><em>official word<\/em><\/a><em> that the pricing below is a promotion from Verizon, but no word how long it wil last. Mobile Hotspot is now free for all new and existing customers using webOS on Verizon &#8211; though it might take a bit of time for your bill to reflect the change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Verizon Wireless has radically (and we mean radically) dropped the prices of its webOS products. The Palm Pre Plus is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/b2c\/store\/controller?item=phoneFirst&amp;action=viewPhoneDetail&amp;selectedPhoneId=5129\">going for $49.99<\/a> with a 2-year contract and the Palm Pixi Plus is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonwireless.com\/b2c\/store\/controller?item=phoneFirst&amp;action=viewPhoneDetail&amp;selectedPhoneId=5130\">going for $29.99<\/a> with a 2-year contract. On top of that, Buy One, Get One is still in full effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">That&#8217;s one way to clear a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/palm-ceo-pre-would-have-done-better-droid-if-it-launched-first-4th-quarter-be-grim\">channel stuffed full of inventory<\/a>. We&#8217;re not sure how long this pricing will hold, but we will say that Sprint had best stand up, take notice, and get competitive &#8211; with the Pre Plus a full $100 cheaper than its non-plussed version (and a full $100 cheaper than the proposed AT&amp;T price), this could get mighty interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">(Original updates as we followed the story while it broke overnight are after the break.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/verizon-slahses-palm-pre-plus-4999-pixi-plus-2999\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=_MkRINd1hdQ:wK9SkMofmNY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=_MkRINd1hdQ:wK9SkMofmNY:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=_MkRINd1hdQ:wK9SkMofmNY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=_MkRINd1hdQ:wK9SkMofmNY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=_MkRINd1hdQ:wK9SkMofmNY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/_MkRINd1hdQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After several hours of on-again, off-again, we have official word that the pricing below is a promotion from Verizon, but no word how long it wil last. Mobile Hotspot is now free for all new and existing customers using webOS on Verizon &#8211; though it might take a bit of time for your bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499090","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=499090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}