{"id":517354,"date":"2010-04-05T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/80b40b9ee1d0d1827b215ea9d369533d"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:50:00","slug":"verizon-kicking-off-early-upgrade-program-for-palm-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517354","title":{"rendered":"Verizon kicking off early upgrade program for Palm devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/98829-Palm-Pre-Plus-and-Pixi-Plus.jpg\" alt=\"Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus\" width=\"400\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like Verizon and Palm had a little sit down and came out with an understanding to sell as many Palm devices as possible.&nbsp; On the heels of the current BOGO offer and free Mobile Hotspot service, Verizon is offering an early upgrade program to get non-smartphone users into a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus device at the two-year promotional price.<\/p>\n<p>As with any lucrative offer, stipulations apply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The early upgrade offer only applies to Verizon&#8217;s Palm devices &#8211; the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot currently be using a 3G smartphone.<\/li>\n<li>Accepting the offer will reset your upgrade eligibility.<\/li>\n<li>Your contract end date will be extended to  two years from the date of the upgrade.<\/li>\n<li>The line must be at least six  months old, with no upgrades in the past year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sounds like a deal good enough to provoke my dumbphone-toting friends away from their Motorola W385s and into a webOS smartphone.&nbsp; The deal begins tomorrow (April 6th), so start counting those pennies!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/verizon-launching-early-upgrade-program-push-webos-phones-dumbphone-users-hands?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Precentralnet+%28PreCentral.net%29\" >PreCentral<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NtrAsVTjc3RgKWWLRPiYZk5ECWs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NtrAsVTjc3RgKWWLRPiYZk5ECWs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NtrAsVTjc3RgKWWLRPiYZk5ECWs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NtrAsVTjc3RgKWWLRPiYZk5ECWs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/yKFVkZ_7OCA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Verizon and Palm had a little sit down and came out with an understanding to sell as many Palm devices as possible.&nbsp; On the heels of the current BOGO offer and free Mobile Hotspot service, Verizon is offering an early upgrade program to get non-smartphone users into a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517354","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}