Verizon Wireless is getting desperate to move its inventory of the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, dropping the price of each to just $49.99 and $29.99, respectively, with a two-year service contract.
This is the third price drop Verizon Wireless has offered on the smartphones.
In late February it lowered the price of the Palm Pixi Plus by 20% to $80. Then this past March it lowered prices again, this time on the Palm Pre Plus as well.
The only feature that may make people want to choose either over Android OS phones or the iPhone is the fact that purchasing a Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plusphone gives you free access to the mobile hotspot feature, which normally would cost $40 on top of regular monthly phone bill.
The mobile hotspot feature is basically turns your phone into a free wireless modem that can generate a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot and connect up to five other devices to the Internet. It has a limit of 5GB p/mo, but that’s more than enough for casual web browsing.
Over the past year, the original Pre and Pixi phones have seen only moderate success at Sprint Nextel, and Palm has tumbled down the food chain of priority devices, especially since Android OS phones have joined the fray. Verizon Wireless began selling the phones in January.
