Perhaps responding to relatively slower than expected demand, Verizon Wireless has decided has decided to make things a little more attractive for people interested in getting hold of either a Palm Pre Plus or a Pixi Plus.
Prospective customers can now benefit from on line discounts and the mail in rebate has been dropped. So now the handsets are available for purchase for as little as $149.99 and $79.99.
A Verizon spokesperson commented recently in an article on Wireless week and said that they had a “brief period where they tested mail in rebates on some phones.”
The test led Verizon to conclude that “some customers expected instant rebates,” and that as this is a competitive business they have “responded accordingly.”
Most would say that the new offers that are in place on the Palm Pre Plus and also the Palm Pixi Plus is an attempt from Verizon to increase sales of both of the devices.
In an increasingly crowded marketplace with Apple’s iPhone and Google Android OS-based phones racking up customers, trying to make the price of not so popular phones as these more price competitive only makes sense.
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I’ve had my Pre since shortly after launch and am glad to discover (via this forum) that I can now set a ring tone on incoming text messages and can search by means of e-mails and such. Now is there any hope for an upcoming release where I can look for my calendar? Would make my occupation a lot simpler, acquiring dates of final appointments. No other complaints, except that yesterday I was in and out of Sprint assistance (not unusual). I think I had been roaming, and looked at my calendar. Every little thing from the calendar was 1 hour earlier than what I had input. The clock was just one hour early as well. I was scared to death–then, when we got back into Sprint assistance again, anything was normalized. Has this happened to anybody else?? Searching forward to answers, but please bear in mind, I’m no techie and speak English instead of technospeak.
I need to say that my determination to purchase a Palm Pixi with Sprint provider was both a rational and emotional one particular. I mean, the Palm Pixi is lovely and functional. And coupled using the program top quality of Sprint, it would seem absolutely nothing brief of the revolution in the making. I believe that Palm and Sprint have (virtually) hit it off famously. I did a good deal of research prior to purchasing the Pixi but overlooked at lowest 1 factor. The Pixi won’t, yet, enable me synchronize my e-mails involving it and Outlook. As far as I am concerned, this can be a drawback I am facing unless Palm comes up which includes a answer speedily. With my prior SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails and other data with one’s Computer. But Pixi’s inability to do so is generating lifestyle a little difficult for me due to the fact I have to Bcc every single e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address and then manually transfer it for the ‘sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at very least a third-party, will arrive up having a remedy incredibly soon that will effortlessly enable me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all required data, between the Pixi and my office Pc.