Dallas (ip-192.com): AT&T seems to be on the roll lately. After Dell announced that its first smart phone for the U.S. market will run on the AT&T network, the phone company said that it will soon offer the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus phones. The announcement gives Palm a presence on three of the U.S.’s four major carriers.
After committing to a two-year contract and redeeming a $100 mail-in-coupon, the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus will be available for $150 and $50 respectively. Both phones will require a data plan, but pricing was not immediately available.
The Pre Plus will ship with 16 GB of internal memory, and the Pixi Plus will add Wi-Fi connectivity to the original model. Both phones will include AT&T exclusive services like AT&T Navigator and Address Book. While the new Palm WebOS is a feature-rich and intuitive browser, all efforts by Palm to boost revenue failed so far. Wall Street analysts are starting to raise doubt about the company’s ability to survive following Palm’s announcement that it sold far fewer phones than originally anticipated.
Meanwhile, AT&T will sell Dell’s smart phone under the name Aero (Windows, listen up). The phone features Google’s Android operating system and is currently only available in Brazil and China.
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