Palm Pre Plus & Palm Pixi Plus Headed to O2?

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What with the newest member of the TFTS writing team (welcome on-board Kelly, by the way) having only earlier today covered how Palm is, let’s not mince words here, not doing quite as well as it might like right now in terms of handset sales, we don’t doubt that Palm will be especially pleased that O2 have pickied up their Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus handsets for their UK network – that is if an anonymous tipster is to be believed.

According to an anonymous tipster who contacted the Tracy and Matt Blog with the message provided below, both the WebOS Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pre Plus appear set to follow on from the Palm Pre with a reported launch on O2’s network next month.

“O2 are following up the Palm Pre with the Palm Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus. The Pixi is new to the UK having a fixed qwerty keyboard like the RIM devices it shares the 8Gb storage of the original Pre but with a shortened display of 320 x 400 dropping 80 lines from the Pre. The Pixi Processor is a Qualcomm instead if the Omap of the Pre, albeit running at the same clock speed. The Palm Pre Plus is like the original Pre but without the centre button and comes with the matt TouchStone enabled back previously having to be purchased separately allowing the wireless charging of the phone on the induction TouchStone charger.  The Pre Plus has 16Gb of storage and a double the ram also. The build quality is said to be better than the original Pre with the keyboard being much more responsive with a definite click. In tests it has been seen to run 50 apps at the same time. The expected launch date is April 2010 shortly after the App Catalogue comes out of Beta for European users allowing access for paid applications.”

As reported in our above linked posting, Palm are not doing especially well right now as they presently have an inventory of 522,000 unsold handsets (unspecified models) backed up – so they’ll doubtless be more than happy should the above tip transpire to ring true and O2 does indeed take some of those stocks out of their hands and into the hands of consumers.

That’s said, both phones are up against some pretty stiff competition right now so quite how many O2 can shift (should O2 indeed offer them) remains to be seen.

Are you considering a Palm Pre Plus or Pixi Plus or, like us, do you feel that they just don’t cut the mustard right now given the likes of offerings from Palm’s major competitors? We’d be interested to hear your thoughts.

[via DeviceMAG]