Verizon Sweetens Buy One, Get One Free Offer
Ever since the launch of the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus on January 25th, Verizon Wireless has been continuously running a BOGO ("Buy One, Get One Free") promotion. Now TechCrunch brings news of an offer already confirmed to be live on Verizon's web store.
In what should both address the grumblings of customers hoping to have a two-Pre household and give a nice boost to Palm's sales figures for the quarter, Verizon has now re-launched the BOGO promotion with more flexible terms. Effective February 15th, customers can choose any combination of Verizon WebOS and Android-powered handsets alongside a handful of non-smartphone "multimedia phones" as eligible devices for the promotion. So, in short, you can now get a "free" Pre Plus with the purchase of another Pre Plus or even tip a toe into the competing smartphone OS waters and get an Android phone alongside a WebOS device.
Prior to these new terms, purchasers of a new Pre Plus or Pixi Plus were eligible to receive only a Pixi Plus as part of the promotion. Of course, all of these offers require a new activation alongside the requisite 2-year contract, mandatory data plan and recently-raised early termination fee.
Verizon and Palm continue to make news together, with a spate of new television, radio and print ads such as the one below giving a surprisingly strong push to Palm's latest webOS devices.
Thanks, PreCentral.net.
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Interesting way of distinguishing between smartphone platforms
They are aggressively touting all of their new smartphone offerings.
"Android: Super-fast processing for running multiple apps at once and fully customizable screens for ultimate personalization.
Palm: Contact synchronization , intuitive messaging features, and automatic backup of your important data
BlackBerry: Business applications support and multimedia capabilities make it the perfect combination of fun and functionality.
Check out the enclosed brochure to see the unique features of Android technology, as well as the intuitive characteristics of Palm. Then select your new Android, Palm or BlackBerry smartphone today."
Since it's a verrrrry slow discussion day today, I noticed a couple of interesting things in that flyer:
#1 Funny how they keep referring to the platform as 'Palm" and not "WebOS"
#2 Funny how they tout the multimedia capabilities of BlackBerry since, microSD slot aside, it's weaker than the other 2 platforms for that kind of stuff.
#3 They play up Android's multitaskling when in actuality WebOS does it better and much more elegantly. Yet all of the features they showcase for Palm are very much present within Android.
#4 Droid Eris (HTC), Pixi Plus and the new BB Curve 8530 are all now "free", at least under this promo for new or renewing customers. That's make for one helluva low-end shootout, huh?
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->Verizon Moto Droid
RE: Interesting way of distinguishing between smartphone platforms
agreed. you cant turn a hooker into a houswife. i was just at a strip club tonight................thailand,,,,,,
RE: Interesting way of distinguishing between smartphone platforms
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RE: Interesting way of distinguishing between smartphone platforms
I guess then that you can turn a Gekko into a Lounge Lizard, but you can't turn a lounge lizard into a husband?
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And you thought this was written by someone who *knew* stuff ... why?
Aside from displaying the extreme idiocy of the people who compiled it and the ones who approved it, if this is the way Verizon is positioning these phones ... good bloody luck to Palm!
RE: Interesting way of distinguishing between smartphone platforms
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p->Verizon Moto Droid
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