webOS 1.4 coming to Sprint Pres and Pixis on the 15th?

By on Feb 10, 2010 at 2:25 PM
Software February 10, 2010

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We can’t help but feel a bit bad for all of the Palm Pre and Pixi owners on Sprint considering the recent arrival of Verizon’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, but their frowns might have good reason to turn upside down really soon. According to a screen capture posted to PreCentral’s forums by a Sprint employee, both the Pre and Pixi will be getting some software lovin’ on the 15th, one day after their owners (hopefully) got some love of different kind. The update is said to be webOS 1.4 which will bring enhancements to phonebook transfers, messaging, and calendars as well as, and this is a biggie, video recording and editing. Translation: Sprint webOS fans will have reason to feel all warm and fuzzy about their devices again. You know, until Verizon gets the update and the game starts all over.

[Via Engadget]

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  • http://(null) Dallas

    So is AT

  • http://www.bgr.com Abercrombie & Fitch

    yes we verizon pre plus owners will make sprint pre owners life miserable. Haha… But on a serious note as a verizon pre plus owner, I can’t wait.

  • Marty

    Fudge

  • http://www.bgr.com Abercrombie & Fitch

    Wait hold up? so Pre owners will get it first than the Pre Plus? wtf?

    • bonesb

      VZW’s got to do their “quality” check first… I hope we don’t have to wait 6 months. I talked with a tech a few days ago, there’s no love for Palm at all at VZW.

      • Andrew

        yeah, most of the Verizon sales people are brainwashed into thinking that the Droid is the best thing since sliced cheese. seriously, most of the employees in the La Jolla store tried convincing me out of the Pre+ and a tech support rep. tried convincing me that an issue I had with my first Pre+ was inherent with the design of the Pre.

        they REALLY want to get their money’s worth with all the droid marketing – and I don’t necessarily blame them for it

  • Boy Fabulous

    A&F you got the Pre+ too?
    My bet is Pre+ will get the update same time.

    • http://www.bgr.com Abercrombie & Fitch

      yeah i do…you think webOs 1.4 will faze out the EV icon to 3G?

      • http://www.bgr.com Abercrombie & Fitch

        @Chris….. dude you are just as annoying as Luke Wilson. Luring customers to palm phones? wow… Someone throw a shoe,or something at this dude. Its good business for Palm & its market share in order to expand and be up there like RIM, Moto, and apple. Why in God’s name would palm ever release an exclusive pre2 on sprint when the company itself cant stand on its two feet. In my perspective buddy i think the pre2 will be released on Verizon because that’s where the money is with its network & customer base. Not to mention Verizon has 6 months exclusivity with the pre plus. Maybe from here to july…the pre2 will launch on verizon.

      • Yomama

        Verizon is just now starting to put marketing into the palm products they have. Sprint is willing to put Palm at the top of the smart-phone list and tout how great it is. Even if a product is exclusive to one carrier, people will buy other versions from different carriers due to the advertising blitz.

  • http://twitter.com/cmilette chris milette

    ha! take that verizon. the only reason that palm went to VzW, in my perspective, was to lure customer in with their awesome palm phones, to later unveil a new more powerful device (the palm c40 maybe?) on sprint. bwahaha. ehh at&t will die after the iphone goes to VzW in 2011. that will be rich. I hate verizon and their ridiculous prices. I’m glad my sprint pixi’s gonna get an update. whoot whoot! can’t wait for monday.

    • StevenGlansburg

      After using Sprint for 3 months I can honestly say they suck unless you are literally ON a major interstate. Their coverage is the worst out of all four major carriers here. It’s so spotty and inconsistent.

      While I rag on Verizon consistently, at least with them you don’t have the dead spots everywhere like on Sprint. At&t isn’t that bad either, but their dead spots matched Sprint’s at least in places I frequent.

      I will eat my ETF at the end of the month because Sprint simply sucks all over the place where I’ve used it.

      • StevenGlansburg

        one final note. There is a reason their plans are the cheapest.. the suck and you get exactly what you pay for with them.

      • Josh

        I say bogus, because sprint phones roam on Verizons network for free. Now if you live and work where sprint has no coverage then, yes, you need to switch networks, but I smell troll with your post. Where do you live by the way.

        One caveat, Sprint does suck if you live in extreme rural areas. I live on the extreme outer edge of Denver and get great Sprint service. Verizon on the other hand sucks out here. When I do go back home to Minnesota, I usually roam on Verizon.

      • Yomama

        um, Sprint roams on Verizon’s network. update your roaming profile.

    • http://www.bgr.com Abercrombie & Fitch

      Chris dude you are just as annoying as Luke Wilson. Luring customers to palm phones? wow… Someone throw a shoe,or something at this dude. Its good business for Palm & its market share in order to expand and be up there like RIM, Moto, and apple. Why in God’s name would palm ever release an exclusive pre2 on sprint when the company itself cant stand on its two feet. In my perspective buddy i think the pre2 will be released on Verizon because that’s where the money is with its network & customer base. Not to mention Verizon has 6 months exclusivity with the pre plus. Maybe from here to july…the pre2 will launch on verizon.

  • jayball

    Who the hell would want to live in Mississippi????

  • Cool Beans

    I feel sorry for you Steven. I lived in Ohio for about a year and I had absolutely NO problems with coverage. I traveled around areas like Dayton and Cincinnati and had full coverage everywhere I went. Only time I experienced issues in coverage was where I actually lived, which was Wilberforce where the entire city is woodland and cornfields. Even there I had at least 2 or 3 bars and no dropped calls.

  • Troller Exposer

    @ StevenGlansburg

    First: I was in NY a few months back. I have Sprint and it worked great.

    Second: if the service in Ohio, where you use it most of the time, has been so bad how come you didn’t cancel within 30 days?

    I call BS!!

  • StevenGlansburg

    Just to be clear, Sprint is great most of the time. I suppose I exaggerated in saying its spotty all over here….

    However, I don’t use a land line at my apartment so IT is my all purpose phone. And I’d prefer it to be usable in my entire apartment, not just the northern most corner. In reality, my whole apartment complex it sucks, but outside of that NO PROBLEMS here.

    I’m not complaining about paying an ETF either, it was my decision to stay with them after 30 days so I will pay the price. But in my defense I started with Sprint right after Thanksgiving and was out of town the majority of the time for the holidays so I really didn’t get to see how it was at home during that 30 day period.

    • Ryan

      lmao.. so you go from:
      “Sprint has sucked for me around here (Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus Ohio), which is where I spend the majority of my time between a couple Universities. Despite what their map says the coverage has been spotty….After using Sprint for 3 months I can honestly say they suck unless you are literally ON a major interstate. Their coverage is the worst out of all four major carriers here. It’s so spotty and inconsistent…”

      and all of a sudden when youre called on BS, it changes to:
      “Just to be clear, Sprint is great most of the time. I suppose I exaggerated in saying its spotty all over here….However, I don’t use a land line at my apartment so IT is my all purpose phone. And I’d prefer it to be usable in my entire apartment, not just the northern most corner. In reality, my whole apartment complex it sucks, but outside of that NO PROBLEMS here….”

      Do you REALIZE how idiotic those statements are, and how your credibility is IMMEDIATELY shot??

      So, lets summarize, coverage isnt good AT YOUR HOUSE.. and you think that means it “Sucks all over here”?

      Got it.. glad we cleared that up

    • palm guy

      Get an Airave, or retentions(if you get experience rep) will give you one for free when you attempt to cancel. I have one and I have a crystal clear 5,000sq ft signal. When before I had to stand in my window to get a good signal.

  • ecuteent

    am with at&t and sprint here on manhattan and the only problem i have is at&t,40% of the time i cant make a phone call or browse on my iphone ,and it never happens with my pre,

  • T

    The update for the pre will come out after verizon cripples the hell out of it, not one second sooner. I should know I have a whole stack of crippled bloated handsets I’m staring at… all from verizon, I’m done with them!

  • HappyWithSprint

    I have had Sprint for years now for my personal phone. In the early years I would have a dropped call maybe once a month. Now days though, I NEVER have a call dropped or blocked. I travel extensively, go to remote areas, etc. The key is to allow your phone to roam. My collegue has VZN… is constantly having to borrow mine to complete a call.

  • Happy Girl

    StevenGlansburg I am not sure where youare using your Sprint Phone, but I have driven from San Francisco to Tucson Az and used my Sprint phone many times during the trip. I never lost coverage. I would say that is pretty good.

  • Yomama

    All of these comments are about coverage and not the phone. There are forums and placed to bash coverage and service but these are updates that will really make Palm a force to be reckoned with. Flash will be out this month and the multi-tasking stomps the droid. Sprint roams on Verizon tower so all of the “my pre plus is better than yours” is simply cock boasting.

    Comment about what the OS does for you and how it improves over something or find another forum.

    If you come here to simply complain with no facts or data, you are trolling. Troll somewhere that it read and not just ignored.

    Mobile operating systems are in a race right now and Palm has the best, most intuitive way to multi-task. The driod and Android in general do a lousy job as you are required to kill apps every time you want to make a phone call because the static multi-tasking is not very well implemented. Apps stay open and resources are stretched to give a glitchy experience overall. How do I know? I bought my wife an android phone and she had nothing but problems. Everyone at my work’s helpdesk bought droids and they all complain about the crappy “kill apps” issues it has. All the while, my Sprint pre continues to get better with regular updates and OPEN source development continuing at a rapid pace from the precentral.net and WEBOS-internals.org developers.

  • Big Al

    Hey, enough with who’s better….I think the update will be a VERY BIG DEAL for Palm users. So lets keep it moving in the right directions. Keep bringing out major updates and the Palm Pre/Palm Pixi will take off!!

  • WoreMyBestCologne

    and as I suspected … there was no webOs 1.4 update over the long weekend, what a dissapointment, probably a Hoax. Blah!!

  • Josh

    Apparently I like the word ‘extreme’. As far as rural, I would say 25 miles off the interstate (or other major highway) as extremely rural. As for Denver, I am in the last town before you hit the plains with literally no people.

    By the way, I have lived most of my life in the ‘extremely rural areas of South Dakota’ so I do know what I am talking about.

  • StevenGlansburg

    Josh,

    see, out west I’m sure its different..but here in very population dense areas (more so than the areas you describe) there is absolutely no reason for coverage to yo-yo like it does. It’s even worse in places like NYC that make my home of Cincinnati looks like a speck.

  • StevenGlansburg

    something like that.. maybe technically month 4, but if you can’t keep a signal in your own place where you sleep and spend at least half your day, why stay with them? I tried a different carrier and didn’t like the experience..something many on here just lie about…

    I left At&t for the same reason.. and it’s my own personal experience, but Sprint has sucked for me around here (Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus Ohio), which is where I spend the majority of my time between a couple Universities. Despite what their map says the coverage has been spotty.

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