Palm Pre Plus for €99 on Gruupy

Esel

http://www.gruupy.com/deals/540?locale=en&channel=www

Edit: not sure how much of a bargain this is......

dahamsta

Pretty sure that's a 1st gen Pre, so it's 2 generations old.

BionicRasher

looks like 2nd gen
I think the Palm Pre is the 1st gen

dahamsta

Nah, they call had Plus iterations.

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is it worth is???

Badgermonkey

Review here

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/20/palm-pre-plus-and-pixi-plus-review/

Given the price of the Xperia Play (which will upgrade to ICS relatively soon), the Pre Plus would need to be retailing at significantly less to make it an attractive buy.

dahamsta

Just had a Pre3, they're lovely handsets and the OS is sexy, but if you're a regular smartphone user you might find it a bit lacking in functionality. If not, it's a great starter smartphone. Mine lasted a week before I went back to my Desire, getting myself a Sensation XE for xmas instead.

BionicRasher

dahamsta wrote: »

Nah, they call had Plus iterations.

Not sure about that
looks like the versions are

1.0 Pre
1.1 Pre Plus
1.2 Pre 2
1.3 HP Pre3

Pre also had red buttons on the QWERTY keypad and it had a trackball on the face too I think

Looks like this one was released at CES 2010 so its 20 months old

not bad for a starter phone for a someone looking for a QWERTY phone (teenager might be the ideal user)

BionicRasher

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Given the price of the Xperia Play (which will upgrade to ICS relatively soon),

links to cheap Xperia Play?

Badgermonkey

I purchased my SE XP unlocked/sim free instore @ Carphone Warehouse for €159. They still had stock instore this week.

Currently only have VF @ €199 on CW site.

http://www.carphonewarehouse.ie/Product/strongSony-Ericssonstrong-Xperia-Play-Black/238302/325.0

€179.00 on VF.ie

http://www.vodafone.ie/df/shop/ProductDetails.shtml;jsessionid=0MKLTPkQT52fXDlFQpLYjnq660MGMcLvcnpV89QyQJdTj9pvvKDb!-1686475480!-1512874104?handsetselected=549045&offerSelected=prepayporting&action=view

adcrawley

its a pre+, because the camera was upgraded to 5 megapixel for the pre 2 and the centre button was removed for the pre+.
Also, the first generation pre had orange coloured number keys.
I was (am) a webos junkie.
I had the following:
Pre - got it the day they launched, loved it and said to myself "this will be a world beating device by the time they get to the 2nd or third version", i think i got that bit wrong!

Pre+
Pre2
Pre3

The battery life was short in them all, mostly lasting about 10 to 12 hours.
Shame on HP for giving up after one attempt, it wouldn't give me any faith to buy anything from them.