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palm has just announced new upgrades for the palm pre and pixi as well as availability on Verizon both get their names changed to the pre plus and pixi plus and gain new features such as more memory RAM and more let's get this one started the palm pre plus looks largely the same but with a few important tweaks the first thing you will notice is that it has lost its solar navigation button below the screen it gives the pre a sleeker form factor in an uncluttered front view along with a slight outside refresh is a built-in touchstone inductive charging battery back cover which used to cost extra well it's not all that need you certainly also won't hear any complaints that the ram has doubled in the pre plus as has the internal memory from 8 to 16 gigabytes the pixi plus also hasn't changed much but as with the pre there wasn't that much wrong with it in the first place the first and certainly biggest change is the addition of Wi-Fi something the original pixi sorely lacked as the pixi is only a couple months old there aren't many upgrades beyond that save for new touchstone back covers one of the most promising upgrades for both the pre and pixi is the addition of a new mobile hotspot application using the new app you can use either of the new phones as a mifi hotspot once enabled this will let you tether your EVDO cell signal into Wi-Fi for any of your devices such as a laptop the palm pre plus and pixi plus both or verizon exclusives so don't expect to see them on sprint anytime soon but you can expect to see both phones on verizon soon very soon as in January 25th no word on pricing yet but it will likely be only moderately higher than on sprint if not the same definitely some good news for two of the best phones around