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hey guys it's Brenda minimun from pocketnow.com when the palm pre came out on sprint about a year ago and it wasn't that long though it seems like a really long time ago AT&T customers such as myself or wondering hey when do we get a webos device well now about a year later we're finally getting our own web OS device in the form of the palm pre plus although it's not really new it's been on verizon for a couple of months now and it's pretty much the same device but in the GSM flavor but that's okay we've been waiting to try it on a tee tees network let's take a look here's the unboxing alright let's do the unboxing here and apparently the palm pre plus on ATT come to the touch charge charger which previously was an added accessory that you had to pay for which is quite nice and here it is the touchstone accessory very small box for this will take a look at this in a second this uses inductive charger charging obviously so you don't actually have to plug in the palm pre plus so here's the box very standard box that were used to with palm devices although it has an AT&T flavoring to it with the orange packaging so let's slide this out again this is the same unit that you get if you were to go on verizon and get the palm pre plus let's see if we have anything around the box very clean box very minimal pretty nice let's open the lid here here's the device looks familiar put that aside for a minute see well see what else we get in the box quick start guide and of course ATT doesn't want you to text and drive they've got that campaign going now on all of their devices see what else we have in here and then the typical palm layout we have this very tiny little USB charger very nice looking oh so some headphones yeah micro USB charger and it comes with a nice little case which is made out of sort of a fabric material orange inside for AT&T so let's take a look at the palm pre plus and we're going to compare this to the verizon palm pre plus in a second to take off the frontier and of course the difference between this and the palm pre is that the button is capacitive now it no longer sits out like so the keyboards also been upgraded so yeah I mean it feels the same as the verizon palm pre plus in fact now that I have them side-by-side I can't tell them apart really I'm they are absolutely identical but if I did this you want to know which is which they are completely the same and i can tell you off the bat something that they didn't fix with this this is the verizon palm pre plus and this battery or this charger port here can never be closed fully it always sticks out i'm looking at the AT&T version and i see the same thing here i don't know if the camera can focus on that but it's just this battery or this this charging port really needs to be fixed something that i think Tom needs to work on anyway so let's take a look at this next to some other devices so here it is next to the sprint pixie and of course AT&T is getting the pixi plus just like Verizon as the pixi plus and you have the smaller screen lower resolution slower process or less ram the the palm pre plus is supposed to be sort of the premium webos experience let's see it next to the HTC hd2 which of course it doesn't have a nice handy slide out keyboard here and this does feel a little bit more clicky than the original palm pre I personally like the keyboard on the pixi better than the palm pre just because it's always there but some people prefer to have it hidden away like so and you can quickly open it the sliding mechanism feels solid we'll see how that lasts over the next few weeks and next to the google nexus one kind of a different experience with this device so it a lot more coming up on the palm pre plus on AT&T i'm going to use it as my daily driver for several weeks and i'm gonna have a lot to say about it to see how far palm has come and hopefully they've refined the software a bit because the palm pre plus on verizon fun times with lagged for me in daily use so hopefully there's some optimizations that have been done to make it work really really well on the AT&T network also curious if the mobile hotspot application works which you can get on the verizon palm pre plus and some other palm devices please thumbs up the video if you liked it and be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash pocket now sweets that's it for now