Wal-Mart.com selling Pre and Pixi with oh so useful 4GB microSD card 26
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:43 am EST 
While we understand the drive to throw in freebies to entice a customer to buy a product, we as the customer generally prefer that the freebie be somehow useful to the product I am looking to purchase. Case-in-point, Wal-Mart Wireless’s online site (powered by LetsTalk) is giving out free 4GB microSD cards from Kingston with select Sprint phone purchases, including the Samsung Instinct S30, HTC Hero, Palm Centro, Samsung Moment, and the Palm Pre and Pixi. Wait, that’s not right...
In other news, Verizon’s website also has some cleaning up to do, as Hebrew language blog Palm Preacher noticed. Verizon’s fancy try-it-out emulator for the Pre Plus lists the following tech specs: 7630 MB ROM/256 MB RAM. If you’ve been following the news about the Pre Plus at all, you’ll noticed that those numbers are exactly half of what they should be, in fact they’re the specifications of the regular Pre, not the double plus good Pre Plus. At least some other parts of the Verizon website list the Pre Plus with the proper storage and memory. Now if only Verizon would actually show off the Pre Plus on their website...
Thanks to Darrell and avnera for the tips!
26 Comments
maybe its a hint from Wal-mart, to include Sd card slot for the next pre...
Yeah, wishfull thinking!!
An obvious ploy to get consumers to think the phone they are buying can use it. Some won't check and then won't realize the deception until after they get home.
Don't think at all this was a mistake.
wow, you'd think they would check to make sure they are compatible lol or maybe they just don't care...
"...7630 MB ROM/256 MB RAM. If you
ROM is just wrong in this context.
RAM is right in this context. Short version, RAM is were the currently running programs are "stored".
The 7630 MB are... FLASH!
ROM would really suck, because you wouldn't be able to store anything there ;)
Pete
"double plus good"
Dugg for 1984 reference.
Visions of Homer Simpson, slapping his forehead, and blurping out: "Doh!" come to mind, after reading this...
:)
Rofl, sorry thats all i got for this. Maybe if it had USB interface options sure but in mean time ROFL.
Its for all touch phone purchases..... Still cruel to tease though.
-Darrell
That is shady. Shame on you Wal-Mart, shame on you.
ugh
Maybe it's an automated system.
Stupid Walmart...
Maybe Walmart is trying to tell Palm something.
Just checked out the emulator, and it's terrible. I thing it will do more harm than good. Hopefully they're waiting for the next update to start a real ad campaign.
lol this made me laugh.. I got 3 microsd cards that I can't even use any more!
what they should offer is a free charger cable, i wish mine came with 2 so i could keep one at work lol ;-) i don't have a touchstone yet but i'm getting one soon.
Similarly, I selected the Pre Plus, Pixi Plus and Droid Eris on Verizon's site just to see how they list the feature differences. It listed the Pre and Pixi as not having cameras and that they did not support mobile email.
Not exactly stellar copy editing on that site either.
I wonder with the millions of products they have, that they just throw stuff up, google a description, and whatever comes up first (even if it is a blog) is what they type.
The Verizon Palm Pre emulator has a bug that will surely confuse prospects. When you click on contacts in the Quick Launch bar it brings up the calendar instead.
For those who miss read the article (like me), the wrong specs are on the verizon site, not walmart.
Hey come on guys,
you can use the free MicroSD cards with your Pre. Just put the Micro card in it's big brother adapter card, place that card in your PC's 12-in-1 card reader slot and connect your Pre to the PC using your USB/charging cable and select USB Drive. Now you can transfer all the files you want between your Pre and you Free MicroSD card. See!
"Now if only Verizon would actually show off the Pre Plus on their website..."
Verizon isn't promoting the Pre Plus or the Pixi Plus at all. Hubby and I walked into our local Verizon store on the day of release, and saw nothing about them -- no posters, no flyers, nada. Oh, they were there, wedged in blandly among numerous other phones, but everything was Droid, Droid, Droid. Not so much as a sign above the Pre to at least let you know where they were in the store.
They obviously are not experts but vendors trying to make some money anyway they can. I personally think its great that wall mart is selling the palm pre really cheap. This is a good move in palms part. Which was to make to phone really cheap and get in to low budget market. Me being Latino i can't begin to tell you how many Latinos would get sold on the phone for the price it is. The only thing that would scare em is the monthly charge but it doesn't matter. Good move.
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http://onlypre.com/
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Same crap.