{"id":697608,"date":"2010-03-22T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/6535\/verizon-ceasing-palm-promos-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:38:36","slug":"verizon-ceasing-palm-promos-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697608","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Ceasing Palm Promos Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.palminfocenter.com\/images\/uploads\/vzw-pre-plus-si.jpg?w=780\" class=\"right\" alt=\"verizon pre plus promo\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Rumor:<\/i> The LA Examiner Gadgets column (and syndicated through all other Examiner outlets nationwide) has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-11295-LA-Gadgets-Examiner~y2010m3d20-Verizon-to-end-promotion-for-Palm-Pre-Plus.\">a brief article<\/a> that claims Verizon is preparing to end all promotion for Palm&#8217;s Pre Plus.  This report is credited to &#8220;an inside source at Verizon&#8221;  and states that this change will supposedly occur at the end of the month. <\/p>\n<p>\n Assuming this report is true, this will have given Verizon and Palm&#8217;s WebOS products a bit over two months in the spotlight of prime TV and print ads, as Verizon officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10034\/verizons-palm-pre-pixi-plus-details\/\">launched the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus<\/a> on Janurary 25th.   The Examiner article goes on to state that a combination of Verizon&#8217;s strong Droid push alongside the numerous build quality issues on Sprint with the original Pre in 2009 helped seal Palm&#8217;s fate.\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f4c7ecc7246c4d9820a63c46c8198b33&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f4c7ecc7246c4d9820a63c46c8198b33&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumor: The LA Examiner Gadgets column (and syndicated through all other Examiner outlets nationwide) has posted a brief article that claims Verizon is preparing to end all promotion for Palm&#8217;s Pre Plus. This report is credited to &#8220;an inside source at Verizon&#8221; and states that this change will supposedly occur at the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VtK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799093,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697608\/revisions\/799093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}