Wednesday News Roundup – Verizon and CES

More Verizon News

Despite some misleading reports in the past it seems that Verizon versions of the Palm Pre and Pixi will be coming, perhaps in January. PhoneArena tips us to some Verizon employee training on Palm and webOS. The training ends on January 4th, which we're hoping will be around the release date. Earlier in the week, Engadget found the FCC filing for the Verizon Palm Pixi. What we find notable is the Verizon version of the Pixi appears to sport 802.11 b/g WiFi, something that should make the Pixi even more appealing on Verizon. Having webOS devices on the nation's largest carrier will be a huge boost for Palm.

Palm to Present at CES

It was nearly a year ago when Palm first announced webOS and the Palm Pre. The event they announced at was CES (the consumer electronics tradeshow). Now, we have word that Palm will again be presenting at CES. What surprises will Palm have in store for us this time? It would be difficult for them shake up the technology world as much as their announcement last year did, particularly with expectations so high now. While we would love to see a next generation device from Palm the timing this close to the release of the Pixi makes that seem unlikely. What we might see, though, is support for Flash, the GPU and video recording. We may also see an official launch of Ares, Palm's new Web-based development environment for webOS.

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