Palm Elan to be the next webOS smartphone, heading to AT&T?

Here's a little spicy rumor for you Palm fans on this tranquil Sunday: according to TopTongueBarry who claims to work for AT&T, his company has just finished certification tests with GSM flavors of the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus ahead of a possible April 26th launch -- a date not far from what we've heard earlier. However, the bigger news from Barry is that the big A will soon be testing a third mysterious webOS device by the name of Palm Elan, which may greet us mere mortals on May 10th (but possibly in Europe first). Another forum member Shadow-360 also dug up some cached pages that claimed to have accessories for the non-existent device, as pictured above. Of course, this could be just a crude joke for a keyboard-less Palm device that many of us seem to desire -- as reminded by the good folks at PreCentral, Elan is also the name of the company that sued Apple over multitouch patents last April. So, any thoughts on this leak? Are we all ready for a new webOS phone?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: Turns out the Elan may just be the Pixi. Or it could be your wildest dreams about to come true.

[palmmacman Posted Mar 7th 2010 7:38PM]

I think it could be part of the touchstone family of prducts that jon described when he first introduced to toucstone. Anyway I'm excited! Go palm!

[blackmagic01 Posted Mar 7th 2010 8:08PM]

i find it disturbing that anyone's wildest dreams involve cellphones. Ciara and a lot of olive oil maybe but not cellphones.

[officemonkey Posted Mar 7th 2010 8:52PM]

Just quit Sprint in December and had an extraordinary hard time doing so. I wanted to go GSM, but am a huge Palm fan so it was hard to leave sprint and my 755p. Came up with a short term plan to get on AT&T and hold out for a GSM Palm Pre or new Palm phone. Palm don't let me down now!!

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Mar 7th 2010 9:04PM]

I keep telling my sister wait for her new Palm to come to AT&T it will come, Palm Os. Then she couldn't wait for it got a black berry. I TOLD HER IF YOU WAIT IT WILL COME.

[clonzelda Posted Mar 7th 2010 9:05PM]

I hope it's like the nexus one(if it is like the nexus one, I hope is call Pre prexus one);-).

[jellotime91 Posted Mar 7th 2010 10:12PM]

Let's pray it's a full touch device... but it'd probably take palm a few software updates to give it a keyboard. LOL

[majorhunadadun Posted Mar 8th 2010 12:00AM]

@jellotime91 The software updates keep getting better and better!

[rahiml786 Posted Mar 8th 2010 2:04AM]

Please have something that can top both the Droid and the iphone, a slim elegant high end phone with a slide out QWERTY keyboard.

I have an iPhone and am ready to be grown up. I want to go to Palm, and am rooting for you too!!!

[Mugabe Mugabe Posted Mar 8th 2010 4:40AM]

Just give me a bigger screen Palm then I'm n. Love my iPhone but it is time for sumthin else. An webOS is pretty good

[James5mith Posted Mar 8th 2010 10:01AM]

Please let this device be more powerful than the Pre.

[DallasB Posted Mar 8th 2010 1:17PM]

Is the élan just a pixi and if so I hope AT&T adds more storage to it. Besides it having wifi.