AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide)

You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore. But you just never mind all that, what's important is that AT&T subscribers will finally have dibs on the Palm Pre Plus starting May 16th, nationwide. No mention of a free 3G mobile hotspot capability like that offered by Verizon, but you will have free access to AT&T's 20k-strong network of fixed hotspots. Now we just need a price -- an interesting dilemma after VZW lowered the PPP to just $30 on contract.

Our tipster also tells us that AT&T will be rolling out its 3G MicroCell from coast-to-coast on the same day. Makes sense since AT&T already gave us a mid-April date for its little signal boosting wonder.

[Thanks, D.]

Update: We just spoke to AT&T about this whole ordeal; they wouldn't confirm or deny the Pre Plus situation, but we were told that there's "no change" in the MicroCell plans -- May 16 won't be a nationwide rollout, and there will be more rollouts in the weeks after.

[Waltah Posted May 7th 2010 9:08AM]

@young hov 718
That's nice for Sprint customers (if it happens). That has nothing to do with AT&T customers though.

[nastro Posted May 7th 2010 7:47AM]

Will the Palm pixi be released at the same time?

[TheLondonExchange Posted May 7th 2010 7:55AM]

Does anyone actually care about this old phone??

[Waltah Posted May 7th 2010 9:08AM]

@TheLondonExchange
yup

[SoManyPhones Posted May 7th 2010 8:04AM]

for anyone on the fence I absolutely love my pre it is very comparable to an iphone as far as o.s quality add on top of that real multitasking universal search and a bunch of other small things make this phone great. At&t version is also the plus meaning your processor is twice as big as your sprint counterpart..and the best feature of all is integrated messaging. So say my girls texts picture mail gmail talk aol talk .. All go to one switchable message thread .. A feature that is hard to live without once you use it

[bnceo Posted May 7th 2010 9:37AM]

@SoManyPhones

The processor is the same. It's the added (double) RAM and the bigger HD.

[kulf Posted May 7th 2010 9:16AM]

nice abbreviation: ppp
in music., this is for "as quietly as possible". Hope the AT&T launch will be loud, though...

[ToniCipriani Posted May 7th 2010 9:49AM]

@kulf Thing is it's confusing... Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus are both PPP...

[Sniggih Posted May 7th 2010 10:53AM]

Im so Embarrassed to be with AT&T its like a fat girl friend that you dont let out of the house.... nothing to offer to the relationship but time wasting.

[nefnet13 Posted May 7th 2010 1:06PM]

All you current Pre owners:
Does the Pre sync contacts & calendar information with desktop Outlook when NOT using an Exchange server, and does it work well? I would assume there's at least a 3rd party solution from Chapura or something but until I know that for sure and they fix the aGPS/mapping problems I just can't drop my old Q9H yet...

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted May 7th 2010 3:14PM]

Well bout time their doing something right for PALM. Now I get to tell me sister bout it cause her Black Berry curve is messing up right now.

[ruffi Posted May 8th 2010 6:47PM]

i live in El Paso, TX and they already are selling the microcell in our stores....