Palm Elan TouchScreen Phone Coming To AT&T?

Ok, first and foremost, we are not still sure if “Elan” is the name of an upcoming model from Palm or if this is a codeword for something that exists already. But rumors are in that AT&T has been testing on this WebOS handset due for release in the first half of May.

You might recall that we had written about WebOS coming to AT&T last month. Back then, the speculations were that Palm Pre and Pixi could be the models coming to Ma Bell. The new name doing the rounds is expected to be a completely touchscreen phone with soft keyboard – much like the iPhone or Nexus One.

We hope this rumor turns out to be true. You can then expect the Palm handset to be out on AT&T stores on May 10.

[via PreCentral]

Blackberry Slider QWERTY Device In The Works

After fiddling with plain QWERTY and touch screen keyboard, it now appears that Research In Motion is looking at a Palm Pre-esque sliding QWERTY keyboard for their upcoming device.  Folks at Boy Genius Report offer more insights into this new handset

• Portrait-oriented slider keyboard
• Run on BlackBerry OS 6.0
• Support Wi-Fi 802.11n
• 360×480 Resolution

A Palm Pre kind phone running on Blackberry OS. Tell me, are you interested?

[via BGR]

Palm Pre On AT&T Launching In May?

Documents submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by Palm suggest that the GSM version of Palm Pre might go on sale in the US around the 10th of May.

This has been revealed by members at the PreCentral forums who have compared the dates published on the FCC documents with actual launch dates for several of Palm’s earlier launches including the original Palm Pre, Pixi and Pixi Plus.

Palm Pre launched in the US on the Sprint network back in June 2009 and has since then launched variants like the Pre Plus in both America as well as in Europe.

Palm Pre on AT&T could be a boost for the GSM carrier whose exclusive deal with the iPhone is expected to end later this year. You might remember that Ma Bell had promised during CES 2010 to carry WebOS devices by the “first half of 2010“.

[via PreCentral, Forums]