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Hot on the heels of the Palm Pixi Plus announcement, Palm has again taken center stage at CES to give us wind of the Palm Pre Plus.

There isn’t much new here, 16GB of internal storage, no more navigation button and Verizon branding. Oh, the back cover also supports TouchStone charging out of the box, if you’re into that kind of thing.

There was no mention of a price but we do know that it’s dropping on January 25th so Verizon users you will soon be able to get your hands on some webOS goodness.

Jon Rubinstein, CEO of Palm, recently took stage at this year’s CES to let us know that the Palm Pixi Plus is in fact a real device and is on its way to Verizon. If you’ll recall, rumors began circulating late last month that a device with this name would be hitting the streets at some point in the near future.

While you can read everything you want to know about the Pixi Plus in the press release here but notable features include 16GB of internal storage, WiFi and TouchStone compatibility.

The new year starts off with a big announcement from Samsung. They’ve finally announced their new interchangeable lens camera, the NX10, which was first shown in concept form at last year’s PMA. While details are still pretty sparse, here’s what I can tell you about it:Samsung NX10 

• 14.6 Megapixel CMOS sensor
• Mirrorless design (like the Panasonic Lumix G series and the Olympus E-P1) and new NX lens mount allows for a body roughly the size of the Panasonic DMC-G1
• “Ultra-fast” contrast-detect AF performance
• Supersonic Dust Reduction system
• 3-inch AMOLED display (with 614k pixels) offers improved contrast ratio and viewing angle over conventional LCDs
• Electronic viewfinder has 921k pixels and a magnification of 0.86X
• Smart Auto mode plus full manual controls
• “Smart Range” feature promises improved dynamic range
• Built-in flash plus a hot shoe
• Records movies at 1280 x 720 using the H.264 codec
• HDMI output
• Ships this Spring; pricing to be announced

There will initially be three NX lenses available: you’ve got your standard F3.5-5.6, 18 - 55 mm IS and F4.0-5.6, 50 - 200 mm IS kit lenses. An F2.0, 30 mm pancake lens will also be available.