Palm has announced on 9 September 2009 that a tiny, sleek web OS based handset, Pixi will be coming to sprint holiday season of year 2009. The phone will hit shelves with 8GB of storage onboard, a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.63-inch, 320 x 400 capacitive displays in a minute and 2 megapixel cameras with flash.
Palm Pixi features
- 3.5mm headset jack
- Dual-band CDMA and EV-DO Rev A
- email/IM support
- 2 megapixel camera with flash
- GPS
- 8GB of internal memory
From Palm’s Touchstone charging dock, Palm Pixi will support wireless charging. The Pixi seems like a webOS version of the old Palm OS Centro, but with an improved by all appearances.
Price review:
Price of palm Pixi screen on its pre entry pointed to $149.99 but it is assumed that it’s going to be in the $99 or less ballpark. The Pre sells for $200 after $100 rebate.
Palm Pixi Screenshot
One is price. This phone should be $49 or even free, since a Pre can be had for $79-$99 easy and is the superior phone here. Plus, the Droid Eris at $99 is a better phone with WiFi.
Second, WebOS. Though I really like it and think it works great, compared to the other guys out there, namely Apple and Android, it offers little. While those OSes have a number of apps, and Android is open and on a number of handsets, is open and of course Google, where does WebOS fit here? Even WinMo has its place.
I ought to say that my decision to acquire a Palm Pixi with Sprint program was both a rational and emotional 1. I imply, the Palm Pixi is lovely and functional. And coupled with the support quality of Sprint, it appears nothing short of the revolution inside the producing. I think that Palm and Sprint have (almost) hit it off famously. I did a good deal of exploration before buying the Pixi but overlooked at lowest one particular point. The Pixi will not, yet, allow me synchronize my e-mails involving it and Outlook. As far as I’m concerned, this really is a drawback I am facing unless Palm comes up which has a solution easily. With my prior SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails as well as other data with one’s Pc. But Pixi’s inability to do so is creating life a little difficult for me simply because I have to Bcc every e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address and then manually transfer it on the ‘sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at minimum a third-party, will come up which has a answer really quickly which will very easily let me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all necessary info, between the Pixi and my office Computer.