Palm Pixi: Palm taking it to the masses?
Palm has officially announced the second device to be outfitted with its webOS mobile platform. Previously leaked as the Eos and now officially known as the Pixi. The Pixi loses the slide out keyboard for a candy bar form factor, yet still keeping a full qwerty keyboard. It slims down to a mere 0.67″ thin (by comparison the iPhone 3GS is 0.48″), but doesn’t lose the capacitive touchscreen or the number of pixels.
What’s does this have:
Palm’s also introducing what they’re calling the “Artist Series”, which includes backplates not unlike those for the myTouch on T-Mobile, adding some flare to those Pixi’s out there. The back plates are also fully compatible with the touchstone wireless charging accessory and right now comes in five different variations.
It looks like Palm’s been hard at work not only with getting a new device out the door, but adding some much needed software additions and tweak,s as well. Palm has added LinkedIn and Yahoo to your synergy contacts, Yahoo to the messeging application, and rouding it out with an official Facebook application.
What it doesn’t have:
It loses the shiny metal click button at the bottom right below the gesture area, WiFi and gets a slower processor (a Qualcomm MSM7627 as opposed to the pre’s TI OMAP 3). It still does not have a microSD card slot, but keeps the 8 GB internal storage. Since this phone is coming to Sprint, expect it to be a CDMA only device, so those expecting this to be that first GSM webOS device, you’ll need to wait a wee bit longer.
Be sure to keep an eye out for this soon on Sprint, for an unknown price point. As this will surely be aimed at the Centro crowd, Sprint will most likely shoot for a price of around $99-$150, which is after a two-year agreement, of course. Read more about the Pixi here on Palm’s site and the full specs here.
--written by Peter To--
