Palm Pixi Headed to Sprint This Holiday Season
29th October, 2009 by Adina
Tags: News, Palm, Pixi, Sprint
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Palm has announced that the Pixi – a tiny webOS-based handset – will come to Sprint this holiday season. The phone will hit shelves without Wi-Fi, only with EVDO Revision A, with 8GB of storage onboard, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a 2.63-inch, 320×400 capacitive multitouch display. The Palm Pixi is the successor of the Centro. Compared to the Palm Pre, the Pixi introduces a native Facebook application, as well as new Yahoo! and LinkedIn integration for Synergy. Along with the new device, Palm offers five artist-designed back covers which can be purchased separately, included in the “Palm Pixi Artist Series”, similar to Zune Originals and Dell’s Design Studio laptops.
Intensely criticized for its too high price of Pre, compared to the rival iPhone, as well as for the small application store and lower performance, Palm is putting all its hope in the new released Pixi smartphone, exclusively meant for Sprint.
The Pixi smartphone will be available in the carrier’s stores on the 15th of November at a price of $100 on contract and with a $50 immediate rebate as well as a mail-in rebate of $100. It also works with the Touchstone inductive charging dock, but it will need an $80 add-on and a $20 back shell to enable wireless charging.
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“Intensely criticized for its too high price of Pre, compared to the rival iPhone, as well as for the small application store and lower performance…”
The Pre is $50 less than the iPhone. It’s true that the app store is small, but lower performance? In what way? In real world, everyday use, the Pre is infinitely more useful than the iPhone for the simple fact of being able to quickly and effeciently manage multiple applications at once. The processor is just as quick, the web browser equally responsive… Yes, it lacks video, but that’s a lack of FEATURES, not lower PERFORMANCE.
Also, the Touchstone will be $80 INCLUDING the back shell. The way it is stated in the article makes it seem like the Touchstone is a $100 upgrade.
i can’t wait to land this phone in the philippines.