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(Credit: Josh P. Miller/CNET)On Monday, Sprint and Palm announced that the Palm Pixi will be available starting November 15 for $99.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The Pixi will be sold online and in Sprint stores as well as Best Buy, Radio Shack and select Wal-Mart stores.
The Pixi is the second Web OS smartphone for Palm as well as Sprint and will be an exclusive to the carrier for an undisclosed amount of time. Unlike the Palm Pre, the Pixi features a candy-bar design and includes new capabilities such as the integration of LinkedIn and Yahoo contacts into Synergy, layered calendars, and a dedicated Facebook app.
Targeted to a bit of a younger audience than the Pre, the Pixi doesn't offer quite the same set of high-end features. You lose Wi-Fi and you get a smaller multitouch screen and a lesser camera (2 megapixels versus 3 megapixels) than the Pre.
Given the feature set and considering that the Palm Pre is available for as low as $79 now, we would have liked to seen the Palm Pixi priced around the $79.99 point. That said, we liked what we saw (name aside) when we got some brief hands-on time with the device back in early September. Of course, we'll work to get you a full review as soon as possible but in the meantime, what do you guys think?
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I'm an iPhone user, partially because my company picks up the tab for my cell phone, and we use AT&T company-wide. I like my phone, even if I do have some gripes, but if the Pre were ever to become available on AT&T, I'd consider making the switch. I'd at least want to try one out. I'd imagine there are a lot of people in my situation, who would try a Pre if it didn't mean signing up with Sprint.
I think they're going in the wrong direction with the Pixi. The "downmarket" idea is a bad one, going from Eos to "Pixi" will lose them half the market, and the hardware sacrifices are unnecessary. Shrinking the screen is a negative, as is requiring all the webOS apps to support a lower resolution. Dropping Wi-Fi on a phone this smart is a HUGE loss. Swapping for a slightly-lower-resolution camera can't be worth the loss in economies of scale.
They should've kept the non-cutesy name, kept Wi-Fi, kept the same screen and camera, and sold it alongside the Pre as a different form factor. It's starting out at $100 anyway, so sell them both for that much until you're ready to cut their prices together.
I really don't understand why they're hamstringing themselves with all the compromises.
More Androids coming (including 2.0), now another WebOS.
Too bad none of these things come to Brazil, not at a reasonable price.
There is not Android phone here yet, and they are set to cost about R$2500.00 (something like U$1600.00).
And BJJ has become more popular than boxing ! We envy your conversion to mostly ethanol.
It's now been linked in the article. Thanks.
http://walmart.letstalk.com/product/browse.htm?pgId=100&serviceCorpId=545&prId=35101&showPromoSpot=Y
touchscreen phones need a minimum of a 3" screen IMO
this is one of those devices that needs to be used before forming opinions I guess
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by Dan7637
October 29, 2009 7:54 PM PDT
- this is a crap phone just like the pre
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