Palm Pixi Mobile Phone Review

The Palm Pixi is finally here, complete with 8 GB of storage, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 2.63” inch capacitive touch screen display with 320×400 pixels of resolution, a 2.0 mega pixel camera and Wi-Fi. Yep, the Palm Pixi is fully loaded yet retains a very small size. The balance of hardware and size in this mobile phone is nothing short of a technological wonder.

Sizing Up

If you are wondering what is running underneath the Pixi hardware, you will be pleased to know that this mobile phone is using a Qualcomm MSM7627 processor; that is some serious processing power and will run almost any application that you can expect to have on the Pixi. The most interesting thing about the whole set up is that Palm manages to do all this with a device that is really small. It is slim, light and very easy to carry.

Mini Smart Phone

Size-wise, this mobile device is about the range of a GSM phone. Still, it has everything that a smart phone needs and a little extra. It also has a 3.5mm audio jack, customizable and interchangeable casings (go check the artist series). The applications it can run are wide and intensive; even the browsing features are well made.

Should You Get It?

If you plan on getting a smart phone for a good price and would like to carry a small device that does not get in way, then you would really do well with the Pixi. Palm created a very good package for this mobile phone by adding in a touch screen and Wi-Fi. The full QWERTY keyboard looks small at first, but thanks to the buttons used for the keys, using the keyboard is pretty even for people with larger fingers. Lastly, the graphics quality on the screen is clear and vivid, and the 8GB memory lets you store lots of media on the device.

Source: blog.moby1

Palm Pixi Review

SAN FRANCISCO: Palm Inc., which revitalized its product line with the Pre smart phone launch in June, is hoping to keep momentum going with the release of a lighter, cheaper handset called the Pixi.

The company said Wednesday that the Pixi will be available during the holiday season in the U.S. through Sprint Nextel Corp., currently the Pre's exclusive wireless carrier.

Sunnyvale, California-based Palm would not divulge the Pixi's price tag, but confirmed it will be less than that of its big brother.

Sprint dropped the Pre's price by $50 to $150 on Wednesday, including two rebates and a two-year service contract.

"The combination of announcing a new device and changing the price on the Pre show we're aggressively pursuing new customers to get them accessing the WebOS experience," Katie Mitic, Palm's senior vice president of product marketing, said in an interview Tuesday.

The Pixi's release will mark Palm's second attempt in less than a year to use new software and streamlined designs to lure consumers in the still small but fast-growing smart phone market, which is dominated by Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.

According to market research firm NPD Group, smart phones made up 28 percent of consumer cell phone purchases in the second quarter, up 47 percent from the same period last year.

Palm hasn't disclosed the number of Pre smart phones sold.

But its stock has more than quadrupled since the company unveiled the device Jan. 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Like the Pre, the black, shiny Pixi will come with a touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and Palm's latest operating system, WebOS.

It will also have 8 gigabytes of built-in memory. But while the Pre's keyboard slides out from the bottom of the device, the Pixi's slightly smaller screen and keyboard both fit on the face of the candy bar-style handset.

The new smart phone is longer and slimmer than the Pre, and, at nearly 3.5 ounces, lighter.

It trades the Pre's center button for a tiny touch-sensitive bar that sits between the screen and keyboard.

As on the Pre, the real estate between the screen and keyboard also will be touch-sensitive for navigating the device.

The Pixi will sport a 2-megapixel camera, instead of its sibling's 3-megapixel version, and two small speakers rather than the Pre's single large one.

Building on an already available WebOS feature, the Pixi will be able to gather users' contacts from Yahoo and business-networking site LinkedIn.

The Pixi will include standard smart phone features like Global Positioning System, video and music players and a Web browser, but it won't have Wi-Fi.

A dedicated Facebook application will be released with the Pixi, Palm said. It is not yet clear if it will come loaded on the phone or will be available through Palm's online application store. - AP

Source: mobibu