Palm Pixi Gets Official
September 9, 2009 – 5:40 pm
Palm has officially announced its second WebOS smarthone that called Palm Pixi. The Palm Pixi which previously known as Palm Eos or Palm Pixie, is a candybar phone with features a touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard.
The Palm Pixi comes with a 2.63-inch multi-touch screen with a vibrant 18-bit color 320×400 resolution TFT display, Accelerometer, a gesture area below the display, enabling intuitive gestures for navigation, 2 megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash, supports High-speed EVDO Rev. A connectivity, GPS support, Bluetooth v2.1 EDR, microUSB, and 8GB of Internal Memory.
Here are full specifications of Palm Pixi :
- High-speed connectivity (EVDO Rev. A)
- 2.63-inch multi-touch screen with a vibrant 18-bit color 320×400 resolution TFT display
- Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation
- Exposed QWERTY keyboard for fast messaging
- Robust messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities), including Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! IM
- High-performance, desktop-class web browser
- Integrated GPS(8)
- Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music, and featuring a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack
- Email, including Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers), as well as personal email support (Google push, Yahoo! push, POP3, IMAP)(9)
- Bluetooth(R) 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support
- 8GB of internal user storage (~7GB user available)(10)
- USB mass storage mode
- MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- The first handset to launch with Qualcomm’s high-performance MSM7627(TM) chipset
- Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear
- Light sensor, which dims the display if the ambient light is dark, such as at night or in a movie theater, to reduce power usage
- Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective
- Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch
- Removable, rechargeable 1150 mAh battery
- Dimensions: 55mm (W) x 111mm (L) x 10.85mm (D) [2.17 in. (W) x 4.37 in. (L) x 0.43 in. (D)]
- Weight: 99.5 grams (3.51 ounces)
- Sprint services, including Sprint TV(R) and Sprint Radio, Sprint Navigation, Sprint’s exclusive NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile Live
The Palm Pixi will be available from Sprint in time for the holidays. Pricing for the phone, as well as the limited-edition Palm Pixi Artist Series covers, will be announced later this year.
In addition, the Palm Pre phone from Sprint is now available for $149.99 with a two-year service agreement and after a $150 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate.
