Introducing Palm Pixi, the newest member of the Palm webOS family

All the power of Palm webOS -- including multitasking activity cards, Palm Synergy, intuitive notifications, and universal search -- will soon be available in a striking new form factor. Palm Pixi -- due on the Sprint network in time for the holidays -- is Palm’s thinnest phone ever. With a visible full keyboard and rubberized back cover, Palm Pixi is especially handy for extensive messaging and social networking. 

Want to add a touch of extra style? The Palm Pixi Artist Series offers you a selection of limited-edition back covers in a range of eye-catching designs. You can find all the designs in the first Artist Series here, and you can find more details about Palm Pixi here. And here’s some good news about the older sibling in the family: You can now purchase a Palm Pre from Sprint for as low as $149.99 with contract. 

Jon Zilber

Comments

[Barry Poole]

Once again, Palm designers have missed the mark. While the layered application feature, and the multi-touch screen are nice touches, when will Palm learn that a touch screen should be utilized as a keyboard? I would have purchased a Pre, but I can't easily use the top row of characters. Now, the Pixi, Palm has reduced the size of the screen and added the Centro keyboard. Easier to use, but at the cost of the reduced screen...NOT AN IMPROVEMENT! If they wanted a to design a phone that would make iPhone-less Sprint users happy, they'd give it a touch screen keyboard (with landscape mode), or at the very least equip it with a longer keyboard that slides out from the side. People with larger fingers need bigger (or hard to get to) keys. Close, but no cigar.

[Alex]

From the specs, I think that the Pixi could be a very nice phone since I do not like slider phones at all.
But there is one fact that I cant accept which is that the Pixi has NO WIFI!
This is not up to date for a "smartphone" and the decison to leave WIFI is totally not comprehensible. I hope Palm is going to gain the consciousness and will implent wifi.

[Jennifer]

I love palm and how easily it works with my microsoft based life. I've had a zire, treo, and now a centro... I do have to say, however, that I've been disappointed lately. Calls drop, the screens are shrinking, and the data packages are not worth the extra money.

I'm not quite a 'pre' or 'pixi' kind of girl (I agree with the name/girly assessment of these phones) but I'm not a suit wearing treo type either.

I'm due for an upgrade and seriously considering a blackberry or an iphone (*cringe at the thought of an apple product*) because of the screen size, wi-fi capabilities, and integration of media features.

when are you going to come out with a phone that can seriously compete?

[Noreen]

Awww.. If only..
No wi-fi? Really?
Still no Flash 9 player??
Developers... Think outside the box.
The next generation (and even current generation) phone users are connected online! Using the device as a portable computer as well as phone..

I was sooo close to putting the Pixi on my upgrade list. Well... Looks like I try to get more life out of my 755p. (Even though I can't find a flash player for it anywhere! At least I can get online with my wireless plan, and use my phone as modem for my netbook..)

[Marc]

I see a lot of others have said what I wanted to say: I loved Palms, before they became phones. I have had problems with Sprint and AT&T, so I no longer get Palms. WindowsMobile is a pain. I want to go back to Palm, but only when I can with a carrier that Consumer Reports has rated as #1 in practically every major city in the country (that is, Verizon). I have no financial interest in Verizon, I don't even own stock in the company, I just like quality. That's why I like Palm and that's why I like Verizon. One without the other just doesn't work.

[JP6245]

This is exactly the phone I was hoping for from you guys. I am ready to purchase! I hope it will be sooner than later.

[Vadim]

One minus - only cdma. I think it will be better if it will GSM.

[Bill]

I am disappointed that Palm smart phones continue to use Sprint exclusively. I have been using Palm products since 1997 and would like that streak to continue, but you are trying to sell a terrific product through a horrible wireless carrier. When my Centro dies (hopefully not anytime soon!)I will be force to go with a competitor so that I can stay on the Verizon network. Change your business model!!!!

[Meg]

Will be the Pixi allow you to forward text messages? I hate that the Pre won't do it! :-(

[rtgreen.blogspot.com]

Hello Palm! I'am from Crimea! Come to Ukraine, and brings new Palm. :) When I was at high school - I had a palm m100, when I studied at the university - was a palm tungsten e2, and now I have finished university and want to update my PDA to Palm PRE! ;)

[RobAnd]

Bring the Pre and Pixi to Brazil as soon as possible Palm!!!!

[awesomo]

Hello Palm, how about a GSM version for the rest of the world? I'm due for an upgrade and was hoping that the Pixi I've heard so much about would be GSM, but now I'm afraid that the HTC Hero or Magic will be getting my money. Too bad.

[Fk]

Please palm give us a GSM unlocked version of the Pixi for Europe asap in the same way you made the Centro available unlocked in Europe. With ignoring us we will be forced to continue buying iPhones, BlackBerries abf Androids!

Please don't dissapoint us!

[Brewdog]

I tried the Pre in Seattle and found Sprint coverage to be absent for several blocks around my home (within the city limits) and unexceptional elsewhere. Having traveled the US and Canada extensively I've been served well by GSM. But Sprint, I have no idea how people who rely on their phone, for work or otherwise, use Sprint service; especially in this city.
I've had PalmPilots back to the Pro and two Palm phones. I'm a longtime Palm advocates who'd love to come back and I'm sure I'm not alone. If you build it your AT&T customers will come(although they'll likely never stop complaining about how long you've made them wait).

Issues with the Pre that ought to be addressed prior to a GSM release:
speaker - speaker phone and alarm volume was totally insufficient, unusable in an operational car or any room outside a library.
keypad - the Treo 650 had the most user friendly phone qwerty keyboard (perhaps ever). Palm promoted the exhaustive usability studies that generated this design, then flushed all that hard work and refinement for chic featureless keypads that you couldn't find with both hands in the dark. Please bring back hard plastic buttons with unique topographies. I don't know what it's like to read braille for the first time, but I assume the satisfaction is similar to that of one-handed, no-look texting on the 650. It really was brilliant, that old brick.

[Michael]

Hello Palm

I'm from Canada and first off I'd like to say that I love my Pre. However I'm a little concerned about the choice in name with your new device. The one your marketing team has called the "Pixi". Now I'm no marketing expert, however I'd like to throw a name suggestion your way. Ok how about this: the "Aro" pronounced "arrow" and like an arrow, it's light and fast. Take the name, it's yours. I came up with that in 10 minutes and two beers.

[www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11707215]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! Make this on GSM.. The Pixi is the phone I have been dreaming about.. I have t-mobile, would LOVE to be able to have this phone or even an unlocked version.. PLEASE DON'T DEPRIVE US GSM USERS

[Rachell]

Love palm but want the pixi on verizon network - will probably not switch to Sprint just for this phone.

[DoubleB]

Agree with a few others here...

Would love to buy one but will never move over to SPRINT. I feel that was the biggest failure with the PRE product hence the lukewarm sales.

Understandably, AT&T and T-MOBILE have their own smartphone competitor (iPhone/Android phones)... it was odd that PALM did not go with VERIZON.

A bit off topic regarding the choice of SPRINT... Palm has these elegant business/pro-consumer phones and yet they chose a carrier whose name is associated with NASCAR no doubt not a crowd who needs such a device (I'm not saying NASCAR fans will not use this... sure they will but the NASCAR crowd is not their target audience)... mixed message as far as marketing goes.

Let's see if a unlocked GSM model debuts before black Friday... if not iPhone or Android here I come.

[Edgar Walls]

Girlie name, I'll let go, but no WiFi? Otherwise, you at Palm would have a killer everything.

[Matt]

A better name would have been Pixē

[Andrea Ferraro]

I use an iphone and I'm not happy with its touch keyboard. I'm looking for another mobile. Right now Palm Pixi absolutely seem to be the sexiest and coolest stuff on the basket... Please, give us europeans a GSM chance!

[UK]

OK, I'm getting one.
Pre-requisites: get it out in Europe by the end of the year
-and (for Heaven's sake) include Wifi in the UMTS version. Really, Palm. All you need to add is a tiny antenna ;-)
o2 won't kill you for that. But your customers (those guys Mr. Rubinstein expressly thanked for their support) will love you, that's for sure.

[twitter.com/Gengx]

I would like have a webOS phone with full keyboard and !!!!!!!FIVE WAY NAVIGATION KEYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[twitter.com/Gengx]

I am using palm 755p. It is a amazing phone except the weak web applications. I am waiting for a webOS phone with FIVE WAY NAVIGATION KEYS!

[FK]

GSM unlocked for Europe and the rest of the worls please soon!