Palm Pixi with Touchstone

Palm introduced the newest member of the webOS family, the Pixi.  I have to say that this new phone is just de-lici-ous.  Its the advanced cousin of the Centro.  I do love my little Centro, but the Pixi has me drooling.  It will be available from Sprint in time for the holidays.  No word on when it will hit the other networks, but I am sure it will.  If Palm wants to be successful, they need to get as many people on board as possible.

As for what makes the new Pixi tick, it has a 2.63 inch screen with 18 bit color and a 320×400 pixel multi-touch screen.  The processor is a brand new chip set from Qualcomm,  ‘high-performance’ MSM7627 chipset.  Palm worked with Qualcomm to design this set, so the Pixi will be the first device to use it.  The new phone will also have 8Gb of storage, but no card slot of any kind.  I still think no room for additional storage is a mistake.  The Pixi is only 10.85mm (0.43 inches) thick, which is thinner than the iPhone and Pre. Its also lighter than both phones at 3.51oz.  No wi-fi on the phone, but you can still use Sprint’s 3G network.  Plus, in the age of customization, you have the option of buying some designer artistic backplates for your phone.   

Here is a laundry list of all of the other included hardware items:  EVDO Rev. A, the touch sensitive gesture area, a full QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 2 megapixel camera with flash, 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a MicroUSB port, proximity sensor, light sensor, accelerometer, ringer switch, and the same 1150 mAh battery.

I know I am looking forward to seeing this phone in the wild, and how it performs.

Via:  Pre Central.net

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