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Palm Pixi To Street Nov. 15 For $100

Palm's second phone to run webOS will finally become available from Sprint starting on November 15. The Palm Pixi features a touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and an attractive $100 price point.

Palm's second phone to run webOS will finally become available from Sprint starting on November 15. The Palm Pixi features a touch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and an attractive $100 price point.If the Palm Pre, its first webOS device, wasn't your cup of tea, the new Palm Pixi offers an alternative. It is a candybar-style phone and is obviously a replacement product for the popular Palm Centro.

The Pixi is a valiant second effort from Palm. Palm has taken webOS a few steps further and will be including a native Facebook application on the Pixi. It also has a few other new applications, such as iLike, an app that helps find information about concerts, buy tickets, invite friends and add the concerts to your calendar.


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The hardware itself carries forward the design language seen on the Pre. In order to fit into such a small package, Palm had to make a few concessions. It loses Wi-Fi (boo!), and slows down the processor a bit. It also reduces the camera from 3.2 megapixels to just 2. The camera still manages to take fast pictures, though.

The Pixi is amazingly small. It's probably too small a phone for the likes of me. The keyboard borders on the ridiculous with its scrunched size. Though I was able to type on it reasonably well, I am pretty sure I'd develop cramps after extended use.

The Pixi is set to land in Sprint stores on November 15 for the low price of $100. Of course, that's after an "instant $50 rebate" and after a snail-mail-in $100 dollar rebate. Customers are going to pay $200 out of pocket for the phone at the store and wait for that $100 rebate to come back several weeks later. Given the combination of pricing and design of the phone, it's clearly not meant for business-y types. I'd expect teenagers to adopt this phone in droves.

In case you've forgotten all about what the Pixi looks like, here's a hands-on video I shot when the phone was first announced:


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