The Palm Pre’s little brother, the Palm Pixi, is due to hit the market this Sunday, November 15th, and retailers are already offering the phone at discounted prices.
The Palm Pixi will be Sprint’s second webOS-powered smartphone. It features the same touchscreen and gesture-support that came with the Palm Pre. However, screen size is smaller at 2.6 inches as it has a slate-style QWERTY keyboard, compared to the Palm Pre’s slide out keyboard.

Other features include a; 2-megapixel camera, GPS, 3G data, 3.5mm headphone jack, and 8GB of onboard storage. The Pixi does not come with WiFi, but as long as you’re within reach of Sprint’s network, you’ll get 3G data speeds.

If you get the phone on Sprint, it will cost $99.99 on a two-year contract with a $100 mail-in rebate, but there are already better deals out there.

Walmart’s partner LetsTalk.com is offering the phone for $30 for a two-year contract without the mail-in rebate Sprint asks for. The only catch is that this needs to be a new contract, not an upgrade.

[Source: ibtimes]

Handhelds · Palm OS · PalmPixi · PalmPre · Smartphone · Sprint · Touchscreen · WebOS

webOS 1.3.1 is now available on the Palm Pre and will be available on the Palm Pixi.

• Yahoo! now appears as a Calendar/Contacts/instant messaging synchronization account.
• You can forward a text or multimedia message by tapping the message > Forward.
• A new option is available for restarting the phone: press and hold power > Power > Restart. The prior restart method (Device Info > Reset Options > Restart) is still available.
• Widescreen videos (including YouTube) now display in widescreen mode on the phone by default, instead of being cropped.
• If you tap to play a YouTube video embedded on a web page, the YouTube application launches and the video plays in the app.
• You can select a unique ringtone for new message alerts: Open Messaging > application menu > Preferences & Accounts > Sound > Ringtone.
• While listening to a song with album art displayed, you can tap the screen below the art to display a playback slider. Dragging the slider jumps forward or backward in the song.

[Source: Engadget]

Engadget · PalmPixi · PalmPre · Video · Web page · WebOS · yahoo · YouTube

Verizon will soon release the latest BlackBerry smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm 2, and the Telegraph poses the question, given the option of the new BlackBerry Storm 2, iPhone and Palm Pre, which should you choose?

Check their BlackBerry Storm 2 review video:

PalmPre · Verizon

Well we still don’t have the Pre in Verizon, but some of the Pre owners are testing it by putting it into a beer mug. The phone did not work after the experiment; a similar test of throwing the iPhone into a swimming pool worked better.

[source: TechCrunch]

iPhone · PalmPre

Last week we heard that we won’t get the Palm Pre at Verizon. Now the Examiner says that Verizon may be carrying an updated version of the Pre: one that has more memory (or a micro-sd slot), has a slightly bigger screen, and one that fixes the screen bleed problem.
Great news!

PalmPre · Verizon

There is a new deal from Amazon, selling the Palm Pre for $99 – Palm Pre Phone (Sprint).
It is on Sprint,tough, so will wait a little bit longer…

PalmPre

Sign the petition to ask Verizon Wireless to bring the Pre.

PalmPre · Verizon

Larry Dignan from ZDNet got to the conculusion that the slow startup time may be a deal breaker for him.
See why in this video.

PalmPre

Here is another proof that Sprint Palm Pre is faster than the AT&T’s iPhone 3G.
Can’t wait to test it on Verizon Wireless.

iPhone · PalmPre

ZDNet reports that the Palm Eos (codename: Pixie) phone will arrive in October 2010.

PalmPre · WebOS