The Second Coming of the WebOS: the Palm Pixi
The Palm Pixi will be launched in the UK, definitely. Palm announced that it would bring the Pixi to Europe (and also Canada), for now, the device is only available in the United States.
This mobile phone may be small, but it is creating a big demand. The Pixi combines stylish good looks and great hardware to bring a combination of aesthetics and function in a mobile device. The result is this 55 x 111 x 10.85 mm device that brings together a full keyboard, a touch screen and 8GB of storage –all while looking stylishly sleek.
One would expect that the phone would look cramped in terms of the layout. But the face of the device shows otherwise. The QWERTY keyboard has its keys spaced evenly apart and the 2.63 inch capacitive touch screen occupies the general upper half. There is a good sized boarder around the device and nothing feels squeezed or cramped.
Specifications
It also helps that the full QWERTY keyboard is not only nice to look at, but it performs impeccably well too. The keyboard has a resounding click per button and it is both responsive and easy to use. Pressing a key accurately does not require you to carefully use the device; the buttons are shaped well enough to press even with slightly bigger thumbs.
The Palm Pixi also has a 2 mega pixel camera, not really a high end camera, but it does a good job at taking quick photos for sharing with friends. The LED flash allows users to take images indoors or at night without much problems.
WebOS and Availability
The WebOS will be present in the Pixi. Even before Palm has secured the success of the Pre, they have put much faith in this OS -as shown when they announced the Pixi earlier on.
Getting the Pixi on contract can only be done in the US. No news about a Europe release date has been made so far.
Palm Pixi – The Advantage of Palm webOS
Palm Pixi, which is expected to be released in October in the UK and the US, is equipped with the latest operating system platform developed by Palm for its smartphones based on Linux, Palm webOS. The operating system first made its appearance in Palm Pre, which is the first of the Palm webOS smartphones, released in June 2009. The Advantage of Palm webOS is really playing a great role in the popularity of the latest Palm smartphones, and this technology is one of the reasons why the release of Palm Pixi is being anticipated so eagerly.
First of all the webOS interface is much more attractive and user friendly than what Palm had been offering before. The Palm webOS offers a much richer online experience that most smartphones can offer. One of its most attractive features is integrating the user accounts on Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM Instant Messenger, MS Outlook, Google and Yahoo mail into your phone’s main display, which also involves combine messaging. Along with that, it brings together all your contacts on different accounts into an integrated contact list on your phone, which can make it much easier for you to locate a contact when you intend to do so. It also has the option to present a layered calendar or schedule in order to allow you to plan and organize in a better manner.
One of the advantages of Palm webOS is multiple activities, so that you are not stuck in the display of a certain application, while you feel the need to access another. Furthermore, Palm webOS allows you to visit websites as they appear from a computer, instead of taking you to a mobile version of the website.
The new operating system is certainly a pleasant change for the Palm smartphones, but only time will tell how helpful it proves to them as far as the success of Palm Pixi is concerned. In the meantime check out all the offers for Palm Pixi on contract.