Palm Pixi Officially Announced
Palm has finally unveiled its second WebOS smartphone, officially called Palm Pixi (previously known as Palm Eos or Palm Pixie). The Pixi is a candybar with a touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keypad. Weighing only 99.5 grams (3.51 ounces) and measuring 111 x 55 x 10.85 mm (4.37 x 2.17 x 0.43 inches), the new Pixi is the thinnest Palm smartphone ever.
Since it runs on WebOS, Palm Pixi comes with Palm Synergy, which links your information from Google, Exchange ActiveSync, Facebook, Yahoo! and LinkedIn. The new smartphone also comes with access to the Palm Beta App Catalog, which includes entertainment and social networking applications like Yelp and Local Concerts by iLike. The back cover of Palm Pixi is rubberized, thus being scratch-resistant and durable.
Here are the main features of Palm Pixi:
- 2.63 inch multi-touch screen with 320 x 400 pixels
- A gesture area below the display, enabling intuitive gestures for navigation
- Accelerometer
- Proximity sensor, light sensor
- EVDO Rev. A connectivity
- GPS
- Desktop-class web browser
- 2MP fixed-focus camera with LED flash
- 3.5mm headset jack
- Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP
- MicroUSB connector
- Qualcomm MSM7627 chipset
- 8GB of internal memory
- 1150 mAh battery

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