Pixi Extends the Lines of Smartphones. by Milota Sidorova

New release from Palm Inc, brother generation to its Pre line was announced this week. New smartphone called Pixi should cover the demand for cheaper, but playful and effective phones which was far away from the previous products. Pixi should also rival iPhone 3G or Blackberry, but according analysts objective competition is unlikely to happen. Although Pixi is smaller, thinner and lighter than Apple’s iPhone with just 10.85 mm deep, 111 mm tall, and 55 mm wide it’s hardly to break the lines of million loyal iPhone or Blackberry customers. Pixi offers 2.63 inches across touch sensitive screen – smaller that 3.1 inch 320x480 Pre screen or 3.5 inches on iP! hone and classic full PC keyboard that, to be honest, makes the usual phone activity harder to control. Just like any other smartphones it offers GPS, 2 megapixel camera with flash, 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, 8 GB of storage space (7 GB available for user), USB port, proximity sensor, light sensor, accelerometer, ringer switch, the same 1150 mAh battery. The whole device weights less than 100 g that makes it one of the lightest smartphones on the market. But different layout and visible changes may not be enough. Pixi, just like any other from Palm’s line doesn’t offer Wifi feature. According reviews its processor should be slower than Pre, but it still remains unbenchmarked. Pixi, however, is getting its update via webOS from Yahoo! and LinkedIn joining Synergy. Messaging will be possible through Google Talk, AIM, SMS/MMS or Yahoo email with, built in, push! Palm Inc, announced Pixi release this week, along with Apple’s update for iPod and ! new phone release from Motorola. The company said it will be a! valaible by the end of this year.

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by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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