Palm Pixi priced in the US

Bonnie Cha | Oct 27, 2009

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On Monday, Sprint and Palm announced that the Palm Pixi will be available starting November 15 for US$99.99 with a two-year contract and after a US$100 mail-in rebate. The Pixi will be sold online and in Sprint stores as well as Best Buy, Radio Shack and select Wal-Mart stores.

Editor's note: The Palm Pixi is a CDMA product for the US market and will not be available in Asia. There is currently no word on a GSM version.

The Pixi is the second webOS smartphone for Palm as well as Sprint and will be an exclusive to the carrier for an undisclosed amount of time. Unlike the Palm Pre, the Pixi features a candy-bar design and includes new capabilities such as the integration of LinkedIn and Yahoo contacts into Synergy, layered calendars, and a dedicated Facebook app.

Targeted to a bit of a younger audience than the Pre, the Pixi doesn't offer quite the same set of high-end features. You lose Wi-Fi and you get a smaller multitouch screen and a lesser camera (2 megapixels versus 3 megapixels) than the Pre.

Given the feature set and considering that the Palm Pre is available for as low as US$79 now, we would have liked to seen the Palm Pixi priced around the US$79.99 point. That said, we liked what we saw (name aside) when we got some brief hands-on time with the device back in early September. Of course, we'll work to get you a full review as soon as possible but in the meantime, what do you guys think?

Via CNET News

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winniekepala says...
I don't like the design of the Pixi as much as the Pre. But if it's targeted at SMS heavy youth, in Asia this would not work as well, too. I am still waiting for my chance to play with the Pre (whenever it's going to hit Asia?)

Oct 28, 2009 02:14