First off let me say this, I have always been a major fan of webOS. The GUI is absolutely gorgeous, and the way it handles multitasking is lightyears ahead of the rest of the market. The Pixi comes preloaded with the latest build of webOS and with it comes Yahoo integration.
I had to go to a Sprint retail store since Palm is unreliable with their review units. We received an email shortly after the release of the Palm Pre from Palm’s marketing department letting us know that they would be sending us a unit to review ASAP, but to this date we have still not received it.
The Pixi is extremely tiny. As you can see in the picture, my hand dwarfs the entirety of the device. While having a small device might seem convenient and appealing at first, you should know that the keyboard is way too cramped and the screen is hardly manageable with its 2.63-inch multitouch screen with 18-bit color, 320×400 screen resolution Sub-HVGA display.
While it lacks WiFi, Sprint’s network is very capable of handling most of your data needs. The web browser on the device is in my opinion second only to the one found on the iPhone. Like the Pre, it also features over-the-air backup, restore, remote erase, and software updates.
Applications are all the rage these days. The App Catalog found on the Pre and Pixi is still quite undeveloped when compared to other devices. With that in mind, their new Ares SDK has just left private beta testing and now is in public beta. Hopefully this will breath some life into the App Catalog and catch it up to par.
All in all the device really is not that bad. My only faults with it are its small screen and cramped keyboard. I am extremely bias though because I am used to the iPhone with a bigger screen and have never really liked keyboards. I would recommend this to a first time smart phone user or somebody who is in love with webOS’s brilliant GUI and maybe just does not want a slider phone (Palm Pre).
I need to say that my determination to purchase a Palm Pixi with Sprint program was each a rational and emotional 1. I mean, the Palm Pixi is beautiful and functional. And coupled using the assistance excellent of Sprint, it appears practically nothing brief of a revolution inside producing. I think that Palm and Sprint have (almost) hit it off famously. I did a good deal of study just before getting the Pixi but overlooked at minimum 1 factor. The Pixi doesn’t, yet, permit me synchronize my e-mails in between it and Outlook. As far as I am concerned, this is a drawback I’m facing unless Palm comes up which includes a remedy easily. With my previous SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails as well as other information with one’s Personal computer. But Pixi’s inability to perform so is doing existence a little hard for me because I have to Bcc every single e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address after which manually transfer it towards the ‘sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at least a third-party, will arrive up which has a answer extremely quickly that can simply let me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all required information, in between the Pixi and my office Personal computer.