http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/ Engadget Comments for The Palm Pixi is official, headed to Sprint this holiday season -- we've got hands-on and video! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/


Honestly, I wanted some equal opportunity hate... I am disappointed.


Nice phone BTW. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Seriously, I'm locked in an AT&T contract over a not-so-great phone and I would love for them to carry phone.]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Perhaps, I have my taste is too good for Palm? ;)



]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
"HTC claims Tattoo's screen is too small for capacitive to work well"


Talk about an HTC *FACEPALM*...

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When it first appeared in spy photos, this thing looked hot, but without wifi, it's just a lightweight contender. Why oh why does Palm do this sort of idiotic stuff? They got everything else right, EXCEPT for not having built-in wifi.

Sure, they'll win a lot of early sales, until the complaints start rolling in about how it lacks wifi while everyone else has it...then FAIL!]]>Sep 9th 2009 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
To be fair, the touchscreen didn't work all that well in the demo.]]>Sep 9th 2009 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
It's already "2nd half of 2009," so why is AT&T dropping the ball here? ]]>Sep 9th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Maybe for some people.

I'm a cheap-o and I want free internet access at my house (well, not really FREE but you know what I mean), because I don't want to pay for the data plan.

Not having WiFi is a dealbreaker for me.]]>Sep 9th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
i think I need an eye checkup, i can barely see your comment.]]>Sep 9th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
If you have a good, high-speed 3g network on your phone why would you need wifi? 3g can stream video large enough to max out that screen no problem. If you want a fatter, more expensive phone with a wifi chip get the palm pre. I am glad that they cut wifi instead of 3g, 3.5mm jack, or capacitive touch screen when trying to make a less expensive, streamlined product.]]>Sep 9th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Oh god, here we go with the touch screen arguements again.

I'd consider the phone if they had cut 3G and kept WiFi, but it is dead to me now.

That being said, this phone is more aimed at the "average joe/jane" who doesn't care about those things...

But I'm cheap. I want a cheap phone with WiFi and a Smartphone OS - and RIM seems like the only company willing to give me what I want.

Goodbye idea of having a WebOS phone - hello UNLOCKED Blackberry Curve 8520!]]>Sep 9th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Without WiFi, you have to roam on Rogers Wireless in Canada and at some isolated National Parks. Good luck with that, eh?

Me, not so much; I prefer to use my WiFi at a free hotspot to check emails, and now, VOIP.

You can keep your Pixi without WiFi, and I'll keep my smart phone with WiFi and 3G.]]>Sep 9th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
I'm not as readily convinced that WiFi is a deal breaker for most people. I'm definitely what you'd call a power user, and my HTC Magic has built-in WiFi, but I virtually never enable it. It's just easier to use cellular service all the time, even when I'm at home or work.]]>Sep 9th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Can it play black and off-yellow Snake?]]>Sep 10th 2009 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
I understand some of you folks in Canada and outside the US who don;t have an unlimited option with your carrier. But frankly, why complain about a phone that is exclusively for the Sprint network. Well, at least this version of the Pixi is.]]>Sep 12th 2009 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 17th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
I don't have dainty digits, either. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
As someone who also has very large hands, I have to disagree. A few months back, someone I knew gave me a tip that if I go to a certain Sprint store, I could play with a turned on Pre. The result? I thought WebOS was a pretty good operating system, but...

The QWERTY keyboard was absolutely horrible. Coming from someone who is normally used to the keyboards made by HTC (which is typically very nice), I simply hated the one offered by Palm. The buttons were way too small and the decision to use the bubble-like covering was a horrible design decision. It felt as if my fingernails were physically sticking to the buttons I press and the tactile response was very poor.

I was significantly surprised by my findings as I rarely criticize any phone's keyboard that heavily, but after trying out the Pre, it is definitely one of my major complaints about the phone.]]>Sep 9th 2009 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
Clip your fingernails, bro. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
I agree.. clip your fingernails..

Wouldn't you have big problems with capacitive touch screens (virtual keyboards mostly I suppose) given that its the touch contact that interrupts the magnetic field.. which your fingernails wouldn't really do..

Otherwise, you could always whittle your thumbs down into a point like that dude :)


]]>Sep 9th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/"Wouldn't you have big problems with capacitive touch screens (virtual keyboards mostly I suppose) given that its the touch contact that interrupts the magnetic field.. which your fingernails wouldn't really do.."

No, I don't have a problem with capacitive screens. I simply use my fingers to control a capacitive. I'm assuming you and that other guy are thinking that my nails are so long that it accidentally touches things when I use my fingers. It isn't; I am intentionally using my fingernails to type instead of my fingers because I find it more comfortable and accurate (again, large hands, remember?)..

But from the high ranking he gets, I'm assuming no one agrees with me. That's fine; I don't care what others thinks, but so far as I'm concerned, the Pre does have the worst keyboard I've used.]]>Sep 9th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
The only garbage phones that Engadet still covers are WinMo phones. Thankfully 3rd party manufacturers are seeing the light and choosing to adopt Android instead. Specially HTC (maker 80% of all WinMo phones) is shrinking WinMo phone production down to 50% and increasing Android phones to 50%. Good riddance.]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
it looks like a cheap piece of crap

especially with that giant space between the screen and the buttons, i hope thats like a capacative touch area or something]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/
It's called vindictive justice.]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/

Curse you fanboys! D=]]>Sep 9th 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 11th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/the-palm-pixi-is-official-headed-to-sprint-this-holiday-season/Sep 9th 2009 12:44AM