Palm Pixi Plus for Europe granted student visa, hangs out at FCC HQ
By Chris Ziegler 
posted April 17th 2010 5:04AM
posted April 17th 2010 5:04AM
posted April 17th 2010 5:04AM
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Does that happen?
well thats rubbish, i reckon its the same cup of tea
@Miakandogadget
WTF is wrong with this hand ??
It looks like a... ( -_-);
@iBurger
Blasphemy! Palm must die!
Looks like Palms logo getting punched, while someone runs off with all of palms remaining cash,
@OCEAN CLAK
Or it could be the movie poster from National Lampoons European Vacation....
Damn you Chevy Chase, thats Palms money!!!
Yeah! A good reason to drop my old Corona
Someone's got a thing for Oliver Frey artwork.
@abugida Or Frazetta:
http://images.google.com/images?q=frazetta
Or Hickman:
http://www.stephenhickman.com/fantasy.html
@abugida
I'm pretty sure that's a Boris Vallejo. I may be wrong though.
@abugida Well its not Frazetta or Vallejo or Bell for that matter. Or if it is, I'm either missing that image, or failed to spot it.
However if it really isn't those guys or JBell, then I'd really, really like to find out just exactly whose work this is.
@martix
No, it's definitely Vallejo...
http://www.impawards.com/1985/european_vacation_xlg.html
@built2spill I stand corrected.
were the hell is the new hardware..
@young hov 718
This is palm's (as we now know it) swan song. Didn't you read the latest articles?
"so when you pick up a Pixi Plus from your O2 shop on the next few weeks"
I doubt anyone will. O2's prices and tariffs for the Pre were stupid. They expected people to pay the Apple tax on a product with zero brand recognition in the UK.
@xbit Thing is this time round O2 doesn't have exclusivity, Vodafone is carrying it too, at least in Germany. They did on the Pre so they thought they can pull it off.
I can't believe that Palm are only just now trying to flog that old, dead horse in the UK.
@Rod I'ts not old and it's not dead. The Pre plus and Pixi plus came out in January, if you don't think there's a huge difference between the older sprint models and the newer plus models you've never used either.
Not gonna happen with the HTC Desire hanging around.
@weeman It depends really, not to most people on Engadget, but I quite fancy picking one of these up for the g/f, just got a Pre on O2 and I really like it. Choice is good :)
Yes O2 sucks and yes their tariffs suck but it is the only device I hadn't tried yet lol. My N1 is waiting in the wings if it all goes Pete Tong!
Look, let Palm's hardware make one last world tour on it's way out the door.
Consider it a dying wish if you like.
I'd mourn for Palm if I hadn't already done it and moved on years ago.
@stridermt2k
At the end of palm world tour when it stops making phones, its dying wish is to have webOS released to other companys such as HTC, long live web OS
@OCEAN CLAK
Well put!
@OCEAN CLAK that's how I feel. When palm dies let webOS live on. It is the best mobile OS
@rowehc Personally I would rather buy my WebOS phones from Palm, but yea... WebOS forever!
PALM is going out of business, could we please stop talking about this horrible dying company???
Why would anyone buy a product from a company that's quickly going out of business? It's not as if Palm's Pres and Pixis devices are going to become some rare antiques or even close.
The share price is currently $5 and change but it could just as soon be $0.
Stupid Palm should've listened and released unlocked GSM versions of their phones.
lol I love the webos haters..... If these folks ever picked up a webos phone they wouldn't know what the fuck to do with themselves. Palm is strugling, but the death of palm isn't gonna happen.... They may be owned by somebody else, the hardware may change, but palm was making smart "devices" before anyone had a smart phone. Palm is what laid the ground work for the crackberry and the fruit phone..... Palm will not die, shit just may change a lil. As others said, long live webos, if you haven't used it you should.....
@oldskool I have no doubt that WebOS is a great product, but why cant the screen be bigger? sure its cute and the OS is beautifully done, but a tiny ass screen isnt moving me very much.
@oldskool
webOS is on the right track, but Palm needs to fix some very irritating bugs:
1. The Camera app often overwrites/deletes your previous photos when you take new ones because it reuses filenames of files that already exist. This is unforgivable. I lost a number of important photos before I realized this bug was occurring. Now, I always back up photos to my PC whenever I take any.
2. When composing a long text message in the SMS app, if you reposition the text cursor to insert some text in the middle of your message which causes the bottom line of text to scroll off the screen, you can no longer scroll your message and therefore cannot reposition the cursor to the end of the message to continue. Very annoying!
3. If you have a long history of SMS messages with someone, when you scroll back through the list, the list will often freeze and hang the SMS app.
4. When replying to an email message (not sure if it has anything to do with the length of the email body you are replying to), often the whole UI will bog down and get really slow. The screen does not keep up with the keyboard (there is a very long delay). And everything else on the phone becomes very slow. I've often had to reboot my phone to get out of this state.
5. When typing, key presses often do not register or result in multiple characters. Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem. It happens on my Pre as well as on the phones of two other people I know who have Pres.
These show be considered show-stopper bugs. Hard to believe that Palm released their OS with these major problems. But otherwise, webOS is very enjoyable to use.
Put it in a sock and merciously beat an iPad with it. This gives the device more life value for a short few seconds and it takes out another slightly more useless device.
Where the hell is the NEW webOS device. I don't CARE about the Pre (given all it's hardware issues) and the Pixi sounds way to girlish even for my gay self.
I need Palm to come out with some true competition for the iPhone HD. At this point they are the only company that stands a chance of getting my money. Esp if they combine with HTC and HTC abandons android (as it should).
@TheLondonExchange There is this thing called reality maybe you should check it out.
@Surrealchemist This thing is called the Pre and it has been out for eons in the tech world. Palm needs to push out something in the next year or sooner to complete and stay relevant. So what is so wrong about that concept?
Palm needs new hardware.
A lot of people want WebOS but don't care for the Pre or Pixi designs.
Don't tase me bro!
after switching from the 3gs o the pre plus I will say without hesitation the 3gs is a better piece of hardware... But, if you were to put many of the nice 3rd party iphone apps on web os it would basically crush apple as a business device. The free mobile hotspot...the nice noifications..multitasking..not to mention the homebrew stuff.. I can rush bash shell, a web server and quake at the same time. If pallm gets a second chance device and hits web os 1.5, we may start seeing a diifferent US market