Palm Pixi Hotter than the Palm Pre?

Palm Pixi Artist Series

If you bought a Palm Pre (like I did), you may have noticed how sleek and slender the Palm Pixi looks after it was announced. A slimmer and simpler phone, the Palm Pixi offers a visual advantage over the Pre with it's customized art, and an easier to use keyboard. While many users may be more worried about the functionality of the phone, the and size and appearance may be part of what makes the Palm Pixi a huge success.

How is the Pixi truly different?

Screen and Keyboard - Palm decided that it was important to make the Palm Pixi match its name and be a smaller, more accessible phone. They accomplished this by removing the ‘sliding’ function where the keyboard was kept in comparison to the Pixi’s permanently exposed keyboard. The exposed keyboard makes typing much more convenient and locks on the phone keep you from hitting any unwanted buttons while it may be in your pocket. The Palm Pixi uses the standard QWERTY keyboard combination making it a familiar experience for most users.
While you do lose out on screen size with the Palm Pixi, it’s not significant considering the fact that the phone becomes much smaller while maintaining the quality you would expect from a screen after the Palm Pre. The screen is approximately .5 inches smaller than the Palm Pre coming in at an excellent 2.6 inches.
Custom Art - External experience is very important to many users when they’re looking to purchase a phone, but what can Palm offer them with the Pixi? If you buy a Pixi early, Palm is offering customized art through their “Palm Pixi Artist Series” which is a limited edition series of the phones that will offer special external art. Palm has verified that this external art was commissioned to be designed specifically for the Palm Pixi and is currently displaying at least 5 of the themes that will be available to users on release. One concern that was expressed is that these art styles would interfere or be hidden by the Palm Touchstone. The Touchstone is a wireless charger for the phone that is big enough to cover the top half of the back of a Pixi. Palm has reassured its buyers that the designs were designed with touchstone in mind, and to not worry about it.

The Palm Pixi delivers aesthetically with its superior keyboard and screen as well as custom art designs for early buyers. Look for the Palm Pixi to drop this holiday season.

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