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Sprint Palm Pixi Gets Wi-Fi Courtesy Radio Board Hack
There’s good news for Sprint Palm Pixi users who complain about the lack of Wi-Fi capabilities on their devices. A PreCentral forum member gitit20 created a neat hack to rip the radio board off a Verizon Palm Pixi Plus and then transplant it into a Sprint Palm Pixi. After you install the new radio board, your Sprint Palm Pixi is well and truly ‘Wi-Fi capable’. Smart piece of thinking and very innovative too!
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FlightTrack App Now Available on Palm Pixi (and Palm Pre)
FlightTrack, one of the best mobile flight tracking applications earlier available on Android, iPhone and Blackberry is now available as a webOS app. The app is now available for Palm Pixi and Palm Pre users. The application is developed by Mobiata, a company which specializes in developing some of the most popular mobile travel applications available in the market today
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Palm Offering 50% Discount For Nearly All Apps in webOS App Catalog
There’s good news for all Palm Pre and Palm Pixi owners – Palm has halved the prices of nearly all the apps in the US Palm App Catalog and Palm web channel. The promotion runs from June 18th through July 9th, 2010. As a Palm customer, you are entitled to a cool subsidy of 50% on your favorite webOS applications. If you were thinking of the buying any of the following bestseller apps from Palm – Need for Speed Undercover, Jump O’Clock, or James Cameron’s Avatar, the time is now!
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Ping.fm for webOS: Update all your Social Networks from your Palm Phone
Fed up of having to update each of your social networks one-by-one? Too many passwords to remember? Ping.fm is a cool application which can update all your social networks in one go. All you need to do is configure your social networks with ping.fm and it takes care of syncing all your social networks. The good news is that Ping.fm is now available as a free webOS app in the Palm App Catalog. The app has been developed by Erik C. Thauvin.
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Sprint Offering The Palm Pixi For Free With Contract
Sprint is now offering the Palm Pixi ‘free with a 2-year contract’ through its online portal. Sprint retail stores may not be stocked with these free Pixi handsets and therefore the online option is the safest bet. The catch is that you’ll have to agree to a two-year contract, which is livable if you’re a long term Sprint customer anyways. Sprint’s two year contracts range from $69.99 to $189.98 per month.
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Palm Pixi, Twitter and Facebook
Just in case you missed the earlier twitter session on Palm Pixi, you can find the crux of the Q&A session here. Facebook’s Palm page has another and slightly better organized version of the Q&A session here. The Palm Pixi Fan Page is slowly but surely getting more fans every day. When Pre was launched, Facebook was integrated into Contacts, Calendar and photo upload features. This is now being wonderfully complimented with a dedicated Facebook application that comes only with the Palm Pixi.
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Limited Edition Palm Artist Series Due Early December
One of the advantages of Palm Pixi is it’s focus on look and feel. A large part of that feel comes from it’s extremely thin form-factor. The look, on the other hand, may be due to the Palm’s Artist Series plates.
The Artist Series plates come in limited editions of 5000 – each signed [...]
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Palm Pixi for $30 at Wal-Mart
The $99 advertised price (with 2-year contract) is just a starting point for the Palm Pixi. As we predicted there will be better deals almost right away. Well the Pixi isn’t even out yet and Wal-Mart is offering it for $30 with free shipping. This is exactly the kind of pricing we [...]
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Developing webOS Applications for the Palm Pixi
What does Palm Pixi have in store for the webOS developer community? Will your Palm Pre applications run seamlessly on this new phone? Will the lack of WiFi in this phone have any effect on your applications? Pre had a resolution of 320×480 while Pixi has 320×400 and Pre had WiFi while Pixi doesn’t have WiFi. webOS applications are cross-compatible between Pre and Pixi.
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Palm Pixi – Worth The Wait ?
The market buzz and release date rumors about Palm Pixi are shooting up by leaps and bounds every day. Is the Palm Pixi just another smartphone amongst the crowd? Or is it worth the wait to buy this phone – touted by many to be the future king of smartphones? When is Palm Pixi going to be released – October 20th, Christmas or 2011?
