The New Palm Pixi phone is geared at faster and more intuitive communication in a compact and customizable handset design.

With the instinctively usable Palm webOS(TM) platform, sleek thin design, a visible full keyboard and fashionable personalization options. The Palm Pixi phone is scheduled to be available from Sprint in time for the holidays.

In addition to linking your information from Google, Facebook and Exchange ActiveSync, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! and LinkedIn integration to Palm Synergy and assembles it all in a single view. You can get your Yahoo! contacts, calendar and IM, and access to your LinkedIn contacts, including job titles. Synergy on Palm Pixi makes messaging easier by showing you all your conversations with the same person in one chat-style thread, so you can start a conversation on AIM Instant Messenger, Google Talk or Yahoo! Messenger and continue it by text message later.

The phone’s full QWERTY keyboard puts it all at your fingertips, and the multi-touch screen lets you move back and forth between open applications using natural gestures. The unique removable back cover is rubberized, making it scratch-resistant, slip-resistant and durable.

Palm Pixi Features

• High-speed connectivity (EVDO Rev. A)

• 2.63-inch multi-touch screen with a vibrant 18-bit color 320×400 resolution TFT display

  Gesture area, which enables simple, intuitive gestures for navigation

• Exposed QWERTY keyboard for fast messaging

• Robust messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities), including Google Talk, AIM and Yahoo! IM

• High-performance, desktop-class web browser

• Integrated GPS(8)

• Multimedia options, including pictures, video playback and music, and featuring a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera with LED flash, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack

• Email, including Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) (for access to corporate Microsoft Exchange servers), as well as personal email support (Google push, Yahoo! push, POP3, IMAP)(9)

• Bluetooth(R) 2.1 + EDR with A2DP stereo Bluetooth support

• 8GB of internal user storage (~7GB user available)(10)

• USB mass storage mode

• MicroUSB connector with USB 2.0 Hi-Speed

• The first handset to launch with Qualcomm’s high-performance MSM7627(TM) chipset

• Proximity sensor, which automatically disables the touch screen and turns off the display whenever you put the phone up to your ear

• Light sensor, which dims the display if the ambient light is dark, such as at night or in a movie theater, to reduce power usage

• Accelerometer, which automatically orients web pages and photos to your perspective

• Ringer switch, which easily silences the device with one touch

• Removable, rechargeable 1150 mAh battery

• Dimensions: 55mm (W) x 111mm (L) x 10.85mm (D) [2.17 in. (W) x 4.37 in. (L) x 0.43 in. (D)]

• Weight: 99.5 grams (3.51 ounces)

• Sprint services, including Sprint TV(R) and Sprint Radio, Sprint Navigation, Sprint’s exclusive NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile Live

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