Tag archive: Palm Pixi

Fresh off Palm reporting a 29 percent drop in sales for its third fiscal quarter, Verizon Wireless is getting even more aggressive with pricing on Palm smartphones in an effort to get consumers to give them a shot: the carrier has cut the price of the Palm Pre Plus to just $50 from $150, and the price of the Palm Pixi to $30 from $50…and buying either one gets you a second at no charge. And that's not all: Verizon is also… Read More

Following up on plans announced last January, AT&T has announced it will be carrying the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus smartphones. According to AT&T, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus will be the only webOS devices available in the U.S. that will support simultaneous voice and data while running multiple applications at the same time. The Palm Pre and Palm Pixi Plus will be priced at $149.99 and $49.99, respectively, after a $100… Read More

Smartphone maker Palm has released financial results for its third fiscal quarter of 2010…and the numbers are not encouraging. Although the company reported that it shipped some 960,000 smartphones to distributors and retailers in the quarter ended February 26, it actually only sold 480,000 smartphones during the same period. The number of units shipped is actually a year-on-year gain of 23 percent, however, the number of phones sold… Read More

Blame Steve Jobs, the iPhone, or just fickle consumers. Despite a killer reception at its announcement of WebOS, and generally positive reviews of the Pre and Pixi, Palm’s handsets just aren’t moving. Palm admitted to the problem in an update to investors on Thursday, warning of “slower than expected consumer adoption of the company's products that has resulted in lower than expected order volumes from carriers and the deferral of orders… Read More

While this isn't exactly news to anyone that follows the mobile industry, Palm announced today what has been known for some time — Verizon will be receiving PalmOS devices this year. Starting January 25, Verizon will begin offering the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus.

Amazon is on a holiday sales roll this week. Amazon.com is now offering the Palm Pixi for $24.99 with a Sprint service plan. The webOS -based phone is Palm's slimmest smartphone and has an 8 GB internal memory, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music, and about 5 hours of talk time and up to 350 hours (14.5 days) of standby time. You also get free 2-day shipping when you purchase this item plus a service plan from Amazon,… Read More

The tit-for-tat battle between Palm and Apple over iTunes syncing doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. When Palm launched the Palm Pre smartphone earlier this year on Sprint, one of the advertised features was that it could sync with Apple's popular iTunes software just like an iPod…and it did so essentially by tricking iTunes into believing the Pre was, in fact, an iPod. Apple flatly noted that third-party syncing… Read More

Mobile operator Sprint has announced it will begin selling the Palm Pixi smartphone on November 15 for $99.99—although that attractive low price reflects a new sale with a two-year service contract, and is calculated after both a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate. The Pixi will be available online from Sprint and at Sprint retail locations, as well as Sprint retail partners like Best Buy, RadioShack, and Wal-Mart. “We… Read More

Portable device maker Palm had bet heavily on its Palm Pre smartphone with its innovative webOS operating system focused on messaging and connectivity—but Pres haven't exactly been flying off the shelves, leading some to question whether the Pre is really enough of a game-changer to compete with the likes of Apple, RIM, and others in the burgeoning smartphone market. Today, Palm took the wraps off the Palm Pixi, the company's… Read More