Palm Pixi Plus deals on contract

The Palm Pixi Plus improves on the earlier Palm Pixi with a couple of features that could have been there in the first Pixi – video recording and WiFi. Apart from that, dimension wise and feature wise, the two are identical

Palm Inc had earlier pitched its Palm Pixi to the youthful crowd that wants a Blackberry-ish candybar QWERTY but with a more hip styling above the staid Blackberry phones. Its name hints at some Disney animated fairy sprinkling pixie dust and that’s what the Palm Pixi does with its interchangeable back cover colors you will never find in a Blackberry.

The Palm Pixi Plus brings that color interchangeability to a higher plain with its artist series backplates – a set of limited edition designs that cost almost half the price of the handset on a 2-year contract.

Features at a Glance

Like the Pixi which is really more an entry level smartphone with 3G, the Pixi Plus inherits the same 3G network connectivity on the single band UMTS radio at 2100 MHz with a dual band UMTS (850/ 1900) version for the US AT&T markets. You get HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at 5.76 Mbps for high speed internet surfing.

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As a 2G phone on the quad band (850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900) radio, you get class 10 GPRS/EDGE at data speed of up to 236.8 kbps. Local high speed data connectivity gets Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP for wireless data transfers and microUSB 2.0 for the wired option. There’s the same SatNav functionality from an integrated GPS receiver with A-GPS support.

What pushes the Plus ahead of its predecessor is its WiFi 802.11b/g, a feature that was not a technological hurdle to put at the time the first Pixi came out, as even mid-tier non-smartphones had it in spades. Now Palm is expecting its Pixi users to upgrade to the Plus just for this feature. Not a bad idea if Palm gives it for Free to former Pixi users like any upgrade patch.

And like the Pixi, the Plus uses the same WebOS but in a higher 1.3.5 version running on the same 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7627 engine with a dedicated graphics accelerator engine. As it is aimed to a youth, it’s as sociable as any SNS handset. It comes with a native Facebook application and a single view Palm Synergy aggregating its LinkIn phonebook contacts with calendar, SNS, Yahoo contacts and instant messaging.

With an appealing price point of around €150 the Plus sits well with its target audience. Getting the same 99.5g waistline at a slim 111 x 55 x 10.9 mm, the Pixi Plus enjoys the same 2.3-inch Half-VGA display with 256k colors and capacitive touchscreen technology.

You get the same gravity accelerometer for auto rotate viewing and a proximity sensor for touchscreen auto-disable in a call. It also gets the same Pixi imaging at 2 megapixels of resolution with LED flash, geo tagging and a nod to video recording its predecessor didn’t bother about. Multimedia features are identical with the Pixi as well as the 3.5mm audio jack and A2DP support over Bluetooth wireless stereo listening.

The Palm Pixi Plus enjoys the same generous 8 GB of onboard memory. The Plus could have added a microSD slot, but no. It remains closed to that option. 8 GB is often more than enough for media files to last you 2-3 days on the road. And that’s all you get on the Plus.

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