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When it comes to mobile marketing, the future is now. The overwhelming response that the Red Cross had with its text-messaging campaign for Haiti has put a major spotlight on the sector. More and more companies are making their debuts on mobile devices, and that trend will only grow as smartphone sales rise and wireless technology gets faster/cheapPosted by Smartphone Review on March 10, 2010
The thinnest Palm mobile phone yet, the Palm Pixi for Sprint is a smartphone that’s designed to be easy to use and light in your pocket. In addition to high-speed connectivity via Sprint’s dependable 3G network (EVDO Rev. A.), a vibrantly colorful touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard, the Pixi features the instinctively useable Palm webOS platform. With Palm webOS, you can keep multiple activities open and move easily between them–like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them.
The Palm Pixi features the Palm webOS platform, a strikingly thin design, touchscreen-enabled display, and visible full QWERTY keyboard. |
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Palm webOS brings together the most important information from your phone, at work or on the Web, into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy, which offers:
And a new Facebook application is available with Palm Pixi, enabling you to see and comment on all the latest news from friends and easily update their status.
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.
You’ll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include 8 GB of internal memory, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal and corporate email, and up to 5 hours of talk time.
Organize your work and social life by integrating calendars, contacts, instant messaging and social network sites. |
The Palm webOS offers the ability to keep multiple applications open at once with “activity cards,” so you can do more than one thing without losing your place. |
Palm Pixi has the ability to pull in your online calendars from places like Facebook, Google and Office Outlook and layer them into one view of your whole day. |
Each person’s contact information is pulled in from places like Facebook, Google, Microsoft Office Outlook, and LinkedIn, and combined under one entry. |
Vital Statistics
The Palm Pixi weighs 3.26 ounces and measures 4.37 x 2.17 x 0.43 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A frequencies.
What’s in the Box
Palm Pixi handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user manual
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To access, just text “NASCAR” to 7777 on your Sprint phone or visit the Sprint Digital Lounge to download NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
This phone also provides access to NFL Mobile Live–your all-access pass to the NFL from DRAFT to Super Bowl. Stay on top of every game with real-time red zone alerts, game center scores, stats, and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts. Access by texting “NFL” to 7777 on the handset to download NFL Mobile Live from Sprint Digital Lounge (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
3 Stars not that cool
I have owned the phone for almost two months now, and I came from using a blackberry, soo.. from comparison. this phone is pretty wack.
4 Stars Cool and very portable smartphone
I had the phone for over a month and it is proven to be a solid and fun phone so far. I really like the webOS software. I might have been jealous over the iphone apps but since I have an i touch, I can play games and use apps on that one. The very cool thing is the universal search. You just start typing and your contacts names start to pop up and if you continue to type you can also search google, google maps and even wikipedia. Apps even pop up when you start typing. For example, you type “M” and your contacts that start with M will pop up as well as your app “Maps”. And if you continue to type say “mustard” the os will realize you dont have any contacts or apps that match so it then offers to search google, maps and wiki for you.
The notifications are way better than I have seen with the i phone. Notifications get “stacked” at the bottom of the screen and you can “throw” the one off that you want to ignore with a left to right swipe.
This phone is great to text on. The keyboard is pretty cool and how the os organizes your text conversations is awesome. The synergy feature is very cool. It pulled my contacts from facebook and yahoo all together. Now I just add contacts to yahoo and the automatically are on the phone. I am less worried about loosing the phone and loosing contacts. I believe Palm also backs up contacts and stuff for you that you save to the phone itself.
For negatives: A couple of nights when I first got the phone the phone automatically shut off. But it has not done it again since. I wish the earpiece and speakerphone could be a little louder to be more audible in louder areas. The phone can be a tad slugish, but the time saved multitasking prob makes up for it. Apps are still in its infancy, but in my opinion, just the sprint navigation (which is awesome) is more useful to me than all the iphone apps.
Oh and back to the positive, 25 buck, really! I am looking forward to enjoying this phone and purchasing another high end palm in the future since WebOS is so easy to use. And the thing about pixi being for women is bs. Yes, the name is not great but its a sleek and powerful phone that can slip in my pocket and doesn’t even feel like its there. I have the touchstone charger on the way. Sure its a little pricy, but any phone especially the iphone is going to try to entice you with pricy accessories. I thought about the pre as well. My thought was grab this phone for 25 bucks and maybe get the next gen pre (when more kinks are worked our in the build) in a year or two.
5 Stars smart choice for a smart phone
This phone is great! in comparison to the palm pre, it is almost equal, except for the lack of wifi (which is not that important to me). i like the fact that the phone integrates all my calendars and contacts from aol, gmail, facebook, etc. its VERY easy to use and set up. it has a touch screen with a ripple effect to help me see where i am touching, which is very helpful. i like the fact that it has a touch screen AND a qwerty keyboard. the keys are raised, so even though its a tiny keyboard, it isn’t too hard to push the correct keys. the screen is very bright, even on the lowest power setting. the phone weighs next to nothing. camera takes decent pictures, and the sound quality is great. the internet looks just like the internet, similar to the iphone. the only issue with the internet is that since the screen is so small, i have to sometimes look at it in portrait mode or be maximizing and scrolling a lot to see large web pages, but that’s a minor complaint, and its what i expected for buying such a small screen. This phone is sprint exclusive, and I had to switch from ATT to sprint to get the phone, and I have to say, so far, sprint has been very easy to work with and I have had no issue with my sprint service. the battery life is the only real con on this phone, but if you keep the screen brightness a little lower, adjust how often its connected and syncing to your email it’s not too bad, about equal to most other smart phone battery lengths. it charges very fast,and it comes with a charger and usb connector in one, which i like. I could go on and on, but for a smart phone that does basically everything that the pre does or is comparable to the androids and iphones coming out- this is a great little phone, and its practically a steal at $24.99….SOOOOO worth it! Also wanted to mention- i was scared to purchase a phone and plan and switch service through amazon, but it really was simple, and the phone comes with instructions to change your service/switch your number, its foolproof, even for the not-so-tech-savy-me.
BUY THIS PHONE!!!!
4 Stars Reality Decent, Potential BIG
I’ve had Palm smartphones for at least the past 7+ years and I have always liked them so when it came to upgrade my Sprint Palm Centro in November’09 I went for the Sprnt Palm Pixi. Here are my pros/cons after using this phone for 3 months:
Pros:
+Form Factor: I got this phone because it is one of the smallest thinnest smartphones I have seen. I like to keep my phone in my front pocket and the lighter the better. After using it for 3 months the size is still great although I wish it actually was slightly taller to accomodate slightly bigger screen. I chose the Pixi over Pre mainly because I didn’t want a slider (hassel to slide in/out and also durability concerns). I also like a physical keyboard and the Pixi keyboard is awesome (even for my fat fingers).
+WebOS potential: I see alot of potential in this software. Easy to use, fun to use. Nice to run multiple apps. Of course we are still in early release versions for WebOS and there are some things that need to be improved so I expect to see that over time.
Cons:
-Screen Size: Could actually be a bit bigger for internet experience even though I am partial to small phones.
-WebOS Current Reality: This is still an early generation of WebOS and that means living with growing pains. Palm has been issuing software updates which are good but some of the updates have reduced my battery life and also slowed down my phone. Sometimes there are noticable lags when using the phone features (ie, 5-10 seconds to open up an application, etc). There are not that many downloadable apps compared to iphone and android and developers want to develop for the biggest users bases first (in fairness I should note that no smarts phones are perfect yet and iphone and android users have their own gripes in their reviews). Cloud Storage- personally I don’t think web connections are fast enough or reliable enough yet to keep everything on the cloud…when I use an app dictionary I don’t want the app to lookup the word on the web (sometimes I am on an airplane or in a bad coverage area, etc). I think over time WebOS can be refined to be an amazing software platform…I just hope Palm has the additional capital to invest in this and keep up with the likes of juggernauts like Apple and Google (it may be a likely scenario that another player buys Palm and invests more money in evolving WebOS).
-Brand Name: Palm “Pixi”? As a red-blooded American male I almost didn’t buy the phone just because of the unmanly name…but finally I brushed my pride aside and bought it because it had the form factor I liked the best. When friends ask me what kind of phone it is I just say it is the new Palm Mini-Pre.
-Other minor details: No add-on memory card. No video camera feature yet (expected with future webos upgrade). Back cover durability. I actually like the changable back concept but the backing that came with my phone is already torn and coming off after 3 months (I will buy a new one for $20).
Overall:
=I give this phone 4 stars (3 stars for current usability reality, 5 stars for potential= 4 star average). This smartphone technology is amazing me (gps location tools, etc) and the speed of evolution is startling compared to my old smartphones from 5 years ago. It will be scarey to see what smartphones will be in 25 years…will we just be using implantation chips…or will we be absorbed into The Matrix!?
I hope you found my review helpful, I will try to remember to update my review if I think anything new/important is worth mentioning.
5 Stars LOVE my pixi!
I absolutely adore my pixi. I went through three phones trying to get to one I liked and am head over heels for the pixi. First I tried the reclaim, loved everything but the keyboard. It was so hard to type. Switched to the Incognito, it was too complicated, big and I didn’t like the keyboard on it either. When I returned it I intended to get the Lotus but the sales guy helped me decide what I really wanted and showed me the Pixi. I was looking for a phone I could text one handed or two handed, could hold audiobooks and had a decent speaker, wasn’t complicated to operate, reasonably durable, and was not ugly or huge. The Pixi is all that and more. I wasn’t sure I would use the web or email applications but they are so easy to use on the Pixi I use them daily. My three year old has chucked it and it survived but I had it in a case. So far I have only two complaints about it but they’re minor. The speakerphone isn’t as loud as I would like although it’s decent (the incognito’s was awesome) and I wish it had a dedicated call and hang up button. It’s frustrating to me to have to get the screen active then push the touchscreen hang up. I also have a hard time answering calls if i’m already on the phone for the same reason. It’s confusing to have to activate the screen then try to switch. I almost always end up hanging up on everybody. But, neither of those problems would cause me to give up the phone. It’s so easy to use and so cute. My hubby had an iphone which I used for a week when my phone broke and the pixi is so much better than the iphone. I would NEVER go back to an iphone after using the pixi. So, love this phone! It’s perfect for a techno-leary person who just wants a good phone that’s easy to use with a few bells and whistles.
Posted by Smartphone Review on March 7, 2010
The thinnest Palm mobile phone yet, the Palm Pixi for Sprint is a smartphone that’s designed to be easy to use and light in your pocket. In addition to high-speed connectivity via Sprint’s dependable 3G network (EVDO Rev. A.), a vibrantly colorful touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard, the Pixi features the instinctively useable Palm webOS platform. With Palm webOS, you can keep multiple activities open and move easily between them–like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them.
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The Palm Pixi features the Palm webOS platform, a strikingly thin design, touchscreen-enabled display, and visible full QWERTY keyboard. |
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Palm webOS brings together the most important information from your phone, at work or on the Web, into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy, which offers:
And a new Facebook application is available with Palm Pixi, enabling you to see and comment on all the latest news from friends and easily update their status.
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.
You’ll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include 8 GB of internal memory, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal and corporate email, and up to 5 hours of talk time.
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Organize your work and social life by integrating calendars, contacts, instant messaging and social network sites. |
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The Palm webOS offers the ability to keep multiple applications open at once with “activity cards,” so you can do more than one thing without losing your place. |
Palm Pixi has the ability to pull in your online calendars from places like Facebook, Google and Office Outlook and layer them into one view of your whole day. |
Each person’s contact information is pulled in from places like Facebook, Google, Microsoft Office Outlook, and LinkedIn, and combined under one entry. |
Vital Statistics
The Palm Pixi weighs 3.26 ounces and measures 4.37 x 2.17 x 0.43 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A frequencies.
What’s in the Box
Palm Pixi handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user manual
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To access, just text “NASCAR” to 7777 on your Sprint phone or visit the Sprint Digital Lounge to download NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
This phone also provides access to NFL Mobile Live–your all-access pass to the NFL from DRAFT to Super Bowl. Stay on top of every game with real-time red zone alerts, game center scores, stats, and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts. Access by texting “NFL” to 7777 on the handset to download NFL Mobile Live from Sprint Digital Lounge (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
4 Stars Reality Decent, Potential BIG
I’ve had Palm smartphones for at least the past 7+ years and I have always liked them so when it came to upgrade my Sprint Palm Centro in November’09 I went for the Sprnt Palm Pixi. Here are my pros/cons after using this phone for 3 months:
Pros:
+Form Factor: I got this phone because it is one of the smallest thinnest smartphones I have seen. I like to keep my phone in my front pocket and the lighter the better. After using it for 3 months the size is still great although I wish it actually was slightly taller to accomodate slightly bigger screen. I chose the Pixi over Pre mainly because I didn’t want a slider (hassel to slide in/out and also durability concerns). I also like a physical keyboard and the Pixi keyboard is awesome (even for my fat fingers).
+WebOS potential: I see alot of potential in this software. Easy to use, fun to use. Nice to run multiple apps. Of course we are still in early release versions for WebOS and there are some things that need to be improved so I expect to see that over time.
Cons:
-Screen Size: Could actually be a bit bigger for internet experience even though I am partial to small phones.
-WebOS Current Reality: This is still an early generation of WebOS and that means living with growing pains. Palm has been issuing software updates which are good but some of the updates have reduced my battery life and also slowed down my phone. Sometimes there are noticable lags when using the phone features (ie, 5-10 seconds to open up an application, etc). There are not that many downloadable apps compared to iphone and android and developers want to develop for the biggest users bases first (in fairness I should note that no smarts phones are perfect yet and iphone and android users have their own gripes in their reviews). Cloud Storage- personally I don’t think web connections are fast enough or reliable enough yet to keep everything on the cloud…when I use an app dictionary I don’t want the app to lookup the word on the web (sometimes I am on an airplane or in a bad coverage area, etc). I think over time WebOS can be refined to be an amazing software platform…I just hope Palm has the additional capital to invest in this and keep up with the likes of juggernauts like Apple and Google (it may be a likely scenario that another player buys Palm and invests more money in evolving WebOS).
-Brand Name: Palm “Pixi”? As a red-blooded American male I almost didn’t buy the phone just because of the unmanly name…but finally I brushed my pride aside and bought it because it had the form factor I liked the best. When friends ask me what kind of phone it is I just say it is the new Palm Mini-Pre.
-Other minor details: No add-on memory card. No video camera feature yet (expected with future webos upgrade). Back cover durability. I actually like the changable back concept but the backing that came with my phone is already torn and coming off after 3 months (I will buy a new one for $20).
Overall:
=I give this phone 4 stars (3 stars for current usability reality, 5 stars for potential= 4 star average). This smartphone technology is amazing me (gps location tools, etc) and the speed of evolution is startling compared to my old smartphones from 5 years ago. It will be scarey to see what smartphones will be in 25 years…will we just be using implantation chips…or will we be absorbed into The Matrix!?
I hope you found my review helpful, I will try to remember to update my review if I think anything new/important is worth mentioning.
5 Stars smart choice for a smart phone
This phone is great! in comparison to the palm pre, it is almost equal, except for the lack of wifi (which is not that important to me). i like the fact that the phone integrates all my calendars and contacts from aol, gmail, facebook, etc. its VERY easy to use and set up. it has a touch screen with a ripple effect to help me see where i am touching, which is very helpful. i like the fact that it has a touch screen AND a qwerty keyboard. the keys are raised, so even though its a tiny keyboard, it isn’t too hard to push the correct keys. the screen is very bright, even on the lowest power setting. the phone weighs next to nothing. camera takes decent pictures, and the sound quality is great. the internet looks just like the internet, similar to the iphone. the only issue with the internet is that since the screen is so small, i have to sometimes look at it in portrait mode or be maximizing and scrolling a lot to see large web pages, but that’s a minor complaint, and its what i expected for buying such a small screen. This phone is sprint exclusive, and I had to switch from ATT to sprint to get the phone, and I have to say, so far, sprint has been very easy to work with and I have had no issue with my sprint service. the battery life is the only real con on this phone, but if you keep the screen brightness a little lower, adjust how often its connected and syncing to your email it’s not too bad, about equal to most other smart phone battery lengths. it charges very fast,and it comes with a charger and usb connector in one, which i like. I could go on and on, but for a smart phone that does basically everything that the pre does or is comparable to the androids and iphones coming out- this is a great little phone, and its practically a steal at $24.99….SOOOOO worth it! Also wanted to mention- i was scared to purchase a phone and plan and switch service through amazon, but it really was simple, and the phone comes with instructions to change your service/switch your number, its foolproof, even for the not-so-tech-savy-me.
BUY THIS PHONE!!!!
4 Stars Cool and very portable smartphone
I had the phone for over a month and it is proven to be a solid and fun phone so far. I really like the webOS software. I might have been jealous over the iphone apps but since I have an i touch, I can play games and use apps on that one. The very cool thing is the universal search. You just start typing and your contacts names start to pop up and if you continue to type you can also search google, google maps and even wikipedia. Apps even pop up when you start typing. For example, you type “M” and your contacts that start with M will pop up as well as your app “Maps”. And if you continue to type say “mustard” the os will realize you dont have any contacts or apps that match so it then offers to search google, maps and wiki for you.
The notifications are way better than I have seen with the i phone. Notifications get “stacked” at the bottom of the screen and you can “throw” the one off that you want to ignore with a left to right swipe.
This phone is great to text on. The keyboard is pretty cool and how the os organizes your text conversations is awesome. The synergy feature is very cool. It pulled my contacts from facebook and yahoo all together. Now I just add contacts to yahoo and the automatically are on the phone. I am less worried about loosing the phone and loosing contacts. I believe Palm also backs up contacts and stuff for you that you save to the phone itself.
For negatives: A couple of nights when I first got the phone the phone automatically shut off. But it has not done it again since. I wish the earpiece and speakerphone could be a little louder to be more audible in louder areas. The phone can be a tad slugish, but the time saved multitasking prob makes up for it. Apps are still in its infancy, but in my opinion, just the sprint navigation (which is awesome) is more useful to me than all the iphone apps.
Oh and back to the positive, 25 buck, really! I am looking forward to enjoying this phone and purchasing another high end palm in the future since WebOS is so easy to use. And the thing about pixi being for women is bs. Yes, the name is not great but its a sleek and powerful phone that can slip in my pocket and doesn’t even feel like its there. I have the touchstone charger on the way. Sure its a little pricy, but any phone especially the iphone is going to try to entice you with pricy accessories. I thought about the pre as well. My thought was grab this phone for 25 bucks and maybe get the next gen pre (when more kinks are worked our in the build) in a year or two.
3 Stars not that cool
I have owned the phone for almost two months now, and I came from using a blackberry, soo.. from comparison. this phone is pretty wack.
5 Stars LOVE my pixi!
I absolutely adore my pixi. I went through three phones trying to get to one I liked and am head over heels for the pixi. First I tried the reclaim, loved everything but the keyboard. It was so hard to type. Switched to the Incognito, it was too complicated, big and I didn’t like the keyboard on it either. When I returned it I intended to get the Lotus but the sales guy helped me decide what I really wanted and showed me the Pixi. I was looking for a phone I could text one handed or two handed, could hold audiobooks and had a decent speaker, wasn’t complicated to operate, reasonably durable, and was not ugly or huge. The Pixi is all that and more. I wasn’t sure I would use the web or email applications but they are so easy to use on the Pixi I use them daily. My three year old has chucked it and it survived but I had it in a case. So far I have only two complaints about it but they’re minor. The speakerphone isn’t as loud as I would like although it’s decent (the incognito’s was awesome) and I wish it had a dedicated call and hang up button. It’s frustrating to me to have to get the screen active then push the touchscreen hang up. I also have a hard time answering calls if i’m already on the phone for the same reason. It’s confusing to have to activate the screen then try to switch. I almost always end up hanging up on everybody. But, neither of those problems would cause me to give up the phone. It’s so easy to use and so cute. My hubby had an iphone which I used for a week when my phone broke and the pixi is so much better than the iphone. I would NEVER go back to an iphone after using the pixi. So, love this phone! It’s perfect for a techno-leary person who just wants a good phone that’s easy to use with a few bells and whistles.
Posted by Smartphone Review on February 24, 2010
The thinnest Palm mobile phone yet, the Palm Pixi for Sprint is a smartphone that’s designed to be easy to use and light in your pocket. In addition to high-speed connectivity via Sprint’s dependable 3G network (EVDO Rev. A.), a vibrantly colorful touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard, the Pixi features the instinctively useable Palm webOS platform. With Palm webOS, you can keep multiple activities open and move easily between them–like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them.
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The Palm Pixi features the Palm webOS platform, a strikingly thin design, touchscreen-enabled display, and visible full QWERTY keyboard. |
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Palm webOS brings together the most important information from your phone, at work or on the Web, into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy, which offers:
And a new Facebook application is available with Palm Pixi, enabling you to see and comment on all the latest news from friends and easily update their status.
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.
You’ll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include 8 GB of internal memory, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal and corporate email, and up to 5 hours of talk time.
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Organize your work and social life by integrating calendars, contacts, instant messaging and social network sites. |
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The Palm webOS offers the ability to keep multiple applications open at once with “activity cards,” so you can do more than one thing without losing your place. |
Palm Pixi has the ability to pull in your online calendars from places like Facebook, Google and Office Outlook and layer them into one view of your whole day. |
Each person’s contact information is pulled in from places like Facebook, Google, Microsoft Office Outlook, and LinkedIn, and combined under one entry. |
Vital Statistics
The Palm Pixi weighs 3.26 ounces and measures 4.37 x 2.17 x 0.43 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A frequencies.
What’s in the Box
Palm Pixi handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user manual
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To access, just text “NASCAR” to 7777 on your Sprint phone or visit the Sprint Digital Lounge to download NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
This phone also provides access to NFL Mobile Live–your all-access pass to the NFL from DRAFT to Super Bowl. Stay on top of every game with real-time red zone alerts, game center scores, stats, and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts. Access by texting “NFL” to 7777 on the handset to download NFL Mobile Live from Sprint Digital Lounge (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
4 Stars I love it. Definitely worth it.
The battery life lasts about a day, and the output for the charger is a bit tricky, but these are pretty much my only minor complaints. There is also an external wireless charger you can buy separately. However I haven’t tried it. It takes getting used to and playing around with, and some of that was confusing. How to set ringtones and customize settings. I still haven’t figured out how to customize the text message sound…
The internet works really fast, no complaints, some time there is a minor minor lag in the touch screen but it’s really nothing that takes away from my overall opinion of it.
The music aspect isn’t like the other palms, where you can record your own music, or at least i haven’t figured out how, but you can upload mp3s from your iTunes directly into the palm which acts as a flash drive. I love the free Pandora app.
The selection of apps isn’t so great, but it does have the essentials, movies, dinner, directions, etc. for free
The keyboard is amazingly easy to use, as is the touchscreen.
The video playback and sound is absolutely pristine as is the camera. No complaints.
I haven’t figured out how to sort my photos, but the phone sorts automatically based on where the photos came from: email,messaging etc.
Sometimes, the calling can be confusing, I’ve accidentally called numbers and not realized how it happened yet- and I’ve accidentally hung up when I didn’t mean to- the touch screen is a little annoying at times, but it Does work the way it’s supposed to.
when you first set up the phone it also gives you a brief tutorial on how to navigate.
As far as e-mail goes, it updates almost instantly, and attachments are easily viewed as well as html’s
Google maps works great, gives directions from wherever you are along with traffic.
Yelp app is awesome- I found a bunch of new places in my area.
Also, because of the backside, I rarely drop my phone, this coming from someone who is always the one dropping/breaking her phone.
Pandora radio is probably the best perk. the speaker is loud without headphones and i hardly use my ipod anymore1
4 Stars Cool and very portable smartphone
I had the phone for over a month and it is proven to be a solid and fun phone so far. I really like the webOS software. I might have been jealous over the iphone apps but since I have an i touch, I can play games and use apps on that one. The very cool thing is the universal search. You just start typing and your contacts names start to pop up and if you continue to type you can also search google, google maps and even wikipedia. Apps even pop up when you start typing. For example, you type “M” and your contacts that start with M will pop up as well as your app “Maps”. And if you continue to type say “mustard” the os will realize you dont have any contacts or apps that match so it then offers to search google, maps and wiki for you.
The notifications are way better than I have seen with the i phone. Notifications get “stacked” at the bottom of the screen and you can “throw” the one off that you want to ignore with a left to right swipe.
This phone is great to text on. The keyboard is pretty cool and how the os organizes your text conversations is awesome. The synergy feature is very cool. It pulled my contacts from facebook and yahoo all together. Now I just add contacts to yahoo and the automatically are on the phone. I am less worried about loosing the phone and loosing contacts. I believe Palm also backs up contacts and stuff for you that you save to the phone itself.
For negatives: A couple of nights when I first got the phone the phone automatically shut off. But it has not done it again since. I wish the earpiece and speakerphone could be a little louder to be more audible in louder areas. The phone can be a tad slugish, but the time saved multitasking prob makes up for it. Apps are still in its infancy, but in my opinion, just the sprint navigation (which is awesome) is more useful to me than all the iphone apps.
Oh and back to the positive, 25 buck, really! I am looking forward to enjoying this phone and purchasing another high end palm in the future since WebOS is so easy to use. And the thing about pixi being for women is bs. Yes, the name is not great but its a sleek and powerful phone that can slip in my pocket and doesn’t even feel like its there. I have the touchstone charger on the way. Sure its a little pricy, but any phone especially the iphone is going to try to entice you with pricy accessories. I thought about the pre as well. My thought was grab this phone for 25 bucks and maybe get the next gen pre (when more kinks are worked our in the build) in a year or two.
5 Stars smart choice for a smart phone
This phone is great! in comparison to the palm pre, it is almost equal, except for the lack of wifi (which is not that important to me). i like the fact that the phone integrates all my calendars and contacts from aol, gmail, facebook, etc. its VERY easy to use and set up. it has a touch screen with a ripple effect to help me see where i am touching, which is very helpful. i like the fact that it has a touch screen AND a qwerty keyboard. the keys are raised, so even though its a tiny keyboard, it isn’t too hard to push the correct keys. the screen is very bright, even on the lowest power setting. the phone weighs next to nothing. camera takes decent pictures, and the sound quality is great. the internet looks just like the internet, similar to the iphone. the only issue with the internet is that since the screen is so small, i have to sometimes look at it in portrait mode or be maximizing and scrolling a lot to see large web pages, but that’s a minor complaint, and its what i expected for buying such a small screen. This phone is sprint exclusive, and I had to switch from ATT to sprint to get the phone, and I have to say, so far, sprint has been very easy to work with and I have had no issue with my sprint service. the battery life is the only real con on this phone, but if you keep the screen brightness a little lower, adjust how often its connected and syncing to your email it’s not too bad, about equal to most other smart phone battery lengths. it charges very fast,and it comes with a charger and usb connector in one, which i like. I could go on and on, but for a smart phone that does basically everything that the pre does or is comparable to the androids and iphones coming out- this is a great little phone, and its practically a steal at $24.99….SOOOOO worth it! Also wanted to mention- i was scared to purchase a phone and plan and switch service through amazon, but it really was simple, and the phone comes with instructions to change your service/switch your number, its foolproof, even for the not-so-tech-savy-me.
BUY THIS PHONE!!!!
4 Stars Reality Decent, Potential BIG
I’ve had Palm smartphones for at least the past 7+ years and I have always liked them so when it came to upgrade my Sprint Palm Centro in November’09 I went for the Sprnt Palm Pixi. Here are my pros/cons after using this phone for 3 months:
Pros:
+Form Factor: I got this phone because it is one of the smallest thinnest smartphones I have seen. I like to keep my phone in my front pocket and the lighter the better. After using it for 3 months the size is still great although I wish it actually was slightly taller to accomodate slightly bigger screen. I chose the Pixi over Pre mainly because I didn’t want a slider (hassel to slide in/out and also durability concerns). I also like a physical keyboard and the Pixi keyboard is awesome (even for my fat fingers).
+WebOS potential: I see alot of potential in this software. Easy to use, fun to use. Nice to run multiple apps. Of course we are still in early release versions for WebOS and there are some things that need to be improved so I expect to see that over time.
Cons:
-Screen Size: Could actually be a bit bigger for internet experience even though I am partial to small phones.
-WebOS Current Reality: This is still an early generation of WebOS and that means living with growing pains. Palm has been issuing software updates which are good but some of the updates have reduced my battery life and also slowed down my phone. Sometimes there are noticable lags when using the phone features (ie, 5-10 seconds to open up an application, etc). There are not that many downloadable apps compared to iphone and android and developers want to develop for the biggest users bases first (in fairness I should note that no smarts phones are perfect yet and iphone and android users have their own gripes in their reviews). Cloud Storage- personally I don’t think web connections are fast enough or reliable enough yet to keep everything on the cloud…when I use an app dictionary I don’t want the app to lookup the word on the web (sometimes I am on an airplane or in a bad coverage area, etc). I think over time WebOS can be refined to be an amazing software platform…I just hope Palm has the additional capital to invest in this and keep up with the likes of juggernauts like Apple and Google (it may be a likely scenario that another player buys Palm and invests more money in evolving WebOS).
-Brand Name: Palm “Pixi”? As a red-blooded American male I almost didn’t buy the phone just because of the unmanly name…but finally I brushed my pride aside and bought it because it had the form factor I liked the best. When friends ask me what kind of phone it is I just say it is the new Palm Mini-Pre.
-Other minor details: No add-on memory card. No video camera feature yet (expected with future webos upgrade). Back cover durability. I actually like the changable back concept but the backing that came with my phone is already torn and coming off after 3 months (I will buy a new one for $20).
Overall:
=I give this phone 4 stars (3 stars for current usability reality, 5 stars for potential= 4 star average). This smartphone technology is amazing me (gps location tools, etc) and the speed of evolution is startling compared to my old smartphones from 5 years ago. It will be scarey to see what smartphones will be in 25 years…will we just be using implantation chips…or will we be absorbed into The Matrix!?
I hope you found my review helpful, I will try to remember to update my review if I think anything new/important is worth mentioning.
5 Stars LOVE my pixi!
I absolutely adore my pixi. I went through three phones trying to get to one I liked and am head over heels for the pixi. First I tried the reclaim, loved everything but the keyboard. It was so hard to type. Switched to the Incognito, it was too complicated, big and I didn’t like the keyboard on it either. When I returned it I intended to get the Lotus but the sales guy helped me decide what I really wanted and showed me the Pixi. I was looking for a phone I could text one handed or two handed, could hold audiobooks and had a decent speaker, wasn’t complicated to operate, reasonably durable, and was not ugly or huge. The Pixi is all that and more. I wasn’t sure I would use the web or email applications but they are so easy to use on the Pixi I use them daily. My three year old has chucked it and it survived but I had it in a case. So far I have only two complaints about it but they’re minor. The speakerphone isn’t as loud as I would like although it’s decent (the incognito’s was awesome) and I wish it had a dedicated call and hang up button. It’s frustrating to me to have to get the screen active then push the touchscreen hang up. I also have a hard time answering calls if i’m already on the phone for the same reason. It’s confusing to have to activate the screen then try to switch. I almost always end up hanging up on everybody. But, neither of those problems would cause me to give up the phone. It’s so easy to use and so cute. My hubby had an iphone which I used for a week when my phone broke and the pixi is so much better than the iphone. I would NEVER go back to an iphone after using the pixi. So, love this phone! It’s perfect for a techno-leary person who just wants a good phone that’s easy to use with a few bells and whistles.
Posted by Smartphone Review on February 13, 2010
The thinnest Palm mobile phone yet, the Palm Pixi for Sprint is a smartphone that’s designed to be easy to use and light in your pocket. In addition to high-speed connectivity via Sprint’s dependable 3G network (EVDO Rev. A.), a vibrantly colorful touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard, the Pixi features the instinctively useable Palm webOS platform. With Palm webOS, you can keep multiple activities open and move easily between them–like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them.
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The Palm Pixi features the Palm webOS platform, a strikingly thin design, touchscreen-enabled display, and visible full QWERTY keyboard. |
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Palm webOS brings together the most important information from your phone, at work or on the Web, into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy, which offers:
And a new Facebook application is available with Palm Pixi, enabling you to see and comment on all the latest news from friends and easily update their status.
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.
You’ll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV’s video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. Other features include 8 GB of internal memory, 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, access to personal and corporate email, and up to 5 hours of talk time.
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Organize your work and social life by integrating calendars, contacts, instant messaging and social network sites. |
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The Palm webOS offers the ability to keep multiple applications open at once with “activity cards,” so you can do more than one thing without losing your place. |
Palm Pixi has the ability to pull in your online calendars from places like Facebook, Google and Office Outlook and layer them into one view of your whole day. |
Each person’s contact information is pulled in from places like Facebook, Google, Microsoft Office Outlook, and LinkedIn, and combined under one entry. |
Vital Statistics
The Palm Pixi weighs 3.26 ounces and measures 4.37 x 2.17 x 0.43 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 350 hours of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A frequencies.
What’s in the Box
Palm Pixi handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start guide, user manual
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To access, just text “NASCAR” to 7777 on your Sprint phone or visit the Sprint Digital Lounge to download NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
This phone also provides access to NFL Mobile Live–your all-access pass to the NFL from DRAFT to Super Bowl. Stay on top of every game with real-time red zone alerts, game center scores, stats, and more. Manage your fantasy football team like a pro with up-to-the-minute insights, analysis, stats and alerts. Access by texting “NFL” to 7777 on the handset to download NFL Mobile Live from Sprint Digital Lounge (standard text messaging and data rates apply).
4 Stars I love it. Definitely worth it.
The battery life lasts about a day, and the output for the charger is a bit tricky, but these are pretty much my only minor complaints. There is also an external wireless charger you can buy separately. However I haven’t tried it. It takes getting used to and playing around with, and some of that was confusing. How to set ringtones and customize settings. I still haven’t figured out how to customize the text message sound…
The internet works really fast, no complaints, some time there is a minor minor lag in the touch screen but it’s really nothing that takes away from my overall opinion of it.
The music aspect isn’t like the other palms, where you can record your own music, or at least i haven’t figured out how, but you can upload mp3s from your iTunes directly into the palm which acts as a flash drive. I love the free Pandora app.
The selection of apps isn’t so great, but it does have the essentials, movies, dinner, directions, etc. for free
The keyboard is amazingly easy to use, but I’m nervous about the touch screen when I have longer nails since I’m a female.
The video playback and sound is absolutely pristine as is the camera. No complaints.
I haven’t figured out how to sort my photos, but I’m sure it’s simple once realized.
Sometimes, the calling can be confusing, I’ve accidentally called numbers and not realized how it happened yet- and I’ve accidentally hung up when I didn’t mean to- the touch screen is a little annoying at times, but it Does work the way it’s supposed to.
when you first set up the phone it also gives you a brief tutorial on how to navigate.
As far as e-mail goes, it updates almost instantly, and attachments are easily viewed as well as html’s
Google maps works great, gives directions from wherever you are.
I don’t really know what else to add, but if I’ll update if anything new comes along.
4 Stars Reality Decent, Potential BIG
I’ve had Palm smartphones for at least the past 7+ years and I have always liked them so when it came to upgrade my Sprint Palm Centro in November’09 I went for the Sprnt Palm Pixi. Here are my pros/cons after using this phone for 3 months:
Pros:
+Form Factor: I got this phone because it is one of the smallest thinnest smartphones I have seen. I like to keep my phone in my front pocket and the lighter the better. After using it for 3 months the size is still great although I wish it actually was slightly taller to accomodate slightly bigger screen. I chose the Pixi over Pre mainly because I didn’t want a slider (hassel to slide in/out and also durability concerns). I also like a physical keyboard and the Pixi keyboard is awesome (even for my fat fingers).
+WebOS potential: I see alot of potential in this software. Easy to use, fun to use. Nice to run multiple apps. Of course we are still in early release versions for WebOS and there are some things that need to be improved so I expect to see that over time.
Cons:
-Screen Size: Could actually be a bit bigger for internet experience even though I am partial to small phones.
-WebOS Current Reality: This is still an early generation of WebOS and that means living with growing pains. Palm has been issuing software updates which are good but some of the updates have reduced my battery life and also slowed down my phone. Sometimes there are noticable lags when using the phone features (ie, 5-10 seconds to open up an application, etc). There are not that many downloadable apps compared to iphone and android and developers want to develop for the biggest users bases first (in fairness I should note that no smarts phones are perfect yet and iphone and android users have their own gripes in their reviews). Cloud Storage- personally I don’t think web connections are fast enough or reliable enough yet to keep everything on the cloud…when I use an app dictionary I don’t want the app to lookup the word on the web (sometimes I am on an airplane or in a bad coverage area, etc). I think over time WebOS can be refined to be an amazing software platform…I just hope Palm has the additional capital to invest in this and keep up with the likes of juggernauts like Apple and Google (it may be a likely scenario that another player buys Palm and invests more money in evolving WebOS).
-Brand Name: Palm “Pixi”? As a red-blooded American male I almost didn’t buy the phone just because of the unmanly name…but finally I brushed my pride aside and bought it because it had the form factor I liked the best. When friends ask me what kind of phone it is I just say it is the new Palm Mini-Pre.
-Other minor details: No add-on memory card. No video camera feature yet (expected with future webos upgrade). Back cover durability. I actually like the changable back concept but the backing that came with my phone is already torn and coming off after 3 months (I will buy a new one for $20).
Overall:
=I give this phone 4 stars (3 stars for current usability reality, 5 stars for potential= 4 star average). This smartphone technology is amazing me (gps location tools, etc) and the speed of evolution is startling compared to my old smartphones from 5 years ago. It will be scarey to see what smartphones will be in 25 years…will we just be using implantation chips…or will we be absorbed into The Matrix!?
I hope you found my review helpful, I will try to remember to update my review if I think anything new/important is worth mentioning.
5 Stars smart choice for a smart phone
This phone is great! in comparison to the palm pre, it is almost equal, except for the lack of wifi (which is not that important to me). i like the fact that the phone integrates all my calendars and contacts from aol, gmail, facebook, etc. its VERY easy to use and set up. it has a touch screen with a ripple effect to help me see where i am touching, which is very helpful. i like the fact that it has a touch screen AND a qwerty keyboard. the keys are raised, so even though its a tiny keyboard, it isn’t too hard to push the correct keys. the screen is very bright, even on the lowest power setting. the phone weighs next to nothing. camera takes decent pictures, and the sound quality is great. the internet looks just like the internet, similar to the iphone. the only issue with the internet is that since the screen is so small, i have to sometimes look at it in portrait mode or be maximizing and scrolling a lot to see large web pages, but that’s a minor complaint, and its what i expected for buying such a small screen. This phone is sprint exclusive, and I had to switch from ATT to sprint to get the phone, and I have to say, so far, sprint has been very easy to work with and I have had no issue with my sprint service. the battery life is the only real con on this phone, but if you keep the screen brightness a little lower, adjust how often its connected and syncing to your email it’s not too bad, about equal to most other smart phone battery lengths. it charges very fast,and it comes with a charger and usb connector in one, which i like. I could go on and on, but for a smart phone that does basically everything that the pre does or is comparable to the androids and iphones coming out- this is a great little phone, and its practically a steal at $24.99….SOOOOO worth it! Also wanted to mention- i was scared to purchase a phone and plan and switch service through amazon, but it really was simple, and the phone comes with instructions to change your service/switch your number, its foolproof, even for the not-so-tech-savy-me.
BUY THIS PHONE!!!!
5 Stars LOVE my pixi!
I absolutely adore my pixi. I went through three phones trying to get to one I liked and am head over heels for the pixi. First I tried the reclaim, loved everything but the keyboard. It was so hard to type. Switched to the Incognito, it was too complicated, big and I didn’t like the keyboard on it either. When I returned it I intended to get the Lotus but the sales guy helped me decide what I really wanted and showed me the Pixi. I was looking for a phone I could text one handed or two handed, could hold audiobooks and had a decent speaker, wasn’t complicated to operate, reasonably durable, and was not ugly or huge. The Pixi is all that and more. I wasn’t sure I would use the web or email applications but they are so easy to use on the Pixi I use them daily. My three year old has chucked it and it survived but I had it in a case. So far I have only two complaints about it but they’re minor. The speakerphone isn’t as loud as I would like although it’s decent (the incognito’s was awesome) and I wish it had a dedicated call and hang up button. It’s frustrating to me to have to get the screen active then push the touchscreen hang up. I also have a hard time answering calls if i’m already on the phone for the same reason. It’s confusing to have to activate the screen then try to switch. I almost always end up hanging up on everybody. But, neither of those problems would cause me to give up the phone. It’s so easy to use and so cute. My hubby had an iphone which I used for a week when my phone broke and the pixi is so much better than the iphone. I would NEVER go back to an iphone after using the pixi. So, love this phone! It’s perfect for a techno-leary person who just wants a good phone that’s easy to use with a few bells and whistles.
5 Stars Great little smart phone
This phone combines a great size and feel along with a great set of features.
I will break down this review into the pros and cons of the Palm Pixi. Please note that this review is comparing the phone to all other phones, not a comparison between the Pre. This is for people who want to know how the phone is as a phone.
Pros
*Thin, sleek candy bar design.
-The phone has an excellent look and feel to it. It is light yet still feels strong and durable. Plus the back is rubberized giving it great grip in your hand or anywhere you place it.
*WebOS software
-Multitasking, applications, synchronization with all your accounts, WebOS offers many features that make you question how you ever survived without it. The two really great features of WebOS, multitasking and synchronization, should be enough incentive alone to purchase this phone. Being able to check my email, open a link from said email into a new tab, proceed to shop on the web, then switch over to my messaging window and chat with someone while listening to music is simply stunning. Plus having my contacts list automatically update with my Gmail and Facebook contacts is a huge help. I could go on and on but I wont. WebOS is it, the future of mobile phone operating systems.
*QWERTY Keyboard
-This is just a personal preference but I love qwerty keyboards. That being said some qwerty boards are less than desirable. This keyboard may seem small but I have found very little issue using it. The buttons are raised at the perfect height, giving you nice separation between the phone itself and the keys. They also have a comfortable feel to them, providing a very satisfying click when pressed. Nice layout and design and definitely deserves kudos.
*Touch Screen
-The touch screen is detailed, vibrant, and most of all, very responsive. The screen looks great and performs very well.
*Multimedia
-The phone allows you to sync with iTunes and download your music. The music player is basic but performs very well. It also supports videos in mp4 as well as streaming sources like Youtube.
*Other Smartphone Features
-This phone offers Web Browsing, Youtube, Amazon MP3 Store, Sprint GPS Services, Palm Application Catalog, and Sprint TV.
Cons
*Mini USB Plug
-There is a flap protecting the place where you plug the phone in to charge, transfer data, etc. This flap is very difficult to open up.
*Boot Up Time
-This phone takes several minutes to boot up. This is mildly annoying if you have to turn the phone off because you will then have to wait around 3 minutes to boot it back up.
*Minor Bugs
-There are some minor bugs with WebOS. With each update they seem to make improvements but bugs still do exist. I’ve noticed that there have been a couple occasions where my phone has been off even though I did not power it down. When I boot it back up the battery life is fine making question what the deal is. Also when watching videos and you receive a text or phone call, the phone experiences some serious slow down and delay.
As far as performing the basic phone duties it does very well. Call sound quality is good, not exceptional, but definitely good. Also the clarity of the microphone is very good as well, no complaints when speaking to other people. The speaker phone is fairly loud yet doesn’t sacrifice the quality at all. The battery life is quite sufficient in my opinion. With moderate usage, several phone calls, intermittent texting, and some web surfing, I found the phone’s battery life lasts around two days.
I recommend this to anyone looking for a new phone and wants to venture into the smartphone market. This phone is sleek and provides some truly awesome features. The Pixi has some flaws but no phone is perfect, we all know that. If you take into account all the features along with the price ($24.99), this phone is simply unbeatable.
