This is not a front-facing camera on a Pixi 16
Yes, we very much want a Pixi 2, something to redeem the idea of a tiny smartphone with not-so-tiny capabilities. Call it a "teen-phone," or "the smallest smartphone ever available" - just bring it and soon. Sure, it's not the superphone that everybody is waiting for, but it'll do.
As much as we'd like it to be, the image above isn't that Pixi 2. It comes from a Sprint promo and many think they see a Pixi 2 with a front-facing camera in the upper-lefthand corner. What we're actually seeing is a Pixi whose two front facing sensors - for light and promixity - are being shown clearly. On production devices, you can see them occluded under semi-transparent plastic under the right lighting. On the image above, well, they're just a bit more ostentatious.
Remembering that Palm started looking for video conferencing engineers in July, we understand why it's making its way around the blogosphere as a potential mix-up candidate for the Pixi 2. Heck, we ourselves thought that at first too before we came back down to reality. Sorry kids, but we need to wait just a little bit longer to get the deets on the Broadway / Castle (redux). You didn't think we'd get out of the shadow of the valley of "the coming months" that easily, did you?
Source: Sprint; via @iamisaactorres
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Man I would have LOVED to have one of these when I was in High School! Of course, that was in the late 1980's, and they would have accused me of being an alien with this advanced technology. Today, kids would just beat you up for having a crappy phone with a gay name.
how sad. they'll beat your ass and then not even take your phone so that you have to live another day in even further humiliation. kids can be cruel.
I have little interest in a front facing camera, but a spec'd up pixi with a bigger screen and keyboard is exactly the kind of phone i want. I never liked the form factor of the pre so i went with the pixi even though i knew I was "trading down". the result has been exactly what I could have expected: a great phone but frustrating when compared to the capabilities of the pre. so spec me up baby!
It is definitely slow news day today in WebOS land.
Best post title ever.
i must admit, i probably wouldn't have bought it either way.
executives leaving palm, app developers leaving, patch developers leaving, customers leaving...
this blows
how does this doomsday scenario have anything to do with a debunked Pixi rumor?
im a customer and im staying.. just saying not big on the Pixi.
ffc would have made it more interesting, then they could call it a developers phone as they can try and develop an app for it. that would have been more belivable than calling a pre 2 a developer phone.
hmmm... hopefully this wont be the only new hp/palm device sprint is getting in the near future..
Now PreCentral has to create stories. Who really thought it was a front-facing camera and who really cared? The next pixi should have the specs of a droid pro. or, at least palm should have a phone like that for those folks who want the Treo hardware experience, instead of the cinco or whatever the cheap version was called. The only thing HP/Palm will likely put out is the Pansy.
I'm waiting for a Pixi 2 also. Hate to say it, but I might have to get a Pre for now. Even overclocking doesn't help this phone. The form factor & durability are great but the screen size & lag is horrible.
GM years ago tried to sell the Nova in Latin America. No one would buy it. They checked to see why and were surpised to find that "No va" means "No go." It turns out that no one will buy a car called the No Go.
The single worst feature of the Pixi was not the low def screen, slow speed, or even the missing WiFi. It was it's name. Not even a 10-year-old girl wants people to know that she has something synonymous with fairy. If they made it the best phone ever and called it the Pixi 2, that's how many it would sell, 2. Check out other Nova Failed Marketing winners here:
http://wilk4.com/humor/humorm137.htm
As to the Pre, a local Best Buy manager said the Pre was the highest return rate of any phone BB has ever sold. Palm, please never use the word Pre again either.
I agree completely. From the drop in Palm's smartphone market share, I don't think the world was holding it's breath for a Pre 2 let alone a Pixi 2. When the actual new devices come out - not just upgraded plus like refreshes - they should have new model names to generate new excitement. How about the Palm Nova?