Comments on: Palm Introduces Pixi, Latest WebOS Device – First Take

By: Jacinto Kullman

Jacinto Kullman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:30:22 +0000

I ought to say that my selection to purchase a Palm Pixi with Sprint service was each a rational and emotional a single. I imply, the Palm Pixi is lovely and functional. And coupled with all the assistance excellent of Sprint, it seems practically nothing short of a revolution inside making. I believe that Palm and Sprint have (pretty much) hit it off famously. I did a whole lot of research prior to obtaining the Pixi but overlooked at very least just one factor. The Pixi won’t, yet, permit me synchronize my e-mails among it and Outlook. As far as I am concerned, this is a drawback I am facing unless Palm comes up with a option speedily. With my previous SmartPhone running a Windows OS, it was a snap to synchronize e-mails along with other data with one’s Computer. But Pixi’s inability to complete so is doing life a small tough for me mainly because I have to Bcc just about every e-mail, I send out, to my e-mail address after which manually transfer it for the ‘sent’ folder in Outlook. I hope Palm, or at minimum a third-party, will come up having a remedy very quickly which will effortlessly let me synchronize all my e-mails, and ideally all essential data, involving the Pixi and my office Personal computer.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:41:54 +0000

In response to Brandon M:

I just read that you can move the cursor in a text field by holding the orange key and swiping anywhere on the screen. I had a Pre for 2 weeks and did not find that feature :) .. but it sounds like once you know about it that it should be very workable. I returned my Pre because I had hardware concerns as cracks and scratches seemed to appear out of nowhere. But I would try the Pixi form factor since it seems more traditional – my Centro (which I also had initial concerns with the hardware) has held up like a champ – and I really liked the WebOS.

By: Brandon M

Brandon M — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:15:25 +0000

If it has a different size screen than the Pre (you mentioned), won’t that add complexity for app developers and website folks trying to make sites/apps works consistantly between devices. One of the nice things about the iPhone/iPod touch is they all have exactly the same rez. One app, one design.

Secondly, am I the only one who HUGELY misses the 5 way nav ability of the old Treos? I tried to use a Pre in the store for 20 minutes and found it maddening that I couldn’t skip by character, word, line when editing text. Trying to place the cursor with my finger (especially on older screen types) would be maddening.

By: R Brown

R Brown — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:36:01 +0000

The “younger demographic” is interested in LinkedIn? Wouldn’t they be more interested in FaceBook and MySpace? LinkedIn is more for professionals.

Of course that may change.

By: jonprice

jonprice — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:25:42 +0000

good point, Kontra. even Apple has quite small market share, but significant profit share to go with their almost laughable level of mind share (particularly among mobile OS vendors and handset manufacturers).

By: Kontra

Kontra — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:33:28 +0000

Mindshare -> market share isn’t very useful.

Mindshare -> profit share may be.

To give just one example, TiVo had plenty of mindshare, but very little market or profit share.