Palm Unveils 'Pixi' Budget webOS Smartphone Comments

I have to say that i've always quite liked the idea of this...but with a feature rich OS like Web OS, it's such a shame to cripple it and so many apps that would benefit from a WiFi connection - that's a really poor decision, even more so that the lack of a micro SD expansion port.

Even if this countries 3G carriers actually worked, reliably and at speed (as opposed to the shocking slow, patchy & totally undependable cr@p we pay for now)...it would still be a poor decision!

I'm sure the Pixi 2 will come with Wifi and an SD slot and a 3.2-5 MP camera - which would probably only add another $20 to the cost price.

This is aimed squarely at business users who time after time are buying blackberries as second phones because they are under the impression they are good for email. The problem with blackberries are the BES costs and additional BES data costs from the network provider when using Microsoft Exchange. This will use activesync (FREE). I will probably end up selling a load of these...

@Xenos: I just can't imagine a business man coming in and asking to see your pixis. What an awful name for a big, black phone.

@Joe - LOL this is true, but they will just call it a Palm. Nobody asks to see your Storm or Curve...