Just a little over a month after first being introduced, Verizon Wireless has decided to lower the price of the Palm Pixi Plus by 20% to $80 which is a pretty impressive price drop for a phone that hasn’t been out on the market for that long.

It seems that the main reason for the price drop is to encourage Pixi sales in a market where Apple’s iPhone and Motorola’s DROID seem to be capturing most of the spotlight these days. The previous $50 price difference between the Pixi Plus and the more powerful Pre Plus led users to chose the latter phone instead.

Technical highlights:

• Touch screen with full QWERTY keyboard
• Memory: 8GB Flash/256 RAM
• 2 Megapixel Camera with flash
• Wi–Fi Ready (802.11 b/g)
• 3G Mobile Hot Spot Capable
• Bluetooth® Capable*
• Palm webOS™
• Text, Picture and Video Messaging with threaded messaging feature
• Instant Messaging for Google Talk and AOL
• VZ Navigator^sm Capable
• Universal search –Automatically start searching the phone or the web just by typing on the keyboard
• Email –Exchange ActiveSync support for corporate email, as well as personal email support (Google push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP)

This phone is targeted to Smartphone beginners who like a highly customizable design, thanks to its limited edition artwork covers from famous designers.