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 Navigatorsm 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.
[...] late February it lowered the price of the Palm Pixi Plus by 20% to $80. then this past March it lowered prices again, this [...]