According to TechCruch, Palm will launch a mini-version of the Palm Pre, code named "Pixie." The Palm Pixie will use the WebOS operation system and be a smaller "candy bar" style smartphone with a price of $99 and will come out a few months after the Palm Pre. It will have a keyboard similar to the Palm Centro.
Engadget on the other Palm, has a sneak peak photo of a Palm smartpone they call Eos Mini Pre or Castle and points out there is a GSM version of the smartphone, that they say take "with a grain of salt." for Sprint in Q3 and AT&T.
Engadget claims the following specs for the Palm Pixie Eos Castle Mini-Pre:
- Touchscreen:2.63-inch, 320 x 400 capacitive.
- Quadband GSM / HSDPA.
- 4GB storage.
- 10.6mm thin 55mm x 111mm weight 100 grams.
- Price: $349 (pre-rebate).
- 2 megapixel fixed focus digital camera and flash / video capture.
- Bluetooth 2.1 w/ A2DP and EDR, USB 2.0 via micro USB.
- 1150 mAh battery (4 hours 3G talk time).
- Messaging: SMS, MMS (picture and video only), integrated IM client.
- Contact sync with AT&T Address Book.
- Cellular Video.
- Email: POP3, IMAP4, and EAS support.
- A-GPS.
- Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, AAC+ ringtones.
- Video Playback: MPEG4, H.264, H.263.
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