Palm Pixi Preview: New Gesture Nav and Social Networking Features

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Ed Hardy at Brighthand handled the new Palm Pixi and video-recorded his impressions with a Palm rep. The Palm Pixi is 10% thinner than an iPhone with gesture navigation with super media sync and easy keyboard access.

Palm added much more synergy from the web on the Palm Pixi. It's geared toward folks who are completely social and networked.

Palm added more synergy from social networking including Yahoo! calendar and email. They added for the professional customer synergy Linked-in, any data is changed in the social networking servers is changed on the Palm Pixi. It's easy to flip through apps.

The Palm Pixi, has a cleaned up gesture nav area, swiping different ways works elegantly.

The keyboard is for media sync customers, for IM and chat, easy to use. Universal search searches everything on the device then Google and even Twitter.

There is a Facebook app with status updates, Yelp with GPS, iLike concerts, and Air Hockey. The Palm Pixi has a 2.6-inch, 320-by-400-pixel capacitive touchscreen display and comes with 8 Gibabytes of storage.

You can view the video over at Brighthand.