14 DAY TRIAL // Palm Pixi, the second mobile phone Palm delivered to the market with its brand new webOS platform on board, has just passed through FCC's courtyard. The phone is already available for purchase in the US, and this pit stop at FCC might seem odd, only that the new Pixi, which received approval for use in the US, is Palm's model P121EWW, and that it is on its way to Verizon Wireless.
Big Red was already known to plan adding to its offering one of Palm's handsets and the P121EWW model code is a clear indicator that this might happen pretty soon (Sprint has the P120EWW model). As many of you might know, Verizon already touted plans to launch the Palm Pre on its airwaves as soon as early next year, and it seems that Pixi might have the same fate.
The best part of all is that the Palm Pixi is expected to arrive at Verizon Wireless with Wi-Fi connectivity on board. The model available at Sprint currently does not include this functionality, although the carrier was said at a certain moment to tout Wi-Fi as being present on the Pixi. 802.11b/g Wi-Fi will come with the handset on Verizon, and it remains to be seen whether Sprint's model will also receive the capability.
In the mean time, if there are some of you who still do not know what Pixi comes around with, you should know that it sports a 2.63-inch touchscreen display with a 320 x 400 pixel resolution, a QWERTY keyboard, candybar form factor, 2-megapixel photo snapper with LED flash, GPS receiver, 3.5mm headset jack, accelerometer, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR with A2DP, microUSB, 8GB of internal memory, coupled with USB mass storage, and great connectivity options, including support for email (Exchange ActiveSync, POP3, IMAP), IM, SMS and MMS, Internet browsing, and multimedia capabilities. Stay tuned to learn when / if it arrives on Verizon.