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hi everyone I'm Chung win for Pacquiao calm and today we're going to do an unboxing Hardware tour and a software preview of the webOS and synergy engine on the sprint palm pixi the palm pixi is available right now on the sprint now network for ninety-nine dollars let's go ahead and start with the unboxing and see what's inside so here's the relatively attractive packaging for the palm pixi go ahead and open up the box which is housed inside a hard plastic enclosure and here is the palm pixi we're going to go ahead and set this aside it sits on top of this molded plastic tray on the bottom you have manuals which are available in both English and Spanish so they're bilingual and it looks like sprint also included a recycling pouch to recycle your old phone once you've upgraded to this nice smart phone also inside the box you have a wall charger with nice pop out prompts for charging and it attaches via a USB cable you also have the USB cable and it attaches to the device via a microUSB connector and it can charge or stand think either through the wall charger or through the computer so you can connect it to your computer as well I'm going to go ahead and power on the device and then we're going to do a hardware tour so the device has a 2.63 inch 320 x 400 it's a capacitive touchscreen that supports multi-touch and unlike the palm pre which has a slightly taller screen this one is shorter by 80 megapixels in the vertical Department on the screen on the palm pixi supports 18 bits of color which shows nice color rendering on a very crisp screen on the front you have the earpiece speaker at the top and on the bottom here you have the keyboard with raised keys and it offers a very nice clicky feeling and in my experience with the device I offers very accurate on typing so unlike the palm pre which has a slightly wider keyboard but the keys aren't as pronounced and raised and the keys feel a little bit mushy er the Pixies keyboard feels a lot better for a less expensive smartphone than the pre is set out to be the pre retails for 149 whereas the pixi is ninety-nine dollars the side of the device the left side on is very clean there's nothing going on here and it shows off a very nice and slim profile and you'll definitely feel that in your hands once you're holding it at the top left corner you have the power button moving over to the side you have a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack on the right hand side of the device you have the volume up in the volume up and down and a ringer toggle switch right on tops to quickly silenced the phone and put it in to vibrate at the bottom on the right here you have the a flap that opens up to review a micro USB charging port the flap attaches to the phone itself and keeps itself secure via a magnet which is a nice touch on the back of the device you have a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash and what looks to be a stereo speaker actually is only a mono speaker once you open the back battery cover which wraps all the way around to the front of the device and offers a very sturdy feeling the battery cover that ships with the phone is a matte black finish you can also get an artist series cover with art on it or this business class classy perforated battery cover and this one is specifically compatible with the touchstone are charging dock so with the touchstone doc go ahead and reattach this one if you place the device on the dock itself it attaches via a magnet and the dock is intelligent enough to know that once you answer your phone when it is thought calls will be routed automatically through the on speaker phone rather than through the earpiece which is a nice touch and the phone it looks like is now in airplane mode so we're going to go ahead and turn off airplane mode on the bottom here you have a touch sensitive area and the center home or launch button on the palm pre which used to be a hardware button is now built into this this touch sensitive area when the first explore synergy by launching the contacts card and I'm going to go ahead and search for my contact information on here the nice part about synergy is that it integrates your different accounts that you have that you use to contact a person with so here there's a google account a linkedin profile and AOL instant messaging and also a facebook profile you can also link in an exchange account and also a yahoo account if you use those to manage your contacts the nice part about it also is that with addresses this one's actually mapped through the palm headquarters in sunnyvale california if you tap on an address it will open up the address in google maps and google maps will also use the built-in GPS on the device which is a very nice touch and adds to the simplicity of it if you tap on a phone it will automatically pull it up if you're in the home screen right here and you type in a word you can go ahead and search for it and it will actually pull up the the contact information or if it's not on on your contacts it will pull it up in google and search it that way so there is universal search on the device the other important thing that i wanted to show you is the messaging app which pulls nicely with this energy engine as well here you can see a threaded conversation that I started with myself I'm using a different account on a computer if I were online on the computer right now would show a green dot next to my name but since I'm offline on the conversation as you can see started in AOL instant messaging but since I'm offline it moves to text messaging so it's a nice touch to have all your short messaging like IM and SMS integrated into a threaded conversation view with the center button in the touch sensitive area if you tap on it it launches you into car view where you can pan around and see which card you want to go to and and if you tap on it it will open the card however if you drag the card up and off the screen it will close the card so you can manage your multitasking that way as well which is a very nice touch the device also has a proximity sensor and a light sensor as well as Bluetooth and GPS but it does not have Wi-Fi built-in we're going to go ahead and launch the mail application and palm if you have multiple email addresses set up palm also gives you a unified inbox and pinch and zoom and multi-touch are supported in the email application as well the really nice part about the email is not what it supports but how you can set up email accounts in your looks like I tapped on something on your email accounts if you have if you just know your email account and the password that's all you need to set up an email account with the synergy engine you don't need to know any of the settings which is a nice touch above and beyond what is offered in Windows Mobile and even Android where you actually need to know some of the elementary settings there's also a notification area here we got a new address we can tap on it too or a new email if you can tap on it to see what it is and it shows you a quick preview if you tap on it it will launch the email application so notifications are discreetly handled through the bottom notification area and also the device has support for 3d graphics so opengl 2.0 is supported it has a 600 megahertz processor which is similar to the clock speed on the palm pre but the pre feels a little bit more responsive for some reason than the Qualcomm chip that's used here again this is an entry-level smartphone so you can expect the high-end performance but overall if you don't open too many cards it is a very responsive device we're going to open up the web browser here which supports visual bookmarks you can type in a URL or if you type in a search term that's tie pins cookie since cookie isn't stored on the phone it offers you suggestions if you want to search for it in Google or Wikipedia we go ahead and cancel out of that and just open the pocket now home page and use the accelerometer to switch it into landscape mode and here's the progress and although the page hasn't finished loading the basic contents um are there so you can go ahead and just look at the content that you want double tap to zoom in pinch and zoom to zoom in further or zoom out as you need to so this has been a quick look at the palm pixi which runs on palms web OS operating system and uses the synergy engine for contact on integration and management on the sprint now network the device again is available for ninety nine dollars on a two-year contract and it uses the CDMA radio and network and also has the evdo rev a support for fast mobile broadband data on the device doesn't have Wi-Fi like the older brother the pixi but with evdo rev a I didn't find that the device on struggled at all with download speeds I'm Chung win for pacquiao calm and thanks for watching