Hoping to capitalize on the momentum created by the release of its preliminary smartphones, Palm on Wednesday will unveil a smaller, cheaper smartphone called Pixi.

Apparently aimed toward younger consumers than those targeted by Pres, he playfully smartphone will be longer but thinner than before and smaller sport multitouch screen, a full-size keyboard QWERTY, as well as a 2-megapixel camera, Palm said. However, like his brother, smartphone, 3.5 oz Pixi-will still have 8 GB of memory and GPS capabilities.

In addition to the new application Facebook, Pixi also be able to integrate LinkedIn Yahoo contacts and the contacts, calendar, and chat in one window using the “Synergy palm.

“With Palm WebOS, we are creating a new, more intuitive smartphone experience is defined unmatched simplicity and usefulness,” Jon Rubinstein, Palm chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “Palm Pixi brings this unique experience to a wider range of people who want advanced messaging and social networks in the field of design, which allows them to express their personal style.”

Pixi announcement comes less than four months after the start of sales of Palm Prete, who said the company registered record sales, when it became available in June. The company did not discuss specific numbers, the first week, but some analysts estimate that between 50000 and 100000 units were sold during the first week.

The move coincides with the announcement that Palm would reduce the price of its smartphone preliminary to $ 150 with a two-year agreement for service and two rebates. Palm did not reveal the price Pixi did, but said it would be less than before and that he expected to be available to consumers in time for holiday shopping season through Sprint. Palm also plans to offer an artist-designed, Limited Edition replacement back cover, which he plans to demonstrate at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, which begins on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Sprint began short-term promotion that offered customers to competing carriers $ 100 credit services for those who bought a Palm Preliminary and transferred my old Sprint number. However, this proposal was pulled after a few hours with Palm said that it was posted in error.

Two years ago, Palm then executive director Ed Colligan, has rejected an offer from Apple chief Steve Dzhobs promise not to hire each other’s employees, according to Bloomberg News.

According to Thursday Bloomberg story, which cited an unspecified “connection” between the two leaders, Colligan in August 2007 stated that the jobs “proposal was premature. The work has been concerned about the loss of key Apple employees and Palm said:” We must do everything our power to stop it, “reported Bloomberg.

“Your suggestion that we agree that neither company will hire other employees, regardless of the wishes of the individual, not only wrong, it is probably unlawful,” Colligan said Dzhobs, according to reports seen Bloomberg.

Several senior figures at the time worked in the Palm Apple. In the two months prior to the beginning of August 2007, the message given by Bloomberg, Palm announced that former Apple CFO Fred Anderson to join the Board of Directors, and John Rubinstein, who retired as head of Apple’s IPod division in 2005, will join as executive chairman of the board.

In June this year, Palm Rubinstein, called him as CEO, replacing Colligan.

In August, a former Apple employee Jeff Zwerner became the Palm brand design chief. Other execs Apple, Palm who jumped ship in recent months include Senior Vice President of Product Development, Mike Bell and head of PR Lynn Fox.

They do not like to lose in recent years among companies with a pre-Palm up and comer for the smartphone market share against Apple iPhone. In two of them only recently been squabbling over the pre compatibility with iTunes.

In the Bloomberg story comes as the Ministry of Justice is reportedly a possible collusion between the recruitment of leading technology companies.

Tensions often run high-tech companies among the leaders of the transition between potential competitors. Apple last year hit a high-profile naskrebesh from IBM for its rental of Mark Papermaster with Big Blue.

Sixty-seven per cent in 2009, venture capital support for mobile applications are beginning to develop their app to work on multiple platforms - namely, at the beginning of the six mobile operating systems: iPhone, Palm, RIM, Android, Symbian and Windows, according to new data from research firm chubby Brain, 67.

Of the 33 per cent, which is a platform to develop specific applications to develop for iPhone dominates all other platforms with a little less than half of all investment dollars. This makes sense for several reasons, primarily the fact that the App Store is the most simple and clear path to profits said applications.

Interestingly, the data that developers are actively supports six different platforms and for different reasons. For example, the need to support Symbian to reach a wider group of users, and you should try to reach an Android support what could become the next big swath of mobile devices. However, management development efforts for all these platforms will eventually become a major headache.

I suspect that we will see in the future move to support devices in the Apple iPhone, Research In Motion of BlackBerry, as well as the company’s Google Android operating system, over time, as the smartphone functionality is becoming more important globally.

Those who became too intimate, and even fall in love with his favorite gadgets are in need of assistance.

You know who you are. You clutch your iPhone, as you sit at the bar. You turn your Palm into a pre-palms, as if he had a stress reliever. You may wish you to use the gadget in your soul, just for safety.

Fortunately, some sensitive soul of a company called “Two eggplant came with an ingenious way to communicate with the digital life, how do you clean-up day. For just $ 7.99, you can be the proud owner of a soap that looks exactly like Palm Pre ( pictured), or iPhone.

You can put this beautiful facility on the right side of the head, and use it to reduce your earwax residue. You can take a shower-safe pre-Palm and feel it slipping through your heart and lungs, a fantasy you have, no doubt, always cherished.

And, since we are in a sniffing of inanimate objects, on the occasion, you will be pleased to know that you can put two eggplants Palm Pre the nose and open for a lasting aroma of truffles, chocolate, or even your own custom flavor.

Which, of course, leads to ask why the Palm and Apple do not add flavorings to the electrically charged originals.

I know that the only mention of this work, pure ingenuity, many of you will rush to their favorite car in the soap version. Please, however, make sure you never mix the two after a heavy night of entertainment. I would hate for any of you tried to talk in a bar of soap in the office.

Tell us you’re not doing that, Palm? Indeed, we have been friends for over ten years. I defended you when you were a bad idea, and praised you when you have good ideas. But this time even I have to give a well-earned “What …?” I want to say that you should know that modern technical users value their privacy, for almost nothing, and yet it looks like you do it?

It seems that every day you send a message from the President of the people without their knowledge. Why? And why would you include it, which applications are installed and, most frightening of all, their co-ordinates GPS? Why would you want to know exactly where your customers on a daily basis?

You made a great product with a pre-, Palm. Please disable this function. This is the spot for the company that is known by the experience of users. If you can not disable it, you could at least change the privacy policy, that if you are a user pre you spied on? Of course, it is said that you will gather information to users when they use location-based app - as, for example, Google Maps, - but he has not told you this when you feel like it. I hurt.

Honesty is best policy, and honesty should be in politics.

UPDATE: Palm has sent me the following statement:

Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers ways to turn data services on and off. Our Privacy Policy, as well as many politicians in the industry and includes a very detailed language about the possible scenarios in which we might use customer information, all to the purpose of offering a great user experience. For example, if location services are used, we collect information to give them the relevant local results in Google Maps. We appreciate the confidence of users who give us their information, and do not intend to violate that trust.
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