Have questions about the Palm Pixi? Ask in here

chris · 11-13-2009, 02:16 PM

I've got the Palm Pixi and will be working on a review this weekend. Not sure when it'll be completed, but shooting for Sunday or Monday at the latest. If you have any questions about the Palm Pixi, please feel free to ask here. I'll do what I can to answer them.

Shaun0207 · 11-13-2009, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by chris

I've got the Palm Pixi and will be working on a review this weekend. Not sure when it'll be completed, but shooting for Sunday or Monday at the latest. If you have any questions about the Palm Pixi, please feel free to ask here. I'll do what I can to answer them.

I know this is a stupid question, but I assume its touchscreen? I have seen any of the specs say touchscreen. Some people may not want a touchscreen device. Something Palm should consider.

chris · 11-13-2009, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Shaun0207

I know this is a stupid question, but I assume its touchscreen? I have seen any of the specs say touchscreen. Some people may not want a touchscreen device. Something Palm should consider.

Yes, it's a touchscreen

. Slightly smaller, but certainly a touchscreen.

Shaun0207 · 11-13-2009, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by chris

Yes, it's a touchscreen. Slightly smaller, but certainly a touchscreen.

LOL. Cool.

AKITAYO · 11-13-2009, 06:26 PM

Suggest to include the unboxing before the review There are a lot of European guys who would like to see Pixi from the beginning . Specially Germans, for what I can tell.Thanks

chris · 11-13-2009, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by AKITAYO

Suggest to include the unboxing before the review There are a lot of European guys who would like to see Pixi from the beginning . Specially Germans, for what I can tell.Thanks

Your Palm Pixi unboxing video is here.

lelz · 11-15-2009, 10:46 PM

I just bought a brand new Palm Pixi today. I absolutely love it, but I have a couple issues that I thought you might be able to help me figure out.

1. In the calendar in my old Palm Centro, I was able to edit when I wanted my phone to alert me I had an event coming up (i.e., I requested an alarm to go off 2 hours in advance of the event). I can't figure out how to customize a time in the Pixi's calendar. The longest time is 1 hour in advance of the event and then it jumps to a full day. Any idea how to make it 2 hours or 90 min, for example?

2. I let it completely die before I charged it. Now it's charging with the phone off, but there's nothing on the screen (after the initial charging icon). I don't want to press the power button because I don't want to turn it back on. Is there a way to know its progress or when it's fully charged with it off?

Thanks!

coryshubert · 11-18-2009, 09:34 AM

Question on alerts and want to make sure I am not missing something that is there but I just haven't found it yet...

When the Pixi is in sleep mode, the screen is black. If a call or text comes in, a tone/vibrate/whatever will happen and the screen will wake to show icons. That is great.

But what if I am away from my desk and don't see that first notification, how do I know there is a message waiting for me without having to constantly wake the phone to check? This seems like basic phone functionality 101, but I can't seem to find anything on this mentioned or explained. I mean come on, Blackberrry has this figured out as do most if not all other phones, so why doesn't Palm?

There are ways this could be done fairly easily I would think, flash the keyboard or glow the sensor light in the swipe area... something that would tell a user to wake his or her phone because there is a message to act on.

Just wondering if anyone else has come up against this one.

thanks,

Cory

lelz · 11-18-2009, 12:28 PM

for sure that's annoying about it not showing you anything when you have an alert. I agree it could be easily solved by flashing the sensor.

In terms of custom alerts, my only solution was to manually put in an alarm in the Clock and just calling it whatever the event was in the calendar.

coryshubert · 11-18-2009, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by lelz

In terms of custom alerts, my only solution was to manually put in an alarm in the Clock and just calling it whatever the event was in the calendar.

Sure, this is a way to notify you on something you have control over, but a message or call that you have no way of knowing when it would happen this of course is not an option.

Here is another thing that the Pixi and I am sure the Pre does... if the phone is in sleep mode while Pandor is playing, the music goes on and you see a black scree. The minute a new song comes on, the screen half-wakes to show you the new song name, then it goes dark again. This tells me the Pixi is already able to do this and it just needs someone over at Palm to write the script that says flash message/call icon every 5 secs, 10 secs, whatever.... please Palm, just do it.

thanks,

c