Palm
Pixi

The Palm Pixi was launched in partnership with the Sprint mobile network in the US. It was Palm's second device using its webOS platform after the Palm Pre. It was regarded as a follow up to the Palm OS powered Palm Centro.  The Pixi had a 2.6-inch, 320-by-400 pixel touch screen which was smaller than the Pre's 3.1-inch 320-by-480 display and was considered one of the smallest smartphones available at the time. At the time it was considered that the swift introduction of the Pixi underlined the strength of webOS. Not only had Palm delivered a sibling for the Pre quickly, but the more-inclusive appeal of the Pixi was believed to illustrate the versatility of the webOS platform. For the Pixi, Palm moved away from the Texas Instruments processor used in the Pre to a new, highly integrated Qualcomm chipset. This enabled Palm to deliver a more mass-market, mid-tier product with the Pixi. It's compact design and full qwerty keyboard catered to a far broader audience than the Pre and its lower price saw Palm targeting the Pixi firmly at the mid-tier segment in an effort to appeal to first-time smartphone users who were primarily attracted to LG and Samsung feature-phones at the time. However, getting to a lower price point required Palm to make compromises, the most significant being the lack of Wi-Fi. This proved unpopular given that Sprint's 3G network delivered a slow and frustrating user experience.