Palm Pixi Gets Official. Sprint Once Again Steals WebOS Thunder

The Palm Pixi has officially been announced by Palm today and the WebOS based device will once again be heading to North American CDMA provider Sprint Wireless.

The Pixi offers a full sized qwerty keyboard which unlike the Pre is not hidden behind a sliding mechanism. The unit also supports 3G EVDO Rev A, while offering a 2.63-inch display with 18-bit color and a resolution output of 320 x 400 pixels.

The smartphone also offers Microsoft Exchange support with direct push email, IM capabilities and your standard SMS and MMS options. It also offers an integrated GPS, a rather mediocre 2MP camera (although it does offer an LED flash) and comes with accelerometer, proximity and ambient light features.

Finally the Palm Pixi offers an 8GB drive, although only 7GB of that memory is available for everyday use. While a 3.5mm headphone jack and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and A2DP are also thrown in for good measure.

There’s no official word on pricing, but assuming Palm wants to compete with the iPhone 3GS we’re guessing it won’t cost more than $199 with a two year contract [via Palm]