Sep 14
Palm Takes Pixi to NY Fashion Week
Posted in: palm, Smart Devices, Today's Chili
Following their ill-timed introduction of the cute Palm Pixi smartphone, Palm decided to bring their new little WebOS phone and its five California-designed “artist backs” to New York Fashion Week at Bryant Park.
Palm’s presence at Fashion Week is a marvelously-designed little booth that looks like the inside of one of the “artist backs,” with five Pixis (Pixies?) on display and two Palm folks walking around doing demos. When I hung out there for a little while, the place wasn’t empty, but it wasn’t as busy as the McCafe next door where they were giving away free coffee.
The overlap between Pixi and Fashion Week is more than just the artist backs; people in the fashion industry tend to be both messaging-obsessed and UI-focused, and the Pixi shares both of those obsessions. Bringing the Pixi to the giant tent at Bryant Park is Palm’s attempt to pry an industry free of their BlackBerries and iPhones.
I did get to see one Pixi feature I hadn’t played with before – a simple, addictive air hockey game. WebOS is desperately short on games, and I’m hoping we’ll see many more soon.
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