In the States, official operator partner Sprint has revealed more details about when the Palm Pixi, Palm's second webOS phone is due to be available to American consumers.

The new handset will be available at Sprint stores, Best Buy, RadioShack and some Wal-marts from 15 November.

Pricing has been revealed as $99.99 for those signing up for 2 years, but only after a $50 instant rebate and a $100 mail-in rebate, a price point raising eyebrows considering the Pre is now available in the US for $150 and has been offered as low as $79.99 on special offers.

While the Pre has only just gone on sale here in the UK, US phone-lovers are now just weeks away from getting the diminutive device, that favours a candy bar form factor over the Pre's curvaceous slider design.

A 3G handset, the Pixi gets a 2.63-inch, 320 x 400 resolution touchscreen, Qualcomm’s MSM7627 chipset, Microsoft Exchange push email, built-in GPS, a 2-megapixel camera with flash, accelerometer, media player, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 8GB memory, microUSB connector and a 3.5mm stereo jack.

UK availability for the Palm Pre is still TBC.

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Via: engadget.com

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