Palm Pixi Announced - Latest WebOS handset

Palm announced the release of the Palm Pixi, the second handset in the WebOS family. The Pixi is a perfect blend of traditional Palm form and WebOS functionality, and is sure to be a success. The handset is intended as a lower end handset to the Pre, while delivering most of the same functionality. The LCD is noticeably smaller at 2.63 inches, but delivers a full qwerty keyboard below (think Palm Treo series). The unit maintains a small trim size and weight making it ideal to carry around with you. It's .43 inches thick, 2.17 inches wide, 4.37 inches long, and weights 3.51 ounces. Palm has incorporated a 2 megapixel camera, built in gps, 7 gigabytes of usable memory, and a 3.5mm stereo earjack. The biggest functionality it does lack is wi-fi. As with the WebOS, it integrates with facebook, gmail, yahoo mail, and your personal outlook email allowing you to keep up on all your messages. As with the Pre, the initial launch of this handset will only be available to Sprint customers. The Pixi should be a strong contender in the marketplace by providing a lower end handset that will attract more Treo and Blackberry users to make the switch. We can only hope in the future releases, this model will be released with wi-fi and on a GSM network.

Can I use a GSM phone on all GSM networks or a CDMA phone on all CDMA networks?

We will start with GSM phones. You can use a GSM phone on another GSM network if it has been unlocked and if the carrier and phone operate on the same frequencies. When a GSM phone is put out by a carrier (AT&T or T-Mobile for instance), the phone is "locked" to that carriers network. To remove the carrier lock, known as unlocking, you can either request the unlock code from the carrier or purchase the unlock code from a secondary company (check ebay or google "unlock code"). Regarding the phones operating frequencies, generally most cell phones produced are quad band; they operate on all 4 possible GSM frequencies. Quad band phones can be used on any GSM network worldwide. If you want to know what frequencies your cell phone operates on, we recommend checking phonescoop.com. You can look up the technical details of any phone on that site. You can contact your carrier and see which frequencies they operate on in your particular area.
With CDMA phones, you can not unlock them to be used on another CDMA network. You can "flash" them to another CDMA network. This requires having the phone reprogrammed for the other carriers CDMA network, and not all CDMA networks will accept a phone that was on a competitor. Verizon and Sprint will not activate a phone that had previously been on another network once it had been flashed. Cricket and Metro PCS will, but charge an additional fee for the activation.