I don't understand this, why would palm bother to make the lower end Palm Pixi when the palm pre are now selling for only $80 with a contract, while the Palm Pixi priced at only $25, for $55 dollars difference, I wouldn't personally bother with the palm pixi, but to each of their own, I know I will have disagreements.

Regardless, Check out the Amazon site on the Palm Pre for $80 with contract Below.

Palm Pre at Amazon.com

Thanks to engadgetmobile for this news

ComScore reporting that Google Android's market is still booming, in just little more than 3 months, the Android Market share has increased 4% of the total smart phone market. That's pretty impressive.

Smartphone Platform Market Share

49.1 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in May, up 8.1 percent from the corresponding February period. RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 41.7 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.4 percent share and Microsoft with 13.2 percent. Google saw significant growth during the period, up 4.0 percentage points to capture 13.0 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Palm rounded out the top five with 4.8 percent. Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.

source: comscore