Last month Palm released the Palm Pixi, the company’s follow up to its first webOS device, the Pre.  Unlike the Pre, the Pixi has a candybar design and a price in the sub $100 range with a Sprint contract.

While the Pixi won praise for its low price and slick design, the device was missing WiFi, a strange omission for Palm.  This weekend, however, Palm passed a new version of the Pixi through the FCC that includes 802.11 b/g WiFi.

Palm has already confirmed that it will release the Pixi for Verizon, and it appears that this will be that device.  It’s odd though, that Palm would release the Pixi for Sprint without WiFi, and a couple months later release the same device with WiFi for a different carrier.  The cost of a WiFi chip isn’t significant.  With so many Bluetooth/WiFi chips available now, it’s sometimes actually cheaper to manufacturer WiFi, than without.  Either way, I’d be upset if I just moved to Sprint for the Pixi, and I’m sure Sprint’s sales of WiFi-less Pixis will drop once the Verizon version is announced.