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Palm Pre Hands On: The Movie
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by Greg Kumparak on January 9, 2009

Here it is, folks – our video of the Palm Pre in its factory-made flesh, mere inches away from our lens. We intended for this to go live at the same time as our primary hands on, but the winds just wouldn’t blow in our favor. We shot the video, brought it back for editing.. and then things broke, USB drives were lost, and the video was 1 minute too long for YouTube (which we found out after roughly half an hour of uploading). But we shot 11 minutes of Pre footage, and darn it, we’re going to put it up. Enjoy.

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  • William Higgins - January 9th, 2009 at 11:54 am CST

    Good video, too bad a high school chick is doing the demo. “It’s really, really, really…” “…like you know….”

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    • Mitch - January 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm CST

      I completely agree with you Will, and it really turns me off of watching the video.

      She’s just throwing around words to keep herself talking without actually knowing what she’s trying to say or what she wants to say next.

      When she says “this is kinda derived around this core concept of…” I had to stop the video. I’ve heard enough. If you want your product presented in a professional manner, don’t use someone like this or all dignity is lost.

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  • coldsmoothie - January 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm CST

    why is there no memory card slot? who do i talk to about this which is very crucial for cell’s life to be long with good consumer usage life

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  • Adrian Eden - January 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pm CST

    Pretty cool phone, blackberry mixed with iphone, but smaller then both?

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  • Hans - January 9th, 2009 at 5:46 pm CST

    Good video, too bad a high school chick is doing the demo. “It’s really, really, really…” “…like you know….”

    http://www.jugargame.com

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  • bob e - January 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm CST

    buh bye iPhone, I’m gonna pick one of these Pre phones up.

    beautiful work Palm.

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    • Poopy - January 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm CST

      What Apple should have done is really built up the platform by encouraging development and creating an strong ecosystem around the iPhone with thousands of applications and hardware accessories. They should have expanded sales globally, added key enterprise technologies and built iPhone technology into the flagship iPod, therefore exposing the platform to a few million more users.

      Thanks to all these misteps and miscalculations, Apple have left the door right open for Palm to sweep in and steal the iPhone’s thunder. The fact Palm are launching their device in such prosperous economic times, when people can easily switch providers and cancel lengthy contracts makes things all the more scary for Apple. The iPhone is as you so rightly say: buh bye

      Stop thinking cellphone vs cellphone, start thinking platform vs platform. Palm has what looks a great cell phone, but they also have an untried, untested platform. Apple has a good cell phone, a good platform, good marketing and $25 billion US.

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  • Eric - January 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm CST

    Thanks for the video.

    I’m all for the new Pre, but is the multitasking something that’s really lacking on other phones? My Tmobile Dash can run multiple apps at the same time which I can switch between and so can my several years old Treo 650. The transitions may not be as flashy but I sort of took this feature for granted.

    Other than that, cool phone!

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  • Valentines Quotes - January 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pm CST

    This is a cool and impressive one!

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  • Fred Grott - January 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pm CST

    Its a RIM killer as Blackberry market share dead in 12 months…

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  • Oy Vey - January 9th, 2009 at 6:51 pm CST

    Too bad the keyboard doesn’t slide out along the edge for typing in landscape mode. Poor design choice IMHO. Otherwise, I might have decided to upgrade my existing 2 year old Palm Treo.

    I’ll hold out for another year. Hopefully, in that time the iPhone will have a slide out keyboard.

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    • Jason - January 10th, 2009 at 11:50 am CST

      Agreed. First thing I noticed a few days ago was the keyboard. I’ve got a feeling it makes typing awkward as you try to balance the device in a top heavy position. A horizontal landscape keyboard would make the device much better.

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      • Gus - January 10th, 2009 at 2:41 pm CST

        Truth is that the portrait mode keyboard is better for single hand use. In landscape mode, you’d need both hands… I guess that is what was on their mind when they selected that mode…

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  • Kevin Milden - January 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pm CST

    The multi-tasking is real the innovation here. “Like a deck of cards” was a good idea.

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  • Dominic Son - January 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pm CST

    Looks great. Love the keyboard. the iPhone still has the advantage of the apple developer’s community. And if smartphones were like video game consoles, would this be a Neo Geo? Perhaps Palm and Apple should finally partner. I mean, Bono did for the iPod…

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  • Crabkilla - January 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pm CST

    God this girl’s vocabulary and voice is annoying.

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  • Justin - January 9th, 2009 at 9:06 pm CST

    tired of seeing it in action. would like to have one in my hands. aarrrggghhhh can’t wait 6 months. Hope Sprint and Palm can deliver this early 2Q.

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  • Ryan Chartrand - January 9th, 2009 at 10:45 pm CST

    “Control alt.”

    Can I have her job please?

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  • SC - January 9th, 2009 at 10:54 pm CST

    Is it just me, or is there absolutely no killer app here, from a usability point of vIew?

    Palm Synergy or “favorite apps/wave” doesn’t make up for the lack of an awesome app store.

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    • Clymmer - January 10th, 2009 at 10:47 pm CST

      The awesome app store is in the works as well based on what I’ve seen in other news snippets. The thing is that it will likely be a bit better than Apple’s app site mainly because it won’t be so limiting…Palm’s not going to “reject” any developer’s work because it parallels core application functionality. I understand why Apple’s doing it…I just don’t agree with it and I think it’s a stupid policy.

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  • SG - January 9th, 2009 at 11:47 pm CST

    It would be interesting to find out what Palm is going to do to engage the developer community

    SG

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  • Obed - January 10th, 2009 at 2:11 am CST

    Almost perfect phone for me, too bad, it lacks Memory Slot :(

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  • James C - January 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am CST

    Ah well, at least she’s chirpy :-)

    The phone looks awesome. iPhone meets Blackberry I guess. Or a much swankier G-phone.

    Maybe this will revive Palm’s fortunes…

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  • Theban - January 10th, 2009 at 6:15 am CST

    Grow up boys…thought she did a great job in getting the message out. Well done Palm!

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  • Lars Schlossbauer - January 10th, 2009 at 6:33 am CST

    Looks like a great device – especially the synchronisation of different accounts and tools (e.g. email, contacts and cal.)!

    Does anyone know if the Pre browser supports flash?

    Thanks & cheers

    Lars

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  • Patrick Moorhead - January 10th, 2009 at 7:46 am CST

    Great video Mobile Crunch.

    This strikes me as a melding of the best, and some of the worst of some of the phones that are out today with some clear differentiators like the ribbon and deck view.

    Until I can get my grubby hands on one of those versus a video, too early to tell.

    If you are into this stuff, I did a few reviews on the BB Storm and the Android G1 here: http://budurl.com/SmartPhone

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  • nemrut - January 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm CST

    …glad i’m not the only who finds this girl’s voice incredibly annoying.

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  • man - January 11th, 2009 at 8:11 am CST

    The girls is fine, better than any tech dude. I love my iPhone and wouldn’t change it any time soon, but I have a feeling the Pre supports Copy / Paste.

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  • Zoid - January 11th, 2009 at 8:18 am CST

    Nice phone. I have both a Treo and an iPhone. I would buy this BUT – Palm signed an EXCLUSIVE agreement with Sprint/Nextel for the US??

    Sprint is in a death spiral losing thousands of customers a week. This is a DUMB decision by Palm that will severely limit Palm’s last chance for saving themselves. Duh!??

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    • Awake - January 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am CST

      IT is a great move, Sprint has recently been rated to have the best 3G network and their customer service has improved immensely. Couple that with Sprints EVDO Rev-A you have a winning combination. Also, due to the success of the Palm Centro on Sprint, Palm has been able to remain in business.

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  • sam h - January 11th, 2009 at 11:08 am CST

    This phone is the best of blackberry and iphone in one, great size, I hope the keyboard is as good as the Blackberry keyboard, I am looking forward to the PRE.

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  • WulfCry - January 12th, 2009 at 12:26 pm CST

    Girl did great there.
    Love the phone definitely must have.
    Synergy is a great innovation.
    Although writing application in javascript might be limited factor ”dislike wrapping code”.

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  • MobileSpoon - January 13th, 2009 at 12:51 am CST

    I did an interesting comparison between Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android.

    Check out how it ended in here:

    http://mobilespoon.blogspot.com/2009/01/palmpre-vs-iphone-vs-winmo-vs-android.html

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