Is this the Palm Gandolf?
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jun 8th 2007 10:14PM
posted Jun 8th 2007 10:14PM
posted Jun 8th 2007 10:14PM
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oh wow palm, yet ANOTHER uninteresting device? I bet its thick and lacking wifi as well
well...if they can really get it out for $200, they may be able to swing people around from the "dumb" phone market.
they really need to hire some design people. That looks like a 1st grader picture of a phone. They really need some development help. That looks like crap. I have a bar of soap in my shower that looks more creative than that.
brian
Assuming hat thing is anything besides potoshop idiocy (chances not being real high) I'd say that thing looks a lot more pre treo than post treo.
There's definitely a tungsten c /Lifedrive "what if they mated" thing going on there. The ergonomics are also obviously horrible. early design mule imho.
This shall not pass!
Yikes! The Treo 750 has an excellent form factor - why not just REALLY improve on it. They need to 1) give it a boost in speeed/memory 2) fix the screen 3) WM 6 Prof 4) and good grief - use a mini-usb connector (current cables for power, connectivity are brain dead). I will never buy a device again where I have to carry around specific charger and connection cable.
Creative M:Phone?
I would agree with the HTC-ishness, save the fact of the Palm LifeDrive navigator button.
Thank goodness for the iPhone, I just cant mess with Palm anymore.
Umm, this is obviously a fake. The keys are in straight lines, which is a huge waste of space. The last time they had keys in straight lines was on the Treo 600, after which they made it curvy on the 650 and even curvier on the 700. This allowed them to make the keys bigger without making the device wider. There is no way they would go back on that.
Also consider the fact that the screen in the picture is not centered - there is more room on the right then on the left. Moreover the interface looks exactly like my 650, you think they wouldn't improve anything there?
Sorry, try again.
"This shall not pass!"
HAHHAHAHAHHA
Also, just be thankful we have Apple, or this kind of crap would be going on till 2020...
You say this is fake. I would have said so myself, but since the announcement of the Foleo I could believe ANYTHING!
Okay all you experts. The brilliant crew over at Morning Paper just published a color version of teh picture and it is definately real. Check it out www.morningpaper.typepad.com
I can see the headline in 2009...
"In a bold move, Palm releases it's first 320x480 display phone. Only 4 years too late."
Fake. Why would you have a qwerty keypad with numbers on it if you're obviously displaying a touch screen display. Take it one step further, at least photoshop us a color pic so we can drool a bit.
Hard to say Cliff - except that the existing PalmOS based line behaves the exact same way...
Does Palm innovate anymore? Or do they just throw products out there to see what happens? They are still stuck in 1998 it seems.
I can see the headlines 5 years from now "Palm releases a PDA with, hold it. 64 megs of space!". Wow!
Its a bad photoshopped image of the Creative Zen:M. The shape is a dead giveaway, as is the screen placement and size. Also, I work with Photoshop daily, and the image bears the classic hallmarks of someone manipulating the image and then adding noise to make it look genuine. (if you do it poorly, the noise ends up looking uniform, as in this case). I'm also pretty sure that that keyboard is taken directly from either the HTC Cavalier or the new Motorola Q9.
Gandolf the Gray or Gandolf the White?
FUGGGGGGGGLY WUGGGGGGGGGLY
what the hell! w.. ww.. I cant even talk.. i'm speechless... mucho suckumondo
"This shall no Pass!!!"
I love that comment!!!
Apple takes two steps forward, the rest of the field takes three steps backward.
I don't care so much about ugly. I want Palm (even if Garnet) and I want thin. I'm sooo close to buying a 680 and so not happy about its still-thick-in-an-era-of-slim-ness. I don't want a damned brick in my pocket. Not pumped about the price of the unlocked version either. If Gandolf was Q/Blackjack/Dash slim, I'd totally buy it and be content for several years. I don't want Windows Mobile. I like all my Palm stuff, OS included.
Not very promising. Palm has always disappoint after the Treo 650. If it is for real, there probably no real wifi and it looks like a soap bar like the original PalmPilot, that was cutting edge.
I know I'm a nerd, but proof enough that this is fake should be that the old wizard's name is spelled 'Gandalf' with an A, not an O in both the books and movies (credits). Or maybe I'm off-base and that's on purpose, who knows.