Hi Thomas, I'm the person who designed that ad and uploaded it on my gallery on deviantART (username: koreansensation).
I was on a long drive to Ottawa without Internet and just found out this ad got featured here from a tip I got from my good friend who seems to read Engadget regularly (thanks Andrei!) and would like to clear up some few things.
First of all, I am not a professional graphics designer. This was merely a quick mockup ad I created for my final group project at marketing class at University of Waterloo in Canada. As John Gardiner has said in the earlier comments, the project was to create or recreate a marketing scheme for a company. My friends and I chose Palm because we felt Palm was always lacking in their marketing department as well as failing to come up with a device that is appealing to many consumers (especially Gen Y+).
Secondly, the device was SUPPOSED to have a slide out keyboard sorta like AT&T's Tilt. However, due to time constrictions with approaching project deadline, I did not have time to whip that up in Photoshop. I have personally used iPhone's touchscreen keyboard and found it extremely annoying. My teammates also agreed with me that a slide out hardware keyboard with keys are *much* easier and faster to type for people than having to learn Palm's "graffiti" writing.
If you are interested in forwarding this to Palm's marketing department or Palm's design studios to make this device into a reality, please let me know.
In the meanwhile, I will be uploading an actual mockup to my deviantART gallery with more detailed specifications of the "Centro 2" which is what I'd like to see in a modern mobile device.
Please stay tuned and can someone please explain how my ad got ended up here?
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Hi Thomas, I'm the person who designed that ad and uploaded it on my gallery on deviantART (username: koreansensation).
I was on a long drive to Ottawa without Internet and just found out this ad got featured here from a tip I got from my good friend who seems to read Engadget regularly (thanks Andrei!) and would like to clear up some few things.
First of all, I am not a professional graphics designer. This was merely a quick mockup ad I created for my final group project at marketing class at University of Waterloo in Canada. As John Gardiner has said in the earlier comments, the project was to create or recreate a marketing scheme for a company. My friends and I chose Palm because we felt Palm was always lacking in their marketing department as well as failing to come up with a device that is appealing to many consumers (especially Gen Y+).
Secondly, the device was SUPPOSED to have a slide out keyboard sorta like AT&T's Tilt. However, due to time constrictions with approaching project deadline, I did not have time to whip that up in Photoshop. I have personally used iPhone's touchscreen keyboard and found it extremely annoying. My teammates also agreed with me that a slide out hardware keyboard with keys are *much* easier and faster to type for people than having to learn Palm's "graffiti" writing.
If you are interested in forwarding this to Palm's marketing department or Palm's design studios to make this device into a reality, please let me know.
In the meanwhile, I will be uploading an actual mockup to my deviantART gallery with more detailed specifications of the "Centro 2" which is what I'd like to see in a modern mobile device.
Please stay tuned and can someone please explain how my ad got ended up here?
Thanks.