Palm Pre spotted in the wild, possibly running YouTube
By Nilay Patel 
posted April 23rd 2009 5:34PM
posted April 23rd 2009 5:34PM
Update: One more pic here, showing it off next to an iPhone.
posted April 23rd 2009 5:34PM
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Ok, now THIS is awesome and undoubtedly real.
::shakes in jealously::
Well, they look very real compared to the two skater boys holding blurry black ovals, but I guess the possibility is always there for this to be fake. (correcting myself before others do).
I like the look of Youtube
I bought my iPhone primarily because it could run Youtube fullscreen. I came off of a 9000 series Blackberry. I'm very widely known on Youtube so I like to periodicaly check the hits my videos get.
Thanks QuantumPhysics. I'm quite big on youtube too but you don't hear me going on about it. If anyone's interested check out one of my videos... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
lol rick rolled!
Well done gus. Guy below gus, you spoiled it -_-.
RLY? Rick rolled? 2007 called, they want their meme back.
http://twitter.com/rickroll
The iPhone is HUGE, heh
Here are more: http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/178982-new-pre-pictures.html
I thought I saw it on a TV show this week, Bones ...
Did they make it beigger in this iteration?
This phone is amazing... it really makes a difference when a company makes both the hardware and software...
Even though this is the exact opposite of Android phones, I feel like I need to have the power of Tegra and the customization capability of an open source OS....
That said, the Pre's form factor is absolutely flawless.
Really? It looks like an ugly bar of soap to me.
Not sure what he fuss is all about.
@Tarex
Lol, flawless? Amazing? It's not even out yet. How can you be so sure? Would you still think the same thing if it had a fruit logo on it? I really don't get how people can be so in love with a phone that looks like it came from the late 90's. A slider - really? Aren't you all over that already?
Sorry, but I agree with the comment that it looks like a bar of soap. A cheap bar of soap. You all are going to be very surprised when it comes out. A lot of hearts are going to break.
Apple computer in the background, Pre in the foreground and apparently the person holding it has a black left hand and a white right hand.
Well look at that - low ranked by a bunch of tards who've never used or actually seen the device in question.
Prepare to be amazed at how much of a disappointment this is going to be, fanboys!
I wonder can you still have the youtube videos playing in the card view
The idea is that all cards stay active in card view.
Some stuff gets paused while in card view.
It's up to the developer if the app pauses in card view, just to clarify.
Looking nice.
either fake or this person is a bad photographer. why is everything in the background in focus but not the phone itself? seems easy enough to do if you know anything about taking a picture
I agree, the number one shortcut in photoshop for covering up fake looking edges is to blur it out or use smudge tool. And the fact that the pic looks like it was converted to BMP then GIF then JPEG doesn't help much if you're trying to convince the world no post production has been done...
Could easily be from a fixed focus camera (the the ones in the lamer camera phones) or a non-macro lens on a decent camera/phone.
I think it's most likely taken with his phone's camera that probably has no macro mode. Also, it's annoying how every time photos like this appear all these Sherlocks come out with their theories on why said photos are fake. If you took the 30 seconds it took me to find out out about the guy who's twitter account these are from you would see that he is VP of a finance firm and has a very obvious history of being a "suit". Highly unlikely that a high-up exec is photo-shopping pics of himself holding a phone that's due out in less than a month.
Probably taken with an iPhone.
holy shit ..i can just feel it the release date is coming soon there staring to pop in pic and in sprint add
the first shot actually looks like a dummy phone.
maybe they're getting ready to educate customers in store?
Drinkin' prison hooch playin with my Pre humdee hoo.
I really hope we can save youtube videos. It was only a matter of time with the launch most likely less than a month away now.
Will be getting mine the day it's released.
""Search All Videos" font seems way more Sprint than Palm, for example"...
But the Pre IS on Sprint, and Sprint can be a bit invasive with their little add-ins. It's entirely possible this is a Sprint-approved (read: tampered with) application.
What's the problem with it being a Sprint app? Palm's older phones came with Sprint-made apps too, like the instant messaging app on all the current Palm OS phones.
Verizon's versions of those phones don't come with an instant messaging app either, but I wouldn't blame that on Palm since I'm sure if Palm had made a bunch of cool apps for the phones Verizon would have deleted them all anyway to install VCast or something similarly moronic.
It's a Palm, so devs can make all sorts of apps. I don't think Palm has ever traditionally offered all that much in the way of Palm-made apps anyway.
@CleverEndeavor I think you meant "speak English" not "talk ENGLISH", and I don't blame the guy for not speaking "hat language"; I don't know how to talk to hats either.
Why are the guy's fingers so shiny? Why is the background so clean? I'm not prepared to claim it's CG, but you're right that it doesn't quite feel real.
Those are his nails and some people polish theirs.
Once again overhyped pre.
I can't wait to see how many of u will quickly turn backs on it , once u see price tag.!!!!
Apple troll.
bad grammar.
this is a tech blog for intelligent people who know how to talk ENGLISH. can you talk hat language, of course you cant, youre an apple troll.
why do people want youtube so bad? Give me Hulu and Netflix Streaming.
Okay, get yourself a windows mobile phone and get skyfire... Stream whatever you want! I was watching house via hulu yesterday on my tilt.
If you notice there's a little down arrow next to "YouTube". Comparing to other shots it may just be a quicklist type of app switcher, similar to WinMo, or it could be a drop down to switch streaming sites. Here's to hoping it is for switching streaming sites.
@Dubb
I think the down arrow next to the program label is a relic from PalmOS - you click it and it comes up with a sort of "file" menu with various options relating to the program. It'd be cool if it was just a general "video" app and you clicked and selected which service, but I have a feeling it's more likely just to have preferences and close in there. We shall see though!
I think that is the Sprint TV app not Youtube.
Huh?? SprintTV does not stream YouTube, if you look at the top left corner of the screen you can clearly see it is a YouTube app.
Here is another angle of the YouTube app: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1732/side.png It is not fake! Also, if you look at the video list, it appears these photos were taken today.
I want one of these so bad.
This dude's fingernails look like little Toucan beaks... Or maybe I've been awake too long :/
I'm not sure that is youtube, It could just be the pre's built in media player
clearly (ok, so not so clearly) you can make out the top left reads "YouTube"
That Arsenal vs. Liverpool game is well worth watching on YouTube!
instant classic game!
as a fan of one of the teams though, not happy with the result.