Palm Pre casually boots from the cold comfort of a blue Corian countertop
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 21st 2009 4:30AM
posted May 21st 2009 4:30AM
"Excuse me, sir, is that a Palm Pre?"And with that, we'd hurriedly stuff our crap into our Jack Spade (nervously dropping the Pre three times in the process), knock over our triple tall latte, apologize to no one in particular, and run-walk aimlessly away.
"What, this? No, it's a RAZR."
"Why does it look like a Pre then? And why does the screen say Palm on it?"
"Ah, uh, [unintelligible] emulator... it's in the App Store. I, uh..."
"You can use the App Store with a RAZR?"
"Yes. Gotta... I'm late for... good talking to you!"
enough already
I'm sure the conversation would be more like:
"Excuse me, is that a Pre?"
"Um, no."
"Ever seen a grown man naked?"
Honestly - this is no worse than the iPhone pre-launch jazz.
But- Is It Worth Its Hype?
Only time will tell.
Personally - I think it will be.
As if the iPhone was?
I'm a pre fanatic, and I'm going to have to agree with ian9outof10 and ADVENT. Enough already with the giving-phones-to-everyone-but-the-customers. Stop treating us like morons.
RELEASE THE FUCKING PHONE.
@samboini:
you ever been in a turkish prison?
I'm sure the conversation would be more like this:
"Excuse me sir, is that a Samsung _______________"
"No, its a Palm Pre".
"Oh...Whatever...later"
Holy Viral Marketing, batman!
I gotta wait 15 more days just to see this Pre fail. Hurry up already so I don't have to hear any more about it. After that, it's all iPhone goodness. Let Apple show the industry how to build a smartphone that sells in the millions in a month.
Random but oddly funny article #3563
You truly are the best editor Chris :-P
Its coming soon! I think the conversation would go like....
"Is that a pre?"
"Why yes it is."
"can I hold it?"
"No."
Please?
no.
Pretty please?
no.
Pretty pretty please?
no.
Pretty pretty pretty please with candy sugar on top?
Here's my wife isn't she beau....
No!
Not interested in your wife but YOU may play with my Palm while sitting on my lap...
Can I at least touch your stone...
Okay.
- hey look over there! a duck!
- what?? where?
*grabs and runs*
no wonder there is so much excitement about this excellent device with
+enormous ammout of 8GB of storage (which you won't loose as it is not replacable, another plus)
+killed support for JAVA appz (which speeds up the device, java is sooo slooow)
+no support for FLASH which we know is buggy and I like this one the most because the internet pr0n been taking too much time from me lately (and youtube narcistic teen girls)
+not-really fast processor which saves EARTH and energy and simplifies many things (like you close every application everytime before running movie so you don't get lost in a mess)
+a phone that is preparing a _big_ surprise on us in multimedia (I have heard pretunes will rock) as every other presentation stayed out of audio cababilities (loseless format? cover flow? ) or video/media library (the one presented worked with enormous 5KB gifs, too big to enter memory of other phones)
+and due to physicall keyboard I've heard it will be the biggest portable game platform (as we know you _must_ game to succeed!) which SONY and SEGA fears of!
or...wait...this last one, wasn't it ... the....
really dude??????????????
you have waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much time on your hand
if u hate it why are u reading every thing written on it ..
it wont matter to anyone in this world if u stopped existing
That's funny, you think the OMAP3430 is slow? Funny how it's about 3x faster than the iPhone's processor.
> ...OMAP3430 is slow? Funny how it's about 3x faster than the iPhone's processor.
I wonder about this - the processor is theoretically faster however, due to power saving requirements, is possibly extremely slowed down EVEN at the times when it needs fastest speed.
Since no independent person has been allowed to publicly comment on the Pre we outside of Palm simply do not know how castrated this processor is, if at all.
@cowgaR
In other words get the N97...
Or they could just as well be intentionally leaked by Palm to help build the hype up, sort of like what Ford is doing with the Fiesta except they don't officially announce it.
More like:
"Is that a Palm Pre?"
"Um, yeah, I guess it is."
*grab, run*
You know that an 8GB ammout is really rare, that's why it's not replacable if you loose it. You must be some narcistic, physicall phool.
Never played Grim Fandango, but always thought the face was creepy. Thank you for bringing back childhood nightmares.
quick question, what wireless bands does sprint use?
the fcc site is showing a sprint phone (no pics :( ) using 848.31mhz, 1908.75mhz, 2480mhz, and 2462mhz.
does that mean it might use wimax?
Best avatar ever.
I didn't read your comment, but +1 for the avatar.
Where is that from?
the big question is:
does it's "awesomeness" overcome the "turnedoffness" that is the fact that bono is going to be using this thing?
My goodness - it's about to eat that MBP! It's already gobbled up a couple Nokia's and a toffee almond bar. Seriously, this phone is huge, and I don't mean like "I'm big in Japan" huge. I mean like "I love twinkies" huge.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I would ask "Are we sure this is the Pre" but I know we do. That's kind of a let-down since I thought it would be thinner; it needs a lot of space for the power telemetry coils perhaps.
I heard this thing does copy and paste. How awesome is that?
but you can't copy/paste contents from inside the browser. thats bad
looks like a shiny hp ipaq.
What is the point of this post again?
ray k
@samboini
Do you like it when a dog rubs himself on your leg?
**WHOOSH**
You need to catch up on your films.
ya, i'm a huge fan of webos and what this phone holds, but posts like this are just stupid. it's no better than the stupid post just like this that were being done for the ifone.
"Excuse me, sir, is that an iPhone?"
"What? An iPhone, no"
"I want an iPhone so bad, can I play with it?"
"What da f*ck? Its not an iPhone, but, sure"
"This is so cool. Where are all the cool games from the apple ad?"
"Its a f*cking palm pre! from Palm, give it back now"
"F*ck you! It's my iphone now!" runs away, with your phone.
Enough about the Palm Pre already, it seems like a good phone but we dont need updates every time someone takes a picture of this over hyped cellphone.
overhyped he says, LMAO.
So PALM employee's use MacBook Pros, huh? Smart group of guys! ;-)
Is that a palm pre you just put in your pocket?
why yes it is would you like to see it?
ya sure, wow it really sucks compared to the iphone. Its really slow and is half the phone an iphone is. the screen sucks! the keys sucks! You even suck!
Sir, i havent even taken it out of my pocket.....
The sad part is I can see this happening IRL. Perfect comment though.