Palm's bodhisattva says something meaningful in latest Pre ad
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Aug 18th 2009 5:04AM
posted Aug 18th 2009 5:04AM
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I really hope they stop making commercials like this (and I know this is the edited on of the original commercial) Its really creepy with the Albino with her hair in a bun. Its like there scaring people into there phones.
And 1st
She's not albino!?
she is not albino, yet she is still creppy.
I actually think she's rather pretty - in a Gwyneth Paltrow, Uma Thurman, Nicole Kidman fashion.
I didn't find her creepy. I thought she was hot!
Bodhisathva? Why does she qualify as an enlightened one?
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Besides, I find this edition of the AD series better than the other ones.
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Yes, I ignored the top-most comment on this page! Death to the trolls...
...um maybe because she seems to know something about the phone no one else knows? I just wish she would enlighten me!
I agree she just seems high as hell.
Still want one though, and I wouldn't mind her coming with it...
She's a Vampire...
i disagree. i don't like these newer, shorter ads as much. they're too short doesn't draw me in. by the time my interest is peaked the ad is over. there's not enough time to build a relationship with her or the phone. all the creativity is gone!
but oh yeah i do agree, trolls suck ass and need to die.
I find this girl very attractive. There, I said it.
Yea, like Andy Drufresne said: "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things."
Oops. Meant "Dufresne". Sorry, Tim.
Seconded, and I'm not ashamed of it either.
As bad as the ads are, I don't really mind seeing her.
On a side note, when she looks down at the phone in her hand and there are clouds...is she floating? What happened to the trees and grass visible in previous commercials? Has she ascended to an entirely new plane where things such as speech and grass is no longer necessary?
@Metkis: You can't just ditch Lauren like that!
Looks like a shepardess.
Awaken from the dead.
THAT!
Look at her eyes. She is sooooooo high.
notificash what!!
Bodhisathva? She? I thought it was Macaulay Culkin.
:D:D:D:D:D
I just busted out laughing in my cubicle to awkward stares... but that was funny.
Then I suddenly find myself attracted to Macauly Culkin...
Macaulay Culkin - My thoughts exactly XD
Am I the only one who finds the ads (and the girl) attractive? I like the style, songs and total serenity of the ad.
Nope, you're not the only one.
@Simon you are my brother soul. I really can't see what's wrong with those commercials. I like them. And girl is quite cute. I have enough barbie dolls in TV.
I find doped up girls attractive too.
as someone else has already mentioned,
Her name is Tamara Hope.
I have to admit, I dont like these ads, the entire calm serenity thing doesnt do it for me and ends up only annoying me. Simple is good, but you can have simple and interesting, this is just dull to be honest.
Explosions and or lasers and or lights and or something I'm not thinking of right now
Im foreign, my main language is not english :(
I learned english around 3 or 4 years ago
That is a smart 11 month old
You can exploit an make good money of that freak
And that was not a huge grammatical error, more like a typo and one slanged word
Grow a beard and stfu
Okay
lol what?
He was trying to reply to himself above, as some commenters made fun of him for calling her an albino. Unfortunately, Engadget's comment system is notoriously crappy.
sadly when i first saw the screen shot on the post it reminded me of home alone....:|
I wouldn't mind being home alone with Tamara Hope.
..she looks like Macaulay Culkin; there, I said it.
Isn't it more the other way around? He looks like her? You decide.
I know I can't be the only one to see this similarity...
http://twitpic.com/ecefj
lol,indeed, she looks like Macaulay Culkin.
>_<
From Futurama: You watched it... you can't unwatch it!
I love the sheer simplicity of this advertisement in demonstrating the phones feature. Great work from Palm!
"Introducing the Palm Pre, with Calendar Late Notifi...."
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I"m concerned. Is she OK?
According to Wikipedia,
a bodhisattva means either "enlightened (bodhi) existence (sattva)" or "enlightenment-being" or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one (satva) for enlightenment (bodhi)." Another translation is "Wisdom-Being." It is the name given to anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all living beings.
does anyone know who this girl is? i find her VERY attractive!
anyone seen the new bell/pre commercial, kind of mocking the iphone a bit? just saw it last night, can't seem to find it on youtube yet, anyone else have a link?
The background is kind of dull.
The quality of the ad makes me think it was recorded on VHS or something.
Engadget, I love you and all, but its to time to let this go. It's old now.
She is creepy pale. She is not attractive except in that bizarre sort of way someone amorphous, diaphonous and ethereal is somehow alluring. That is the tone of the ad: ethereal. Attractive would be a woman who is less surreal. The more interesting question is what was the ad team thinking when they chose her and that imagery? What niche were they trying to create in the consciousness of the consumer public? iPhone is the phone for smart, cool, hip people from Alston, Mass, to Seattle, Wash. T-mobile's Google phone is the nerdy phone nerds do not like. What is the Pre? What is their image market?
im sorry but i would tap that pale hiney 6 ways to sunday. She's a hottie in my book.
I just keep wondering when we get to see the rest of her??