Palm's Pixi TV spot heads in a new direction, bids adieu to creepy redhead

Palm, somehow finally managing to glean that the creepy, confusing, weirdly not-relaxing spots they'd been rolling out for the Pre weren't having the kind of impact they probably had hoped for, appears to have turned over a new leaf. Witness the jubilant, effective new holiday campaign for the Pixi. We have to hand it to the ad department -- this one actually kind of works. See the full video after the break... and, goodbye creepy lady.

[krische Posted Nov 12th 2009 1:08AM]

Over react much? Palm is right where they want to be. When did they ever say they want to take over the market? This phone will probably do quite well just like the centro.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:17PM]

What's engadget's fascination with the word "creepy" in every other story? Seriously find a new word. And get rid of "whip" too, ya bunch of nerds.

[The Albatross Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:19PM]

You don't understand anything. KEEP YOUR STUPID COMMENTS IN YOUR POCKET!

[ROFL Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:20PM]

Seriously, it's very creepy.

[Joshua Topolsky Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:20PM]

This was less than a 5 star commenting experience.

[smartmouth Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:25PM]

Thanks for adding to increase it Joshua ;)

Back on topic, this ad is better than the previous ones. I hope they bring customable backs to the pre too.

[kspraydad Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:29PM]

When did we stop being able to + - the writers' comments?

[smartmouth Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:34PM]

@Akio Morita

Yeah, I just realized that.They just want more control over the website. Still owned by aol, though, you can't ignore that.

[JeremyBenthem Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:04PM]

maybe after the time everyone turned on Nilay
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/08/archos5-android-pmp-now-on-sale-at-amazon/
embarrassing

[sweet greggo Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:16PM]

Ah yes, Itchy Finger Nilay. He once banned a commenter for typing too loud.

[bill cant fart Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:18PM]

@John

Wow... that was brutal. I've had bad experiences with Engadget's editors before for starting a petition to try to get them to fix the commenting system(I got 150 signatures!) and I got banned. But seeing what they did to some of the other members was horrible. Actually to the point of editing someone's comment to include the user's name and email address telling people to spam him. Engadget's kind of a jerk...

[finnith Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:26PM]

I read the comments on most stories every day but I don't recall that happening.

[KR Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:27PM]

Lol, i think its largely due to the last extreme down voting, which i believe was Chris, in the story of an android crashing the spell checker. The commenters got pissed, and started bashing him, since he probably made more mistakes in spelling then they (Developers) did in the whole making of the OS.

[bill cant fart Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:39PM]

@Kamill

If you're going to criticize somebody for a common mistake such as a spelling mishap, you better be pretty dang perfect and not make mistakes yourself. No one likes a hypocrite.

[Joshua Topolsky Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:45PM]

Actually it's part of a whole slew of new stuff coming -- planned for a LONG time -- which should help with all manner of trolling, spamming, etc.

...amongst other alterations.

Get ready! Changes ahead!

Exciting times, people.

[Why should I have all the fun Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:01PM]

Not really. I like the old engadget-uncut better.

Trolls will be trolls. That's the cost of an open forum.

I suppose I'm banned now ...

[Padilla7921 Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:02PM]

@ Joshua

If I could + your second comment, I would.

[kspraydad Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:12PM]

Hey Josh...

Do those changes include having an avatar system that works?

I'm a man of few requests.

[JeremyBenthem Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:20PM]

When Obama promised Change, I didn't want it on my internetz
but seriously, I'll take trolling over censorship and unfair banning any day

[skyblaze Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:20PM]

since you're here, josh.... what was with that whitelist article i saw earlier... it was all editors! freaked me out a bit but i wanted to join in on the convo :(

[NikAmi Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:56PM]

@Joshua Topolsky - You guys love writing about net neutrality, so how about giving us a little comment and rating neutrality?

[ramifications Posted Nov 12th 2009 1:55AM]

While we're doing all these new site "upgrades" can we change the fact that I had to make this comment just to access my account and find my last posts?

[laxic Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:19PM]

kinda digging the music
reminds me of Eberg

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:30PM]

It's "Sleepyhead" from Passion Pit's record, "Manners." Great album.

[laxic Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:46PM]

Thank you very much good sir!

[hariss Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:50PM]

not to piss anyone off but the music is the same as the psp canada ad & they look similar too with the psp & pixi flying around.
Glad to know they dropped that redhead thingy

[DickR Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:57PM]

It reminds me of Sigur Ros, but sped up

[bill cant fart Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:10PM]

@Dick Rhee

And less Icelandic/Hopelandic.

[Doax Posted Nov 12th 2009 1:50AM]

Mmmmm mmmmmm. I sure do love passion pits, and I'm not talking about a band. Either way. Commercial was pretty good, I plan on buying a Pixi. Wish it had more horsepowerz, but it'll do just fine as the replacement for my centro. Gotta say the price is what's selling me. I just returned my Instinct HD which was too expensive at $278 out the door. It was way too buggy still even after MR1 to justify a price of $278. This Pixi will be $108 out the door. However if the Instinct HD had the same hardware but with android on it man it would have been sweet. Samsung should make that happen. The hardware was awesome, light sensor, proximity sensor, the haptic feedback is nice(feels like more than one vibrator in there), super responsive screen, awesome camera, awesome video camera. All held back by a crappy OS that crashes when a sms comes in while doing anything else. Unacceptable. If it costed $100 or $150 after rebate I might have kept it even with the bugs.

[ROFL Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:19PM]

Decent ad, a better choice of music would have suited.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:19PM]

Wow. Actually makes me want one :)

If I didn't have a Pre.

[dcoaster Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:19PM]

Excellent ad! Much improved, Palm.

[haX0r Posted Nov 11th 2009 11:12PM]

I second that. Much better than the first. Palm should ask for a refund from the first dude.

[streetstealth Posted Nov 12th 2009 1:04AM]

I still imagine the ad ending with a sudden jump cut to Tamara Hope again, only this time the countryside is dark and stormy and she looks very displeased. And it's only on for like half a second before it cuts to black, so it totally messes with your mind.

Man, I think that Nokia ad a few days back really did something to me.

[Abdel Posted Nov 12th 2009 7:26AM]

now SERO talks start again
http://www.petitiononline.com/SERO/petition.html

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:25PM]

The song still creeps me out, so yeah.

[GustavTheLion Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:25PM]

i would love to try android and webOS i love the candbar format, i would rather have this than a pre- inless the keyboard sucks like the pre's. i have a tilt 2 and the keyboard is amazing- if i were to have a secondary phone it would be android or webOS if ATT had any

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:28PM]

There are too many better phones out there. Palm is going to fold sooner
if they keep spending money on useless ad!

[electron Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:33PM]

useless? Im sorry, but you seem to have no understanding of how a company works. the advertise. why do you think apple is so popular? because they advertise the heck out of their products. Palm isn't wasting their money, if anything, this is what they need to do the most.

[electron Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:34PM]

*they not the :P engadget, fix the friggin comment system -.-

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:28PM]

Nice. I think Palm's new devices are destined to compete solely with other portrait hard QWERTY devices, ie RIM. The BB OS is ugly as sin.

I'd hit it.

[whiteasianrose Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:29PM]

weird music but about 10 steps above damn creepy lady ads
i like i like

[flanders Posted Nov 12th 2009 7:09AM]

Yeah those ads were creepy, there's people lying in the morgue that aren't that pale.

[bobbyk18 Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:29PM]

The music is Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.

Pretty decent ad. Not earthmoving by any means, but definitely an upgrade.

[LAY Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:29PM]

Good pacing. Loved how the music added a very nice extra dimension to the ad.

Very informative without having to explain anything.

[collindow Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:29PM]

Better. But that song...what the hell is going on with that? I feel like I'll have a diminutive woman following me if I buy the phone. Which I plan to do. But I don't want the creepy woman!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:31PM]

the only creepy woman I can think of that would follow you would be Lila from the show Dexter. even then, i dunno i'd probably put the blocks to her anyway. heh.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 10:19PM]

Me on the other hand, I'd follow you anywhere, pumpkin, heh. Does that make me creepy, too? I like my little nerdies defensless, Rarrr!

[soonerLM Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:30PM]

@palm How about some video recording?!? So stupid that my Pre doesn't have video yet!!! I'm going to blackberry when sprint gets one with wifi.

[Edobe Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:31PM]

Web Os is looking mighty fine. To bad the hardware it's being paired with isn't as impressive.