- 4:26 PM ThePeterHa - here it is http://tinyurl.com/7jrhoz
- 4:19 PM ThePeterHa - I want the palm pre. Really bad. Too bad it’s going to be on sprint :(
- 4:08 PM Peter Ha - And we’re done.
- 4:06 PM Peter Ha -
- 4:05 PM Peter Ha -
- 4:04 PM Peter Ha - 20 million people are accessing FB using a mobile device daily to date.
- 4:04 PM Peter Ha - Facebook Connect for Mobile coming soon.
- 4:03 PM Peter Ha - Facts and figures. FB Mobile launched in ’06, etc.
- 4:02 PM Peter Ha - FB has over 150 million users worldwide.
- 4:01 PM Peter Ha - Facebook COO Sheryl somethingorother is on stage.
- 4:01 PM Peter Ha -
- 4:00 PM Peter Ha - The Pre should be up on Sprint’s site for pre-order. They haven’t mentioned anything on price, yet. First half of 2009.
- 3:58 PM Peter Ha - Sprint will set up your Pre for you in the store.
- 3:58 PM Peter Ha - Symbian and WinMo are done.
- 3:58 PM Peter Ha - This is an iPhone, Android, Palm race now.
- 3:57 PM Peter Ha - Sascha Segan noted that all they have to do now is launch three or four phones this year – a GSM Pre is a must in the next quarter – and they can bury WinMo
- 3:57 PM Peter Ha - Hess is just talking. I’ll take a moment to say that this is Palm’s big turnaround. Straight up.
- 3:53 PM Peter Ha - Pre is set apart from the competition
- 3:52 PM Peter Ha - This thing BETTER be a world phone.
- 3:52 PM Peter Ha - Here comes Dan Hesse.
- 3:52 PM Peter Ha - SPRINT
- 3:52 PM Peter Ha - This is EVDO. Here come some partners…
- 3:51 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:50 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Touchstone – Bluetooth speaker – sorry, it’s actually an inductive charger.
- 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Hell, it’s the best looking non-iPhone phone I’ve seen. Peppy, attractive, multitouch. The design is excellent.
- 3:49 PM Peter Ha - Friends, this is the best looking Palm phone I’ve seen in ten years.
- 3:48 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:48 PM Peter Ha - Peter Ha just had an orgasm.
- 3:48 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:47 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:46 PM Peter Ha - Put in any controls or graphics you want. Totally programmable.
- 3:46 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:45 PM Peter Ha - Notifications hide in a queue.
- 3:45 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:44 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:44 PM Peter Ha - You can place some things at the bottom of the screen – IM convos, for examples. Notifications.
- 3:43 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:41 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:40 PM Peter Ha - Open as many browser windows as you want.
- 3:40 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:40 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:40 PM Peter Ha - Browser is just right. Multitouch zoom.
- 3:39 PM Peter Ha - This is actually like watching an old, stinky, retarded dog with one leg beating a bigger dog.
- 3:39 PM Peter Ha - This is like watching a small, old, stinky dog beat a bigger dog. Finally, Palm, finally.
- 3:38 PM Peter Ha - Launcher runs like spotlight – type BL and it starts finding contacts and apps. Intuitive opening of content.
- 3:38 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:36 PM Peter Ha - This is totally the coolest thing ever.
- 3:36 PM Peter Ha - Text messages and IM show up in one place.
- 3:36 PM Peter Ha - Takes threaded SMS and combines it with IMs
- 3:35 PM Peter Ha - AIM, GTalk, just like the desktop
- 3:35 PM Peter Ha - IM built in. Gtalk.
- 3:34 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:33 PM Peter Ha - Email autocomplete
- 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Email works with attachments and inline images.
- 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Single list of all email accounts.
- 3:32 PM Peter Ha - No “New” button
- 3:32 PM Peter Ha - Tap on an event to make a new one.
- 3:31 PM Peter Ha - Accordian folds close up to show empty time.
- 3:30 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:27 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:27 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:26 PM John Biggs - cards are live. this is like the Sony Ericsson X1 phone but good
- 3:26 PM John Biggs - zoom out to see all your activites.
- 3:26 PM John Biggs - press center button
- 3:26 PM John Biggs - new paradigm. deck of cards.
- 3:25 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:25 PM John Biggs - right.
- 3:25 PM John Biggs - this is the newness you were hoping to see, right?
- 3:24 PM John Biggs - drag up for icons
- 3:24 PM John Biggs - the flick gesture happens under the screen. just slide your finger along the bottom of the screen.
- 3:24 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:24 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:23 PM John Biggs - launcher slides up like a sheet of glass.
- 3:23 PM John Biggs - gestures move you back and forth in the UI
- 3:22 PM John Biggs - Flick and tap. No buttons.
- 3:21 PM John Biggs - gesture based
- 3:21 PM John Biggs - slides like iphone
- 3:20 PM John Biggs - Big image, favorite application icon at the bottom.
- 3:20 PM Peter Ha -
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- 3:19 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:19 PM John Biggs - 4.8 ounces
- 3:19 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:19 PM John Biggs - Ergonomically curved. Red hot, people.
- 3:18 PM John Biggs - SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD
- 3:18 PM John Biggs - here it comes, people
- 3:18 PM John Biggs - oh shit
- 3:18 PM John Biggs - USB Mass storage support. 3.5 mm jack.
- 3:17 PM John Biggs - Looks like our keyboard rumor was false. :(
- 3:17 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:17 PM John Biggs - Remove back and replace the battery.
- 3:17 PM John Biggs - 3 megapixel camera with LED flash.
- 3:17 PM John Biggs - gesture area below the screen. Accelerometer, proximity, ambient light
- 3:17 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:16 PM John Biggs - 3.1-inch display. 320×480 display, touch screen
- 3:16 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:16 PM John Biggs - Look at that. Beauty, eh?
- 3:16 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:15 PM John Biggs - EVDO Rev A Bluetooth 802.11b/g 8GB storage GPS with turn by turn
- 3:15 PM John Biggs - Rear speaker, camera. Looks like a pebble (PEBL?)
- 3:15 PM John Biggs - Looks like a little iPhone with a 2-inch screen. Thinking ahead for you.
- 3:14 PM John Biggs - Very small.
- 3:14 PM John Biggs - Fre small
- 3:14 PM John Biggs - New Palm Pre
- 3:13 PM John Biggs - This is kind of what Steve Jobs said about two years ago. No new languages to learn.
- 3:13 PM John Biggs - Built with developers in mind. HTML, CSS, javascript, Ajax.
- 3:13 PM John Biggs - It’s not called Nova
- 3:12 PM John Biggs - Palm WebOS
- 3:12 PM John Biggs - New platform. Redefine the center of your access point on the Internet. Connect to the cloud.
- 3:12 PM John Biggs - Essentially he’s saying that the new OS will bring in all of your “accounts” into one platform. You could see images from Facebook on your contacts list, for example.
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - Come on, dude. He’s talking about facebook.
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - Wait for it…
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - Wait for it…
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - Here comes the big reveal.
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - OK
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - But Colligan is saying it over and over again.
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - That’s what Palm is trying to say here.
- 3:11 PM John Biggs - Information is everywhere, people.
- 3:10 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:10 PM John Biggs - Now everything is online. Bringing things together in a seamless way.
- 3:10 PM John Biggs - In the old days we needed a media player so we had the Treo.
- 3:09 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:09 PM John Biggs - Today there is a new twist on the old problem of the smartphone.
- 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:07 PM John Biggs - Which could lead to genetic diseases down the line, incidentally.
- 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:07 PM John Biggs - Mobile is in our DNA
- 3:07 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:07 PM John Biggs - Making the tech invisible.
- 3:06 PM John Biggs - A couple questions all the time: How can we simplify people’s lives?
- 3:06 PM John Biggs - They wanted compete with pen and paper.
- 3:06 PM John Biggs - They didn’t think about competing with the newton when the invented the Palm Pilot.
- 3:06 PM John Biggs - not buttons, rather. The point is they care more about usability.
- 3:06 PM John Biggs - Fingers, not button. Pockets, not processes.
- 3:05 PM John Biggs - Palm is the right company to bring you a great new platform and product. Improving people’s lives.
- 3:05 PM John Biggs - Ed Colligan President and CEO of Palm coming up.
- 3:05 PM Peter Ha -
- 3:05 PM John Biggs - Perhaps a Palm phone?
- 3:05 PM John Biggs - What could that be?
- 3:05 PM John Biggs - and you need the RIGHT PLATFORM.
- 3:04 PM John Biggs - You need to have the RIGHT PHONE.
- 3:04 PM John Biggs - Take all that information in your hand. Let all that date interact.
- 3:04 PM John Biggs - We keep our information all over the place
- 3:04 PM John Biggs - Great phone is important. Companies have forgotten that. More than a bunch of applications bolted to a phone.
- 3:04 PM John Biggs - Palm is positioned to create some of the best mobile devices in the industry.
- 3:03 PM John Biggs - Rubenstein describing move from Apple to Palm – he was pulled off of the beach. Rubenstein was Apple’s product guy.
- 3:03 PM Peter Ha -
- 2:46 PM Doug Aamoth - Peter’s waiting to get in. The show will start at 11:00 Pacific.
when is it avaiable? Will Verizon sell it???
exclusive with sprint
finally palm…finally. the wait is over. time to chuck out my old bashed up treo680…
Holy shitballs Palm seems to actually have done something right. That UI looks gorgeous.
I wonder what the underlying OS is though?
its brilliant isnt it? ive been waiting forever for palm to do something like this…the OS is Palm webOS – not Nova as reported…
Price? Availability? WTF Palm!? Don’t leave us hanging.
How much will this cost? Sprints site so far has nothing…
I think they should have demo’d that datawiz software…iphone doesn’t have a real keyboard and this thing can do ms office!
cant wait…it’ll be a few months – prob q2…time to save up some money…
Sweet! Awesome phone, great job Palm!
I loved that charger without wires, deck of card applications which can be flicked through, beautifully smooth touch screen gestures, and smooth integration between all the applications
A true Wow experience!
OK, but what about us “Palm Loyal” customers who have been with the platform for 10+ years?
Will old Palm OS apps run on the new OS?
What about the Palm Desktop?… does the new PRE work with the old Desktop or has the Desktop been overhauled too?
Can I easily migrate all my old data onto the new device?
PS: When will Verizon get to sell it?
Backward compatibility? Excellent question!!!
Without some sort of migration path (which naturally includes apps), this is NOTHING BUT a totally new product (in a crowded space), from the same management team that brouht us Folio, Grafitti2, & Cobalt. Palm ‘shafted’ me years ago with Grafitti2 after a 7 year relationship with no option to use Grafitti 1. If the ‘shaft’ me again with no migration path for my apps, and EOL all of their current paradigms, then SCREW ‘EM–I’d just as soon crawl into bed with Apple than let them shaft me again. It’s a relationship guys. A long term relationship! You can’t bite the hand that feeds you.
It sounds like Peter Ha jizzed in his pants. Is Palm one of your sponsors?
Verizon, Verizon, Verizon!
I’m definitely ready to upgrade from the 700P and I’d like to stay with Palm like I have for the last 12 years.
Just so everyone knows, John’s MBA died during the middle of the press conf and he took over my MBP which took over my Scribblelive username. I did not secrete any liquids during this press conf.
Great live Blog Peter! Just an FYI. If you want this live blog to appear oldest to newest now that your done, just look under the “Add to Your Site” tab on the SL thread and close it.
That will reverse the order when you reload this page.
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Is that it?
I mean seriously now IS THAT it?
And for that you blew through mio of dollars… to present the same the G1 or android has..?
wtf
And wtf was that orgasm about.. you gotta be fucking kiddding me.. is that professional or what…
no fucking excuses.. but JESUS SPANKING FUCKING CHRIST.. is that the best you can do…. a FUCKING ORGASM on a life feed….
PALM = FAIL guess those people betting on a palm crash will finally be right…
very wonderful， maybe can setup a new palm.
Just what I’ve been waiting for, now I can get rid of my Edge iPhone and go back to Sprint. Thank you Palm!!!! Thank you Sprint!!!
I love it I really like nice vibrant colors. Bring that as fast as you can to Europe. Me love it me want it thats my taste.
Hi everybody, I am in Europe and with palm since the begining of the Tréo (grafiti, 500, 750v)
I justed received the Tréo Pro and typing on its keyboard generates errors (for its design).
HUGE OPERATIONAL STRATEGIC MISTAKE. If Tréo fans cannot use the keyboard WTF would we choose a bigger phone!!!! I am making as many errors as typing on the iPhone digital keyboard!!
I am VERY disappointed about that because overall the Pro is vey stylish and smaller. So now what shall I do? I am thinking of going back to my Tréo 750v and waiting for the Pré. (also I prefer using WMobile for syncs)
It’s quite incredible!! I think Rubinstein made a big strategic mistake with the Pro: effectively Palm is human centered and my human fingers generate errors writting work infos, it is way more important than the image of the phone.
THIS is the difference between a work phone and a multimedia phone.
I am very disappointed…
what do you think guys?
Any chance of Palm releasing a WinMo version of this device? I know many would say it is an inferior OS, but it does work well in the business world despite it’s flaws and/or limitations.