Palm Pre Hands On Videos - Part 4
In our fourth and final series of videos from CES, PIC takes another in depth look at the Palm Pre. In the first clip we take a closer look at more of the features of the Pre and WebOS including the contacts application, linking profiles and contacts together, drop down menus in WebOS, accelerometer control and launching applications. The second video shows more of the web browser in action. It shows CNN being loaded and navigated via the pinch and zoom gestures and double tapping to zoom in. The second video also shows the universal search feature executing a google search.
Palm Pre In Depth (6:29)
Palm Pre Web Browser (2:48)
Previous Palm Pre Videos
Part 1 - Hardware Overview, Part 2 - Copy & Paste, Visiting PIC and Web OS Gestures and Application Cards, Part 3 - Music and Multimedia.
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RE: Second vid choppy?
I noticed that CNN bookmark in the launcher as well, it would seem you can easily create launcher icons for your web bookmarks.
RE: Second vid choppy?
And the video feed was coming from an overhead projector, so that was not a Pre with hardwired video-out hardware like the one used by Matias during the Palm keynote on Thursday.
Maybe Ryan recorded that one @ 15fps instead of 30fps? I do agree it looks a little choppy, even on my PC & fast connection here.
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RE: Second vid choppy?
Palm pre...... Vista?
RE: Palm pre...... Vista?
RE: Palm pre...... Vista?
Unless, you know, that's something Dmitry is already planning.
RE: Palm pre...... Vista?
I don't think anyone can reasonably say they're 100% sure what will happen in this situation, but I'm reasonably certain that people won't end up feeling that way. Unlike Vista, the Pre/WebOS isn't being touted as being backwards-compatible with old software. Instead, they're being pretty up front about the fact that old software isn't going to work out of the box. Now, granted, there's a question of whether or not the casual buyer has heard that message, but I don't think we'll see confusion and disappointment on the scale we saw it with Vista. Not only will fewer people buy the Pre than bought Vista, but fewer of those who buy it will have those unreasonable expectations.
Of course, there's always the possibility that the Pre will include some kind of POS5 emulation onboard by launch time, I suppose...
RE: Palm pre...... Vista?
RE: IF iPhone = Jesus Phone, THEN ...
Didn't you see Palm's Q4 earnings report?
RE: IF iPhone = Jesus Phone, THEN ...
Solutions in Hand: No to Pre
http://www.solutionsinhand.com/
This is the email reply I just got:
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I did not write anything for Palm for several years and I am not planning to.
I can publish my source codes if anyone is interested and can take the work over.
Alex Bootman
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Ouch! So no MiniWrite for me on Pre!
That is Not Good. I use MiniWrite *daily*.
The REAL next phone for PalmOS addicts?
http://androidguys.com/?p=3368
This looks impressive on the surface. Still unsure about how good that touchscreen is with a stylus and "handwriting input."
Also a bit more "computerish" than I'd like.
It has a Blogger client built-in! Too bad several of the Google items listed - like Notebook - have just been killed!
I wish they'd showed Day View in the Calendar. And some sort of Memos function too.
Does hands-on mean'hands-on'?
Did a PiC person HOLD the Pre and type on it sufficiently to notice or not the keyboard bending or the lip around the keyboard or anything else similarly?
Feedback?
RE: Does hands-on mean'hands-on'?
That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
== "When the Palm Pre hits the streets sometime this year, geeks
== and ordinary mobile users alike will finally get to touch the
== magic, which is great, because we certainly weren't touching
== any magic at CES. We got to look, but Palm was pretty adamant
== about not letting anyone who wasn't a Palm employee get their
== mitts on it. This is understandable, because the demo units
== were clearly more "mock-up" than true "demo."
==
== A lot—perhaps even the majority—of the Pre's functionality was
== missing or not working reliably, and many features were only
== "working" in the sense of "if I press these three buttons at
== once it triggers a fake incoming SMS from 'Jim Coworker' about
== that party on Friday." But we all went along with it, because
== those mockups were so great to look at. Nonetheless, the whole
== experience left me wondering, "so when this comes out, what are
== we going to realize is wrong with it?..."
- http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/01/the-palm-pres-possible-achilles-heel-battery-life.ars
RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
http://prepoint.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/mysteries-of-the-palm-pre/#comment-51
It was no more smoke & mirrors than the intro of the iPhone. At least people got to see Pre demos *up close*. At the iPhone intro, *one* was available to drool over, encased in a glass cylinder! And some people actually got to *hold* a Pre - like Pogue and some other websites. Here's the frikkin CAMERA being shown by someone OTHER than a Palm employee:
http://prepoint.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/two-previously-unknown-pre-features/
Jesus, man, get a frikkin grip, willya?
RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
For reasons that I'll outline below, I'd like to suggest that the answer to the above question is a common one for a first-generation (or, in some cases, a second-generation) smartphone product: the battery life will disappoint many users.
So it'll likely face the same problem that every other high-tech gadget in its class faces. SHOCK HORROR!
It's a great article (as usual from Ars), but is not really telling us anything new. When Pre is released in a few months we'll all be able to make our own judgements.
RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
Photo uploading/integration was briefly touched upon at CES but I didn't see any examples of it, so I assume that's a feature still in the works. Well, I can upload from my rotten old 755p straight to Flickr, Picasa, & Facebook via SplashPhoto 5, so I'd HOPE the Pre was capable of such a feat as well!
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RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
And a BUNCH of folks fell for it, gushing the entire time.
> ...It's a great article (as usual from Ars)...
Yes, it was, and the paragraph YOU quoted is about the article itself, not the lead off, and says "Uh...that power consumption is gonna be ... interesting ..."
But, as always, I provided a link to the article so Gushers like yourself and that other guy up above who is not-ignoringly ignoring me (*) can go read the whole thing yourself.
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(*) THIS:
- http://www.palminfocenter.com/comments/9678/#149537
is ignoring someone!? HA HA HA! (that's MORE than a giggle!)
RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
RE: That's the problem with infatuated non-hands-on gushing
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/i-call-this-bullshit/
Can someone point me to a video of Synergy in action?
Or changing a contact on the Pre and seeing the change reflected on Facebook (and others?).
Or...you know...ANY such multi-site data manipulation being done via a single-site change.
Thanks in advance.
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Second vid choppy?
I hadn't seen the right menu for the radios demonstrated before.
And in the second vid, was that a CNN web Bookmark in the launcher?!
Man, I *really* hope my ginormous and ton (1,000+) of Memos from my LifeDrive can get into the Pre. That new Search feature would really get a workout fast!