Celebrities may have gotten to handle the Palm Pre, but Engadget's Joshua Topolsky got to show it off in person on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The two geeked out for sure, but the highlight may have been the Roots drummer jonesing for the keyboard (well, actually jonesing for the whole thing) enough to try to snag it for himself.
If nothing else, it's nice to see Palm getting some mainstream attention -- they're getting back in the spotlight.
Big ups to Jason for the shots, here are more photos!
Update: big ups to Anon in the comments for the video link!
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A few clearer shots that you can feel free to use if you'd like:
http://tinyurl.com/fallonpre
Link to video?
Pretty cool, but no Sprint markings on the phone yet.
From what I have seen, there will be no Sprint logo of the front of the phone. All the demos I have seen of Sprint Pre's have had the sprint logo on the back of the slider, that is you can only see the logo when the phone is slid open.
those contacts on the pre clearly belongs to joshua from engadget .last night when he give a demo to jimmy fallon i was not seeing the same old contacts when palm was giving the demos .
Nice Pre infomercial.
Love Jimmy's feigning of surprse and interest given he is a Palm investor.
Didn't everyone buy some palm stock when it was low? :)
He bought it high from the timing.
$2.95 here :) Jimmy bought it at around $4, which still works out quite well.
Yeah, I was wondering about that myself. I mean, it was great publicity for the Pre, but it seems a little bit like a conflict of interest. I mean, there's a reason Engadget doesn't allow it's writers and editors to own stock, because large tech sites can have an influence on things like that, but Fallon himself has no such restriction that I know of at least.
It's probably limited by how little of it he has. He said he bought 1000 shares, so if he sold today he'd make less than $3k off it. I doubt that's a big deal for someone with a network television show, though it's still a conflict of interest nonetheless.
Maybe he already sold it when it was $8 a share ;)
There's that and I'm now seeing advertisements on other non-pre related websites. That and Sprint's site has even added a 360 view of the pre in their teaser page of it.
Video link here:
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/clips/palm-pre-3909/1057121/
More HD screencaps are in the Pre Flickr group
http://flickr.com/groups/palmpre/
I'm not sure about the best way to say this: That was kind of painful to watch. It wasn't really the best representation of what makes the Pre special.
Maybe the Engagdet guy was nervous. I know I would be.
I am not surprised the Pre made it's "public" debut on an NBC show, Sprint has a contract with NBC. That being said, this is HUGE, the average commercial advertisement can run millions for a few seconds, that segment on Jimmy Fallon lasted over 8 minutes. Also, the average person who watches these late shows is most likely not tech privy, so I doubt they ever heard of the Pre. I believe the Pre will air on Jimmy Fallon a few more times.
I saw that you mentioned the drummer of my favorite band, Questlove...he is an avid lover of Treo's. I know back during the phrenology days Questo used to be seen with one of my favorite Treo's, the 300...I'll see if I can find a picture.
Good for Jimmy, got the best band around as his house band and now had the best yet-to-be-released device on there too. NICE!!!
The Pre may not be too little, but it is definitely too late.
Enterprises do not want to jump on another platform. Palm was already there and didn't grow. People were jumping from Windows Mobile to RIM and now people are jumping from RIM to the iPhone.
It's not aimed at enterprises.
How is it too late considering the smartphone market is expected to almost triple in the next 5 years?
But doesn't the fact that people are so willing to jump ship on existing platforms disprove your point?
What in the heck are you talking about?? First you comment, "Enterprises do not want to jump on another platform", then later in your post you comment, "people are jumping from RIM to the iPhone." For the record, "people" DO NOT represent Enterprises, you're obviously referring to consumers not corporate. I do not know of any Enterprise customers using the iphone for business. The iphone is hardly an "Enterprise" device. That being said, I have several clients (business customers) who will be switching to the Pre, the smallest company has 40+ Blackberry's. An associate of mine who works for Warner Bros Entertainment Group in the Real Estate division in the Los Angeles area, mentioned that WB Entertainment Group is seriously considering switching to the Pre. Between New York and the Los Angeles area, that division has over 5000 employees!
@uninformed: I doubt all those claims very much. IPhone gained a good enterprise foothold after a year. There are enterprise manuals and guidelines now. iPhone is hitting stronger and stronger Enterprise adoption now.
You are just making it up as you go along as evidenced by yoru claim with "real estate division"
Here is a hint before you make things up to try and pump stock: Real estate requires IRda.
You seem really immature, your comments make you look ignorant as well. It is clear you have a bias in favor of the iphone, your "Enterprise" claims are baseless and ridiculous. The iphone DOES NOT offer integrated support for viewing, editing of Word, Excel and Powerpoint, neither does it offer a web browser integrated with the corporate-style email, nor does it have working cross-app copy/paste. The iphone has a sealed battery and closed OS. Why would an Enterprise customer choose the iphone over a Blackberry and Winmo device?... Short answer, they don't!
The so-called passcode-protected iphones can easily be broken into, thus making the iphones not secure enough for Enterprise customers. The iphones security infrastructure is seriously lacking.
You- "Here is a hint before you make things up to try and pump stock: Real estate requires IRda."
*Shakes head* WHAT???
Nope, Your comment made you look laughably ignorant. I think everyone here but you knows why.
The person isn't pumping iphone at all, just commenting on reality that is has a solid enterprise presence. It took about a year as is usual with Enterprise.
Proof of your lying and makign the Warner brothers real estate claim up was show with the IRDA issue, which you still seem perplexed by. !
Since you don;t know a thing, go somewhere else to try and pump stock, no one here is as dumb as you.
It is pointless getting into a keyboard war with someone who uses poor grammar. Besides, if someone (YOU) wants to lump themselves with that anonymous (cough-Paul) poster, have at it!
Regarding your so-called "IRDA" claim, I do not know if I should laugh, or feel sorry for you.
The IRDA issue shows you were lying -- plain and simple.
Everyone reading this but you, in your ignorance, knows why.
If you don't know iPhone is used widely by enterprise, it just makes you a person with no knowledge.
I'm going to hit this back at you for a minute, explain how, "I was lying"?
'For the record, the so-called "IRDA issue" is irrelevant.'
Is the iPhone used widely by enterprise, or are there just many iPhone users at work?
I'm only asking, and not suggesting anything. To me, simply having many people at work with iPhones is not the same as saying "used widely by enterprise".
So which is it? Are many companies "supporting" the iPhone like they do with RIM products? Or are these just people with personal phones that happen to be iPhones?
Our firm, which is quite a large enterpise base started deploying official support of iPhone in Spring 08. It appeared on our company's device list, meaning managers and departments were allowed buy it in bulk about the same time. I know our company had bought about 6,000 of the 2G within a few months. Apple does have a large team devoted to enterprise deployment assistance.
People scoffed at his real estate claim becasue of the IRda deal killer. It is someone pumping stock, and making a poor attempt at that.
Paul, give it up, your claims are ridiculous. What does IRDA have to do with a division of a company that wants to switch phone carriers?? Explain what the relevance of "IRDA" is?
Ok, thanks. I know where I worked did not support iPhone 1st gen, but wasn't sure if that has changed since then.
What garbage. Warner brothers employs a total of 7000 people in all its operations nation wide and has no "real estate division."
People in real estate all require irda on their phones.
Leave you stock pumping idiotic posts for the other amatur investors at finance.yahoo where people don't know better. we do know better
What in the heck are you talking about?? First you comment, "Enterprises do not want to jump on another platform", then later in your post you comment, "people are jumping from RIM to the iPhone." For the record, "people" DO NOT represent Enterprises, you're obviously referring to consumers not corporate. I do not know of any Enterprise customers using the iphone for business. The iphone is hardly an "Enterprise" device. That being said, I have several clients (business customers) who will be switching to the Pre, the smallest company has 40+ Blackberry's. An associate of mine who works for Warner Bros Entertainment Group in the Real Estate division in the Los Angeles area, mentioned that WB Entertainment Group is seriously considering switching to the Pre. Between New York and the Los Angeles area, that division has over 5000 employees!
DANG!!! Triple post, how did that happen??
Because you needed to make multiple statements of lies in a attempt to counter a more commenter?
WOW!! Are you (in general) kidding me??
This is sad, I really, really feel bad for you!
What garbage. Warner brothers employs a total of 7000 people in all its operations nation wide and has no "real estate division."
People in real estate all require irda on their phones.
Leave you stock pumping idiotic posts for the other amateur investors at finance.yahoo where people don't know better. we do know better
Real estate users never "required" IR. The point was to combine 2 devices (an IR remote and first handhelds, then smartphones) to have only one thing to carry/charge. So realtors who just had basic phones could carry that separate remote if their areas used IR-based lockboxes.
With the movement in the smartphone industry away from including IR, many areas are switching to other systems, like swipe cards.
Warner Bros owns a Portfolio of Commercial properties which Warner Bros operates through it's in house property management dept, thus making it REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT. Yourself along with "Anonymous-Paul", obviously ASSumed I was referring to a 'TYPE' of Real Estate. Before people go popping off at the mouth (so to speak) you should realize there are many forms of Real Estate.
Since yourself and Anonymous-Paul ASSumed I was talking about Real Estate agents, let's visit that for a moment. As what the other Anonymous posted mentioned, IR is not needed/required for Agents, at least not in CA. When we purchased our home a few years back our Agent used a Superkey.
PUT the f*cking device out already. From all the video on it, I can tell you it is FAR more responsive than my POS Storm! Enough...
Agreed.
First this was a great move for some free publicity. The fact that Palm was willing to let a non-employee demo the pre is another strong sign. I couldnt help but notice in the demo to Fallon that to zoom he didnt pinch he just held his finger on a spot. Is this one of the changes to avoid an iphone lawsuit?
A double-tap on something has always been what Palm calls "smartzoom" that will use the CSS to zoom intelligently and have the column or picture fill the screen. That's besides the standard multitouch zoom.
Aww the dummer got a free Palm Pre...Im jealous.
Ok so here's my plan to get a free Palm Pre:
1) Learn to Drum
2) Tryout for Late Night show
3) Get free Palm Pre
4) Run
Heh. I'm gonna assume "dummer" was a typo. Hehehe.
Anyway, I thought it was a joke on Fallon's part - giving away a device that didn't belong to him OR the guy he got it from.
It's ?uestlove btw.
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