With so much of their technology built into the Pre, it’s no surprise that the folks at Google are excited to see the phone finally make it onto market (even if it is oddly contradictory to Google’s investment in their Android OS).
Palm’s been teasing it for a few days now, and they’ve finally posted their first ad for the Palm Pre, titled “Flow” and directed by feature film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall).
The year was September 2005. Palm was riding high, having sold close to 500,000 Treo smartphones the preceding quarter. The dominated the fledgling consumer smartphone market, and were...