By now, you know precisely what the
Palm Pre is capable of. You know the
ins and outs of the user experience, and you've probably got a solid idea of whether or not you'll be lined up come June 6th to claim one as your own. But here's a side you probably haven't heard: the voice of the design team. At long last, the masterminds behind Palm's comeback phone have finally sat down to talk about the build process and what drove them to create both the Pre and webOS. Not surprisingly, most of it came from the desire to truly revolutionize the mobile experience, one that's been generally poor for far too long. In separate (but equally awesome) interviews, Michelle Koh and a gaggle of design engineers (including Matias Duarte, Mike Bell, Peter Skillman and Michael Abbott) have opened up to spill their soul on rejuvenating the company with a single product. We won't issue any spoilers here, but we'd argue that the read links below are required reading if you're even remotely interested in this handset.
Read - Michelle Koh interview
Read - Design team interview
posted Jun 5th 2009 9:21AM
"so, we like, saw an iPhone, and we're like... wow, we need to make better phones and stuff, aye. oh yeah, orly bankruptcy is nigh, oh yeah. so, we like, make it curvier and stuff on the front, and then we're like, maybe we should add a keyboard and trackball. orly? yah, yah, we agreed. so, we made the arse slide down with a full qwerty keyboard. now, everyone and their redheaded sister wants a Pre it's pretty much like the balls."
anyways, i was asking my buddy, who is a Sprint customer, if he was going to buy the Pre. he says, "E? WHat?" ... i'm like, "the Pre!" He's like "pre what?" "The Palm Pre..." He says, "Pre as in, like before things?" Frustrated, I replied, "Sorta. It's the Palm Pre- the new phone coming out for Sprint." Such a difficult name for the noobs :-\
that was perhaps THE dumbest user comment i've ever seen anywhere.
stop looking at me, swan!
I agreed with Scott. Thanks for wasting people's time to write that stupid crap.
"Palm has been calling this “Synergy” and this will be key for future technology. Not only for mobile but for devices like netbooks which will have limited hardware bandwidth."
Yey!!! The Folio Lives!!!!