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  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT something bad will happen. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS

  • WHER IS THE ARABIC LANGUAGE

  • i am really thinking about buying a palm pre... but there are still few things that could be improved... like the quality of the camera (no video??) or the keyboard... so i am not sure, wheather to buy it or not. this question really bothers me xD

  • its just shity iphone

  • y doesnt it have video!?!?! if it had video i WANT ITTTT!!!

  • CHEAP

  • it needs a better app store. Palm needs to start talking to software devs like apple did.

  • Pre users

    w w w. PalmPreForum. org

  • his laugh pissed me off

  • made me laugh lol

  • jesus how many more phone are they keep going to make to try to destroy apple they all do the same thing

  • they're not releasing this stuff to destroy the iphone, they're releasing it to stay in the game. If they didn't release new stuff, then everyone would just buy an iphone.

  • got this the first day it came out. There are some things I dont like about it but overall I like it. Always wanted an Iphone but my contract on sprint prevented me. So this was the next best thing.

  • Bought it last sun..im luvin this phone.. how do i download ringtones..seems like it wont let u ?

  • I BOUGT THIS YESTERDAY.. THIS SHIT IS AWSOME.. DOES EVERYTHING PLUS MORE.. downside is i had to sign a 2 yr contract to lower the price but well worth it.. insurance covers it too unlike the I phone..

  • looooooooooool

    THIS SHIT IS AWSOME.. DOES EVERYTHING PLUS MORE.. PLUS MORE HAHAH FUNNY AS HELL, like your speech ;) ^^

  • i dont link the design of this. looks like cheap plastic. no sleekness to it

  • yeah your right,the glossy black case,and the see threw glossy keys along with vivid blue leds is simply not sleek at all.(moron go...talk for 4 hours on your iphone then charge it :P)

  • Lord u r the only one on YouTube who has Sussed me out.

    I am a moron. Props yay

  • htc diamond is good

  • Trio pro? Idiot.

    Palm pre and iphone= only smart phones worth buying unless ur a corp. slave.

  • It is so much like a copy of the iPhone! I guess Steve Jobs was right. The iPhone changed everything of the design of a phone.

  • you're right, but that doesn't mean the design and the software cannot be improved

  • guess you're right about that. but, life goes on and people will always come with new and better software. people are always going to be competing to be the best.

  • I don't see how it is a copy. Palm has had touch screen devices with full qwerty keyboards for a long time.

  • looks/acts nothing like the iphone dumb fuck

  • Sprint $99, what's the point of paying $99 for phone service that barely works?

    My friend has sprint and can't even use her phone in LA, there's literally no reception.

  • well this phone have a sd card slot

  • According to one of the other spint palm pre videos no.

  • ok thanks what about t9

  • Not sure about that one, haven't seen any videos addressing this issue but with a full qwerty keyboard typing on this thing shouldn't be too bad.

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  • "iPhone killer" like that but id say the iphone killed its self when apple decided to make a phone defiantly better than the iPhone by far

  • Hmmm thats funny, im using my white 16gb Iphone right now and i got the red hot chili peppers playing from it while im browsing the web in safari and all i do is text so let me assure you you can play music from the iphone and use ANY function of the phone from texting,mail,calender, hell even using the damn camera while listening to music.

  • Too bad you can only have music + 1 app at a time. That means no uploading photos to facebook while surfing, etc. hypePhone has a pretty UI, but in terms of functionality it blows.

    - No vid capture

    - Worthless camera

    - Zero multitasking

    - No replaceable battery

    - Many more

    If you like fart apps you should get the hypePhone.

  • oooh he said hell

  • it don't have direct connect, so it just another phone to me. I have the ipod touch, so I don't need a phone that can beat iphone, I need one that can do more then the iphone. Just another touch phone to me. Get a ipod touch, and keep your phone for what its made for. calling people. I ipod touch doses everything. Just can't make calls. I can text, e-mail,download apps, music. its a great tool, for a sidekick. The screen is large, the keys are finger friendly,

  • I can tell from every video that that music player is not gonna be as smooth as the iphone at all, just look at how it stutters when they try to cover flow.

  • yeah the Pre is the iphone killer. Others have failed cause the iphone has still had things over the clones, but in this case, there is not one single thing the iphone has over the pre

  • the storm, the instinct...both advertised as iphone killer...the developer guy of pre is actually using all the techniques steve jobs used..minimal info until release...and pre is made by iphone developers so theyre like siblings...pre just needs an fn app store!! thats the only thing theyve got over pre!

  • I love my iPhone and I think it's a great phone. I am happy palm came out with this phone cuz it pushed apple to up it's game and palm will have to up there's when the new iPhone comes out. So the consumer wins either way

  • Yet another iPhone clone, *sigh*

  • Its not a clone, it has a different concept/approach to the purpose of a mobile device.

    It also has improvements on the iphone, such as multitasking, synergystic calendars, contacts and messaging.

  • WOW, it IS a clone, look at the user interface....it even has the iphone menu at the bottom of the screen. Are youy aware that the guy who designed it is an ex-apple engineer and apple sued this company over copying many of the iphone's features????? The only "different" approach is the slide out keyboard. Anyway, it's a decent phone if you want an iphone alternative.

  • This phone may be better than the iPhone...but it's not an iPhone killer, are people really dumb enough to think the iPhone hype will dissapear when this is released? How many other 'iPhone killers' have come and gone? HTC Touch Diamond, Touch HD, Samsung Omnia, no doubt the feature sets of these phones blew the iPhone away, but it's going to take more than this to kill the iPhone...the iPhone changed the game...the palm Pre is an evolution...the only way to kill the iPhone is with a revolution.

  • right on the money home skillet!

  • Palm Pre updates

    w w w. PalmPreForum. org

  • More like copied Windows Mobile since WinMo is the only other one that multitasks.

  • This is a lot better than the iPhone.

    You can multitask. You can copy and paste. etc.

  • As you can with an iPhone + there's loads of things the Pre can't do.

  • iPhone cannot multitask. Even Apple says so themselves. iPhone still can't copy-paste yet.

    What can the iPhone do that the Pre can't?

  • Just like the iPhone, the Pre can have a load of apps developed for it to match the iphone. The iphone is NOT the first phone to support "applications". On top of that, it takes the iphone's hardware features and adds to it with the gesture area and a slider keyboard. The iPhone has definitely set a new standard with mobile phones, and we should be glad companies are stepping it to up to meet the standard or exceed them.

  • I WANT ONE!!!! that guy on the right looks a little like steve jobs.

  • ☻/

    /▌This Is BOB Copy And Paste him

    / \ So he can take over youtube

  • if it is considered to be a smart phone it should at least be able to record video... and it doesn't. but i am still wanting to buy it!

  • see more

    w w w. PalmPreForum. org

  • i cant wait to get this phone for my birthday, i love vertical qwertys and the webOS and the touch screen looks so new and refreshing. So much better then all the crap LG touch screen phones, can't wait to even try this out!

  • come and join the community

    w w w. everythingpre. info

  • Sprint and palm are idiots for taking so long. The longer they wait everyday I talk myself into the blackberry storm more and more

  • Seriously, read the reviews, pretty much every tech blog or any review for that matter trashes the storm. It was a rushed to market product to compete with the iPhone and I believe even today is still in beta form. Wait for the pre.

  • @mike45014: So Palm/Sprint are idiots for taking the time to make sure that the Pre is at it's highest quality at the time of it's launch? Do even realize what happened to the BB Storm because RIM rushed it? It became the laughing stock of the smartphone industry and still is today.

  • piece of shit!

  • haha you wish!

  • does it run Palm OS? I love the OS from Palm. How is the calendar from it?

  • I love palmOS too...but someimes it crashes on my treo...ANYWAYS, it's called Palm WebOS...supposedly the successor to PalmOS??? (Someone correct me if i'm wrong)...

  • WebOS is not the successor to PalmOS, to call webOS a successor is implying it is running the next in line version of PalmOS. WebOS is as different from PalmOS as Winmo and Android are. WebOS is Linux based, a completely different business model.

  • You could, however, say the the webOS is the spiritual successor to the Palm OS in a way.

  • Unfortunately it does slow down when swithes between apps (like in 1:48). Too bad. There are some phones with gorgeous interfaces and none that are truly snappy. Even slightest sluggishness pisses me off.

  • it's not even out yet, and i'm sure they r fixing it up and adding some nice extras before it launches

  • look at the left guy at 0:41

  • You are a very observant person....Good catch..

  • Want it.

  • come and join the community

    w w w. everythingpre. info

  • palm never said it was competing with the iphone, the media did

  • look at htc they have some phones coming up with bigger screens like the diamond and pro 2

  • um duh dumbass i know thats what im waiting for (touch pro 2)

  • you hate the phone because it has a small screen???  haha please...

  • I own an iPhone and love it but will state this well known fact. The iphones screen is bigger to encompass the on screen keyboard that is needed for typing. The pre has a real keyboard thus no need for the extra screen real estate. This phone looks slick as hell, but hate typing in portrait mode. Give me a landscape keyboard and I'm sold!

  • come and join the community

    w w w. everythingpre. info

  • lol palm started the touch screen. get ur facts straight. i think its a great phone from what i can see but that my opinion

  • I can't wait to get this phone. I hated the iphone, had it for a week and it sucks. It's virtual keyboard is stupid. I really love the fact that this phone as a QWERTY keyboard and I LOVE the fact that it runs LINUX!!!!!

  • I hope that the people developing windows mobile7 are paying attention...

  • I like touch flow 3D, but that's a VERY ugly OS underpinning the whole thing, and it comes thru when you start going deeper inside, using more functions and such...

    plus as much as I like the HTC diamond, and the HD, they still use resistive touch screens, they can do better than that, specially in their price range. And the pro is too fat.

  • I'm a big windows mobile fan, and although its been doing multi-tasking for years, it is no where as sweet and simple as the Palm Pre. They basically took a good thing and made it WAY better. Good Job Palm!

  • It is very difficult to use the htc's slide out keyboard with one hand. I know, I've owned one. If you are very dextrous you might be able to type some text but unless your thumb is six inches long, your not going to be able to reach the touch screen. You don't need to call people stupid because they like a different phone than you. I you like the htc then buy it but there's no need for insults.

    ;-)

  • i have the pro and its great, the v. key board is great for one hand and the hard key board is great for 2 hands for quicker texting and better web browsing, but i had the mogul too so im a little board with wm, but still like it.

    i dont like the keyboard on this one i didnt like it with my treo and when on the web with the inverted screen, its not going to be fun. whats really gunna suck is when we all get this phone and the new one comes out a few months later :(

  • How can I get an HTC Touch HD for sprint here in the US?? I really want one.

  • they arent going t bring it to the US idk why its dumb, you can buy it online for like 800 but than you can only use it with t-mobile

  • Oh ok. So all we can do is hope for the HTC Pro 2 possibly this summer, or buy palm's newest piece of junk, the Pre. Thanks for replying.

  • this looks way better than the iphone.

  • come and join!

    w w w. everythingpre. info

  • discuss about palm pre

    w w w. PalmPreForum. org

  • i mean to be fair YOU CAN listen to music in the background of an iPhone..but you cant do much else! if you have at the very least a semi-productive life an iPhone is not even a viable option. the lack of an actual or at the very least a landscape keyboard is annoying.

    im not saying the iphone didnt change the mobile game or isnt a brilliant device i am just saying that the pre seems to be waaaaaaay better..let's just see how it plays out once its released.

  • any1 know the talk time for the pre yet?

  • does palm pre work with sim card? and will fido have this phone?

  • no it does not work with a sim card, it is on a CDMA network.

  • nothing special. i like the multi tasking and the contacts integration, but i think the keypad is a waste of space on this phone. the keys are so small!  butttt, it's on sprint, which isn't cool.

  • 399 reported release price for Sprint it will release as CDMA on Sprint and then release the GSM version. Overseas release will be GSM and not locked to any Carrier.

  • Just a correction. The guy said that the Pre can do stuff that the other phone (iphone) doesn't do, like listen to music while doing other things. You can listen to music and do other things with the iphone. Just a correction.

  • Palm Pre Resource

    w w w. PalmPreForum. org

  • why sprint? why pull an apple & at&t move. hope there's a gsm version so the whole world can enjoy it and boost sales. apple and nokia is available worldwide, i would palm also wants this, but ifs stuck with sprint, then am disappointed.

  • I'm finally able to say: This phone is beautiful! I have an iPhone and I must say that it is the only one who has truly satisfied me, because of the beauty of the design and the simplicity and the flow. I've used other Windows Mobile devices and they sucked. Laggy and slow... But the Palm Pre seems amazing!

  • does it have an app store? cause thats what puts the iphone ahead of everything imo...

  • in the conference then mentioned an app store

  • Yes it does.

  • it's official folks the patent has been awarded to apple.

    Search google:

    Apple awarded key iPhone multitouch patent

  • Uh what does this have to do with the palm pre? Nothing.

  • super!!

  • check out w w w . palmpreforum . o rg

  • this will be top of the shop in the UK people need this over in england however iphone will be out in june or july lets see what they trhow at it ill be buy the best out of them two thats for sure

  • Why would anybody want T-mobile as their carrier??? LMAO

  • I am an apple fanboy through and through. 2 ipods, an imac, and and iphone. I love my iphone, but this IS the iphone killer. Palm has made a comback. I will be ditching my iphone for this when it comes out

  • im getting this phone,

  • Do I smell a lawsuit?

    Do a search on Google: Apples Touchscreen Ambitions

    Apple has been ripped off!

  • There is not going to be a law suit. Companies like that aren't that stupid that they wouldn't know if they could get sued or not... Apple can't sue them.

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  • Why don't you google it dummy. There are quite a few features in iPhone which are IP protected and it seems that Palm Pre has violated few of this features. The most visible one seems to be the pinch feature uses to zoom in and zoom out webpages and images.

    I must admit, I own an iphone and this phone looks very promising. If they don't get sued then i'll get one lol.

  • Palm can easily lunch it without those" IP protected features", than just do an upgrade as a developer, and woala there u have it.

    or just go with it and pay apple the fee. they definitely get the money from the palm pre selling back

    i own an ipod touch, so i was w8ng for a phone like this to come out. looking forward...

  • Do you believe everything you read on the web? :) Companies try to patent EVERYTHING just in case. I've read this patent and its so vague its ridiculous. Palms first treo would have violated. What about the open source technology that apple pushes as their own (such as the cubed desktop in OSX), never hear anyone talking about that.

  • Why would I not beleive it it's on a reputable website. Yea it's ridiculous but its apple's IP. Apple patented the Iphones multitouch capability because of companies like palm. Why don't you visit the official website and tell me what you think. Does it look familiar? Everything from panning to double tap zoom to pinch zoom in and out. What a copy cat. Palm is very close to extinction what choice do they have? . I wish them luck on this one.

  • You don't really know what you are talking about.

    There is no legal action and there won't be any occurring.

    A major tech website (Engadget) had patent lawyers investigate the issues and found SEVERAL Palm patents that the iPhone may be infringing, so if Apple starts a lawsuit, Palm will start their own.

  • Do a searh on Google: Apples Touchscreen Ambitions

    Apple has been ripped off!

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  • will this become a gsm phone after its release with sprint or is sprint going to have some kind of contract binding palm from releasing it elsewhere in the US?

  • @nadroc: I m an apple Fanboy, too...have old iohone first gerneration and ..love it too...BUT THE PALM PRE IS THE iPHONE KIller the only thing is, that it has no realy sync programm and thats in my opinion the only harm !

  • Why would you need a sync program with this phone? Isn't that kind of the point of this phone: very web oriented. Calendar, Media etc is synced over the web.

  • I have an iPhone 3G and I love it!!! but this is THE iphone killer, sorry to say that apple fanboys ( i might actually switch to the pre )

  • does it comes with WiFi?

  • Yes it does

  • palm pre is going to kick iphone's ass

  • Palm Pre! Palm Pre!!!!!!!!!

  • but when does it come out so i can get my money together lol

  • wow i cant wait till this phone comes out i will be getting it!!! It looks so awsome!!!

  • It's resolution looks great, just like the Samsung YP P2 i had. Its just like the iPhone but business is business..

  • i like this phone. this phone is the best so far

  • All they need to do is enable flash. Then I'll take it... A few months after release.

  • it has flash

  • I saw a video of a CES demo and some dude asked the demo girl to display a video with flash. She pretended to be confused, and so he asked her to go to youtube and, alas, it couldn't load the video. That's what I mean by flash. Now, if it'll install flash automatically, that'd be cool. But considering it just gave the 'flash must be installed to view this video' message, I'm sure they'll work that out... Hopefully.

  • this does look like the greatest thing since sliced cheese...but i think they slipped up in one area...why make it slide width-wise? why not make it slide length-wise? that way, the keyboard isn't all smooshed up little beady buttons? and you'd have the screen in landscape mode, which would be better for typing also. Other than that, kudo's palm...i thought you guys were sinking like the titanic...but all along you were pulling a steve job's type maneuver! nicely done so far...

  • to avoid any comparison to the google G1 perhaps

  • The real reason is to enable one hand use! you cant open the width-wise keyboards with one hand. IT's the bomb!

  • if you saw some of the other videos they designed this around one handed use so a landscape keyboard would be useless

  • this CEO guy's laugh is gay.

  • this CEO guy's laugh is gay and he's kind of cute for an older guy. There, I fixed your comment. :)

  • Brilliant phone. Great OS. How I wish I had Palm stock before the launch of the Pre! LOL!

  • PalmPreForum. org

  • i used to want an iphone. badly. now i want this. badly!! says it all, i think.

  • boooo to you. Why wouldnt you want an iphone? i mean the simple fact that these multi millionare companies are all trying to attack mimick and out do is quite flattering to the iphne and iphone users a good analogy would be a boxing one . Iphone is champ these are all contenders and i like the idea of knowing i own a Champ lol

  • you just answered your own question, mate.

  • u want a contender? an up an comer? one who has not proven itself? i guess i did.

  • goddamnit you *CAN* play music while using other apps on the iphone, AND control the ipod from within other apps as well by just double-clicking the damn home button. All you have to do is set the appropriate settings for the home button in general settings first.

  • ya but that's just the music. it's by no means opening up every app in your phone and have them running at the same time.

    i love the iphone (it was an industry changer and way ahead of its time) but i'm loving every bit of what i've seen from palm so far.

    I can't wait for new Android phones, this phone, and i'm sure Apple's working on a new iphone OS.

  • Iphone is dead only if they come up with something new for this year lol am not going back!!!

  • Pretty much every phone that comes out is 1 in all, its all about form factor and ease of use

  • Does it do video? How do you enter URL's in landscape mode? Looks very intriguing. Guess we'll have to wait to get all the details. Thanks for posting!

  • it will do urls in landscape (it has an accelerometer and webkit for full web browsing). It does video (3megapixel)Also it has wireless sync, and wireless charging.

    It also has Microsoft office.

  • Thanks for the info!

  • Why do people think Apple invented multi-touch? THEY DID NOT, the gestures you see them doing and now used in other products were not made by apple!!!!

    Apple make fine products but I am sick of people thinking they do it first.

    Search on youtube for - "ted multi-touch" And watch the videos. That is the first real showing of the modern multi-touch concepts and they are open to everyone.

  • I've been looking at more videos and I think this phone is actually better than I thought at first. The Pre needs a video recording ability and tethering ability. Also have something like the app store, that would be great. I really don't like the style of the phone. Looks like a kid's toy. At least if the phone is round, make the screen round too. IDK.

  • Okay the make or break for me is going to be the keyboard. By looking at it I think the keyboard is that of the Centro or the Palm Treo Pro and I can't get down with the soft rubber cramped feel. I have a Treo 800W and I LOVE the keyboard on it...the hard plastic. I'm going to have to feel the Pre before I can jump on the bandwagon. I do love my Palm Treo...so I wouldn't mind an all touch screen Palm. Even if it's not Windows based...as long as it's not Palm OS based!

  • The first touch screen was not invented by Palm, its was made by HP with the HP-150. Plus Apple actually made a screen long before Palm with the Apple Newton. So stop with all this who made the first touch screen crap! Apple may not have invented the first touch screen, but they most definitely re-invented.

  • RE-Invented???

    Apple invented "putting multi touch tech in their phone", the tech itself was there decades ago

    search in wiki: Multi-touch