Palm Posts New Pre Promo Video

Posted By: Ryan Kairer Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:26:10 AM

Palm has posted a new promotion video on the Palm Pre in the "Meet Pre" section of its website. The video demonstrates some new functionality and shows some unseen screenshots of WebOS in action. It can be found at palm.com and is also embedded after the break.

The 1:44 clip takes a narrated look at checking and changing calendar appointments, viewing upcoming meeting attendees along with a real-time view of who will be present, incoming messages and searching the web. It also shows the simple process of sending a webpage link, which automatically creates an email with the page link and an attached screenshot.

Thanks to GadgetsontheGo for the tip.

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Is it just me?

jmknapp53 @ 2/15/2009 11:00:09 AM #

I was pretty underwhelmed by the graphics demonstrated. The smooth pebble background has been around maybe as much as 15 years (?). I used it on my Mac back in the day. The calendars seemed pretty graphically challenged: sherbet-colored tabs and bars?

Have these guys SEEN the iPhone commercials?

J.

It's all too amazing for words

RE: Is it just me?

SeldomVisitor @ 2/15/2009 12:55:11 PM #

I want to see what happens when the Pre is displaying, say, a Facebook calendar entry amongst others and someone goes over to that Facebook site and changes the calender entry.

RE: Is it just me?

freakout @ 2/15/2009 1:54:23 PM #

We're down to criticising the wallpaper now? Palm must be doing something right. :P

SV:
I want to see what happens when the Pre is displaying, say, a Facebook calendar entry amongst others and someone goes over to that Facebook site and changes the calender entry.

One (or more) of these four things:

1) The change is automatically pushed to the Pre via Synergy
2) The change is automatically synced on a user-defined interval (do you want it to sync every hour, every thirty minutes, every five minutes...?), and a notification pops up to let you know the event has been changed
3) The change is automatically synced when you hit the "sync Facebook calendar" button: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/palm-webos-sdk/?pid=3395#picture_nav
4) Your Pre explodes, the Internet crashes and civilization as we know it is destroyed.

RE: Is it just me?

SeldomVisitor @ 2/15/2009 5:15:35 PM #

Ah, okay, so it's a "pull" kinda thing.

So there really IS no difference between a web page sourced from multiple sites (hit "Refresh") and the Pre's calendar etc...(*)

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(*) Yeah, yeah, yeah - that and a data extraction into some form of SQL database.

RE: Is it just me?

mikecane @ 2/15/2009 5:38:24 PM #

>>>The smooth pebble background has been around maybe as much as 15 years (?). I used it on my Mac back in the day.

I was glad to see a *different* wallpaper. That coral was getting on my nerves already.

RE: Is it just me?

freakout @ 2/15/2009 5:51:07 PM #

so it's a "pull" kinda thing

No one knows except Palm. But there's really only those three ways to do it.

(1) seems the most likely to me, actually. It's just a matter of webOS pinging the relevant Facebook/Google/Yahoo/Exchange/whatever server every now and then to say "hey, I'm still here!". So long as it does that, updates can be pushed to your Pre, in the same way Facebook or Gmail can pop up new notifications in your browser window without you having to click 'refresh'.

(3) would be there as an option for first-time syncers, or those who don't want to maintain a constant data connection.