CES 2009: Palm Press Conference

• 4:26 PM ThePeterHa – here it is http://tinyurl.com/7jrhoz
• 4:19 PM ThePeterHa – I want the palm pre. Really bad. Too bad it’s going to be on sprint :(
• 4:08 PM Peter Ha – And we’re done.
• 4:06 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 4:05 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 4:04 PM Peter Ha – 20 million people are accessing FB using a mobile device daily to date.
• 4:04 PM Peter Ha – Facebook Connect for Mobile coming soon.
• 4:03 PM Peter Ha – Facts and figures. FB Mobile launched in ’06, etc.
• 4:02 PM Peter Ha – FB has over 150 million users worldwide.
• 4:01 PM Peter Ha – Facebook COO Sheryl somethingorother is on stage.
• 4:01 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 4:00 PM Peter Ha – The Pre should be up on Sprint’s site for pre-order. They haven’t mentioned anything on price, yet. First half of 2009.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha – Sprint will set up your Pre for you in the store.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha – Symbian and WinMo are done.
• 3:58 PM Peter Ha – This is an iPhone, Android, Palm race now.
• 3:57 PM Peter Ha – Sascha Segan noted that all they have to do now is launch three or four phones this year – a GSM Pre is a must in the next quarter – and they can bury WinMo
• 3:57 PM Peter Ha – Hess is just talking. I’ll take a moment to say that this is Palm’s big turnaround. Straight up.
• 3:53 PM Peter Ha – Pre is set apart from the competition
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha – This thing BETTER be a world phone.
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha – Here comes Dan Hesse.
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha – SPRINT
• 3:52 PM Peter Ha – This is EVDO. Here come some partners…
• 3:51 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:51 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:50 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha – Touchstone – Bluetooth speaker – sorry, it’s actually an inductive charger.
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha – Hell, it’s the best looking non-iPhone phone I’ve seen. Peppy, attractive, multitouch. The design is excellent.
• 3:49 PM Peter Ha – Friends, this is the best looking Palm phone I’ve seen in ten years.
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha – Peter Ha just had an orgasm.
• 3:48 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:47 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha – Put in any controls or graphics you want. Totally programmable.
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:46 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:45 PM Peter Ha – Notifications hide in a queue.
• 3:45 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:44 PM Peter Ha – You can place some things at the bottom of the screen – IM convos, for examples. Notifications.
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:43 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:42 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:41 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha – Open as many browser windows as you want.
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:40 PM Peter Ha – Browser is just right. Multitouch zoom.
• 3:39 PM Peter Ha – This is actually like watching an old, stinky, retarded dog with one leg beating a bigger dog.
• 3:39 PM Peter Ha – This is like watching a small, old, stinky dog beat a bigger dog. Finally, Palm, finally.
• 3:38 PM Peter Ha – Launcher runs like spotlight – type BL and it starts finding contacts and apps. Intuitive opening of content.
• 3:38 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:37 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:37 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha – This is totally the coolest thing ever.
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha – Text messages and IM show up in one place.
• 3:36 PM Peter Ha – Takes threaded SMS and combines it with IMs
• 3:35 PM Peter Ha – AIM, GTalk, just like the desktop
• 3:35 PM Peter Ha – IM built in. Gtalk.
• 3:34 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:34 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:33 PM Peter Ha – Email autocomplete
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha – Email works with attachments and inline images.
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha – Single list of all email accounts.
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha – No “New” button
• 3:32 PM Peter Ha – Tap on an event to make a new one.
• 3:31 PM Peter Ha – Accordian folds close up to show empty time.
• 3:30 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:29 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:27 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:26 PM John Biggs – cards are live. this is like the Sony Ericsson X1 phone but good
• 3:26 PM John Biggs – zoom out to see all your activites.
• 3:26 PM John Biggs – press center button
• 3:26 PM John Biggs – new paradigm. deck of cards.
• 3:25 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:25 PM John Biggs – right.
• 3:25 PM John Biggs – this is the newness you were hoping to see, right?
• 3:24 PM John Biggs – drag up for icons
• 3:24 PM John Biggs – the flick gesture happens under the screen. just slide your finger along the bottom of the screen.
• 3:24 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:24 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:23 PM John Biggs – launcher slides up like a sheet of glass.
• 3:23 PM John Biggs – gestures move you back and forth in the UI
• 3:22 PM John Biggs – Flick and tap. No buttons.
• 3:21 PM John Biggs – gesture based
• 3:21 PM John Biggs – slides like iphone
• 3:20 PM John Biggs – Big image, favorite application icon at the bottom.
• 3:20 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:19 PM John Biggs – 4.8 ounces
• 3:19 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:19 PM John Biggs – Ergonomically curved. Red hot, people.
• 3:
  18 PM John Biggs – SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD
• 3:18 PM John Biggs – here it comes, people
• 3:18 PM John Biggs – oh shit
• 3:18 PM John Biggs – USB Mass storage support. 3.5 mm jack.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs – Looks like our keyboard rumor was false. :(
• 3:17 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:17 PM John Biggs – Remove back and replace the battery.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs – 3 megapixel camera with LED flash.
• 3:17 PM John Biggs – gesture area below the screen. Accelerometer, proximity, ambient light
• 3:17 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:16 PM John Biggs – 3.1-inch display. 320×480 display, touch screen
• 3:16 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:16 PM John Biggs – Look at that. Beauty, eh?
• 3:16 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:15 PM John Biggs – EVDO Rev A Bluetooth 802.11b/g 8GB storage GPS with turn by turn
• 3:15 PM John Biggs – Rear speaker, camera. Looks like a pebble (PEBL?)
• 3:15 PM John Biggs – Looks like a little iPhone with a 2-inch screen. Thinking ahead for you.
• 3:14 PM John Biggs – Very small.
• 3:14 PM John Biggs – Fre small
• 3:14 PM John Biggs – New Palm Pre
• 3:13 PM John Biggs – This is kind of what Steve Jobs said about two years ago. No new languages to learn.
• 3:13 PM John Biggs – Built with developers in mind. HTML, CSS, javascript, Ajax.
• 3:13 PM John Biggs – It’s not called Nova
• 3:12 PM John Biggs – Palm WebOS
• 3:12 PM John Biggs – New platform. Redefine the center of your access point on the Internet. Connect to the cloud.
• 3:12 PM John Biggs – Essentially he’s saying that the new OS will bring in all of your “accounts” into one platform. You could see images from Facebook on your contacts list, for example.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – Come on, dude. He’s talking about facebook.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – Wait for it…
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – Wait for it…
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – Here comes the big reveal.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – OK
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – But Colligan is saying it over and over again.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – That’s what Palm is trying to say here.
• 3:11 PM John Biggs – Information is everywhere, people.
• 3:10 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:10 PM John Biggs – Now everything is online. Bringing things together in a seamless way.
• 3:10 PM John Biggs – In the old days we needed a media player so we had the Treo.
• 3:09 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:09 PM John Biggs – Today there is a new twist on the old problem of the smartphone.
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs – Which could lead to genetic diseases down the line, incidentally.
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs – Mobile is in our DNA
• 3:07 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:07 PM John Biggs – Making the tech invisible.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs – A couple questions all the time: How can we simplify people’s lives?
• 3:06 PM John Biggs – They wanted compete with pen and paper.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs – They didn’t think about competing with the newton when the invented the Palm Pilot.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs – not buttons, rather. The point is they care more about usability.
• 3:06 PM John Biggs – Fingers, not button. Pockets, not processes.
• 3:05 PM John Biggs – Palm is the right company to bring you a great new platform and product. Improving people’s lives.
• 3:05 PM John Biggs – Ed Colligan President and CEO of Palm coming up.
• 3:05 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 3:05 PM John Biggs –
  Perhaps a Palm phone?
• 3:05 PM John Biggs – What could that be?
• 3:05 PM John Biggs – and you need the RIGHT PLATFORM.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs – You need to have the RIGHT PHONE.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs – Take all that information in your hand. Let all that date interact.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs – We keep our information all over the place
• 3:04 PM John Biggs – Great phone is important. Companies have forgotten that. More than a bunch of applications bolted to a phone.
• 3:04 PM John Biggs – Palm is positioned to create some of the best mobile devices in the industry.
• 3:03 PM John Biggs – Rubenstein describing move from Apple to Palm – he was pulled off of the beach. Rubenstein was Apple’s product guy.
• 3:03 PM Peter Ha –
  
• 2:46 PM Doug Aamoth – Peter’s waiting to get in. The show will start at 11:00 Pacific.

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