palm prē @ CES ‘09 (Part 2)
Part 2 of mobiledivide’s palm prē interview series from CES ‘09 is with Peter Skillman. Peter is the VP of Design at Palm, Inc. and naturally our conversation revolved around the design choices he and his team at Palm made with the palm prē.
Something you won’t see in this interview is just how snappy the palm prē’s 3MP camera is. One could literally take picture after picture (using the onscreen shutter or the QWERTY’s spacebar key) and be able to (more or less) capture stills fast enough to create a stop motion animation of their subject! This aspect of webOS can’t be stressed highly enough. If you’ve ever captured a still with most Nokia Nseries camera phones or even an iPhone (running iPhone OS X 2.2) you’ll know just how long it can take to capture + process the image before your handset is ready for the next shot (up to 5 seconds in between “exposures”.) A missed shot is gone forever and if Palm is able to keep webOS this lean and snappy once it leaves Beta then Nokia and Apple have a lot of catching up to do in this area.
It’s easy to see just how proud Peter is of what he and his team have been able to achieve thus far with the palm prē and webOS. He seems confident in Palm’s future and he should. webOS and the palm prē are two HUGE steps in the right direction for a company that used to lead and may very well lead the mobile industry again one day. UI is also something that Peter concentrated on and we’ll see how far Apple is willing to go to compromise them in that area. In the end the consumer is the one who has the most to lose if the palm prē doesn’t make it out the door as originally intended due to “legal reasons“.
Here is his take on what makes the palm prē such a compelling mobile smartphone:
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A missed shot is gone forever and if Palm is able to keep webOS this lean and snappy once it leaves Beta then Nokia and Apple have a lot of catching up to do in this area.
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[...]The pre is the first smartphone to include the dialpad in the qwerty keyboard layout[...]
Has this guy never laid eyes on a Blackberry?
Also, he’s a douche for comparing the Pre to the N95, as the N95 is better in nearly every way. If your big convincing point is exposure time, you can bill me.
The Palm 600 was released in June of 2003 which makes it the first commercially available Smartphone with a QWERTY + Numeric Dialpad. He asked if anyone in the audience had a slider phone on them and so that’s when I pulled my N95 8GB out and handed it to him. Since you haven’t used a palm pre yourself yet I’d actually hold off until after you’ve had a go with one just to be sure.
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@serkoart @nate. yeah ok I see that maybe he’s referring to the early versions of the palm (and not the pre) which may have revolutionized the key pad on a qwerty keyboard. I dont know about you guys, but that feature was not a game changer at any point, so I just find it odd that he would accentuate that feature.
Anyway, to your point, maybe they did have it first before the Q.
@Deepak
Exactly. He’s talking about Palm (the company), not Pre (the phone). Palm introduced the concept, with the Treo. Well before the Q.
@Nate
I listened again. He claims that they “Palm” are the first ones to ever provide that capability. Well he is certainly wrong. Moto-Q has been around for more than 3 years.
@Deepak
The Moto-Q was originally released in June of 2006 but the Palm 600 (with full QWERTY + numeric dialpad) was available commercially in June of 2003.
According to those numbers Palm is 3 years ahead of Motorola.
@Deepak
Was the Moto-Q introduced before the first Treo phone? Because that’s what he was alluding to, not the Pre.
nice video. I thought it was with the 5D Mk2. I was right, per the tags.
@emerson
The palm pre does not have a microSD memory card slot. Peter was referring to its microUSB charging/syncing port during the demo.
@Counsel
For the purposes of his demo I believe Peter Skillman used two hands so that he would be less likely to cover up as much of the palm pre’s screen as he would’ve with one. He was also using an overhead project to show the audience what exactly was going on in the mobile’s UI which was another factor I’m sure.
@kam
Canon EOS 5D Mark II with an L-Series Lens and a Shotgun mic.
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