Posted on 04 February 2010 by Juventino Quinones
Finally, Verizon wireless is advertising the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, that's great news for us webOS followers. But for some reason the carrier wants to enlist our Moms to the webOS platform, saying that these two smartphones are "smart enough for Mom" (see image below).
Now don't get me wrong here, I really like the idea of my ...
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Posted on 19 October 2009 by Juventino Quinones
At the end of September, there were a lot of rumors about the Palm Pre not making it to Verizon Wireless. But we all know that Verizon's own CEO Lowell McAdam has said that the wireless carrier would have Palm’s webOS device in January. Well, it appears that is still on track.
The official Verizon Wireless twitter account posted the update ...
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Posted on 05 October 2009 by Juventino Quinones
Sprint has been hard at work showing off its Now Network all over the place, TV commercials on NBC and ABC are some of the latest. But these latest spots interweave the Palm Pre more deeply into the story line of two prime-time dramas. You can watch one of those spots at the end of this post.
The first is a ...
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Posted on 23 September 2009 by Juventino Quinones
Palm has partnered with Federated Media on a new Twitter Trend Tracker. Trend Tracker features the top 10 Twitter trends and shows related tweets as they happen. The site, as you can see in the image below, is heavily sponsored by Palm, showcasing the Pre at all times on the top left corner.
The Pre on that site is running Tweed, ...
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Posted on 21 August 2009 by Juventino Quinones
Well, well, well, we just posted about a new TV ad from Bell when we receive news of another effort to show Canadians the new Palm Pre smartphone. This time via Facebook, where the Pre guy - Bradley - goes around Canada introducing the Pre to random people on the streets.
The Palm Pre smartphone hits the streets of Toronto, days ...
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Posted on 19 August 2009 by Juventino Quinones
At the end of July we brought news to you about a new concept from Palm to show off the Pre smartphone. Well I'm glad to inform that this "Experience" Center is up and running. Not only that, but check how modern and cool it looks.
Starting today and for the next two weeks the Pre Experience will be at The ...
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Posted on 11 August 2009 by Juventino Quinones
It seems like the Palm advertising campaign for the Palm Pre is staying in people's minds more than we thought. Maybe Modernista was right? Well who knows. But now there's a study from MediaCurves.com that defends the controversial Palm Pre commercials as having evoke "Inspiration" and "Happiness" from viewers. And by the way, for some reason they think these ads ...
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Posted on 10 August 2009 by Juventino Quinones
A few days ago we talked about Palm's sponsorship of Peter Mehlman’s "Narrow World of Sports”, a series of webisodes on YouTube beginning August 9. One of the first guests was Olympic gold medalist and Dancing With the Stars champion Shawn Johnson.
In his interview with basketball legend Kobe Bryant, Peter covers everything from tipping the refs to foreign policy. Kobe ...
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Posted on 07 August 2009 by Juventino Quinones
It was recently (well, more like three days ago) that we brought news to you about Modernista - the agency behind the ads of the Palm Pre - talking about the plans they have for the new campaign for Palm. We also mentioned that Palm had several things lined up for the Pre smatphone. Here's one of them, a mini-series ...
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Posted on 04 June 2009 by Chris Davies
You've read the exclusive My Pre review of Palm's new smartphone, now it's time for the company's first advert for the Pre to make an impression. Contrary to expectations, Palm's huge Facebook set doesn't make an appearance.
The advert was filmed among the mountains of Luoping, a hard-to-reach area in China, and used 1,000 Kung Fu students as extras. According to ...
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