Celebrities Handle the Pre (Update: with help from Palm)
Engadget has a photo taken from the coverage of the Independent Spirit Awards last week (sidenote, this NSFW acceptance speech from Mickey Rourke is good catharsis for those who thought he should have won the Oscar). That photo shows that, as rumored, certain celebrities received Palm Pres (or the promise of future Palm Pres) in their swag bags. Unlike Palm's attitude at both CES and MWC, these beautiful people actually got to handle and play around with the little wonders. Us, we got to gaze lovingly. Which we're doing again, now.
Also, and this is just a little thing, we're very slightly relieved to see the backlit keyboard. We, you know, assumed that it would be backlit, but over the weekend a tipster at Sprint told us that an early production unit he handled was not backlit, making us slightly nervous.
Now Palm, we know we're not celebrities or anything, but it wouldn't hurt if you could pretend for a little while -- just long enough to send us one of those swag bags.
Thanks to William for the tip!
Update: Jason links us to a couple more photos from twitpic, after the break. One interesting detail: Sandra Oh is standing right next to the kind of celebrity we usually follow here, Palm's own Phil McClendon (Hi Phil!). In other words, those famous folk weren't just given the pre willy-nilly, there were Palm people on hand to babysit the Pres.
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