Fan-crafted Pre commercial grabs Palm's attention 31
Sat, 14 Aug 2010 2:15 pm EDT 
You may remember from the heady days of late July 2010 this awesome fan-made commercial for the Palm Pre (after the break for your reminiscence). Well, it caught Palm’s attention too, and they made sure to dive in. The video, by 22-year-old German students Arno Keifl and Sven Adolph, turns out to have been a sophisticated creation, with the talented duo digging into the webOS SDK emulator to capture images and building the “Mr. Chef for Palm” app demoed in the commercial with Palm’s super-easy Ares online app creator.
Rightfully, the good folks at Palm saw fit to award such creativity and hard work. As they, and many of us, noticed, the video showcases everything happening on an original O2 Palm Pre. Palm has sent the pair Palm Pre Pluses for O2 Germany to bring them up to the life moves fast speed. While we’re happy Arno and Sven got new phones, we hope that Palm has put their phone numbers into Contacts for the next time they plan to run commercials.
Source: Official Palm Blog
31 Comments
kkooll
Well, nicely done!
cool nice to see palm hand out some freebies to there loyal customers
me likey very much...please start running the commericals again to remind people how great this is!
Very good work from the creators indeed.
Sending out free Pres seems more like recycling than a reward.
Actually it seams like a free upgrade (not sure where you are from or what carrier you are on)..... but O2 just switched from the original non-plus Pre to the Pre-Plus, so not a bad reward for doing something that had no award attached to their initial actions.
Beyond that, I know many sprint users that would be happy to get a free Sprint ready Pre Plus from Palm (if Sprint was offering the option).
I could go on, but I really don't think I need to..... a free upgrade from the company (and who knows what they may do with these cats in the future), seams like a decent reward and especially when it's NEW hardware to their carriers.
O2 Germany sell the Pre Plus since April 28th. They just stopped selling the non-plus version
wish I could see the video on my Pre.
Yeah, why not post videos in mp4 format so we can actually watch them on our Pres with the video app?
Maybe they can't embed Vimeo links, but if they also put a text link which we could click in our pre browser just like this one - http://vimeo.com/13132994 it works on your pre in your browser after just two clicks, then just swipe back to go back to Pre Central :)
That works great. Thanks. Perhaps Precentral.net will send you a free touchstone for the tip?
Thanks!!
It's a good commercial.. i'd like to see it on TV.
id like a free pre +!!!!!!!!!!!
What's the use if you can't vew the commercial on your phone?
Flash capabilities aside, when is Palm going to come up with a video player that supports more video formats?
The Vimeo website works perfectly on the palm pre so just look it up on there. Just read leobloom's comment. It would be helpful if Precentral left a link to the video on vimeo.
Great interaction - social media at it's best! Congrats!
Alternate ending of this video includes the camera panning up to reveal the guy is having dinner with... the creepy Palm lady!
Nice ad. I remember apple once hired a guy because they liked his fan-made ad for the ipod touch on YouTube. I really hope Palm will do the same thing. Sending them free Pre Pluses is an awesome thing to do though. Gotta love Palm :)
amen
They deserve more than free phones. If anything they should offer them a job.
A Pre plus is a good move.
Plus, these two may be happy enough to really have a call about the next commercial. Which is a good thing. Because they can.
they should hire them. palm can use some talent after all the recent defections.
great work. like the way you keep it simple showing the ease of use. the touchstone at the end would be nice, maybe tossing it on the charger and turning out the lights. lol.
can not watch video on my Pre. How.special
Nice to see that Palm isn't a soulless mega conglomerant corp. Good going palm.
better than having the mysterious girl do the advert :)
looks like they had a very hard time to find a girl for holding hands in this clip :D so the two guys ended up doing it all by themselves
In their "Making of" video, you can see there is actually a woman playing the part.
http://vimeo.com/13605810
Don't forget the noriginal fan created commercial, which was pretty decent compared to the lousy stuff Palm was putting out in the beginning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdMEllAKrcc