Live from Palm's CES 2010 Event! [UPDATE: Transcript + Images]
Sure, we may already have suspected much of what Palm has in store for their CES 2010 annoucements this year, but we also suspect that there's a surprise or two still left in store. No need to refresh the page - just stay tuned at 11am Pacific as we bring you what Palm's got - live!
UPDATE: You want a transcript? Yes you do. It's after the break, with images and all - it seems Sprint coverage in that room wasn't so great. Bets that Verizon was rocking?
- Pre coming to SFR in France
- PreCentral webOS App Gallery brings the App Catalog to your browser
- Palm reveals open web distribution of webOS apps
- Video recording coming to webOS
- Flash 10.1 coming soon to a Palm near you
- Palm brings the games with native development
- Palm makes the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus official, Verizon only, and with tethering
- webOS 1.4 coming in February with built-in Flash, video, etc
- Palm CES 2010 Presentation Gallery
- Hands-On with the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus!
10:49: Howdy everybody!
10:49: I'm in and sitting in the second row
10:49: It's a smaller room than last year, but still good stuff
10:53: Good fun music, pretty good crowd.
10:59: Silence your pagers and cell phones. Pagers? Really?
11:00: Jon Rubenstein takes the stage!
11:00: Great to be back, amazing year for Palm
11:00: Aside from awards at CES last year, pop mech's 10 most brilian, Pogie. Geeks of the year.
11:00: Listing off awards...
11:00: Update on what they've accomplished in the last 12 months, what they'll do this year
11:00: When we designed webOS, we made a bet on the web.
11:01: Web Experience and web community heart of everything we do at Palm
11:01: It's based on Javascript, html, CSS, allowed them to reach a broad and deep dev community. Some devs here in the audiene
11:01: thank you developers for your great support
11:01: 85k downloads since July in SDK
11:01: 20k registrations for Project Ares
11:02: Clear signals of early interest
11:02: Reflected in # of aps
11:02: Dev program open to publich TODAY
11:02: 2 things they care about
11:02: 1. connected to people experiences. 2. making sure you never miss a thing
11:02: How they've deliered... Talking about Activity Card UI
11:03: Talking about gestures, synergy
11:03: Notifications
11:03: Last year we introduced the Pre
11:03: Now we have 2 devices. Pre and Pixi
11:04: Thinnest lightest, full querty touchscreen smartphone
11:04: Great first smartphone
11:04: We know people like choices, so we added ways to express yourselves
11:04: talking about artist series backs
11:04: limited
11:05: Talking up touchstone
11:06: strong and enthusiastic partners
11:06: 7 countries
11:06: video time
11:07: seeing the death of the pc...
11:07: Video still playing
11:07: Selling these products is a challenge, very powerful
11:08: Just a general feel good video, focusing on Europe right now
11:08: Video done
11:08: Jon back on stage
11:09: Today - new Euro partner
11:09: France...
11:09: SFR
11:09: SFR exec coming up Jean Marc Tassetto
11:10: Makes a joke about wine
11:10: owned by vivendi and vodafone
11:11: They reach half the French population. First French 3G company
11:11: SFR hoping to get half of their customers on smartphones
11:11: that'd be 10 million smartphones
11:11: Started in Cupertino, ended in Sunnyvale
11:11: lol
11:12: We go where the best smartphones in the world are
11:12: Enthusiastic about the products
11:13: Why did Palm choose us? We're quite good, 800 shops, this is not typical French Arrogance. He's pretty funny guy
11:14: He's done, Jon's back on stage
11:14: Back to products
11:15: Katie Mitic, SVP of product marketing
11:15: Great stuff to show us
11:15: Katie takes the stage
11:15: Two things
11:15: Palm developer programs
11:15: new product developments
11:15: 6 months closed beta
11:15: Dev program formally opens today
11:15: applause
11:16: Any developer can submit webOS app to Palm for distribution in any of the 7 markets in whic they do business
11:16: Three advantages to thier paltform
11:16: easy development, groundbraking integration, freedom and choice
11:16: Thankful to those who have helped them reach their
11:16: THANKS TO HOMEBREW COMMUNITY
11:16: Showing graph to 1000 apps
11:17: In december announced project ares
11:17: Look forward to incredible growth in app catalog this year
11:17: All these apps work together.
11:17: webos provides new level of integration
11:17: they can share data, content, services
11:18: You can put linked in into your app. You can integrate game schedules into your calendar
11:18?: get real time alearts on stuff happening in the game
11:18: Thanks to google, yahoo, facebook, linked in, many more
11:18: Freedom and choice
11:18: Application distribution - new approach
11:19: Developers looking for more and better distribution. consumers want better ways to find them
11:19: Watched web develop to connect them
11:19: Why don't we do that?
11:19: Today we are
11:19: Opening up database of app information, descriptions, ratings reviews, downlads, stats, etc
11:19: opening it up to entire web community.
11:19: oh boy - watch this
11:19: PRECENTRAL ON THE SCREEN, YO
11:19: http://precentral.net/app-gallery
11:20: showing off project appetite
11:20: surf website, find applications
11:20: very slick
11:20: projectappetite.com
11:20: It's a demonstation of Palm's app ecosystem
11:21: Feeds, mechanism,s, data... just make their business better
11:21: they're introducting Hot Apps Bonus Program
11:21: 1 million dollars in bonuses to developers with the most downloads
11:22: Developers want more :)
11:22: Today announcingin the Palm webOs plugin developerment kit
11:22: PDK Plugin Developerment Kit
11:22: Developers can build plugins for web applications
11:22: devs can make C and C++ apps
11:23: PDK released in march at a game developer conference
11:23: some early access partners they've worked with
11:23: TODAY - have hot new game titles available in app catalog
11:23: they use PDK
11:23: Gameloft, EA, Glu
11:23: Sims 3, Need for Speed, let's golf
11:23: scrabble
11:24: Availble for US today for Palm pre customers in Palm app catalog
11:24: If you're a gamer, you know EA
11:24: They're the worldwide leader in mobile gaming
11:24: Travis Boatman of EA takes the stage
11:24: Tetis, Monoplogy, sims3, rock band
11:24: This SDK is great
11:25: Great API
11:25: Excellent acceleremeter, excellent gameplay
11:25: Great performance, great famerate
11:25: easy to use
11:25: lol, they're mocking the people who didn't believe in the Need for Speed leak
11:26: talking abut Sims3.
11:26: DAMN it looks GOOD
11:26: 3d, moving around, very cool
11:26: Scrolling around, zooming in and out
11:26: the graphics and effects are very cool
11:26: Need for Speed Demo next
11:27: The worlds largest racing franchise
11:27: Nissan GTR
11:27: Music playing
11:27: customizing the look of the car
11:27: customizing the spoiler.
11:27: effects gameplay
11:28: Showing car in race, in real time, in full 3d, good framerate
11:28: using accelerometer for steering
11:28: Hits Nitro, blasts music, it's going great with no jaggies
11:28: maqn i hope this stuff comes out this month
11:29: Available TODAY
11:29: Katie takes the stage again
11:29: Thanks EA
11:29: Next up - Paul Cousineau, directer of product marketing
11:29He takes a photo of Katie, Funny
11:29: Best thing about webOS is its ability to evolve and grow
11:30: Today, new feature that many of you have been wanting - VIDEO RECORDING
11:30: YOU READ THAT RIGHT
11:30: Record, edit, and share video on webOS
11:30: Showing a demo of the Video he jsut took of Katie
11:30: Taps a button with a timeline, thumbnails, he can cut the video down
11:31: voila, shorter video
11:31: Sharing.. taps sharing... upload to youtube, facebook, email, or MMS
11:31: Tag it, category, off it goes in the *background*
11:31: now the palm pre is the best phone on the market truely
11:31: Wil be available in Feb to ALL customers
11:31: no new hardware required
11:32: Showing the plugin dev kit games in webOS
11:32: Goes back to Sims3 card
11:32: Showing sims3
11:32: Going fishing at the park
11:33: Video: no new hardware
11:33: He said all webOS customers in feb
11:33: when you go in card view, game auto-pauses
11:33: showing that the youtube video just finished uploaded
11:33: Showing notifications, responding to an SMS
11:33: back to fishing
11:33: another notification pops up
11:34: taps on notificaiton (in landscape) and goes straight to message, game pauses in bakcground
11:34: Goes to browser
11:34: flash 10
11:34: Hello flash, how are you
11:34: demoing flash video movie preview at yahoo movies
11:35: It's good - avatar preview. Looks like medium quality
11:35: Pre customers can get beta "soon"
11:35: from app catalog
11:36: Dashboard now has that YouTube notification, has a option to tap to share it
11:36: facebook, messaging, or email
11:36: post directly to facebook status
11:36 : Goes back through cards, has a bunch open :)
11:37: Flash, full gaming, video, C and C++ This is bigger than I thought
11:37: Katie takes the stage again
11:37: OTA software updates - they are really awesome
11:37: Give us capability to give them new functionality
11:37: Nine software updates since june
11:37: more than once a month
11:37: scrolling through the improvements
11:38: email search, battery, yahoo, EAS improvements, more more more
11:38: fitting that the update icon is a gift box
11:38: Pace of web development to the mobile environment
11:38: Don't want customers to have to wait
11:38: Big software update in Feb
11:38: More battery, performance, video
11:39: Developer Program, Hot apps, webos PDK, hot 3d games, video, Flash 10 browser
11:39: She invites Jon back to the stage for more exciting things
11:39: Applause
11:40: We've been hard at work
11:40: today announcing 2 new products
11:40: pre plus
11:40: no center button - woot!
11:40: bye bye center button
11:40: 16 gigs of memory
11:40: doubled internal memory
11:40: comes with inductive back cover
11:40: touchstone ready out of the box
11:40: Pixi plus
11:41: thin, lightweight
11:41: pixi plus has wifi
11:41: Perfect choice from feature phone to 1st smartphone
11:41: Whoa, lots of colors
11:41: lime green, sky blue, orange (bright) and pink
11:41: Choices
11:41: choice of carrier
11:42: proud to announce
11:42: pre plus and pixi plus available exclusively on Verizon
11:42: EXCLUSIVE to Verizon
11:42: applause
11:42: New application exclusive to pre plus and pixi plus
11:42: mobile hotspot
11:42: TETHERING
11:42: only for verizon, pixi plus and pre plus
11:42: "Add the appropriate feature to your voice and data plan"
11:43: 5 total connections
11:43: Share a short message, from John Stratton, CMO of verizon
11:43: bad weather prevented live video feed, so showing a recording
11:44: Launches Jan 25th
11:44: Both available then
11:44: jokes - refuses to announce price
11:45: Verizon fired up about Pre Plus and Pixi Plus
11:46: Recap
11:46: Palm and SFR in france, 2nd quarter
11:46: full dev program, app submissions, more ways to bring consumers and developers together
11:46: dev program open today
11:46: New 3d games
11:47: He loves Need for Speed
11:47: can't get through the third level
11:47: Available now in the US in teh app catalog
11:47: Play monopoly during Intel keynote
11:47: video over the air, free, to every pre and pixi on the planet
11:47: comes with webOS 1.4
11:47: that's in feb
11:48: Real flash, flash 10, available in app catalog soon
11:48: with work with any pre with webOS 1.4
11:48: (that's not the pixi, then)
11:48: Jan 25th, Pixi Plus and Pre Plus - exclusive
11:48: Mobile Hotspot too
11:48: Yay, we get to hold them ourselves this time at the Palm demo room
11:49: At the last CES I told you Palm was back, and we meant it
11:49: we've been working extraordinarily hard to deliver this
11:49: Thanks to everybody
11:49: round of applause for everybody
