Maxim on the Pre: the future is awesome 21
In the June 2009 issue of Maxim Magazine, nestled amongst articles on the ridiculously attractive Moon Bloodgood, Megan Fox, and Katie Cassidy readers will find a page on technology - this month with a whole page devoted to the Palm Pre. While Maxim didn’t have any new info on the Pre to share with us, they, like just about everybody else, were psyched by the device as well, but in their own special way...
“Unless the girls you’re into get turned on by your holster-festooned belt, carrying two phones sucks. But slinging to cellies has been a necessary way to keep your personal and professional lives in check. Until the Pre, that is. Palm’s new smartphone merges a BlackBerry-ish ease of typing with the “holy ****, that’s cool” factor of the iPhone and promises to reduce the number of extraneous bulges in your pants to just one. Its OS seamlessly merges all your digital calendars and contacts, your personal and corporate exchange e-mail, even Facebook - while eliminating duplicate entries. And the Pre has the ability to run more than one application at a time, something even the almighty iPhone still can’t handle. Basically this means you can be listening to Internet radio and be playing Bejeweled while you use the slide-out QWERTY keyboard to send emails to your boss about how you’re stuck in traffic but will be in soon. Man, the future is awesome.”
Maxim also threw together a humorous chart tracking how you use your phone’s speed-dial, check it after the break.
The June 2009 issue of Maxim Magazine is on shelves now. Enjoy.
Thanks to KennyG, Brenthammer, and Brett in our forums for the tip!
21 Comments
We're getting closer!
Glad to see you guys keep the news coming even on the week-end, much appreciated.
Thanks for the cred Derek. From one Ohioan to another!
Ohio!!!
Good excuse to get a Maxim!
I think this week's going to be a blast!
Well, peeps, it looks like June 29 is the date. I gotta wait a month and a half for my pre!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
Uh... what tells you that it's June 29?
I'm gonna wait till this things been out for a few months before I decide to buy it. With no hands-on reviews no one truly knows if this phone is all it claims to be. After it's been in use by the public, we will know for sure. I'm not so convinced. Seems to good to be true, especially from a company like Palm.
Even with the Pre, I would still need to carry two phones. The only devices my employer will allow to connect to their email servers are company owned blackberries. Those devices are also prevented from connecting to personal email systems. In fact use of a company Blackberry for personal communications is not permitted and using a personal device for business email is also not permitted.
and that my friend is why I could never work for a machine! It's ironic that independent studies have shown workers are more productive when they are allowed to access facebook and other social networking sites while on the job.
That is really stupid bretthammer2000. Grow up. Spending time you should be working checking social sites? People don
t concentrate on what they are working about but they worry about whether a friend has responded to their comments. Please. Then spend all their time checking back on those sites. Use your head dude
Actually, there have been studies performed on worker productivity versus "free time," like Facebook and MySpace. The most recent one was done by the Aussies, and it showed a higher level of productivity, concentration, positiveness, etc.
So he's actually got a point.
Thank you ScrapMaker! I actually jump on this site every so often because I am finishing up my MBA this semester. So in between working 40+ hours a week and going to school full time a majority of which is spent writing papers; jumping on sites like this helps keep me focused :-)
I wonder how much productivity will increase once the Pre is released and we don't have to keep hunting down the latest rumors and sightings!
lol, so true.
Yep...I read that, too...and can attest to it being true. Anonymous sounds like a corporate workaholic. Ulcer much?
Rumor has it the pre is set to make a big appearance on the final episode of 24 tomorrow night.
Mind if I ask where you heard this?
I am done with rumors. The device will be out within 41 days at the latest and being hung out to dry for the last 3+ months 41 days is not that long of time! If the phone ends up not living up to all the hype, what the heck can I do about it? Spend work hours surfing the net for the next big thing??? :-)
Just saw this in the magazine today! =)