Palm hearts the PAAAAAALM guy, seeking other creative videos 51
The goodly folks at Palm are showing us what a company with a sense of humor about itself looks like. On the Palm blog today, Jon Zilber pays tribute to the latest video from that masked PAAAAAAAAAAALM guy, who is suddenly much more enthusiastic about the company and demonstrating his technique for getting others to purchase webOS smartphones:
Zilber then goes on to challenge other Palm fans to show off their own creative methods for spreading webOS love:
So if you’ve been helping to tell the webOS story, we’d like to see how you do it. Do you show people just how effortless it is? Showcase a favorite app? Tell them about some of the cool things (like Stacks and Just Type) coming in webOS 2.0? Explain the power of the homebrew community? Or do you (and yes, I do mean you) just naturally wow people with your sparkling personality and your snappy attire?
Palm will be looking out for YouTube videos tagged with #MaskAppeal (and subtly suggests a length limit of 30 seconds), and will "highlight a few [...] favorites." No mention of prizes, but hey, getting Palm's attention as a creative webOS supporter has led to at least one job recently, so you never know what might result!
Source: Palm Blog
51 Comments
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You fail at life.
AWESOME...!!! LOL...! The spider crawling across his wall on the upper right side of the screen was funny too... I kept waiting for him to say something about that. LOL...!
Can we enlist him for some 'SPRIIIIIIIINT!!!' videos?
+1
HAHAHAHAHA. This is one of the best ones. When he turns around "PEOPLE OF EARTH" wasnt expecting that. lol. And "THATS HOW YOU SELL A PHONE" HAHAHAHA. I love these videos.
I know! I *literally* LOL'd at work and my boss looked at me! Damn you P|C releasing all this news and preventing me from getting my work done. =)
Palm guy is Too KOOL!!! :-)
love the video so funny
I hope the Pre 2 isn't the "super device", that would be super disappointing.
yeah, I mean the specs are alright, but it cannot compete with super phones like the epic or evo. (IMO the epic is waay superior) for example, the screen issame tiny size and weak ass resolution. My time with Palm is probably up
who the heck cares.
Except the screen on the Epic/Galaxy S is a lackluster as the screen resolution on the Pre 2.
For the uniformed, OLED screens have huge gaps in the pixels requiring more zooming in than a LCD for text to be readable. It's a downfall of OLED and is a reason why people like to describe reading text on them like reading text printed with a dot matrix printer.
I thought it went something like "it's not the size that matters, its how you use it."
That's what she said.
Your a boob. You don't get it. You'll be chasing specs and jumping devices all your life ... Go chase em' Tiger.
what's wrong with that???
ALL PALM DEVICES ARE SUPER DEVICES...
new super phones hopefully will be coming (on Sprint with any luck) pre2 is not super, just cool
I'm pretty sure a masked terrorist would be even worse than a creepy girl... just sayin
Sure beats lizard girl... and funnier too.
Gotta love these videos
love the "PAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLMMMMMMM!!!!" guy, but not sure that a large, menacing guy in a mask glaring menacingly over a woman on a couch is the best way to advertise our beloved brand. Just sayin'.
Or is it?? HMMMM???
For idiots like you, probably.
1:20 nice feet
OMG...
This guy is so funny, its crazy.
Get him on a commercial for national TV, HP.
Seriously!
:)
@elslunko,
hmmm, perhaps you are right...hmmmm
wow nice dtreo ''1:20 nice feet''
werido, anyways pretty funny video I agree with jp22382 we need him for sprint, I have an OG Pre from the release day 6th in line, we need a upgrade
lmao
"weirdo"
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
if that's palm guys girlfriend he is doing pretty good for a guy in a ski mask.
it's probably his sister
I decided to comment on the PalmBlog regarding how little there is to defend in the Pre 2. we shall see if it makes it past the vetting process to be posted. I said:
It would be much easier to sell if there were new, better hardware to sell instead of repackaged, slightly upgraded hardware in the Pre 2. A slightly tweaked phone which did not sell particularly well is not a strong selling point, no matter how incredible the OS. The Rotten Fruit does this, but on a phone which is a top seller, not the bottom of the pile. WebOS is indeed incredible, but the hardware needs to be too! The Pre 2 specs just barely catch up to middle tier phones released in the past months, which in reality means you start behind the pack and stay there. Same small screen, lower resolution, no focus on the camera, no forward facing camera, low storage capacity, same small battery with BARELY increased specs on talk/standby time, please! Is the slider actually improved, or will the new Pre oreo the second time in and out of my pocket? On these things alone, I cannot sell or defend this phone, no matter how snappy my attire. I continue to love and defend WebOS, and will continue to hang on to my Sprint Pre Minus, hoping for something better next year, but until then I remain quiet and semi-hopeful.
Perhaps the spec war isn't important to many people. You will win the die hard people by offering an extra pixel or two here, and extra megahertz there. If people get a good experience on the phone it will sell itself. Do you remember the resolution of your Palm Vx or the processor speed of your Original Pilot 1000? I doubt it because they didn't mater. Why not? The device performed as you expected it to and gave a great experience.
Am I disappointed there isn't an auto focus camera? A little. Would I have liked a retina busting display? Sure. Is the over all experience enough to keep me from going to a competitor? That is the important question.
well said, well spoken (bg)
Gee, no PreCentral prizes to the top three voted here?
Oh man, they caught me off guard with the fire.
lol I'd hire this guy!
Why are you guys not posting on HP Palm's website as well as Sprint's? It takes two to make a marketing deal. HP Palm is just as liable for Sprint not getting the phone. Sprint saved Palm from going bankrupt earlier than it did, dont forget that. Plus Verizon tanked the pre with its mom commericals.
Go to this link and... tell HP Palm we are not naive and we understand it takes two to make a partnership.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7081486362&v=wall#!/palm
At the very least HP will realize how profitable a WebOS phone on sprint can be.
We need a defender to come to Pre minus customers aid.
this is the stupidest video i have ever seen. i am sure the pre 2 will sell like pancakes!
Dear Palm Guy - please do a segment demanding Pre 2 on Sprint. Thanks!
OMG!! The "People of Earth" with the fire was the best sh!t ever!! I did not see that coming! This guy is great!
(and for some reason reminds me of Keiffer Sutherland)
If he means business he should start rocking a suit
That's how you sell a Phhooooone. Epic.
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I'm going to cry. The Pre 2 is the 'super device'. Crying now. Can't stop. Sob.
Tears.
Snot.
Sob.
Also, just checking, I thought it was established that the PAAALLLLLMMMMMMM! guy was an actor hired by palm to do this stuff?
Palm Guy should have worn a suit with his mask at the end of the video for a funny way of meaning "business."
He's awesome, and I would love to see this character in commercials on my television.
i love it... dumb ass Hpalm still cant get their act together even after HP takes ownership. Spec Bump Pre = Losing Additional Market Share to Android and even Apple. THANKS LOSERS for the waste of resources and more importantly time.
dumb