Vote: Mock-up the next Palm device contest needs you to pick a winner (Update: Voting ends tonight!) 193
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 4:01 pm EDT 
Well folks, the time has come for the next phase of our fun little contest. After receiving several dozen entries of varying caliber, we’ve finally whittled the options down to pick ten finalists. The winner, however, is up to you and your voting skills (i.e. you ability to click with a mouse). The most excellent mock-up that receives the most excellent votes will net the winner the next Palm device, which as it turns out will be a Palm Pre 2, in which ever flavor the winner prefers (Verizon or unlocked AT&T band developer phone (or SFR if you’re feeling French)). Vote getters number two and three will received a conciliatory prize of $50 to spend at the PreCentral Accessory Store, while everybody else gets a slap on the back and a job well done.
After the break, check out all the entries, including our ten finalists and ten honorable mentions, and place your vote!
Update: The voting ends at midnight, eastern, tonight, so we're giving you one last chance to vote if you haven't yet. We won't say who's ahead in the poll, but we will say that it's a virtual dead heat between the top three - so tell your friends to get their vote on!
THE FINALISTS
Palm Twist, by Adam Wrigley
With concave sides for easy grip the Twist stands as both a portrait slider phone, but when up you can give the screen a twist to turn it sideways for gaming with exposed joystick controls.
Palm Pre HD, by bhughes719
Packing a 3.8-inch AMOLED screen with buckets full of pixels, the Pre HD turns the keyboard onto its side with a new horizontal mode for side-by-side webOS cards. The Pre HD also gains a Micro SD slot, HDMI out, and a beefy 1800mAh battery.
Palm Pad, by Brent Downey
We weren’t able to get many details on the Pad, but as these renders show, the new device comes with a kickstand, wireless physical keypad, and a slide-down back with gaming controls and a touch-sensitive input area.
Palm R1, by David Rhyne
Running a totally overhauled webOS 2.0, the new slate-style R1 packs a 1.33GHz processor, a 960x480 3.5 inch super-black screen, a textured magnesium body, and a 6MP rear camera with 1.3MP up front.
Palm C40, by David Vogt
A nice big 4.3 inch screen over a BlackBerry-style portrait slider keyboard mark the stand-out features of the C40. Inside you’ll find a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 32GB for storage, and webOS 2.0, all wrapped up in a magnesium shell.
Unnamed Palm Phone, by Jamie Myer
This phone slides vertically and rotates, allowing keyboard use with portrait and landscape oriented screens. Rotating exposes a front-facing camera and speaker, and the whole package is nerd-friendly translucent.
Unnamed Palm Watch, by Jesus Valenzuela
Details are sparse on this webOS-powered watch, but what is clear is that it packs a projector to take your webOS experience from the super-small screen to however big you’d like.
Palm Superior HD, by Jose Barajas
The Superior HD lives up to its name with the first high definition screen in a smartphone. Powered by webOS 2, the extra screen real estate is used for the new WidgetDeck, which rests right above the stacking and minimizing cards view.
Palm HD2, by LCGuy
Spec’d out would be an apt description for the HD2, which packs a 1GHz processor, a full GB for RAM, 16GB of Micro SD-expandable storage, a 2250mAh battery, an 8MP camera on back with 4MP up front, all faced by a 3.8” AMOLED 960x640 screen.
Palm Pre 2, Palm Pad, and Palm Watch, by Virox
The next generation in personal computing, the Pre 2, Pad, and Watch, all from Palm conspire to take you to the next level of connectivity. All move up to modern standards and then take a leap past, with the Watch in particular pushing the edge of modern consumer technologies with a flexible LED screen for notifications, reminders, and media controls.
VOTE
Now that you've had a chance to peruse those entries that are up for the big prize, now it's time to cast your ballot. Voting will be open until Midnight Eastern time on Friday, October 29, 2010. The winner will be announced the following week with a ticker tape parade and several large balloons.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
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Unnamed Palm Handheld, by Alberto Perez |
Unnamed Palm Phone, by Clemson Pre |
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Unnamed Palm Napkin, by Daniel Renjifo [video] |
Palm Power, by fireyfuzzball |
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Palm Chronos, by hagster |
Untitled Palm Phone, by James Tapia |
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Palm Peak, by Steve Lipson |
Palm Butler, by Michael Prywes |
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HP Prevail CS, by Michael Powell |
Palm Pre HD-Flip, by Sorli |
OTHER ENTRIES
193 Comments
I want to thank everyone who took the time to participate & share their designs. Amazing work!
There are some that I see that are better than some of the top ten. The two that I see that don't belong there are the R1 and the C40. Yes they look cool but there are others that look better. There was a phone that looked really good in the "other submissions" category that looked awesome. It was the blue one.
Anyway, Superior HD has my vote. His design is pretty good but mostly his ideas for how webOS could be more intuitive are great. I'm not fond of the name but that isn't a factor for me.
thanks.... it really means alot!
No prob man. You have some good ideas for the UI, especially the widget and minimize functions. The design of the phone is clean and has a nice design. I like that you made it without a physical keyboard. I would buy this phone quick. Check out my entry in the "other entries". It's the black phone with the big Palm logo in the backround. I called it the Palm Portal.
That's interesting because the C40 and the R1 were my two favorite designs, with the landscape HD one coming in third. I think I like those ones because they are more "realistic" to me and I'd actually want to buy them
The reason I didn't like them was this: the R1 didn't show any other angles of the phone and didn't seem to have a lot of thought put into it. The C40 seems like a good design but unrealistic for a 4.3 inch phone because it would make the phone super thick with a physical keyboard. Plus, it just seems like an oversized Pre with a Blackberry keyboard.
I thought the R1 was decently well thought out, but I agree that more angles would have been better. Really the R1 looks alot like your entry, with similar dimensions. I wonder why they didn't put yours in the final list? I liked yours as well.
That's what I'm wandering. At least I had more than one angle I do like the R1's design but it was only at one angle.... Maybe somebodies friends with him.
I think you are crazy, the R1 and the C40 were my favorite design proposals. I really want a slate type phone so I can get an otter case that can truly make it water resistant. If I have to settle for a hard keyboard then I like the C40 design with a HDMI out and SD card slot. Please ad a Gyroscope HP/Palm. I also think the HP's purchase of Palm might be the best thing that could have ever happened to WebOS. I just hope they tap into it's potential with a powerful CPU and much better battery life than my Pre. I was almost lured away with the Evo and Android, but I have decided that I don't really like the cluttered interface that is provided with the standard Android interface. Apple and Palm have the better interfaces in my opinion and the potential of WebOS and it's superior multitasking has me waiting for at least 6 more months before I move to a new phone. You hear that HP/Palm? Get to work, I'm waiting. ;)
Bump!
I don't know what you're bumpin'...
But I _-=*LOVE*=-_ the Palm Twist!!!
One-handed keyboard in both portrait and landscape modes. And REAL game controls to boot. With an amazing grip, no matter how you hold it.
Pocketability could be an issue, but making the curves slightly less pronounced could make that phone a real winner.
Hi, thanks for the vote and compliments on the Twist design. I'm the designer for that one.
I just wanted to address the issue people brought up with the gesture area. I thought of this while designing it, and was imagining "gesture edges" all around the device. So whatever orientation you were in, the downward facing edge of the screen-half of the device would be the gesture area.
Thanks again to everyone who voted for me, and congrats to all the finalists. There are a lot of great designs in this contest.
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Hi, I'm David, I designed the Palm R1.
I'd just like to say thanks to Precentral for holding the contest and that I'm really honored to be amongst these contestants, they're all really outstanding!
Also, I built a short video of my phone showing the electro-tinted screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEWu0dqoqA (Derek, could you insert that into the paragraph for my entrant?)
Basically it just shows that the screen turns virtually invisible when off, giving you a pretty nifty looking phone.
Also, am I the only one that was willing to put a faster-than-anyone-else CPU in my phone?? ;-)
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Hi David,
The video is Cool and your Palm R1 phone is excellent. You got my vote...
I don't know, but you were the only person to put such an odd resolution on it.. It should have been 960x640 (double Pre resolution), not 960x480 (2x1 aspect ratio).
Ah, my mistake, thanks Arthur. You're right, that's definitely a typo on my part. The proper resolution should be 640x960 (or 960x640 depending on how you look at it.) Thanks! :-)
Just so you know... 960x640 is *FOUR* times the resolution of the Pre. Both the length and width are doubled... and 2x2 = 4.
Also... There is no such thing as a "proper" resolution. There is only the resolutions that the manufacturers make. Nobody makes it? Then yea, it's "odd" alright.
While there isn't a "proper" resolution, there is the issue of a screen resolution's proportions matching the mock-up.
The R1's screen is obviously not a 2:1 shape (i.e. 1.7" x 3.4") so either a 960x480 screen is using assymetric pixels or he made a simple typo. The R1 looks to be 4:3, hence the 960x640 suggested resolution.
Exactly, just a typo on my part. The screen is a 3:2 ratio like the iPhone, EVO 4G, current Pre, just about any other new smartphone out there. Hence the 960x640px screen. :-)
voted for your R1. love the black magnesium body and the no nonsense minimal look of the phone. best of all, the look and design of the phone would appeal to both the personal and business user, regardless of their age or gender. love it!
Cool video. I thought it was starting by showing the back of the phone. Boy was I surprised. Thanks for participating!
Adam, the Palm Twist is amazing! Love the way it cinches in at the middle so you don't have that brick feel like the EVO. I really hope you win, you get my vote.
As one of the finalists, I'm so honored!
Whomever wins, I think we all win, as we get to see some really great concepts come to a visual collection that has an extremely wide range of ideas.
All those who enetered, finalists or not, definitely should be proud to have done so - just looking at all of the submittals is like going to a modern art museum!
For those who want to see more, you can go look at our posts in the "Future Devices" forums where many of us have other pictures, sketched, videos and further explainations of our concepts - so that you can really get the gyst of each creation.
This was SO cool to do!
Thanks PreCentral, for the opportunity, and to the PreCentral community!
How can you NOT vote for the Palm Napkin! LMAO
A Palm that I can clean my nose and check e-mail with?! It would have had my vote!
I couldn't vote for the napkin because I had to vote for the toasters.. They were just so wonderful! Plus they make toast.
Yes but, when you are done with the toast, you still need a napkin!
I dig the C40 the most.
So many of them look great.
i voted for the palm superior hd I LOVE the idea of widgets at the top of the cards, GENIUS.
anyway i have to guys we are one talented group of people here, i mean seriously from the amazing stuff happening in homebrew and the ideas in general people throw about and THIS wow i'm seriously blown away at how many artists and talent there is here. thanks everyone for sharing their work and putting time into it, i enjoyed viewing all the entries
thanks!!
I hope you mean a pat on the back and not a slap on the back.
That's what I was thinking. A slap on the back is painful, but a pat on the back always feels good.
Some amazing designs!!!!
I liked the twist the most! Could do without the gaming options but love the design & option for landscape view while typing.
i like ''Unnamed Palm Handheld, by Alberto Perez'' that looks slick!!
make sure you click on the picture! when you do it shows more than what you see on the webpage. especially on the "palm superior hd". Clicking on the picture and seeing the rest of that phone helped me make up my mind!
Thanks! im glad you mentioned that.... its all about the details.... ;)
i appreciate your vote!
C40, Pre 2, Palm Superior HD, Palm R1, and Palm Twist are all pretty bad ass. I ended up voting for the C40 though. The Superior would've gotten my vote if it had a Keyboard. All are very good, even the honorable mentions were good.
Palm Superior HD ftw
YAY!
I NEED a WebOS watch crossed with the one on Minority Report!
Gadgets gadget gadgets! I needs me a phone pad AND watch! :D
I'm tired of all the people that have to have a physical keyboard. If you had an all touchscreen phone with Swype, you could create sentences faster than with a physical keyboard. Physical keyboards are a thing of the past. Get over it. Perfect example: iPhone vs Blackberry, Blackberry is losing a lot of market share and iPhone is gaining.
Well then get an EVO or an iPhone. When I'm typing on a keyboard I want buttons that I can feel that click when I press them. Tapping on glass is weird. I like how it works on Android where you can have a real keyboard, but you can also have a fake keyboard if you want it.
+1 if you want a virtual keyboard you have plenty of options - I want a physical keyboard so I got a pre!
Not everybody likes the same things you do. Get over it.
Well of course not everybody likes the same thing as me. I used to prefer a physical keyboard until I actually tried a good virtual keyboard. (The EVO's.) Then I tried Swype, which I originally thought was a dumb idea, and now I will always be swayed by a phone that has Swype or at least a good virtual keyboard. Physical keyboards not only take up unneeded space, but requires more moving parts which can cause maintenance/build quality issues. (ie. the Pre)
I'm not saying an all touchscreen is for everyone but the market is moving toward that direction, so why not make a phone that captures the majority of what people want.
We already have the Pre, now it's time for a device for those that want an all touchscreen device.
The keyboard is not the reason iPhone is winning that battle.
Also, I can still type faster than anyone I know using Swype.
I prefer options. I would just rather a physical keyboard.
Different people have different preferences. I have a strong dislike for touchscreen based keyboards, simply because I like the physical feedback of hitting a physical key. Now, just because you prefer the touchscreen type does not mean there is no room for both. A phone with 4.0 inch screen and physical keyboard COULD have a touchscreen keyboard as well, giving you the best of both worlds.
loved the palm superior and the unnamed palm by james tapia. but seriously i hope palm brings out a souped up pixi 2.
Palm Superior HD got my vote. I was tempted to vote for the Twist (the joysticks would be sweet on 3D gaming) but it has slightly too much curve.
I cant believe how good this contest turned out, you guys are amazing.
HP are you watching?
thanks, glad you liked it
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Can we do these every month, I'd love it. Looking at the 'other entries' made me lol so hard, the napkin, the palm hammer, the c40footer, the priceless webOS toaster........i love it and to all the serious entries........GREAT JOB all are very nice!! My vote is for virox.
i vote Palm Pre HD, by bhughes719
W0W! Fantastic assemblage; but, how about snap-on modules for:
larger battery
better camera (video, wide format)
projector
keyboard input
speaker (s)
view screen (sizes,readers)
credit card input
remote controllers
tiny printer
wand scanner
TV
monitors (geographic, mechanical counting)
I know this has been attempted, but,marketing versatility may succeed.
I saw an advertisement for a plug-in IR remote control adaptor for the iPhone today and thought it was awesome!
I want that toaster!!
I voted for the Superior HD. I would have voted for the Twist, but it was a little too wide for my taste.
thanks
I like the ones with the rotating screen by jamey. It has built in oreo.
as they say in the software biz, if you can't fix it - feature it!!
LOL. Hahahaha.
I have to say these make my EVO (short term crush) look outdated.
I voted for the C40. It made the most sense. The bigger screen, and it just looked more polished.
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Amazing designs. I hope Palm is watching...
the rotating would is a nice concept, but if we are having hardware issues with a basic sliding mechanism, adding the screen rotation capability would take the complaining to a whole 'nother level. i thought the mockups were pretty well done technically, however i was disappointed that none of them including the main staple and compliment to webos: gesture area. to me, this needs to be large in surface area and pronounced (i.e. proportionally larger below the screen compared to the area above the screen). look at the current pre and you'll know what im talking about.
great job everyone!
I agree that the gesture area was completely missing from a lot of the entries, and it's one area that makes webOS stand-out from other OS's.
The R1 has a gesture area dirrectly below the screen, where the white LED is. (Like on the Pre+ or Pre2.)
Thanks for the compliment on the rotating screen design. I am the designer for the Twist concept. For the gesture area, I was imagining the edges of the screen would work for gestures. So depending on how it's rotated, whatever edge is facing downward becomes the gesture area. Basically, it works the same as the pre plus, just with a smaller area. Because the gesture area is not flat, but on a rounded edge, I felt the larger area of the current design was not necessary, even with large fingers. I guess I should have explained this better in the concept itself.
I want 'em all!
(especially the toasters!)
palm pre hd with hdmi out got my vote too all awesome designs though that made the list . with hdmi out and wireless blue tooth keyboard ( supported in webos 2.0 ) wont need to carry a laptop pretty much :-)
I'm blown away by these designs and features. I will vote for a vertical or pivot keyboard for sure. I love the software ideas on the Superior. I hope HP is watching.
cool i got a mention.
I almost did a PalmPad where the pad was a real notepad and you could swipe up to reveal the page beneath. Love the napkin though.
voted for VIROX cos i love his watch.
So many fantastic designs... It's hard to pick only just one of these beauties. Here is how I would choose...
1. Palm Superior HD by J. Baragas or Palm R1 by D.Rhyne -
Either of theses I would pick for a HP/Palm webOS Slate non physical keyboard model.
2. Pre 2, PalmPad, and Watch by Virox -
This would make and excellent Pre 3 and his Palm Pad is Awesome.
3. Palm Pre HD by BHughes719 -
This would make an excellent Palm Pixi 2.
4. Palm HD2 by LCGuy-
This would make for an great HP webOS business class device.
5. Palm Twist by A.Wrigley -
Wonderful form factor for a Palm Web/Phone and Gaming device.
6. UnNamed Palm Phone by Jamie Myer -
Sweet slim design would make for a nice Palm Pre 4.
This is how I would pick...
It was a tough choice between Palm Pre HD (landscape slider) and the Palm Superior HD. I would love to see both. even though i am not a fan of landscape sliders I had to go with that one because it seems like the closest to what palm would come out with, and is different. I would love to see the Superior HD but there isn't much needed design wise for a slab palm phone, because the Pixi is the perfect form factor; just need to remove keyboard and enlarge the screen.
However I am dissapointed we have no portrait keyboard non-sliders like the pixi.
Maestro1. I agree it's a real shame there were no Pixi style candy bars.
The pre 2 by virox got my vote, that's what the next gen webos phone be. All are awesome though, good job, I wish I had some of those photoshopping skills!
I like a cross between the Superior and the Pre 2 by Virox.
I really want a portrait keyboard, thats one of the things that I have always liked about Palm.
Thanks everyone for submitting this great ideas. I love the Palm Pre HD. And the idea of filling some of that extra space with widgets is very cool.
Palm Pre HD, by bhughes719
most of the honorable mentions should've been in the running!
I love all of them, but there's a special place in my heart for the Palm Twist idea and the Pre HD. The superior HD's widget deck and just speak are great idea, but the specs are so out of this world (WiMax/LTE Hybrid? 10MP/5MP cameras? 2GB of ram?) that I feel like voting for it is voting for Ron Paul.
Great job to all the contestants! I hope HP calls some of you up to ask you to come on board.
I got no Photo shop skills but my idea is a six inch long cylinder, like a mid sized marker, with a notifications screen, a mike, and speaker. Hold it like a thin phone to make calls. When you want to do reading, scroll out the internally wound 6' flexible screen that becomes rigid when completely deployed.
All the 10 entries look the same... all got keyboard. The palm pre 2 should be the last phone with a keyboard!
Superior HD doesn't have a keyboard. Neither does the R1. And where do you fit a keyboard on the watch. Did you even look at the entries?
if you want a virtual keyboard you have plenty of options (iPhone, Droids, etc
You're right. People should just get the EVO or iPhone.... or just wait for HP to come out with something that MOST people will want. And when I say most people I don't mean Precentral members only. If Palm would have focused on releasing a high quality, touch only phone, they wouldn't have been bought out.
I understand pleasing your user base but if you look at the whole market, you have a much better chance of making it big.
They need to combined the hd2 and the superior hd and called it the Palm Superior HD2. Because I like the specs of te HD2 but it's an ugly phone and the Superior looks really good but didn't say much in the description
clicking on the picture show a ton of extra stuff on SuperiorHD including specs
I think that PreCentral should have made it were you can rate them 1-10. I have narrowed it down to 3 of them I really like; Palm Pre HD by bhughes719 -- and -- Palm Superior HD, by Jose Barajas. I each of these are neck and leck but I think I am going to give my vote to the Pre HD by bhughes719 because I can rally see Palm releasing something exremely similar to this next. The Superior HD by Jose Barajas what mostly about the software and not the hardware but you made me really want that version of WebOS exspecailly that awesome widget idea, you should go ahead and send that into palm right now at http://www.palm.com/us/company/feedback.html.
thanks for considering my entry.... i agree with you... bhughes719 did a FANTASTIC job!
THE REASON I FOCUSED ON SOFTWARE FOR "SUPERIOR HD" IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT SOFTWARE COMES FIRST AND HARDWARE SHOULD COMPLIMENT BUT NOT OVERPOWER THE PHONE. I LOVE SIMPLE DESIGN WITH CLEAN LINES. LESS IS MORE. (lol, i shamelessly pasted this over from my thread in the forum)
I will second that. I personally though they are both head to head but I had to default back to the contest name for the next Hardware phone. 2010 was the year of software battles were before it was all about hardware. Now, this year, it seems to be sliding back to hardware a bit but lets see innovative companies can integrate their software and hardware together!
Oh, baby! Give me a Superior HD, PLEASE?! Hubba, hubba!
Nice job, Jose!
thanks!
Go ahead, flame away, but why in the name of his noodle appendages would you spend time and effort on beautiful designs and not bother to make sure the spelling is correct?
/and I want 2 or 3 of the designs, but went for the Superior HD - the WidgetDeck is a GREAT idea - and I like the specs.
Thanks! i worked really hard on WidgetDeck for SuperiorHD!!! glad you like it!!
virox got my vote.
I voted:
1. Palm Pre HD, by bhughes719
2. Palm Superior HD, by Jose Barajas
3. Palm Peak, by Steve Lipson
^^
That SuperiorHD is so sexy, I don't care that it has no keyboard. I've never stood in line for a product, but if that were to be an actual phone I'd take my sleeping bag to the store.
My goodness. Want want want.
Thanks! i waited in line for pre (and iphone, and storm..... oh and g1.... lol its fun)
superior HD got my vote. I would like webOS 3.0 to either have this design UI or at least give a user a option to modify some of it's current design
HP I so hope you're watching, and I so hope you give credit should you use any of this.
You all Rock!
Palm Twist, PRE HD, HD2, PRE2, superior HD all are great. I love the specs on the Pre HD2 (lc guy) I think that is doable :)
voted Superior HD, but I would like a slider keyboard on it, plus he didn't mention whether it had one or not, so I assume that the picture could be missing from the submission. ;)
i made a Superior PRO with keyboard.... its lost somewhere in these forums..... however it wasnt ready for the contest......
;)
Even though making it into a sturdy physical device would probably be almost impossible, I gotta say I really like the Twist.
yay my toaster made the front page! The first toaster not the one with all the details.
C40=ftw!!
I see a few members that should be on HP's watch list.
I want that Superior HD
SuperiorHD wants you!
David and his R1 get my vote! What an elegant looking phone
Thanks so much. :-)
Palm Pre HD, by bhughes719
That is by far the most fully capable, pocket friendly and productive design. I would buy that immediately. C'mon HPalm, do it!! Now!! On Sprint!!!!!
the palm watch is not going to be a phone by itself, but a bluetooth extension of the pre or pixi, so you are going to be able to check your email and emails without the need to reach for your phone.
Presuming your talking about the Chronos. Your right, the idea was really to put some basic functionality on the watch so that you could read messages, control your music without having to delve into your pockets for the phone. Any application that uses the notification dashboard can be seen and controlled from the watch. It would be up to developers to come up with new and interesting things to put on it.
I wanted the battery to last so it would have a frugal low power CPU and an eInk screen. You wouldn't be able to watch video's on it for instance.
Hagster - Palm Chronos
This is EXACTLY wot I have wanted as soon as the Pre was first announced! Like, it is as if my vision has jumped onto your wrist! Seriously, I need you to go work for HPalm right now. My life would be complete if I could have this wonderful device! I am thinking it will also display who is calling, correct? Man it would be really sick if you went further and through in complete call functionality, so you could talk into your watch movie style. And the ability to open certain notifications, like messaging and email ones. Please make it happen, I would buy eight!
And then I would design an app for it to display swatch internet time! Killing to birds with one stone here.
I really like the options to keep the physical keyboard and yet still swivel the screen to go landscape.
I want the toaster!
If you don't see a gesture area(s), they blew it!
these are all wonderful designs! congrats and my hat's off to all of the contestants. if hp/palm REALLY wanted a phone that is universally-liked by most of the userbase, they should look no further than this contest. the palm pre hd, palm superior, and palm pre 2 concept are all my favorites; i'd buy them in a heartbeat.
Palm Superior HD, by Jose Barajas
I love the Pre HD! Side-by-side apps is a great idea and really shows the benefit of having a physical keyboard. With this setup, you could browse your photo album and drag pictures into a neighboring IM conversation or email, or IM two people at the same time, or (from a business perspective) check on a site in the browser while administering the server from a terminal. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether a 3.8" screen might be too small even with the high resolution display. But this is a very innovative proposal, and I'd love to see it happen.
I liked the two rotating sliders as they seem to give the most bang for the buck in form factor. The specs on the Palm HD2 were awesome but it looked too much like an iPhone. My preferences lie with the phones that maintained the river stone look but added outside the box features without getting too big. If I could pick and choose the features and form factors that I like from each phone I would create another entry but I can
Hey, Adam, great job,you got my vote for your Palm twist it is amazing device and towards more realistic. I want Twist now. Hope Palm and HP are watching here. Or maybe we can use the community power and spread our words to them...These devices are what everyone wants...Honestly,I am a WM6.5 and an Android User, but back to few months ago, I was impressed by the webOS. I waiting the CES2011 now,if there is nothings comes out, anyway I still will get a Palm pre 2...Kind regards from me...Keep it up guys,this community s great..cheers
Thank you all of you, Great Work! I am very impressed! Take care, Jay
Wow, these mock-ups really blew me away! Awesome job everyone who entered!
It seems the software solutions interest me most. Love the side by side cards of the Pre HD and the WidgetDeck on the superior HD. They can add these to WebOS 2.1 immediately!
Hardwarewise I'd loke to have Virox's line of products with the Pre 2 having a 3.8" screen.
My absolute favorite is still one of the first ones published here:
/sites/precentral.net/files/articleimages/1852/2010/09/c40.jpg
Super slim and elegant...
It was published here: http://www.precentral.net/contest-mock-next-palm-device
Why doesn't it appear in this ranking??
That one was made by Derek for the post, and being the guy who organized said contest, he couldn't really enter himself in it.
Mmm.. I see...
But why not letting users vote for it??! I mean, of course as the moderator I wouldn't impose it either... but I'd let users vote for it at least, maybe just excluding it from the awards.
I mean, it's a great job. Really my ideal kind of smartphone, that's just it.
Come on, put it in, Derek!
That's what she said.
Come on Derek!
Add it to the "HONORABLE MENTIONS" at least!
We need HP/Palm to take a look at it too!
WOW! Didn't know how this contest would turn out... But these are obviously amazing entries! I want the one with 1gb RAM yesterday!
Wow, that's what the Palm Pre 2 should have looked like. Great job.
I voted for the Twist: but I ain't buying it! How come you designers failed to put in a compass and a gyro?! I want to be able to point my Pre up to the sky to help me locate Comet Hartley 2, which is currently between the constellations of Auriga and Gemini, to aid in aiming my telescope! And, also, because it was infuriatingly cool when my iFanboy friend did that on his stupid iPhone!!
i voted the palm pre HD by bhughes719. seems imho a very real possibility. btw all these phones are great. man so much creativity on precentral. way to go guys. hope you are paying attention HP.
Superior got my vote...but loved the toasters. Now can we get a Pre that will wash the dishes and take out the trash too??
I like the Palm Twist. I always wondered why none of the new smartphones had a joystick or d-pad that would (at least in my opinion) make a lot of the games much less annoying to play!
For the Slates ...the Superiors specs on thr R1 hardware....Hard!!!!! Physical Keyboards.....Imma need that Pre 2 by virox...but you can put superior specs on that joint too!....C40....Niiiice...Lastly Brents Palm Pad ...want one!...shout out to all entrants....HP/Palm has plenty to pull from with these ideas!!!!!!!
Im happy to see that you liked the specs... i spent alot of time deciding what the next generation of hardware would be rather that copy the stuff currently available in the market... the idea was to make a phone that could be a flagship for longer then just a few months....i realize that these specs would make the price high but i'd be willing to pay extra for a quality product.
I voted for the Twist!!!
Definitely the most outside the box.
Even tho the curve was a little more than necessary, I would go out of my way to start carrying that phone on a Batman belt or something. Use it as a throwing bat star.
Also, I think the Pixi with trackpad/d-pad was slick, too.
I miss d-pads. I guess they're a thing of the past.
That C40 design has been around for months, are you guys sure it was submitted by the original artist?
I'm not sure which one I like the most it's between the R1, Virox and Myers, though I don't like the tampered with WebOS version on the R1, looks very LG circa 2007.
Yes, I am the original artist.
I really like the R1 the best with the slate style presumably thinner and with an on screen kb, screen not too big and not too small. the more memory the better hopefully up to 32 GB of some of the otgher models. That would be enough to move me back to palm hp on ATT with hopefully a croos carrier cdma hadpa gsm spectrum at the same time. A good looking device to keep HP palm in the ball game.
i want an R1
I want the Palm Toaster! (and a Palm Coffee Cup, and a Palm Refrigerator, all of which would be sync'd from the Palm Coffee Maker)
Had to vote for the Superior HD just love it's clean look and innovative software features. For me it came down to the HD2, C40, and the Superior. I really prefer portrait keyboard designs so it was hard for me to vote for a slab design. But the new OS features really opened my eyes to future possibilities for WebOS. Excellent work by everyone, there isn't a bad design in the contest. The twist was also a great idea, I think if it's curves were a little less pronounced and the slider mechanism came with a lifetime warranty, it would of won my vote.
glad to see you like the software concept of SuperiorHD... as you know, software can make or break a company :) Thanks for your vote!
by Virox for me!
Landscape keyboard designs just don't seem like they would work well with WebOS because you don't have the gesture area in the natural place while using the keyboard.