The Palm Pre: It’s Good For Your Cooter

I was tempted to say that this commercial was PREtentious, but I actually thought it was quite sexy. Of course, maybe it's just because I have a thing for slightly stoned pale skinned white chick

@arke: I hate this new commenting system as well.

I used to like the sometimes silly comments of giz readers, but now its only comments that are "promoted". Sucks.

I liked it better the way it was before. It was like - a few mediocre comments, then a really good one, and so on... made reading the comments a pleasure!

The advertising is spot on. You'll be so confused as to what the hell just happened after seeing this you will stumble stupidly away remembering you have know idea what the mysterious "Pre" is.

Fractal the Meek

@rm121976:

Yeah right so you wanted gizmodo to be like a major newspaper. In which the movies reviews consists in" the best movie of the year" whenever they are reviewing a movie.

I myself own a Pre, but still thinking the ad-campaing fo the phone sucks. It doesn't feel like a ad for a phone, it doesn't motivate you to buy one..

Jeremias

this commercial reminds me of a Cameron Crowe movie, Vanilla Sky (2001). Am I the only one who sees this?

Erasmo Torres

I'll have what she's having.

@johnmc: You're right! Apple does it again! This was REVOLUTIONARILY bad. Palm's is naught but a cheap rip-off.

She's not naked. She's got straps. Unless that's a really bizarre tattoo going up her screen right shoulder.

AaronC-T

Drink the Kool Aid already! Set it on vibrate and when you get close to your "destination" let the good times roll.

aboriginal

@arke: Well see, you type things in the box. Sometimes they end up where you think they will be, sometimes they don't. And other times they end up in one place and then move around a bit later. And there's a button at the bottom you need to push EVERY FUCKING TIME so you can see everything all the nice people here have said.

NurseDave

Her turning around is weird. I don't know why but It reminds me of Rene Magrite's surreal paintings. Surrealism is creepy.

@FriarNurgle: No, what exactly is it that you mean?

NurseDave

@Benguin: They had to put bing in the web browser as well in there. Thank you Microsoft, but you'll need to do more if you want me to use your crappy goo- er Bing search engine

@Curves: I get the impression that because she spoke softly, and her entire body wasn't visible, that Jason immediately jumped to the conclusion that' she's naked and being seductive.

To me, this commercial does more to play on key words, phrases and styles from competitors. A quick count reveals at least 8 to 10 points where a competing ad style, brand name, and/or slogan is mentioned or alluded to. The whole thing is cleverly done, if a bit unoriginal.

I don't think this was targeted at women, per se, but rather anyone who is not immediately drawn to ads that are specically about technology and gadget buzzwords.

Toronto, eh?!, damn, I could have sworn she was from British Columbia.

I gotta a bing bing bing for her, if ya know what I mean. Wink. Wink. Nudge. Nudge. He told them knowingly.

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: That is profound. But maybe we're all hypnotized 24/7 these days

PaddyDugan

@Curves:
Agreed.

As far as the naked comment is concerned, as you stated, she is obviously not naked from the chest up. Perhaps Giz just wanted to believe she was naked from the chest up.

Oh, and Giz, she's not whispering either.

The_Gas_Man

She's not "chest-up-naked". She's wearing a dress or something; the straps are visible.

Kiamat

This woman makes me nauseous. There is something horrible about her.

dysan819

Palm is on their ninth life and this is what they serve up? Jon, really? You can't afford many more of these misfires.

The "bing bing bing" as well as the rest of the commercial is designed to hypnotize you. To lull you into a state of semi-attention, where logos can be easily inserted into your subconscious. Then when you get to the phone store you pick up a palm pre and don't remember where you heard about it, but the name resonates in your subconscious, and pushes you closer towards a possible sale. It does not matter at all that you like the ad or think it relevant to the product.

The reason the "bing bing bing" creeps you out is because you can feel that there is something wrong, you are basically snapping yourself out of being hypnotized. If you don't think it's creepy you are probably "just going with the flow" and fully hypnotized for the logo to get stuck in your head.

@rm121976: GET OFF THE DANG LAWN!!!

soopafly

Is this supposed to be subliminal Microsoft advertising as well? Maybe they figure since Google is already in bed with Apple, they'll try to get Bing on their side.

She frightens the hell out of me. My first thought was that she resembled my mental image of the Dresden Files' depiction of the Summer Queen of Fairie, Titania.

whiteflea

nah, is just spring's way of saying they allied with bing

I saw the commercial and wondered who their target demographic was. I think it must be women, but I dont know why they think we would like it, it did nothing to make me want the phone, although she did have nice hair. And she isnt naked.

definitely wierd - this albino chick needs to go - she is in office building plasmas everywhere but with no speech - uber creepfest

dfetzer

bing bing bing? is this suggesting the pre is getting a bing app? like bing maps, bing search, bing shop, etc? cause now my iphone is looking less and less capable every time the pre gets a new app that does something, besides farting (i know, overused joke). but seriously. the pre is really starting to get more and more attractive, and no, that has nothing to do with this frighteningly ghostlike actress.

Could someone explain this comment system here? Thanks!

arke

@rm121976: there are other gadget blogs?

speaknspell23

@rm121976: ya, nobody takes them seriously, just like palm didnt take them seriously when they sponsored recently? leave, get out, nobody likes you.

beamin445

@Jason Chen: I'm so comfortable talking about vaginas that occasionally, while ordering food at McDonalds, they ask me to please leave. And I'm all like, wtf? You people are immature. I mention vaginas twice while ordering a McFish sandwhich and cherry pie, and you treat me like a weirdo? Pfft...

@Jason Chen: the mature thing would have just been to ignore. The add is super creepy but I don't think about feminine hygene.

Ultraorange

Jason, she's not chest-up-naked, and she's wearing the same thing as in the other commercial, actually this isn't bad, but I think the way it was 'done' was wrong, it supposed to show that the Pre makes people content and happy because their life is completed. A Zen-styled commercial like the other one on Ying and Yang.

MDIFILM

@rm121976: Yet you are here reading this...

@rm121976: Giz is one of the finest gadget blogs around. Who in the hell doesn't take them seriously?

Leonce

@Jason Chen:

:O

He said vagina!

@philibuster: This is the problem with most phone commercials and why people have no idea what their phones do. You either have this non sequitur crap or you have a phone DJing a space party on an asteroid while riding in a ferrari and doing a jig.

How does that tell me anything about a phone?

Dillinger23

If this had been a commercial for an iProduct, no amount of Trapper Keeper would have been able to conceal your boner.

How I want to defile this beautiful woman's body.

Leonce

reminds me of those nissan infiniti commercials - the ones that never showed anything about the car itself.

qrius

Considering I use a Mac, I've had plenty of days where everything just "worked".

@rm121976: Actually they do, if by they we're talking about people like Apple and Palm. You know, the companies that actually make the products we like. Only people who aren't comfortable talking about vaginas think we're immature.

@zenpoet: Well, I guess that's OK, as long as my star brings me back some pancakes. And with some of that really good/bad fake boysenberry blue-ish syrup!

I haven't liked any of the Palm Pre commercials so far. This girl just looks strange.

Haha. Going with the "flow"?? Riiiiiight....

mature journalism here.

and you wonder why nobody takes you guys as serious as they do the other gadget blogs...

rm121976

That is Ellen Feiss crossed with The Borg Queen from Star Trek: First Contact.

Jeez guys, Apple did this *years* ago.

Wow, I thought the EXACT same thing. These commercials creep me out. Head back to the drawing board, Palm.

Brian Perry

@Bertone Zero77: this is exactly what i thought of as well. what the hell are these ad wizards smoking?

@Bertone Zero77: "Sure. Thats why I douche."

Best quote ever.

@bosskev: I talked it over with my star, and we thought yours was getting a bit cocky, so we paid some wrench monkey from down on the corner to take your star out behind the IHOP and beat it until it was so small not even the little prince could live on it. So... that's where its at.

I just want to have sex with her.

mhr512

Yeah, this is one creepy commercial. It just gives off one horrible vibe.

As for the actress, I knew I recognized her from something. Thanks for the wiki link!

I love Fruer. Glad to see this song still getting some use after Vanilla sky.

@bosskev: "Bong. Bong. Bong." is definitely more like it. The director must have liked the hairstylist too, because we see nearly as much of the back of her head as her creepy stoned face.

She's no Ellen Feiss.

@Lite: is on a boat.: Maybe our stars are off having a clandestine rendezvous? Would be just my lot in life that my star is getting lucky without me. Say...is that what Ripley meant when she was singing "lucky, lucky star" just before blasting the alien into space?

I am in communication with Jason. This may be a new commenting system bug, has also happened to Nick with no apparent rationale.

This commercial creeps me out every time it comes on TV. I have no idea what it's trying to tell me, so I guess it's not working.

I have to say, these Pre commercials are terribly written. "The other day I was at the park, and I saw a juggler. And she was good." WTF crap writing is that?

The messages in these commercials are so convoluted and that actress is quite odd to the point of being creepy.

Terrible Palm, just terrible.

KraZy007

Go with the flow....

All I have to say to Palm is if you keep making these ads just let Sprint make them. Then they can have Ericsson make them.

No but seriously get more creative or pay Sprint to do it.

MAAD

I can't help but see the word cooter and think of my programming languages professor, a fairly attractive female, talking about the LISP function "ctr", which she called "cooter".

raleel

That girls is so creepy, after I finished watching the video I got a call saying I'm going to die in 7 days.

TX600

@Lite: is on a boat.: And why is your, and my, stars awol? *blink*

@bosskev: Stoners? What for stoners?

@DPeezy: I meant "tap on" when I bolded those letters I thought it would have worked better.. i don't actually want to.. you know..

Skeetz

@DPeezy:

And nasty!!

@Toastie: I actually don't own an iPhone btw, just wanted to take a zing at the 'just works' comment.

@Skeetz: I think that 'context' is even more disturbing than this commercial...

I can't stand these retarded commercials

You know I liked their last commercial, but this one just makes me feel awkward.

@ub: Seems fitting. Both companies have terrible commercials.

But at least maybe Ms. Hope can now give Lauren et. al some acting lessons. The fake accent guy and the "That's way more money, dude" mother are especially in need of some serious guidance.

Is it just me, or does this girl remind you of Macaulay Culkin?

KendallKollarbear

no way she's canadian, her head doesnt flap around when she talks or anything!

mikereynaga

"Did you ever have one of those days where everything just seems to work"

Yeah, the first day that I got an iPhone.....

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: you just have to put it in context.. i use my palm when my girl is pre menstrual because she won't let me tampon her vagina .

Skeetz

"You ever have one of those days where...it's like you're not even trying?"

Kind of describes the effort put into this commercial. Bing. Bing. Bing. Lame. Lame. Lame. Bong. Bong. Bong.

And, Jason, you just missed posting this ode-to-stoners at 4:20.

Yeah, the "bing bing bing" thing was freaky as hell, like when you hear an old person hum a tune for 40 years ago during a conversation.

Dallifornia

OH! she's a Canadian actress... They keep playing this comercial on tv. I figured it was some sort of albino awarness PSA. needless to say I was scared shitless when it started talking.

Hmm...I though she was going to talk about this...

Bertone Zero77

@ub:
Ah! The rumored PreNatal. It all makes sense now.

moonjhm

Thank you . . . I thought I was going crazy. This ad is just so bleeping stupid . . . WTF were they thinking or more appropriately smoking.

I never thought I'd see the tags Palm Pre and vaginas, tampon and period in the same post. That made me laugh.
And what the hell is this Canadian actress alll aboot.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher

I'll buy one!

可愛い兎

worst commercial ever

rudyfrederic

Palm/Microsoft merger rumored.

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: true they first bring up something pleasant, the feeling of things going smoothly, then they try to anchor it to the palm pre in your brain so that you associate the palm pre with that great feeling of things going smoothly.

@Curves: I assumed the demographic was Cylons and other non-humans. That ad is so pretentious it makes the Boost mobile and Subway ads look good. Ok, well maybe it's not THAT bad...

EdgesRazor

Does anyone else feel like she has that Borg Queen feel about her?

"The Palm Pré... You Will Be Assimilated!"

qphayes

Wow, I really feel intrigued by the Pre's features now, like the bing bing bing.

shoelessone

@arke: Step 1: Cut a hole in a box...

Oh wait, that's for something else. Yeah, as far as the comments go, it's a mystery.

Identity: Secret since 2008

@LessthanZach: Haha, nice use of the sarcasm tag. Seriously, when will they include that in html?? lol.

And @Curves: I wouldn't exactly count you as the typical female, ya know, being on a gadget blog and stuff, but I think what you said really hits the nail on the head.

Identity: Secret since 2008

@dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: Nicely written up.

And @bennymatthew: You should probably wait until you can actually comment to start doling out the hate words. Fair enough?

Identity: Secret since 2008

@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Oh yeah it is!! /s

@Curves: Well her shoulders are bare and for some of the guys around here, that's enough...

Saw the commercial. Didn't know what the hell it was about til I saw the Pre. She's cute. Probably not cute enough to get me to buy a Pre...unless she asked really nicely.

@NurseDave: I think he means Cha-Ching!

@OpenPotion and @dolo54...: So I'll know who to come to when I don't feel like looking at my psych book for the test, amirite?

With that said, I totally agree with you guys.

mysecretidentity

@moonjhm: Very nice. +1

North Star

Doot Doot is probably my favorite song of all time. I think I will get a Pre just for that reason.

reddingofish