Bell launches the Pre, wishes it had launched the iPhone
Behold, ladies and gentlemen: Bell’s new iPhone! No wait, it’s a pPhone. No… The Palm PrePhone? At this point, we’re wondering if there’s a worldwide (or at least North America-wide) conspiracy amongst creative agencies to ensure that each and every Palm Pre commercial to hit the airwaves is absolute garbage. The good news is that Bell’s commercial at least shows off the phone and its features rather than a painfully odd woman mumbling about walking in the park. The bad news is that it shamelessly and blatantly rips off iPhone commercials. In fact, it rips them off to the point where the agency that put this ad together simply shouldn’t be allowed to work anymore. Ever. The bottom line is that the Palm Pre is a great little phone and it deserves better than this. A little side note: Palm, Bell, buddies… When you’re rocking an App Catalog that currently offers less than 50 apps, you might not want to rip off Apple’s “there’s an app for that” run. Yeah, right now on the Pre there really isn’t an app for anything. Hit the jump for the commercial.
[Via PreThinking]
If they don’t want the Pre, they shouldn’t release it.
If they don’t want the Pre, they shouldn’t carry it.
It is a great commercial. It is similar to the apple commercials but that is by design. It causes an instant comparison to the iphone and people think “wait the iphone can’t do that” “the iphone doesn’t look that nice”.
A little confused over the e-peen fighting. I find the commercial entirely acceptable. Its short, to the point and I don’t care if it does “look” like another commercial. Heck…I don’t care if it is almost exactly like the ‘other guys’. The point is the product ISN’T!
I’m not interested in an iPhone. Tested it and it doesn’t do what I want it to do. Maybe in the next software version it will and I will recheck my stance then…
But right now The Palm Pre does meet my needs.
Fighting over how a commercial looks….sad….very sad.
Contrast and compare. Here’s what the Pre can do (similar to the iphone) and here’s what the Pre can do, that the iphone can’t.
i have an iphone ans im so sick of reading shit from people who suck iphones dicks.. its so annoying.. on a side note how else do u want a company to show off a phone and its features.. zoom completely out or have someone witb transparent hands do the demos .. the g1 commericals did the same thing .. but either way bgr .. find a new dick to suck already its getting old
Bell’s wish will be coming true. Trust me on this….
I saw this ford commercial where they showed a car driving down a backcountry road then a truck driving through mud, and i thought “hmmm, i bet theyre copying that chevy commercial i saw where they showed a car on a road and truck in the mud”
seriously guys? what were they supposed to show? the phone spinning like a top on a table instead of what the phone can do?
like said before, there are only so many ways to show what these increasingly advanced devices can auctually do.
its Not BG him self that has got the hate for everything except apple
Its Zack…. hes the shit disturber…. always hating other devices except for apple
I absolutely love this commercial. Apple fan boys continue to be a bit worried, as they were when Sprint got the first release…..look out Jobs….here comes Rubinstein. GO PALM!!!!
Pretty lame video. I think I like the creepy lady better than that one.
surprised they didn’t just rip off the alien like girl from the first ads. i’ve had a sprint palm pre for a while now and its definately not an iphone. the palm apps are terrible so far and the phone gets slower the more apps you open just like winmo phones. imo android is the most promising os, but the iphone will remain the most supported os out there. pre is nice, i just wish it wasn’t as fat and made out of plastic….scratched since day one
@solly
I know, right? Stupid Pre, doesn’t realize it’s suppose to get faster the more apps running in the background…
Thank you for honoring me. While you’re at it, you should mention that the BB Storm and G1 also copied my greatness.
Thank you for honoring me. While you’re at it, you should also mention that the BB Storm and G1 also copied my excellent commercials.
you hit them because a bad commercial.\
you hit them abain because a good commercial…
What gives..
Perhaps when the pre launches on a good network, or all the networks the sales figures will get higher. I’m not in love wtih my carrier but switching is to much of a pain.
The commercial is nice and straight to the point. I like my Iphone3gs, but there was a time when I was deciding between the N97, Palm Pre and Iphone. Yes, there is Iphone component to the commercial, but who cares. As much as I like my Iphone, no need for every new handheld to have Iphone qualities, in fact, some of them have capabilities I wished was on the Iphone. The Iphone here in the US is king of the hill with the smartphones. The closest competition is the Pre and Blackberry(great for texting). Is it the best smartphone, you can argue that its not. Its well marketed, fun, popular, simple to use and its by Apple.
This commercial is brutal. I’m not fan of the iPhone but come on. Bell paid someone to make that ad? They could have paid some 12 year in elementary school to splice together something that’s better. Where’s the originality?
The woman in the US Pre commercials needs to be shot and killed before she comes and starts probing humans and murdering families. I know she is a serial killer.
@Jno
I understand that the saying goes “any publicity is good publicity”…but this just makes Palm look lame. The average consumer (WE are not average consumers) who notices the similarities (and they are there) will just pigeon hole the Pre as an iPhone knockoff.
You guys are nuts, I think the girl in the commercial is hot.