When the Palm Pre hits the streets sometime this year, geeks and ordinary mobile users alike will finally get to touch the magic, which is great, because we certainly weren’t touching any magic at CES. We got to look, but Palm was pretty adamant about not letting anyone who wasn’t a Palm employee get their mitts on it. This is understandable, because the demo units were clearly more “mock-up” than true “demo.”
A lot—perhaps even the majority—of the Pre’s functionality was missing or not working reliably, and many features were only “working” in the sense of “if I press these three buttons at once it triggers a fake incoming SMS from ‘Jim Coworker’ about that party on Friday.” But we all went along with it, because those mockups were so great to look at. Nonetheless, the whole experience left me wondering, “so when this comes out, what are we going to realize is wrong with it?”
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