Late Night with the Palm Pre (and Jimmy and Josh and ?uestlove)

If you were Jimmy Fallon putting together your wish list of must-have first guests for your new late-night TV show, who'd be at the top of your list? You'd probably want your fellow SNL-alum Tiny Fey, maybe Robert De Niro, perhaps a Drew Barrymore -- but if you really wanted to rock the Twittersphere, you'd want to snag the elusive Palm Pre as one of your first guests.

OK, we were thrilled when Jimmy did a video bit about the Pre with Engadget editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky at CES in January. And we were even more delighted to help Josh and Jimmy showcase the Pre to the late-night TV audience last night.

Not only was the Pre a hit in its late-night talk show debut -- with drummer ?uestlove of The Roots, the house band for the show, adding his thumbs up -- but the Touchstone charger also got in on the love-fest. And once the Pre hit the airwaves, the Twitter action went through the roof, with Palm, @jimmyfallon, and #joshtops outpacing even the "octomom." Engadget has the same segment here, along with an exclusive backstage photo and discussion about the pros and cons of high-fiving in the Topolsky household.

Jon Zilber

Comments

[CB]

Call me when the Pre comes with a landscape keypad and when they figure out how to stop the phone from sliding off the Touchstone.

[Tiago S.]

I have two questions about Pre:
- Why aren't Ogg/Theora and FLAC supported?
- My contacts are stored in the SIM card. Does Pre also fails like almost all modern phone in directly accessing these contacts in the contact list? For instance, in a modern Nokia phone, in other to access these contacts you have to go to the contact list, then press "SIM directory" > "SIM contacts" or something, then I get the list. When someone calls/texts me, I get no information about that person. It plain sucks.

Thank you, and good luck with Pre.

[Alex H. at Edelman for Palm]

Tiago -- great questions. Hop on over to our developer blog to get your answers.

http://developer.palm.com/

[Alex H. at Edelman for Palm]

CB -- What's your number? The Pre won't slide off the Touchstone when the product is released.

[Paul Klein]

I understand that the Pre will not have HotSync support, will there still be a way to sync with Outlook other than thru an Exchage Sever?

[Alex H. at Edelman for Palm]

Paul -- we'll be ready to share more about this closer to availability, which is still first half of this year

[MJ]

I am siked about the Pre..but why? why? Sprint. Will I be able to get an unlocked pre and use my same mobile provider. I love the Palm Treo and all the Palm products. My Treo 680 stopped working and I was given the Iphone and HATE IT! I want my Palm back but you have stopped the treo 680 and I do not want to go to sprint. Well now the Pre is coming soon and I WANNA Pre :() but NOT with Sprint. They are awful. So tell me will I be able to get a Pre unlocked. Please let me know. I will have to suffer longer with this iphone. UGH!

[evanathome]

Will the PRE be available to VERIZON Wireless subscribers?

[vanessa]

I just wanna know when the Hell ill be able to git my damn Pre.... Im extremely impatient and I just Need IT NOW!!! grrr..

[Leonard Leonard]

I am impressed with the fact that the Palm Pre has a real keyboard, something which the iPhone does not have. I usually keep up with my correspondances on the subway. But I am concerned about the price point. If the Pre is going to be more expensive than the iPhone I may have to consider the iPhone, because of its large array of applications (I always dreamed of having a subway map on my PDA). If the Pre wants to be competitive with the iPhone, I think that it would be wise for it to have a price point similar to the iPhone if not less.

I invite your thoughts on the matter