Photos of the Palm Pre in the wild have cropped up today on Twitter (via lo_toney) and have since been removed. The photos show the YouTube videos application and composing an email on the Palm Pre. The YouTube videos application looks similar to the same app that appears on Palm's Treo Pro.
Update: It appears these were taken today. A quick check of the most popular YouTube videos shows a similar list as shown on the Pre.
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written by JoshH347, April 23, 2009
Ohhhhh I want more!! Anyone else have more screen shots or details?
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written by hopper84, April 23, 2009
awesome.. that was one feature i was hoping would be included
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written by .plaid, April 23, 2009
@zeejay's comment: ugh, do you think this means that the Pre miniUSB cable will be white?? Blech.
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written by wynand32, April 23, 2009
That's a mighty clean YouTube interface. Makes the YouTube app on my Touch Pro seem downright klunky. Of course, I expect the Pre to make my TP, in general, seem downright klunky.
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written by MJP, April 23, 2009
Source! Where did these come from? Sent right to Precentral? Who's your man/woman on the inside? DETAILS!
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written by Gib, April 23, 2009
I'm trying to read what was typed. It looks like. "Hi, my name is the weirdest keyboard. I am trying to type as fast as I can. Damn this thing catch typos. I am in love with john rubinstein. Don't dis stupid sh??.
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written by drbyers, April 23, 2009
I'm thinking the pictures might be straight from someone in Palm's R&D Department, since all I see is Apple equipment in the background.
If you didn't know, Palm went on a corporate raiding binge and hired away several of Apple's top designers away to work on the Pre project. Steve Jobs has had a case of the a$$ towards Palm ever since. lol.
If you didn't know, Palm went on a corporate raiding binge and hired away several of Apple's top designers away to work on the Pre project. Steve Jobs has had a case of the a$$ towards Palm ever since. lol.
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written by MajorHavoc, April 23, 2009
Somebody must have saved that video!!! ...I wanna see it!
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written by godsidekurt, April 23, 2009
Looks like the pictures were taken with an iphone camera...hahahahaa
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written by gdog, April 23, 2009
Batter life cant be good on it... do you see the battery meter? It seems to have dropped like 10% from pic 1 to pic 2.
j/k BTW
j/k BTW
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written by Christopher Meinck, April 23, 2009
Perhaps they use the same format used on the iPhone?
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written by waldoppper, April 23, 2009
I wasn't aware the iPhone could use YouTube. Guess I should do my research.
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written by Sincere, April 23, 2009
The Pre really seems like it will be a great phone as far as hardware/software are concerned. But was about the aesthetics, the picture in that phone looks pretty rough. -How well will the casing hold up?
-Will the screen be scratch resistant?
Ohh and why is nobody asking about battery life??!!! Remember when the iphone was about to drop and everyone talked about the battery life--I have yet to hear anything about it from Palm. And I assume that if it were "Good" Palm would market this is a benefit.
-Will the screen be scratch resistant?
Ohh and why is nobody asking about battery life??!!! Remember when the iphone was about to drop and everyone talked about the battery life--I have yet to hear anything about it from Palm. And I assume that if it were "Good" Palm would market this is a benefit.
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written by matty j, April 23, 2009
battery life isn't mentioned as much because the battery can be taken out and replaced with another. iphone can't. that's why it was talked about so much with the iphone.
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written by drbyers, April 23, 2009
The Pre is using the mobile version of YouTube, which uses the H.264 video codec. It's the same codec that the iPhone uses to watch YouTube videos.
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written by jp, April 24, 2009
the battery life kicks butt, it looks like a double battery it's big.. and the battery is removable not like the iphone where you have to send it back to apple.
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written by jp, April 24, 2009
woops more thing if you are afriad of the screen getting scratched they sell
"crystal clear plastic screen films" on ebay and it works great, i have it on one of my touch screen phone's.
"crystal clear plastic screen films" on ebay and it works great, i have it on one of my touch screen phone's.
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written by FuckleBerryHinn, April 24, 2009
haha...rgding the comment that someone before made about Steve Jobs mad at Palm because they hired away Apple folks...i think the guy has it backwards...Palm used to be the one who had lot of Treo developers who were then hired away by Apple when they started with iPhone...if the reverse hiring is now true, its Sweet Karma...hehe...
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written by detroitkruk, April 24, 2009
i'm going to tell everyone RIGHT NOW...get used to it...get comfortable with it...brace yourself...meditate...pray...the PRE battery life will be HORRIBLE...if you've bought PALM stock anywhere on the way up you need to dump it one week before MAY 16th (may 16th being the early offer to come in the sprint stores for those who joined the "ALERT ME" list...the week before that being hands on press "test-drives" and reviews)...i'm sorry...it's still going to be a groundbreaking phone...it's going to draw & quarter the iphone...won't even be close...from the warm and fuzzy GUI to the productivity...but the battery life is going to be PITIFUL.
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written by Christopher Meinck, April 24, 2009
@detroitkruk How do you know there will be a May 16th event for those who signed up for the "alert me" email? You're saying press will get the Pre the week prior to May 16th?
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written by drbyers, April 24, 2009
Who let the day trader in here? This isn't the Bloomberg site. 
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written by sds1977, April 25, 2009
I think it's obvious that the battery life isn't going to be superb, no smart phone has great battery life unless it is an inch thick with a huge battery. Until there is a huge leap in battery technology, it's going to remain that way. Most people realize that they are going to have to have to keep extra chargers around to fill up on juice if they are a heavy phone user. It's just common sense...
This in no way reflects poorly on the phone or it's potential sales.. Look at the iphone, it's battery sucks and people love it. As long as people love a phone, they will do what it takes to keep it charged. A small price to pay for a product that makes your life easier..
However, I'm still hoping that initial tests show the Pre has superb battery life with the new chipset being used in this phone... However, if the battery sucks, I'll just keep a charger in my car..
This in no way reflects poorly on the phone or it's potential sales.. Look at the iphone, it's battery sucks and people love it. As long as people love a phone, they will do what it takes to keep it charged. A small price to pay for a product that makes your life easier..
However, I'm still hoping that initial tests show the Pre has superb battery life with the new chipset being used in this phone... However, if the battery sucks, I'll just keep a charger in my car..
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written by sonisoe, April 26, 2009
mutli-client or that synergy messaging;d or synergy calendar, etc... better be included at the device as demoed.... i brought it up 'coz in Palm's site it says "...it may need 3rd party application...".... i mean after all that great demo, people have expectations right... and frankly this is the best feature of Pre and would beat any phone... i mean the "card deck" to manage multiple apps and the inobstrusive message alert are great surely improving on what our mobile phones already do, but from "a purely new feature originality" synergy beats them all (at least i don't know if any other device can do synergy)....
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written by Mazarin, July 23, 2009
I have a Pre, and You Tube has a very hard time loading videos on my phone. It really sucks, actually. When the video plays, it's nice and clear. It's just the file takes a hundred years to load. Like old dial-up.
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