The folks at Palm’s have always felt that they are something special – which is why I was surprised to see them step down to the level of actually getting a booth at the Mobile World Congress. But was there anything interesting to see?
Amusingly, their booth is right next to Access Systems:
Entering it was not easy – Palm folk looked carefully at each person and furthermore took business cards of each and everybody who wanted to get in…
Unsurprisingly, the oddities continued once inside. While all other manufacturers had the brains to just set up a few boxen and let folk handle them, Palm still stuck to its hands-off policy:
Three demo booths were set up where a Palm employee showed off the pre – the device was furthermore projected to a screen on the wall:
In the end, the open culture praised by my colleagues obviously hasn’t reached the European department of the company, as they are haughty as always. However, they paid a high price: their booth didn’t attract too many visitors…
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well, I’ve always felt like a second-rate customer with Palm, at least in Europe. I do hope this will all change with the pre – given the fact that this thing should be a global success for Palm to stay in business.