Videos from the Palm Pre SDK’s emulator

Of course, the guy making the videos was so boring and slow that I couldn’t watch a single one until the end, but the point is — damn if that thing doesn’t make the iPhone look like it’s been designed in the USSR.

There are small inconsistencies (sometimes labels are on the left and values on the right, sometimes the other way around; and the “Menu” button on the Maps interface is pretty stupid) but it feels so much more fun and we’ve all managed to forget so quickly how revolutionary the iPhone was when it was launched.

Ah, and judging from the Parallels Desktop-like icons at the bottom of the window, I’d bet Palm did think of letting you disable the network for the purpose of testing your app. Apparently it’s Sun’s Virtual Box, but I can’t tell whether it’s embedded in the SDK, or just used for this video by a Mac user.

via engadget.com