4th Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ad: Mind Reader
PreThinkingOK, this 4th ad with Tamara Hope makes her look more wacky than creepy. At least she admits it herself that she's a little wacko in the head. In this ad, she talks about the Pre reading the user's mind. And I assume she was talking about Smart Applications:
Smart applications are those that use your data to filter events and information on the web to give you what you need when you need it. Some examples mentioned are:
▪ A Calendar application that not only reminds you of your upcoming trip to New York, but that it’s 40° and raining there
▪ An alarm clock that wakes you earlier than usual due to reported traffic on your commute route.
The whole idea behind 'PreThinking', is that the Pre thinks ahead for you, to make your life easier (The current Pre doesn't do much of that), telling you want to do, what to say. I for one welcome our soon-to-be Pre overlords.
If you want to see the previous 3 Tamara Hope Pre ad: 1 2 3
[Thanks for the tip, Manny]
Reader Comments (14)
It's good to see Macaulay Culkin working again.
I think anyone who hates on this chick is crazy... she is hot....
she's hot like an albino pig is hot.
this is the worst one yet. it's a commerical for this broad. a 30 second spot that only show's your product for 8 is really bad. And if you've got 30 seconds why wait. Normal people will change the channel in 3 seconds. This doesn't grab anybody. And wtf is she babbling about. These are amazingly bad marketing. And why is it always zoomed in on her face she looks like she just got out of the shower or something. put a shirt on her.
the pre didn't read my mind. i was thinking these commercials should end and here we have a fourth one.
honestly if you have to "assume what she's talking about" what do you think someone who knows nothing about the phone is going to think she's talking about. I mean you already know about these features so maybe you can put two and two together. But the new veiwer the person that does not have the phone or know the phone doesn't know that feature and won't know what she's talking about. Hell i own the phone and i don't know what she's talking about.
LOL, you guys are too much!!
But yeah, I agree, this ad campaign is going nowhere fast. Anyone know who the ad firm is?? Be curious to see other campaigns they created...
These ads have GOT to go. They are wasting valuable money and only show the damn phone for like 3 seconds. I'd rather see bad-ass closeups of cards, switching tasks, calendaring, email, etc. I think Palm is trying to sell the euphoric state that the phone offers but it's not working.
agreed cause honestly isn't that what made you go , "oh damn!" when you first saw it. Hell the videos on you tue of some guy showing the phone are better. And if you aren't going to show your product much you better have some Nike style coolness in your add. And i don't even know if that works when selling a phone.
My impression after looking at these ads is she may be, at least in the last couple of them a CGI composit, and their efforts to make her face "alive" with seemingly random movements is what is creeping people out. If not, I cannot grasp her expressions matching her dialog...
Why is she naked?
This came on tv twice in the last hour. I think she knows what i wrote and is haunting me. She's gonna crawl out of my tv like in the ring and slit my throat with my Pre. I know it.
These commercials work because you're talking about them - plenty of people are.
Do you really want a commercial that just gives you the features of the phone while spotlighting some new band of the moment? Pretty boring and unoriginal if you ask me. Let the Palm website give you the specs and features ... I say give us more of this strange and interesting girl!
Commercials need to get your attention to be successful ... and this one does!
I think the Palm Pre girl is unbelieveably beautiful, and extremely desirable. Maybe it's just my Scotch /Irish heritage or something , but I can't get enough of her. Unusual ? I hope so ! I'm so friggin sick of of the 99% of women on TV that consist of a bunch of hip hop, tarted up whores and "people of color" that this naturally beautiful "white girl" is like a breath of fresh air. Thanks Palm. Thanks Tamara.
@ Hahn there was no need to go there but since you did; considering the majority of the people on the planet (take Asia, Africa, and S.A alone) are "people of color" they are the natural ones not this melanin deficient girl. Guess what i'm. I'm tired of all your crack whored up "white girls" on tv too prancing around will little dogs on mtv douchebag reality shows. feel free to take your ugly albino "white girl" eff-off back to Scotland or Ireland.
Yeah, I can think of lots of artists who got "naysayed" when their stuff came out too, and theirs wasn't offensive either (hundreds of years back). People think "The Scream" is creepy (it is), but it's still beautiful. Picasso had his share of naysayers too. These ads seem creepy because they go beyond just ads, they are connecting the Pre with a way of life that's very non Western (in the midst of western culture), which is GOING to seem odd. IMHO that's a stretch to say that technology can change your life, but it has for everyone it touches, and the ads are brilliant No one said coloring outside the box was ever fun or welcomed. Are they too Zen? When will we embrace life in new ways instead of backpedaling and saying "Oh, we can't cause we haven't ever done it that way before?" The Christian Church is a perfect example of holding on to "the way it's always been" (and I say that professing to be in the midst of that belief system). The ads are cool, provocative, and artsy. It's very eastern, and that's the model technology of the future should follow. I just think the pre is blazing a trail no one ever wanted to go down. For the rest of you there's always those cute ads on TVland. :)