- The announcement is scheduled to begin in about 25 minutes. We're right at the front of the line.
- People are beginning to shuffle in the line - looks like we might be heading in soon.
- The line quickly fell apart as the security guard moved to the door. We're now more of a mass.
- And we've entered! We've got a decent connection for the time being, and we're roughly 5 feet from the stage. Victory!
- It's a surprisingly private event - there are maybe 80 seats, all of them taken.
- 1901 by Phoenix is jamming over the loud speaker.
- The show hasn't started quite yet, but all kinds of faces are here. Name a popular news outlet, and they've got someone here.
- Announcement just came over the loud speaker: "Today's program will begin in 5 minutes.."
- That empty white seat that dude is staring at? That's mine.
- Uh oh - Verizon's network is starting to strain as everyone starts logging in. We might be a bit lighter on pictures from here on out, but we'll try to keep them flowing.
- The music has been killed
- Rubinstein has entered the stage.
- "Morning Everybody!'
- He's discussing their accomplishments over the past few months
- largely their awards
- He has moved onto discussion of webOS and its future.
- "We worked very, very hard on webOS, and its proven to be everything we've imagined and more"
- He shouts out to the third-party developers, some of whom are in the audience.
- So far, they've had 85,000 SDK downloads in 108 countries
- For their aries web SDK, they've had over 20,000 registrations
- They're opening it to the public today.
- He's recapping the highlights of webOS: card based management, Synergy (the notification system)
- He's covering their device history, recapping the Pixi and the Pre.
- The Pixi is "the perfect choice for consumers looking for their first smartphone"
- He shows off the Pixi's custom designed backplates
- "Lets not forget another one of our world's first: the touchstone charger"
- "From our growing line of products, we move to our growing line of partners"
- (Moving on to carrier discussions)
- Pre now available in 7 countries.
- We've moved onto a short video of Pre around the world.
- Still watching the video; it's mostly various carrier executives discussing the merits of the platform.
- New European partner today
- "An obvious choice for us was France.."
- New France partner: SFR
- Both Pre and Pixi will be launching on SFR in France..
- One of the execs of SFR is now entering the stage to discuss it.
- We (somewhat privately) just got word that Palm will be holding an event of some sort after the announcement, which usually implies that there will be something to do a hands-on with.
