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October 12th, 2009

Man drops active Palm Pre in cold beer; lives to tell tale

Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 12:27 pm

Categories: Mobile, Cell Phones and Smartphones, Palm

Tags: Palm Inc., Beer, Palm Pre, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

The man, that is.

Here’s a video of a man dropping his active, on Palm Pre into a stein of cold beer. There’s no good reason to do this, really, but perhaps he was fed up with the build quality.

The video:

I can’t imagine the chemicals of the phone are very safe to drink.

The only remaining question: how many beers can one drink while waiting for the Pre to boot up?

Andrew NuscaAndrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.


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