Ok it's been a while since I bought my Palm Pre, and I've been meaning to write about a few interesting observations about its packaging.  For most people, this topic couldn't be less interesting, but for me it's at least worth a mention.  I heard that Palm hired a few people from Apple to design the Pre, and I wouldn't be surprised if these same people had something to do with the packaging, which, while it mostly performs the function of "containing" the device, it also adds some sort of aesthetic value that's hard to quantify.  Here's what I noticed: 

All in all the packaging was pretty cool and even though it was heavily copied from Apple, it conveyed the idea that if they spent this much time with the packaging, surely the product received at least equal attention.  Yeah, I think it did.