About this site
PalmCall and Pinecrest Communications are fictional companies. This site is a creative, nostalgic web-design project set in July 2008 — the era of the iPhone 3G, the iPod classic and glossy “Web 2.0” buttons. There is no real service, store, sweepstakes or billing. The contact and sweepstakes forms do not store what you enter. The sign-up, activation and My PalmCall system does save the (made-up!) details you give it in a database on this server, so you can sign in later; you can delete your data at any time from My PalmCall > Profile. Please do not enter real personal information or a real password, and prefer the encrypted https:// address (a Let's Encrypt certificate is installed), although the plain http:// address also works. Card payments accept only test card numbers, and only the brand and last four digits are kept. Phone numbers are always from the fictional 555-01xx range.
Sister site: Pinecrest Communications (2001).
Phone photos
The product photos on the new phone pages come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, resized for this site. Thank you to the photographers:
- iPhone 4: IPhone 4 Mock No Shadow PSD.png by Justin14, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iPhone 4S: White iPhone 4S with box.jpg by angelcandy.baby, CC BY 2.0
- iPhone 5: IPhone 5 front creation.jpg by Servaboss, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iPhone 5C: Apple iPhone 5c (14865201840).jpg by Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0
- iPhone 5S: IPhone 5s.png by Zach Vega, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iPhone 6: IPhone6 silver frontface.png by Rayukk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iPhone 6 Plus: IPhone 6 Plus Space Gray.svg by kos, Public domain
- Google Nexus One: Nexus One.png by Zach Vega, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Samsung Galaxy S II: Samsung Galaxy S II - Front.jpg by Beamish4, CC BY 4.0
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Samsung Galaxy Nexus Render.png by WilliamTheaker, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Samsung Galaxy S III: Samsung Galaxy S III.png by GadgetsGuy, CC BY 3.0
- Google Nexus 5: NEXUS 5 - illuminated-front PNr°0411.jpg by D-Kuru, CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- Samsung Galaxy S5: Samsung Galaxy S5.jpg by Maurizio Pesce, CC BY 2.0
- HTC One (M8): HTC One M8 (14868107077).jpg by Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0
- Google Nexus 6: Nexus 6.png by developers.android.com, CC BY 2.5
Photography and images
Images are from Wikimedia Commons, public domain or CC0: an iPhone 3G illustration; iPod classic (6th gen) and iPod nano (4th gen); BlackBerry Pearl (with the original carrier logo replaced); Motorola RAZR V3i; Nokia N95 8GB and Nokia 6300; a sunset seascape; Crash Boat Beach, Old San Juan, El Yunque and San Felipe del Morro in Puerto Rico. Phone and iPod images are illustrative; the on-screen phone displays were drawn for this project. Apple, iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry, Nokia and Motorola are trademarks of their owners, who are not affiliated with this project. The logo, banners, maps and icons were created for this project.
