If you watch these two videos back to back, you’d be tempted to think they were separated at birth. Is Palm desperate enough to counteract rumored lackluster sales to literally steal a page from Apple’s marketing playbook?

This Bell Canada Palm Pre ad seems to indicate as much. If you squint and overlay one audio track onto the other (in fact, someone did), you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

Both videos are embedded below. Have a look and tell us what you think: is Palm trying to steal Apple’s thunder? Is that a bit of iPhone-envy we smell, or are we just projecting? And is it all moot since the Microsoft Fune will blow them both out of the water? Let us know in the comments.

Bell Canada Palm Pre Ad

iPhone 3GS Ad

[via TUAW]

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