2009
Samsung Genio Touch S3650. Fizzy brown
Good old Blighty… what is it good for? Well, very little, if we’re honest. But one thing we can at least be proud of one our shores is our advertising, because without doubt we make the least terrible, the least vomit-inducing ads in the whole wide world.
Take the example below (sick bags at the ready) for the Samsung Genio Touch. What an absolute beauty. We can imagine the creative pitch to the client now: So, right, yeah, like, totally imagine, like, the phone – the phone is like the star here, so there’s hundreds of them right – and then like, imagine one of those twisty tube things, you know, like, from when you were a kid, with the glitter and the spinning, you know – a kaleidoscope! Yeah! That’s what they’re called – and like, that’s how the add works. Yeah? Like spinning and mirrors and stuff. Yeah.
Thanks for that, Creative Mind of the Year 2009. And look, look what else we have, some young people jumping around in water and so on. Gosh, this phone really is vibrant and playful, and I think it will fit into my active yet budget conscious lifestyle. I will appreciate the range of social media applications, engaging with them in order to facilitate an ‘always on’ sense of entertainment…
Who’d have thought it, the ad actually works. Or it would do if we’d been lobotomised at the age of twelve and then fed nothing but Big Macs and Coke (the fizzy brown stuff, not the good stuff).
All of which is a shame because the Samsung Genio Touch is – as budget phones go – pretty darn decent. Or favourite TouchWiz interface is onboard, as is some nice haptic feedback from the touchscreen and it’s all wrapped up in a dinky, nifty design. What more can we say… apart from go have a gander at this Samsung Genio Touch review, or at the official press release.
So the summer is coming to an end, yet we seem to be enjoying some rare sunshine here in the UK. To celebrate this rarity we have decided to put together a list of our 8 favourite mobile phones and the best deals that are available with them. We might make this a regular feature, it just depends how useful you guys think it is. So let’s get started.
If you thought Bluetooth headsets – staple ear decoration for mini-cab drivers, construction site foremen and, well, all ****s who think that a flashing piece of plastic hooked into their ear hole looks good – were painful to be around in your day to day life, just you wait until the next mini revolution in mobile phones happens: watchphones.
Preston! Cool! That’s where Peter Kay’s from, right?
Like someone who spots trains, collects stamps or meticulously kills and eats their victims, we take a special pride in our foibles. One of the main, of which, is the practice of reading between the lines of press releases and pages like
If the Cold War taught us anything – which, thinking about it, it really should have done – it’s that two or more powers squaring up to each other and building more and more and bigger and better weapons and waving them around and screaming at each other whilst hovering fingers dangerously in the direction of the ‘launch’ buttons doesn’t really get us anywhere. Except mired in a world of mutual distrust, and of course saddled with trillions of dollars worth of debt.
Google has a vendetta against the home computer it seems. What with the rumours about the Gdrive growing by the day (the thing that stores all your files in some distant Google land instead of in your home, so you can access them wherever you are in the world), and now with the recent spate of Android phones announced, you’ll soon be able to do all your daily Googling from the comfort of, well, anywhere you can whip out your phone.
We like phones that aren’t pretentious. We like phones that don’t pretend to be more than what they are. And we like phones that feel well-designed from top to bottom and from inside to you.
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