America's FauxG Network Has Something to Say

Hey G's used to be gangstas. Ciara said it was for Girl. But telecoms, well G's are the future and they haz plenty geeez.

Guess I won't be worrying about upgrading and missing out on an iPhone on T-mobile this year.

Found on 9-to-5 Mac

iPad 2 Ads Shot & Ready For Post Production

We knew it was coming, but now reports of an ad being shot at New York's Pier 59 by David Sims means that it's officially a matter of 'when' and not 'if.' According to 9 to 5 Mac's report, the photographer used current gen models for the shoot and the new models will be rendered in during post production.

Clearly the new iPad 2 will be of similar dimensions to the current one; goodbye rumors of a 7-inch iPad. Since we know that an iPad 2 is forthcoming, is it too early to get started on the fake iPad 2 rumors? I'm going with full Flash support and Verizon exclusivity.

via 9to5 Mac

Magenta Takes Aim at Apple and AT&T With MyTouch 4G

T-Mobile has a new a flagship phone, the MyTouch 4G. Yes the G2 is a blogger darling, but the truth is the MyTouch is Magenta's flagship phone. T-Mobile took off the gloves in their latest ad blasting AT&T's 3G network as the iPhone's burden. Ask any iPhone user in NYC, SF, or just about any dense city and they may just agree with it.

So is T-Mobile's myTouch and "4G" Network enough to take you away from your sexy iPhone 4.

PS - Lol @ "You can Face Time anywhere that has wifi like an airport."

Is that an iPad?

Twitter user @KevlarMenace posted that very same question in response to Degree for Men's "Chain of Adventure" YouTube campaign. It looks like they made an attempt to disguise the iPad but it's probably one of the worse camo-jobs this side of a Cupertino beer garden.

Anyhoo; we'll let you decide for yourself.



Hat tip to @KevlarMenace.

Shots Fired! This is heating up.

Hey all you PMBs out there, 9-to-5 Mac is reporting that Samsung is so confident in their Galaxy S that they will give any iPhone 4 customer one for free if they're willing to switch. That's more than just big talk, that's calling you out then trying to eat your lunch.

According to the data on 9-to5, each 16GB phone nets Sammy $50 while each 32 GB phone nets them $75; this ain't peanuts we're talking about. So act now kiddies, if you're willing to give up your iPhone, as Samsung's UK twitter indicates there's only a few left.

Samsungukmobile (twitter) via 9-to-5 Mac.

Samsung to Apple: "Helllllo"

Shots fired.

Life Moves Fast - Better late than never.

I realize that I may be late here but I saw this after tonight's NBA Finals Game 3. It's Palm's, yeah you know the guys that had a really great smart phone that nobody cared about because it wasn't an iPhone, latest ad campaign titled "Life Moves Fast."

The 30-second spot is for the Palm Pixie and it features a woman going about her day (listening to Mos Def I might add) and using the phone to track down shoes. She's checking email, directions, listening to music all at the same time. In fact, if I weren't into these sorts of things, I'd actually have a pretty damn good idea as what this phone does! It might even make me want to find a store that sells it and you know buy it.

Full commercial below:

Microsoft Shuns Sexy Hipsters

Recently Microsoft unvieled a spot for their Kin series of feature phones which included a plethora of hipsters frolicking in all their ironic glory. Yesterday, Microsoft pulled the spot over perceived "sexting" message in the ad.

It's sad really. Microsoft pulled the ad for no reason other than a consumer watch group had a problem with a hipster showing too much man cleavage and then sending a picture to an ironically giddy fauxhemian beauty. Hell I would've pulled it because 20 seconds into the ad I had no clue they were sellin a phone.

So the question is: was the ad risqué or was it blown out of proportion?

Update: Below is the original in all it's ironic glory.



Microsoft via Gizmodo