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Motorola turns Apple’s classic 1984 commercial against them with these Xoom tablet ads

February 7, 2011

Motorola has turned Apple’s classic 1984 big brother ad against them with these promos for the world’s first Honeycomb tablet – the Xoom. Motorola’s message is obvious: now there’s a more powerful alternative to the iPad, and Apple has almost become the Big Brother of the dystopian George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, that Apple showed [...]

Posted in Android, Anti Apple, Featured Posts, Videos | Tagged 1984, Ads, Apple, Big Brother, Commercials, George Orwell, Honeycomb tablet, iDevice, iPad, Motorola, Motorola Xoom, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Promo, Tablets, Videos | Leave a response

DoCoMo Darth Vader ad

November 30, 2010

This is fairly old news by now, but I wanted to post it anyway. Something I guess I have in common with most people is my complete and utter indifference to 99.5 percent of all ads. Sometimes, however, a commercial comes along that manages to catch my attention: usually one that’s funny, quirky, tech/sci-fi related, [...]

Posted in Android, For Fun, Videos | Tagged Ads, Commercials, Darth Vader, DoCoMo, Samsung Galaxy S | 1 Response

Samsung Galaxy 580 Viral Video

September 10, 2010

Samsung seems to be aware of the marketing potential of viral videos, and here’s another peculiar promo from the company that is created to endorse the mid-range Android phone Samsung Galaxy 580. I have no interest in the device but the video is sweet, although completely unrelated to technology except for the name of the [...]

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All the Sci-Fi Droid Ads in One Post: Droid Does

September 3, 2010

During the past year, the commercials for the Droid brand of Android phones have done a great job promoting Google’s OS to the general public – in America perhaps even more so than Google itself. I have personally been pretty impressed by several of them, and I remember that I was very intrigued by the [...]

Posted in Android, Featured Posts, For Fun, Videos | Tagged Ads, Droid, Droid 2, Droid Ads, Droid Commercials, Droid Does, Droid Incredible, Droid Promos, Droid X, Motorola Commercials, Motorola Droid, Motorola Milestone, Promos, Sci-fi, Science-fiction, Videos | 1 Response