Crazy Television: Mobile Phone Idol in China

I visited my old home town Beijing last week. Eating well, seeing old friends, trying to express myself with rusty Chinese. On Sunday I was watching TV and from CCTV2 there was a weird program. It was like a idols competition of mobile phones. Jury included a professor from Xinhua university. So this was not about people competing, this was a phone competition. The biggest difference to the real Idols show was that everything was polished, no harsh comments, no negative feedback. I wonder how much phone companies have paid to get in.

One S60 device was in the competition. It was Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N93. I’m not sure what it won but something I guess. Representative of Nokia was collecting a price on a stage.

Later in the evening same program format for used for digital cameras.

So weird. I hope this concept is not going to spread around the globe. At least replacement for Simon is needed. Mobile phone judge Simon should shoot down bad usability and infernal mechanical design for example.

Source: MRKTNGman

Definitely makes you raise your eyebrows. Speaking about television we don’t get here in the states, where is Top Gear and Fifth Gear?! Why must the BBC make me pirate these two fabulous shows just because they aren’t available in my home land.