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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 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.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
