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Casio Announces Verizon Phone via Soft Porn-ish YouTube Video
Gearlog —
This is definitely one of the stranger official product announcements we've seen in a while. In a YouTube video filmed like amateur soft porn, Casio seems to be announcing the new Exilim Mobile camera phone for Verizon Wireless, complete with prominent Verizon logo. This is a slim, waterproof flip phone that has (as shown at 0:14 on the video) a 5.1-megapixel camera on the back. Casio also makes Verizon's Gz'One line of waterproof phones, which we also tested in the shower, but with a much less attractive model. No, not the phone model, the human model. Casio's second video is ... well ... ...
Casio's Exilim Phone Ads Make Me Want To Buy An Exilim Phone Feel Like A Pervert [Cellphones]
Gizmodo —
There's a thin line between effectively using skin to sell a product and making your audience feel like sex creeps. With these vaguely porny Exilim phone ads, Casio is nowhere near it. The information that they manage to get across in the first ad is that the phone is waterproof, has a 5.1-megapixel camera and will be carried by Verizon. It looks like a sort of photography-oriented G'zOne, which would actually make it an attractive phone for outdoorsy/extreme sport types. The second ad is a 31-second gag about ejaculating on a lady's face. [Gearlog] ...
Is Soft Porn An Appropriate Medium In Which To Launch A Phone?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Topics: Mobile Is Soft Porn An Appropriate Medium In Which To Launch A Phone? Posted by Eric Zeman , Apr 10, 2009 10:15 AM [image] Wow. Just, wow. Late yesterday, two videos popped up on YouTube that include a new phone from Casio. The Exilim is a waterproof, 5-megapixel shooter headed to Verizon. In watching the videos, however, I challenge you to actually notice the phone, and not the woman using it in the shower. These two videos are an interesting foray for Casio, one that will challenge assumptions. The first depicts a woman taking a shower. She receives a phone call, answers it in the shower, and even talks on ...
