I notice people started posting this new phone in the Facebook and wonder if such a revolutionary phone is really available in the market. Have you seen this phone??
The Revolutionary mobile phone-Pomegranate
The name of the phone is derived from the famous fruit-Pomegranate:
Watch this!!!-The breakthroughs in today mobile phone’s technology:
Aren’t you impressed just like me?
1st is the Projector feature where the phone can project your presentation materials to a wide screen size image on a plain wall.
2nd is the GVT function-Global Voice Translator which can translate the your language to the other as you speak on the phone.
3rd is the coffee brewer which means brewing coffee from your talking device.
4th is the Shaving function for everyday use.
and last but not least (5th breakthrough idea) it can sing to your tunes by functioning as a harmonica.
After seeing this introductory movie clip, I checked for the phone’s availability in the market and s**t! It is a bluff! No such phone is available for the public,not even in the making!
It turns out to be a marketing trick to promote the country Nova Scotia! Nabei!
The real deal behind the phone- Promoting Nova Scotia!
According to Wikipedia:
The Pomegranate phone is the latest campaign from Communications Nova Scotia’s Come to Life initiative, the place-branding program of the Government of Nova Scotia. Communications Nova Scotia has been criticized by some for spending $300,000 on the ad campaign, though the website received more than 1,100,000 visits from 201 countries/territories since its launch on September 30, 2008, and they are considering it to be very successful.
But I sincerely hope this phone will become a reality one day, I am looking forward to it!!!
The Pomegranate is a fictional[1] mobile phone, from Nova Scotia releasing in late September 2008. The website boasts a number of comic features (such as a video projector, live voice translator, harmonica, coffee maker, and shaving razor, among many other standard features that current leading mobile phones have), but upon clicking “I’ve seen enough” or “Release date”, an array of information about Nova Scotia and its culture is displayed. The campaign, which included online advertising[2] on sites in New England, is an attempt to attract interest in Nova Scotia and establish it as a desirable place to live and do business.[3]
The Pomegranate phone is the latest campaign from Communications Nova Scotia’s Come to Life initiative, the place-branding program of the Government of Nova Scotia. Communications Nova Scotia has been criticized by some for spending $300,000 on the ad campaign, though the website received more than 1,100,000 visits from 201 countries/territories since its launch on September 30, 2008, and they are considering it to be very successful.[4]
