Truth in advertising: the woman in the stock photo you see above is delighted with her iPhone. We’re not sure what Nokia had to do with any of that, but that didn’t stop them from taking the image and slapping their logo on it. Ha! You wish.
[via Gizmodo.au]
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
31 responses to “Nokia Tries To Pretend An iPhone Is One Of Their Phones In Official Advertising Campaign”
shadey!!
Seriously? An all things Apple blog can’t identify one of their products correctly? That is obviously an iPhone 3G/3GS as it white on the bottom, not gray like the metal band on the iPhone 4. Please take more an 2 seconds to look at the photo before posting an article.
Somebody made a boo-boo.Â
hallo
This is a classic example of no or inept proofing in the art department. Of course, it seems to mirror Nokia’s lack of attention to detail in other areas. The former king of mobile phones is losing market share by the short ton while Apple is becoming the most capitalized and profitable company in the world.
that’s an iphone 3G/3gs… not iphone 4.
It’s not an inept art department, it’s a client being cheap and not opting for a photoshoot.
Well, that IS clever.
Cannot beat them …
Uh huh. You don’t have a gf.
haha so fake
Burn!
Nope. I own a graphic design company and it’s always the designer’s and client’s job to make sure whatever images are used are correct. The client isn’t necessarily cheap either. Stock photos are used by design companies and departments around the world because it is MUCH faster and more feasible to use stock images to meet tight deadlines. I’m also a professional photographer, and the amount of work involved in selecting and hiring models, setting up lighting and doing the shoot can take days of preparation–and sometimes this just isn’t feasible when working on a short deadline.
All that said, the designer should have looked closely at the stock image and Photoshopped in the bottom of a Nokia phone instead. It may also be that the designer was completely unaware of what an iPhone looked like on the bottom, but the heads of marketing should have spotted this.
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EPIC!!
dude I’m pretty sure that’s an iPhone4
That’s an iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 is the only iPhone with the seamless stainless steel ban.