Recently we have been bombarded with adverts telling us that James Bond loves his Sony Ericsson titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot mobile phone. In the new Bond movie ‘Quantum of Solace’ the phone manages to make regular appearances and with all its technical wizardry helps 007 in gathering valuable information. For example the Bond Lifestyle website helpfully informs us that ‘the photo flash and auto focus enables James Bond to send high resolution shots back to MI6 for quick recognition of his enemies’, WOW! who would have thought it! No doubt the old schmoozer probably has a few hot pics of Olga Kurylenko hidden away on there as well.
With all this Sony/Bond advertising spinning around in my head I noticed a rather interesting article in this morning’s press which appears to have similarities to the 007 mobile phone story and in turn can be seen as a great advertising scoop for Nokia. The story concerns the recent Bond like activities surrounding Lech Kaczynski, agent 006½, during his recent mission to Georgia. While visiting a Russian checkpoint near the South Ossetian border with his colleague the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the pair claim that they heard machine-gun fire coming from the Russian side within earshot of their convoy. Russia vehemently denies this claim.
Putting aside the standard 'Yes you did, Oh no we didn't' bickering, today's story informs us that Mr. Kaczynski, although shaken, held on tightly to his beloved classic Nokia 6310 mobile phone during the whole fracas. Apparently agent 006½ loves the exceptional battery life, knows how to make phone calls from it, can play the snake game and send SMS’s. I should point out that an anonymous source close to the President is quoted as saying that Mr. Kaczynski does not know how to write or send text messages and has no need of a more advanced phone with a camera, video or mp3 player as this technology is of no use to him whatsoever. The source was also keen to add that nobody has ever seen agent 006½ attempting to play the snake game.
It would appear that the Nokia 6310, which has been around for years, is still a popular phone known for its robustness and simplicity and has a dedicated fanbase. Some commentators in Poland are of the opinion that it's a disgrace to see the country's President using such an outdated mobile phone while others say it shows him to be a man of tradition and a man who uses a phone to actually talk to people rather than for gimmicky or fashion purposes.
I shall be rushing down to the Orange store at lunchtime to queue up for my limited edition ‘Lech Kaczynski, agent 006½ Nokia 6310’.
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