Weird n900 advertising, probably not for real
 

I'm sure this must be a fake, but watch if you want ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qREUaelV36c




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woops, wrong forum, well anyway I regret posting this, please remove this moderator

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I loved it. Thought it was a pretty funny way of twisting their slogan around.

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There is a soccer (football) video also...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Titanas#p/u/1/RAo87IHU_40

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAo87IHU_40

Other one, even weirder hehe...

EDIT: I guess I double posted, loaded the page too early before replying ;-)

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You mean the football/soccer one or is there another?

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yes. i saw them too. thought it was a kind of wierd way to advertise too.

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OTOH, it would fit their "we don't do advertising for the n900" campaign perfectly.

I like them. Quite clever.

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they don't reach me. not funny. not clever. a bit embarrassing maybe. make me recall the microsoft spots with gates. i never knew what they were about.

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This is real nice. Will bring people to the phonputer (R), even with no direct reference to it :)

EDIT I was sure I had invented the term phonputer... not really :(
Maemofonino is mine, though :)


See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4bI...er_profilepage

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the comercials are somewhat funny by them missing everything going on around them because they are not 'online' promoting that you are always connected when you have the n900.

For americans...definately odd. But i find diferent countries definately have diferent senses of humor.

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I thought they're good and looking at the production quality and subtle consistencies, they're definitely not fakes.

For those who don't get it, read what ceroberts75 said above :)

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I got that^ from the soccer ad. I could see how having the N900 would have helped accomplish that task easier or kept someone who stayed awake informed... but, I can't see how an N900 would help me fish or sleep for that matter.

...and BTW, I'm from Philadelphia. We find humor in everything, we kind of have to... So yo, humor this. (grabs crotch) :D

I think Benny might be on to something... it may be an attempt to establish this "sleeping man" character to make us want to see what he is up to next. However, like the MS spots with Gates, they run the risk that we might not care... This could happen if the ads are produced by someone who does not truly understand the user experience, imho.

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I see it more as a comment to "if a tree falls and no one is around, does it make a sound".
At the end of the shoot the guy stops the recording, attaches a "fun" comment to it and uploads = if he hadn't been there (with his N900) all the amazing things that happened while the guy slept would never have been seen.

Personally I liked the first one, as it builds from something simple, fish jumping to a meteor passing by.

The second one didn't speak to me at all.

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Oh... so the targeted customer isn't the guy who sleeps... it's the guy watching the guy who sleeps. :eek:

In the soccer one I guess it would be the old man with the dog... and in the fishing one it's just some stranger lurking in the woods. :p

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the fishing ad is great, the soccer ad is somewhat lame..

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The Nokia N97 mini spot makes it totaly clear what these spots are all about :)

I like them

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Can you link to this spot you speak of? :confused:

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There you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4bI...er_profilepage

But it's also on the first page

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I wouldn't mind that squeaking sound effect for my sms\email ringtone

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So it's real? Will they be on tv? I don't think they were that good personally. Not very unique or fun.

EDIT:
Just found this, it's a mockumercial :rolleyes::
http://www.maemo-guru.com/2009/10/ca...trial-an-n900/

Well if it is a hobby project then it's very good quality, if it were officially from Nokia it wouldn't be that good.

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Fantastic adds will do very well in europe for those who getit.

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The soccer one would have been better if the N900 that pops up at the end said, "Thank you for your online ticket order" ... It isn't clear from the commercial how the N900 would have helped him here, since all you see is the same "Sold out" on the N900's screen...

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The tragic part is that if he actually had an n900 and was "online all the time", his n900 would we out of juice by the time he woke up.

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They should have put not shipping yet

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drink!

Turns out the ads are not by Nokia after all, and there's still one more to come...

Maemo-Guru blog post + contest

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Makes sense now...

And to all those Europeans out there that "got" what "Nokia" was doing with this.... "get" this. :p

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I did like the ads quite some. The subtle message (which is not very american sense of humour) and the humour of situations in which the guy falls behind since he is not connected has a message. But again this is not in-your-face style of advertising - which I like.

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And the latest (last?) of the set is online here.

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With the N900, you can easily read the news when such a phenomenon is excepted. If he'd have an N900, then he'd know about it.

Or the N900 simply is a fish-attractor. :D

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Good news for you! There is a fourth part, but that's also the last one. It'll be availible tomorrow.

Read more at:
http://maemo-freak.com/index.php/vid...n-a-nokia-n900

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The very last one? You promise? Yes, that is good news. Ugh.

The wedding one was incredibly lame. What kind of wedding changes venue at the last moment and then only communicates the change via e-mail to the best man? Do these people not talk?

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I dunno, maybe that was one hell of a bachelor party. ;)

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Ok, apparently from the link on there, you get the bride's response, where she's selling groomsman gifts, which happen to be N-Series phones.

Updates here:

http://twitter.com/Sallythebride

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Nah, the football one should have had him waking up to the sound of the match being played. The N900 could then have been used to watch a live stream of the match.

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These are probably going to be only used in viral marketing (and they are obviously working already as people here talk about them) and not in mainstream media. [Sorry if repeating what others have said, did not have time to read the whole thread.]

Actually the wedding one is quite funny to me, perhaps because I had a couple friends storm into a wrong church once to a wedding after a long party the previous night. :D

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Now they're looking for suggestions for the next video - with an n900 prize for the best.

http://www.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?...g=en&hl=en_US#

I am so tempted to suggest a version where I was offline when Amazon finally sent the email telling me they'd shipped my n900 and so I missed it being delivered...

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That was a painful promotion. I sat around for a while hitting refresh on "her" eBay page, but came away empty handed. A neat idea, but it's a good way to tire out a fan.

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I'm having hard time to not to read the slogan as "offline as **** happens".

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Just typed in a good idea for an ad and got about 30 lines down, took out my stylus to tap to a previous part for editing and tear crashed wasting the 15 minutes i just spent. Getting very sick of tear crashing on me when replying to forums.
The N900 browser better not do that.

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Trying midori now to see if it will let me finish a long forum reply.
My idea is they should do an american style commercial centered around "clockwise circular motion to zoom" where people with Nokias (not N900) get a text message or phone call from a friend telling them about the new "clockwise cicrcular motion to zoom" and they take their finger and do it in real life to objects in front of them to create humurous situations and then at the end of the commercial they show a N900 saying, "The new Nokia N900. You control the zoom level" with close up of circular motion zooming in and out on N900.