Way more than you wanted to know about Chris Rock and cellphones
A few days ago we linked to the story of a woman who signed up for cellular service with Verizon and somehow ended up with Chris Rock's old number. This starting to push the limits of banality, but we think we know why he might have given up his number in the first place. Turns out that Motorola is sponsoring his nationwide "Black Ambition" concert tour in order to promote their forthcoming V600 cellphone, a cellphone which doesn't happen to be compatible with Verizon's network. They probably gave him a free V600 (or maybe are even requiring him to use it as part of the sponsorship deal), and since it's a GSM phone he'd have to switch to another carrier to use it. We're guessing that he simply couldn't be bothered to port his number over to his new carrier or maybe just wanted to start afresh with a new number. Either way, we're fairly sure he's not with Verizon anymore, which we know is tough news for everyone out there to take.
[Thanks, Andrew]
