Socket Mobile teases with smartphone concept
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted February 5th 2007 7:02AM
posted February 5th 2007 7:02AM
Socket Mobile, the company formerly known as Socket Communication, has set up an intriguing teaser website that alludes to a mysterious smartphone concept. A first glance at the badly put together flash teaser that greats you when you first visit www.socketmobile.com will probably make you reach for your calendar: we can assure you that it is in fact February, just under two months to go until April Fool's Day (we checked.) There's no way we can take the dodgy animation as a confirmation that this device exists, but if Socket Mobile actually expects to release a device based on the concept image above, we can expect it to include a CompactFlash and SecureDigital slot, and for it to run Windows Mobile 5.0. That's it; that's all the information that the dodgy flash animation gives up, other than the concept image above and the assertment that a second concept will appear next week. Until it does, we'll scratch this one up to a really lame attempt at viral marketing, and nothing more.[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]
Is this a joke?
As lame as you call this viral marketing, it's clearly having it's desired effect. The "rendering" looks, well, i'm lost for words, they can't be serious.
Nice Blog, Keep up the nice work.
Based on the seperation between the corporate site and the teaser site alone, you'd have to assume that this is not a sanctioned venture. The teaser site is horrible. The flash is garbage, the html for that matter is garbage. The actual corporate site is cleaner and professional, and doesn't appear to lend itself to campaigns of such "quality". But then if it's a hoax, why?
First of all, kill the first poster. Second, this wasnt made in FLASH, that is for SURE. They proably uses version 1.1 of Swish.
3rd, this concept sounds like the one handspring had back in 2000, with their surfboard thing, where you could slide in functionality with their slot.
4th? I dont have a forth.
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