Vodafone's BlackBerry Storm art department all soon to be fired
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted October 8th 2008 1:44AM
posted October 8th 2008 1:44AM
In case you're reading this after these images get taken down -- which they inevitably will be -- this was the official marketing material posted tonight by RIM's Storm launch partner, Vodafone.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is so bizarre that I, for once, was ready to (+) a " FIRST! " comment.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
HAHAHAHA
I don't see how ANYONE in ANY advertising department would think this was a good idea.
THIS . . . .
JUST . . . .
CAN'T . . . .
I just can't seem to get a grasp to reality after this.
I mean, they couldn't be such a55 h0les even if they were trained to do so.
A newjack shows up and demonstrates the STINK of desperation!
Kinda like a Palin stump speech...
the browser is even covering the Blackberry logo.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA^2
Looks like the iPhone killer took off with some property of the victim.
You keep what you kill...I guess.
I find it hard to believe that something like this could happen. I'd be interested in the story behind it.
i lol'd too :)
I think I know what happened here, although there is no excuse as to why it was not check before being posted. I believe someone scaled part of the image without first unlocking other layers or something of that matter.
NEVER MIND. I just saw the OTHER images. This is beyond stupidity.
Can't you guys see? there telling us that the BlackBerry CAN cut and paste just like there makers!
WIN!
Cool ! They just got a better job !!! Steve will hire them for promoting the iPhone !!!!!!
I bet my BlackBerry "safari" it's fake! :)
Definitely NOT an iPhone ripoff.
Forgive me... but isn't that browser also based off Webkit?
Is it even skinnable?
nvm, just noticed the "cingular"
Talk about going over your head. It's the safari browser from the IPHONE on a blackberry - definitely out of place. Unless you're trolling.
Its a screen capture/image of an iPhone display...
Oh god really?
"Why did you leave your old job?"
"Don't ask."
Well i guess this is a better way to get back at your employer than shooting up the place.
yea, my boss was shmugg! :D
holy shit
Haha!
LOL!!! I want one! iPhone killer!
now that is a prime example of how easy copy/paste is.
That was a spectacular comment with equally spectacular timing.
Yeah, and now we can be sure that blackberry has copy&paste unlike the product of a certain fruit company.
that comment needs to go to a hall of fame page or something...good on ya
brilliant
Johan - Yes, because copy and paste is so much more important than having wifi. OH SNAP, yeah the Storm doesn't have wifi. Please go ahead and try to spin that positively somehow, that will be hilarious to watch.
Well if you have a reliable 3G network who really needs WiFi
I just do not get whay some artist are so stupid... Trust me they know what they are doing, they think this is a funny joke, or the one village idiot that got away.
It is so much easier to just do things right.
Of course, RIM should have provided proper materials and those "stock" images should have never been on the artist's buisness computers...
I would fire them if they worked in my art department,
M
I envision is that the artist asked for stock images and he just got the one with the screen off and his boss told him to "photoshop" some screens on there. He probably said that he'd need screenshots of the Storm's interface and the guy probably told him to Google it. Pissed off he put iPhone images on there.
Trust me, the artist won't get any reprimand. The person who approved this (e.g. the boss) will get some sort of butt chewing.
I just do not get whay some artist are so stupid... Trust me they know what they are doing, they think this is a funny joke, or the one village idiot that got away.
It is so much easier to just do things right.
Of course, RIM should have provided proper materials and those "stock" images should have never been on the artist's buisness computers...
I would fire them if they worked in my art department,
M
iPhone copycat! LOL!
Wow, those are some mighty old screen shots. That Installer icon is ancient, haven't seen it forever, and those Safari pictures have been around since before the iPhone was even out. Looks like somebody did a Google Image search. I can't really seem to understand how somebody could do that, I mean, unless they mistook it for an iPhone, but seriously. Wow.
I could have done a better job in ms paint.
@Striker
Hate to break it to you buddy, but your avatar is pretty flamby too, pouty lips.
Good catch, it's most definitely a placeholder and those pics are probably a joke.
@Flunky
I made that in 30 seconds in paint after I responded to him. My avatar used to be David Blaine.
You call yourself an Apple fanboy (the Apple logo in your picture) and you never heard of something called jailbreaking? Installer? Cydia?
My God.
check out the apple background i made in photoshop in 5 mins!\
http://img386.imageshack.us/my.php?image=applebackgroundgm4.jpg
Not sure what I said to get low ranked, that Avatar has been the one I have used for years. I made it in photoshop, all I do is change the picture, which is a picture of me. Works perfectly in Forums, has my online name, a pictur eof me, and a logo of my favorite company, which is what an Avatar is supposed to be. If you don't like it, than maybe you have some self confidence issues that you should talk to somebody about. Low ranking somebody, making fun of them, and then spending time to make your icon look just like mine is something a 5th grader would do. As as far as the jailbreak thing, maybe you should read, I said I hadn't seen it in awhile, I said that because the icon in the picture is the original Installer icon from more than a year ago, they changed it.
Would fire them if it was completely their own fault. Sometimes it's the project manager or the person above them that comes up with bright ideas and the artists need to endure them. "yes sir... right away..."
I take it that is what commenters meant by 'just another iPhone clone'.
ok iphone fanboys are allowed to comment on this ONE post
I just went to the Vodafone site and could not find a single link to that page, and after clicking on the link from here, it seems most of the navigation links are broken and the entire page is overall just a template or placeholder. The question is how this page was found, I don't think it was meant for public eyes just yet.