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The new Telus BlackBerry PlayBook commercial rocks!

by Bla1ze on 12 May 2011 11:31 AM
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Telus has always come up with some pretty awesome commercials for products but this one, for the BlackBerry PlayBook totally rocks. Not only does the commercial rock, Telus takes the time allotted to show everyone they actually get the concept behind the BlackBerry PlayBook as well by highlighting the fact you can pair your BlackBerry with your PlayBook -- for no extra charge! Kudos Telus, awesome commercial! Now, what can we do about getting Angus a PlayBook?

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry Playbook, Telus
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Posted by anastasiophan Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Awesome! That's the way it should be, one data plan!

 
 
Posted by Zizzzzy Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Interesting how some carriers are trying to strong arm the tether tax while others are using it as a selling feature to gain customers.

 
 
Posted by coalde Saturday, May 28, 2011 362 days ago

Well don't be too sure that tethering is included with TELUS. According to the people answering the phones at TELUS, if you have a BES (not BIS) service with TELUS it is entirely impossible for them NOT to charge you extra (at an absolutely ridiculous charge per MB) for tethered data usage. Apparently it is a limitation of the way the billing packages are setup in their billing system, and according to a Director in their customer service group there are no plans in place to change this...

Makes me wonder just how much they want Enterprise customers who average $500/month with them.

 
 
Posted by Versed Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

To be quite honest, would much rather have an ASUS Transformer.

 
 
Posted by Prey521 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

OK, so go buy one :-)

 
 
Posted by surrealsounds Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

...So buy one?

Honestly, comments like this make me wonder if folks are only doing this to get a rise of of the rest of u---

...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see the game here. Well played, sir. Well played.

SS :D

 
 
Posted by surrealsounds Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?

:D

Very nice, though. Definitely caught my attention from moment one, which is the ENTIRE purpose of advertising in general. RIM could really take some pointers on the concept (not the commerical, per se ) of what was done here .

 
 
Posted by Marvin-13 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

That is not the WHOLE purpose of advertising...one of the main things is to actually ADVERTISE, which this commercial only does for about 5 seconds and the other 25 seconds we are just looking at the rock and roll birds...

 
 
Posted by zensen Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

the last one had sydney displayed prominently in the last advert. this one has ACDC.

I think Australia needs a playbook release :P

The music is great and I like that they used a Blackberry smartphone and Playbook but is it specifically made just for Blackberry playbook? At least they aren't charging that ridiculous fee of pairing your devices.

I know RIM wont advertise it but it'll be nice if people were clear on the facts that you could pair any phone with a playbook and the wording in this helps the cause even if it just showed two blackberry products.

 
 
Posted by eKafara Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Australia really does need a release :) I'm patiently waiting over in Perth. Well I don't know if I would call it patiently considering how much I keep checking the forums...

 
 
Posted by stitch69 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

lol that looks like a benson & hedges commercial =))

 
 
Posted by 3Athlete Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

I'm really not a fan of Telus and especially their commercials but this one is good.

 
 
Posted by TnTimberry Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Ok is it me or do the Canadian carriers beat the US carriers hands down? Come on AT&T see how Telus does it!

 
 
Posted by Crackberry_Canadian Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

I'm guessing you don't know much about Canadian cellphone plans.

 
 
Posted by rapsball4 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

One big detriment of Canadian carriers: 3 years is standard instead of 2 years. You may have to sign for 2 years to get a phone at $50, but we have to sign for 3 to get the same price. We do have really good networks, though - I know Telus says they cover 98% of the Canadian population, which is pretty impressive considering how spread out we are.

 
 
Posted by justineporter Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Love the commercial.
I always like Telus commercials

 
 
Posted by chaoticblissx Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

I've been with Telus since they took over ClearNet and they have always produced eye catching advertising.
Their data plans all include tethering for free! No extra charges! So not only can I bridge my PlayBook to my Torch I can also Tether it the PlayBook or even my laptop to my Torch at no extra charge. Just be mindful of your data plan allowance for data, you don't want to go over because it isn't cheap!! In a near emergency situation its a great feature when you just can't find a wi-fi hotspot.

 
 
Posted by justineporter Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

If you become worried about your data usage you can always change your plan to the data flex plan, it will change the price of your plan depending on how much data you use. To being with its 60 with 1gb. 2gb is 75 and 5gb is 90. Then anything over that is 5 cents a mb. The plan offers quite a bit as well.

 
 
Posted by pmich Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

HAHAHA AWESOME COMMERCIAL.

Almost makes me want to switch to Telus...almost.

 
 
Posted by freeyo Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Great commercial. They do have great ad people. Happy with telus.

 
 
Posted by InnerChild Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Great way to stand out and definitely an attention getter... love those rockin' birds!!!

 
 
Posted by Gamesdmc3 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

If Telus came with them birds,i would switch

 
 
Posted by kayrid Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

Sprint is the same way and thought that was pretty cool. The song is one my favorites and I loved the way they used the birds. I will be showing this video to my friends.

 
 
Posted by jimcmf2 Thursday, May 12, 2011 378 days ago

What ENERGY !

Telus is my carrier ... and they ROCK. You can change your contract plan at anytime you want ... no questions.

Advertising Free Bridging .... They double rock !

The PlayBook is the best tablet on the market today.
Thanks Mike and Jim.

Now our organization wants to give a bunch of these away in a promotion. Do I have your o.k.?

 
 
Posted by NO_CARRIER Friday, May 13, 2011 377 days ago

I'll be honest---this is the second time I actually really looked at a Telus advertisement and took it seriously. The first time was a week ago before a movie... again, birds. (parrots) where one of them steps on a button and a female parrot appeared, then he stepped on it again for a second female-parrot. This advertisement is probably even better because the first one grabbed my attention but I really don't remember what they were advertising other than it being a Telus commercial. This one stuck with me. Grab a BB and Playbook from Telus, share a single data plan. Double-win for me as a consumer. Well done... think I'll take a look at their website now and see what their data plans are actually like now.