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Posted by asmith001 Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

I would tend to think it's a photoshop/image editing mistake more that a different OS running on the device. But, that's just me, because I used to work on ads like this pretty frequently.

 
 
Posted by foundinSEA Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

The obvious...and...

Nokia stopped BB support at the E51 opting for their own pushmail service with the E71 (correct me if I'm wrong). Take aA quick check of the Nokia website

http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/blackberry_downloads.php

So it's not only the wrong OS pictured but false advertising as well. Can you imagine people buying the phone thinking they can get BB pushmail with BB Connect? Although I'd suppose the smart consumer would ask first....

 
 
Posted by ReyRey305 Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Wow whoever did that ad will have some explaining to do for the bosses. Just goes to show how even other phones want to be BlackBerries. There's nothing like it

 
 
Posted by cad.monkey Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

I may be bad for not checking my emails as often as I should, but 791 new emails. Maybe they hooked up their hotmail account... ;)

 
 
Posted by wcihlu Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Haha I saw this too at my local att store. I noticed da bar on top looked like mine but I figured it was just da universal symbols for messages or something cuz I haven't played with da e71 yet. Haha mannn I should've sent this in months ago! I woulda looved haven't a post all for me!

 
 
Posted by graymulligan Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

good post...I really liked da point you made about how you had seen da poster before and should have sent da tip in, and you could have had da post.

Is typing "the" really that much tougher than "da"? It makes posts sound retarded. Folks, we have full keyboards, type like an adult.

God my brain hurts.

 
 
Posted by GargoyleDC Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Nice job.

 
 
Posted by jtwebfusion Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Isn't cut and paste great...

 
 
Posted by gabrielzorz Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Wow, that's amazing. NOT!

 
 
Posted by rosalesj Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

LOL thats awesome

 
 
Posted by whatsnewdoc Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

great...

 
 
Posted by Neotide87 Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Looks like AT&T uses the same company that made the mistake of shipping Verizon 9630's to sprint

 
 
Posted by JacobWW60 Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

Somebody needs to read their messages!

 
 
Posted by ReccaKun Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

wander if we can get some sort of discount for false advertisment.....

 
 
Posted by joslyn2191 Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

AT&T trying to sale a Nokia with Blackberry OS....

 
 
Posted by y0us3f Friday, Jul 31, 2009 925 days ago

The designer thought it was a blackberry , ignoring the Name

;p nokia are trying to make blackberry shape for their phones

 
 
Posted by TSOnTheDrums8892 Saturday, Aug 01, 2009 924 days ago

Ha i feel like such an insignificant member of crackberry considering i posted a thread with something JUST like this about a month ago and got basically no attention. oh well.... http://forums.crackberry.com/f71/wow-verizon-you-ve-really-outdone-yours...

 
 
Posted by micromobile.de Sunday, Aug 02, 2009 923 days ago

hey guys just think about it....
this could be the BAS (BlackBerry Application Suite) for Symbian S60 that will in the first step come to WinMobile.

regards markus

but i think it's a copy&paste mistake by AT&T marketing division

 
 
Posted by BerryBBB Sunday, Aug 02, 2009 922 days ago

As a package-design professional who has done production work for cell-phone packaging, I can verify that this display (screen image) was indeed spliced into the cell-phone image using photoshop. First of all, without exception, all display images are routinely spliced into the cell-phone images. Secondly, this splice was done in a rush. A real display would have a slight black border and a small shadow on 2 edges (look at your phone). When time permitted, we would add a border and shadow to an adjustment layer of the photoshop file, to make the display look more realistic.
Perhaps the rushed nature of this retouching can explain the careless mistake of grabbing the wrong display image, and not noticing that it was from the wrong device. Furthermore, they simply might not have cared. Sometimes, for one reason or another, we were instructed pick-up the display image from a different device. This is graphic-design, not rocket science. Look at your cell-phone box: There is usually a disclaimer that clearly states the images on the box might not exactly match the actual device.
It is also hysterically funny.

 
 
Posted by TrustBuster4000 Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009 921 days ago

There was also a bestbuy weekly ad that showed three different phones (only one of which was a blackberry, a curve) with the verizon theme blackberry menu. One of them was a palm centro.