CELEBRITY HOLDING: Stephen Fry doing a great job with Nokia’s N97
Look at this. Not only does he definitely know what he’s talking about when it comes to different types of phone, Fry even understands what makes a good product display hold.
The corners of the N97 are marginally obscured, but the main features and logos are all visible. You can’t get much better than that with big, clumsy man hands.
Here, he’s asking a very hard and serious question about UK HSDPA coverage maps and potential maximum future speed upgrades. You can tell by his expression that’s he’s not meekly swallowing the company line. What a man. What a professional.
We just had to Google HSDPA to check if it’s HSDPA or HSPDA. We got it wrong and had to change it. Different league.
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June 18th, 2009 on 4:36 am
Good performance, but I still can't take him seriously. Anyone who follows Fry on Twitter will know that he has a massive boner for Apple products and nothing else.
June 18th, 2009 on 4:40 am
Everything in that picture is wonderfully awkward.
June 18th, 2009 on 5:39 am
Tie 10/10
June 18th, 2009 on 6:58 am
@AK Anyone who follows Stephen Fry on Twitter knows he has a massive boner for brilliant and ALSO aesthetically pleasing products; unfortunately when it comes to prettiness, Apple are on the whole massively ahead of the game. Mr Fry's said many times he wishes more companies would appreciate that technologically advanced does not have to equal ugly devices, and welcomes decent competitors to Apple.
June 18th, 2009 on 7:15 am
Curious, Fry's shirt is pinkier than the birds.
The over-the-glasses scoff look is fantastic. Are we sure he isn't Asian?
June 18th, 2009 on 7:23 am
i call sneaky duck face looking for his 5 minutes of fame
June 18th, 2009 on 9:37 am
Steven Fry is allowed to like Apple because he's been buying their computers since the 80's. I believe he was one of the first people in the country (after Douglas Adams) to own the original Apple Mac. Everyone else who buys Apple's shit is a cunt, though.
I love Steven Fry, he's awesome.
June 18th, 2009 on 12:09 pm
The woman, I've met her. She's Nokia's main UK PR lady.
Oh, and when I say 'met', I mean she plied me and some other hacks with booze in Barcelona a few years back in return for some favourable N-Gage coverage.
I just smiled a lot, mumbling something like "Yes, smart phones really could eclipse the PSP".
June 19th, 2009 on 2:35 am
Somewhat reticent to admit this, but I have a mac.
But it's an old crt imac I picked up from a car boot sale for a tenner. Replaced dead hard drive and rebuilt and works fine now.
By 'works fine', I mean it runs os9 and is horrible to use so now it sits in the corner looking pretty but useless.
So, does this mean I'm a cunt too? I mean, I know I am (we all are here after all) but not just for that, surely?
June 19th, 2009 on 3:01 am
I think you're only a proper cunt if you order them on Apple's web site for £1499 the same evening as the hardware is announced at a press conference in San Francisco.
Then "Twitter" about it endlessly for the next 72 hours.
June 19th, 2009 on 3:22 am
How about a fake Twitter account from the perspective of a Mac fan, Idiot?
You could fool the world.
June 19th, 2009 on 8:14 am
I hate Stephen Fry. And Macs.
June 19th, 2009 on 2:06 pm
And from the man's blog:
"I am panting to try out the Palm Pre and the HTC Magic and have been looking forward to Nokia’s new entry for months and months. It distresses me more than I can say therefore to announce that the N97 is a crushing disappointment."
"I love what Nokia has given to the market – I was devoted to the Communicator for years – but no one who has used an iPhone would do anything other than laugh, weep or bray with contempt at the N97."
June 19th, 2009 on 3:33 pm
Has he ran out of money? This is a bit crap from him and I'm sure he's being paid by Twitter…
June 20th, 2009 on 5:36 pm
zorg, can you please publish the IP addresses of anyone who even remotely criticizes mr fry, so i can track them down and eradicate their seed from the gene pool? their "type" must not be tolerated. i'll try to keep your name out of any related murder investigations.
ktxby