QOTD: Product placement?

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Shaun

qotd27What is the most bizarre product placement of a smartphone you have seen? Philippa came up with the question and quoted the Sony Ericsson in Casino Royale- a strange phone for James Bond to use. The Nokia in the Matrix worked well though.

Bookmark the permalink.

4 Responses to QOTD: Product placement?

  1. Sidthebad says:
    February 9, 2010 at 9:36 am

    I was at the movies the other day and there was a trailer for movie where the guy can’t look at Medusa directly. He uses the shiny back of his iPod as a mirror. The iPod logo is exceptionally prominant.

    Sid

  2. Alloafan says:
    February 9, 2010 at 10:29 am

    I remember seeing the Nokia E90 being used by the contestants on The Apprentice – they always spoke into it with the device open, looking really stupid.

    In keeping with the rest of their performances I guess… :)

  3. Alison says:
    February 9, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    Sony signed a big deal with the James Bond people for product placement – I remember there were Vaio laptops and the phones they used were UIQ-based P1s!!!

    Odd for a character that is renowned for his gadgets to use a mass market phone! I seem to remember Pierce Brosnan using a Nokia Communicator to control a BMW in a previous Bond movie too!

  4. James M. says:
    February 9, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    It wasn’t an actual model on the market, but I did get a kick out of the fact that pre-adolescent James T. Kirk’s step-dad had a Nokia wired up on the dash of his classic Corvette in the new “Star Trek”.