Check out the new ad for the Amazon Kindle, where guy-with-something-that-looks-like-an-iPad can’t read anything on the glossy screen under the sunlight. Beside him? Hot-bikini-girl with the third-gen Amazon Kindle, who can easily read the screen thanks to the reader’s E-ink display. That much wasn’t explained in the short ad, although hot-bikini-girl did mention that it only costs $139. The point? We get it, and we agree to a certain extent. The Kindle’s a better all-around reader than the iPad. Way cheaper too. But if we were sitting in the lounger beside hot bikini girl, we probably wouldn’t be able to read either. Even if we had, like, a dozen Kindles. Oh, and her sunglasses didn’t really look that expensive, but they apparently were.
Apple just released four new iPhone 4 ads that highlight its FaceTime feature. Not necessarily as awesome or as “hip” as you’d normally expect (no rock and roll backdrops on these ads) from Apple, but they did manage to pull out the “aww” from awesome. So yeah, FaceTime’s pretty cool, in case you haven’t checked it out yet. Even if the ads showed that they’re holding it wrong. Zing! (Sorry, we couldn’t help it.) No big deal in this case though, since FaceTime won’t need a network signal (it uses a Wi-fi connection), there’s no danger of dropped calls no matter how you hold it.
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