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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #30 on: June 10, 2008, 02:27:03 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now!  cloud9:

Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #31 on: June 10, 2008, 02:27:15 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on June 10, 2008, 01:59:00 PM
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #32 on: June 10, 2008, 02:37:11 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on June 10, 2008, 02:27:03 PM
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now!  cloud9:

Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.

I'm going to have to wait till January then.  sad24:
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #33 on: June 10, 2008, 02:44:44 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 02:37:11 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on June 10, 2008, 02:27:03 PM
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now!  cloud9:

Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.

I'm going to have to wait till January then.  sad24:

Who is your provider?  Get on the phone to them and get stroppy - you'll be surprised how quickly they capitulate!
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #34 on: June 10, 2008, 02:46:58 PM »
Does Wenchy do stroppy? I thought she was all sugar n spice and all things nice  whistle:
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #35 on: June 10, 2008, 03:04:27 PM »
Ask Mr Wench!  scared2:
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #36 on: June 10, 2008, 03:12:01 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 03:04:27 PM
Ask Mr Wench!  scared2:

Well except for certain angry041: weeks that is. 
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #37 on: June 10, 2008, 04:24:22 PM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now!  cloud9:

Technological non sequitor, surely  rubschin:  Perhaps it's a RaspBerry?
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #38 on: June 10, 2008, 04:47:26 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on June 10, 2008, 04:24:22 PM
Quote from: Bar Wench on June 10, 2008, 01:13:20 PM
How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now!  cloud9:

Technological non sequitor, surely  rubschin:  Perhaps it's a RaspBerry?

Wot? As in Raspberry Fool you think?
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2008, 05:12:49 PM »
The naming of techno gadgetry after soft fruits, indeed any fruits (I have in my possession various Apples  ::)) always called for a bit of a  ::) if not a  whacky115

When Hutchison Whampoa (sp?) sought to get into the mobile network in the UK they came up with ... Rabbit  eeek:.  I know; I was actually featured in one of the "on pack" pics. The whole thing came to nought but placed them well to obtain licence and market share for their big project...

Yes, Orange  ::)
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #40 on: June 10, 2008, 05:15:23 PM »
The corporate mind is a strange thing indeed as I have mentioned elsewhere.

http://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=3943.0
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #41 on: June 10, 2008, 05:23:33 PM »
Its not just the mobile networks though. If you look at some of the phone manufacturers such as HTC, the names they give their handsets are actually bizarre. According to O2 I own an XDA IIs, but f you look on the HTC site its a blue angel. I'm half convinced that they just have a sack filled with pirces of paper with random words written on them and as soon as they come up with a new product they reach in and pick one out at random.
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #42 on: June 10, 2008, 05:28:02 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on June 10, 2008, 05:23:33 PM
Its not just the mobile networks though. If you look at some of the phone manufacturers such as HTC, the names they give their handsets are actually bizarre. According to O2 I own an XDA IIs, but f you look on the HTC site its a blue angel. I'm half convinced that they just have a sack filled with pirces of paper with random words written on them and as soon as they come up with a new product they reach in and pick one out at random.

Would that it was that simple. Corporate and product branding is big business and they spend a fortune on getting the "right" name for their products.
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #43 on: June 10, 2008, 05:32:20 PM »
Wallabee, Himalaya, Blue Angel? I know corproate branding is worth a lot but they seem bizarre names for PDA's given that the people most likely to purchase them are techies and gadget nuts.
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Re: New BlackBerry
« Reply #44 on: June 10, 2008, 05:38:42 PM »
Problem is that so many names have already been registered that they have to keep finding more and more. They then run the various ideas through focus groups and all sorts of other trials to see which gets the desired response. Often they do not tell the people in the test groups what they are naming but rather ask which names/words make them feel "warm" or "comfortable" and which make them "shudder" or feel "cold", which they find "attractive" and which "repellant" and so on until they can go to the client and say "The best response is for Arsehole" and thus another product is named.
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