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BarackBerry: More on President Obama’s Uber BlackBerry (Joke)
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Posted by: Al Sacco in Soapbox Topic: Partner/Vendor ManagementBlog: Mobile WorkHorse
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And you thought the General Dynamics Sectera Edge was the most hideous strange smartphone you’d ever seen.
New Yorker Cartoon of the "BarackBerry"
A less-than-tasteful New York Post political cartoon stole lots of press this week, but it was a New Yorker sketch that really grabbed my attention. I’ve been keeping a close eye on the whole Obama BlackBerry drama, and while the President has been spotted recently with a real BlackBerry 8830 device, the New Yorker decided to draft its own version of what a presidential smartphone should look like.
From the above graphic, you can see that the “concept image” resembles a BlackBerry 8700. You’ll also note the lack of a full QWERTY keyboard. In fact, no alphanumeric keyboard exists at all. And the 8700 thumb wheel was replaced with a key to “reset [the] automatic cigarette-break reminder buzzer.”
I’m particularly fond of the button for deleting “announcements of new Iraq self-government start date,” which features Arabic text, and the “G” key that beeps—not sure how a keep beeps, but oh well—whenever Al Gore is within a mile of the White House. Tee hee.
Click on over to NewYorker.com for more on Bruce McCall’s amusing rendering of the BarackBerry.
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