This advertising fail was spotted by Giz reader Jacob on the wall at Harvey Norman in Warrawong, NSW. Certainly looks like an iPhone to me, though I could be wrong. Definitely not an old school Nokia pop-port, nor does it seem like the N8. Thoughts?
Update: Eagle-eyed Giz Reader, Ben (who you’ll find in the comments below) has found the image on Stockphoto. Kudos to you sir!
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Gordon
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:02 AMThat looks identical to the bottom of my iPhone 4
Kent
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:17 AMMaybe it’s an add for a Nokia branded iPhone case, which hasn’t been released yet.
Edward
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:19 AMMaybe the shop took a stock photo of a woman with a phone and boot the nokia logo beneath?
Wouldn’t be the first time that has happened.
Tim
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:22 AMSeriously – have you seen Nokia phones? Would you be happy to be photographed with one?
Maybe this is her temporary replacement phone and she’s on a call with Nokia customer service asking when her phone will be fixed?
nabil
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 7:52 PMthen…why the hell is she laughing?…may be laughing at how stupid nokia is
maddogeco
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:29 AMBlame Elop yet another stupid decision to wreck Nokia
Craig W.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:32 AMIt’s a Samsung Galaxy TAB 10.1
Peter
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:49 PMI lol’d, then I srs’d
Richard
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:34 AMIts the Nokia ePhone 72,
but its currently on hold because of apple,
Luke
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:36 AMI suppose its because the Nokia people thought people had better things to do then to pretty much stare at a poster.
I mean that if you were just walking by you most probably wouldn’t have noticed it.
Still funny though.
Ben
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:43 AMhttp://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-12039404-happy-woman-speaking-on-cellular-phone.php
Danny Allen
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:52 AMNice work!
Ben
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:15 PMTo be fair I had the help of http://www.tineye.com/
Bob
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:48 AMThis comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted
Danny Allen
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:54 AMI’ve the perfect fix for you. Press Alt+F4 and bite me.
Sam
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:32 PM+1
CraftyNinja
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM+1
+EXP Troll Kills
(omg, i just sunk to a new nerd low)
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:11 PM+1 and it’s okay Ninja, nothing to be ashamed of. It actually also gives you +1 charisma!
Dan Sam
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 6:04 PMHahaha Danny! Could not have replied better. Nice editorial.
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:15 PMNothing better to do than comment on a story you don’t care about?
Who gives a crap? Some opinionated commenter has a badly written rant at a 45-word gizmodo post. ZOMGREPORTINGFAIL!!!
Whatever.
cayal
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 4:08 PMRage.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!!!
Shaun
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:49 AMI’d tap that!
olearymo
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:17 PMgot a thing for Corinne Grant eh :P
Jon
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:53 AMthat’s definitely the bottom of a white iPhone 3G or 3GS.
Competence fail.
Joeh
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 11:55 AMBecause smiling whilst legitimately using a Nokia just can’t be done :p
Caesar Wong
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 1:24 PMDepends on who created the ad, Harvey or Nokia. If the latter, then they need to sack their advertising agency / inhouse marketing dept.
Stefan
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 1:35 PMOh phone
You make me so happy!
Paul
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 3:53 PMI’d say a reseller (or other) self-done advert. No way a Nokia ad agency would have been that stupid / lazy nor their internal marketing / legal. Other than that, kind of pointless article really – and most ads use stock images, so why the big deal over finding this one? It was already clear the model wasn’t holding a Nokia phone …
Brendan
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 5:14 PMNow they just need to add the Shocked / Surprised lady after realizing how much better the iPhone was to the Nokia, or that Nokia is going down the toilet and the poster / ad will be complete.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=12078465
Aksu
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:38 PMThis comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted
drew
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM‘Brought to you by HTC’
MB
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 1:04 AMNokia doesn’t control retail everywhere, especially in Australia. Most likely the mistake of the distributor or the retailer.
Lillee
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:43 AMFailure of epic proportions
Aksu
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:09 PMYeah, you know it is iPhone for the unnatural way she holds it to avoid ‘grip of death’… :D
Mika K
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 4:18 PMIt is kind of easy to find an image usage with the TinEye.com service.
Kim
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:14 PMOf course Nokia should promote iPhone. After all, iPhone is Nokia’s best selling smart phone (Nokia gets royalties for every iPhone sold).
keijo
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 8:43 PMwho cares something like this? some sad geek who has nothing else to do but look at pixels :D
Boshu
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 9:35 PMIn Nokia UK all managers are allowed to order and purchase a iPhone at company expenses. I worked there in Southwood RD for years and most of my managers were having iPhones. But same rule did not apply for all. So no big secret. Nokian also believe that iPhone is better(?) than Nokia