Pope lights up the world's largest Christmas tree with Android, Sony's product placement reaches new heights
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This time a Sony Android tablet was given to the Pope Benedict XVI himself, for the holy task of lighting up the world's largest Christmas tree setup, which is located in Gubbio, Italy.
The tree consists of hundreds of trees growing on the slopes of Mount Ingino, decorated with miles of Christmas lighting. It spans on 130 000 meters square, with a giant comet on the top of the mountain taking a thousand of those in itself. From the press release:
The tree is illuminated every year on 7 December, during a traditional celebration attended by representatives of the world of culture, show business and politics. Benedict XVI will activate the illumination from his apartments in the Vatican Apostolic Palace. He will touch the screen of a Sony "Tablet" with an "Android" operating system which, via the Internet, will transmit the command to switch on the electric current to the tree.
The Vatican press release doesn't specify if it was a Sony Tablet S, but putting "Tablet" and "Android" in quotes smells Android rookie to us, we've seen the Pope play with an iPad before to send his first tweet.
source: News.va via Pocket-lint
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12 Comments
1. bloodline posted on 08 Dec 2011, 09:29 3
Daniel P, why do you even feel the need to mention the Ipad ? whats the point in what your saying ?
3. Dmann posted on 08 Dec 2011, 10:20 2
Maybe the pope realized that he could have only one religion. Catholicism.
4. Commentator posted on 08 Dec 2011, 10:30 4
Daniel, that last sentence makes no grammatical sense.
5. jdrevolution posted on 08 Dec 2011, 10:34 4
And because the Pope used it, it is now ok for all those devout catholics to buy one and use and not worry about the devil.
(If that actually works as a marketing campaign I'm going to laugh really hard)
10. bbstorm2435 posted on 08 Dec 2011, 15:05 0
Yes because we follow everything the pope says and does. How little you know about religion...
11. jdrevolution posted on 08 Dec 2011, 15:44 1
Joke? Missed. But It could still be clever marketing if done correctly. Imagine the commercials!! It would be hilarious.
6. jackhammeR posted on 08 Dec 2011, 11:29 0
Can I confess via face time? Ups, sorry, it's not about ipad
7. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 08 Dec 2011, 12:02 1
" we've seen the Pope play with an iPad before to send his first tweet." iphonearena
8. rendHELL posted on 08 Dec 2011, 14:25 3
Daniel P = ifan??
damn i though this web was neutral???
what was the last sentence for???
to start a flame???
9. rf1975 posted on 08 Dec 2011, 15:03 1
He has the right to mention iPad, XOOM or Kindle fire on his article. He did not tell anything bad here or anything against to Android. I think android fans will be happy if the writer mention Galaxy Tab here. Most of the android fan boys criticism about the article here are baseless. I am a regular reader of PA. In my experience android fan boys are more adamant than ifanboys. I am asking from all fanboys, please don't make bad impression about this nice site (by posting your baseless comments) among young reader who come here to get knowledge about technology.
