Sprint uses sleight of hand to make Android model run on the BlackBerry OS

0. phoneArena posted on 07 Sep 2012, 10:31

A recent television commercial for Sprint showed the BlackBerry-esque Motorola Admiral and someone in the marketing department must have thought that it really was a BlackBerry because a closer look at the screen shows the Android powered Admiral running the BlackBerry OS...

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1. Nikolas.Oliver (limited) 2 days ago posted on 07 Sep 2012, 10:40 6 8

Blackberry os = ancient

2. palmguy posted on 07 Sep 2012, 10:49 0 4

pl. black·ber·ries.

1. the fruit, black or very dark purple when ripe, of certain species of the genus Rubus.

Blackberry; a phone?

3. zekes posted on 07 Sep 2012, 10:52 0 0

wow thats good

4. networkdood posted on 07 Sep 2012, 11:34 0 2

maybe the phone is modded?

5. buccob posted on 07 Sep 2012, 11:34 2 2

What about being an Android phone with a custom BB theme?

9. networkdood posted on 07 Sep 2012, 15:26 2 0

good point - what is with the thumb down retards?

6. rob5150 posted on 07 Sep 2012, 11:41 1 0

more than likely like in any ads on tv or print usually use a "simulation of actual Screen"
so probably photoshopped into by the ad agency

7. -box- posted on 07 Sep 2012, 14:15 0 1

OMG it's a fraudulent ad! We must now hate motorola, blackberry, and sprint!!!

/sarcasm

Another case of the advertising department making something look bad

8. HardReset posted on 07 Sep 2012, 14:54 0 0

I wonder if apple will sue this commercial??

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