iPhone Street-Cred
It's only been out for a few short months and already
the iPhone has infiltrated so many avenues of pop
culture. It's the mobile device to
have, at the moment, and it is showing up
everywhere.
In last week's episode, the
vampire, Mick St. John, tries to use his iPhone
to call for help while stranded in the desert in
the deadly sunlight. He doesn't go up in flames
instantly, but sunlight will eventually kill
him. His phone has a cool diamond around the
embossed Apple logo. Mine doesn't have that.
In this week's episode, Beth Turner is working on a story and goes to the coroner for a favor. He asks her what is she going to get him for this and they both say in unison, "iPhone." Good product placement definitely doesn't hurt, especially when the iPhone's beautiful screen is all like, KAKOW!
As for other places where
the iPhone is showing up, I haven't seen it
myself but word on the street is that the iPhone
not only appeared in last nights episode of the
NBC series Bionic Woman, but that the
character was actually holding it upside down!
One poster on the macrumors forum wrote, "I was
laughing hard when watching Bionic Woman
tonight..."The Bad Guy" Victor had Tom "CIA
agent tied up in Chair...Tom gets a call from
Jamie "Bionic Woman" on his Iphone. Tom at least
knew how to hold and talk into the Iphone,
however when Victor grab the Iphone he held it
upside down and was talking into the earpiece.
Took a bit to notice but I got a good laugh."
Apparently, even the guys on Mythbusters have an iPhone. I guess it really is everywhere. This is of course why I see it as the perfect outlet for iPhone manga. There will be more content read on mobile devices than in print one day! It may already be getting to that point in Japan. The Japanese version of this site will be going online soon. Until then, I'll keep watching out for the iPhone in pop culture, and getting cool manga onto it!
On the CBS vampire
detective series Moonlight there have been
quite a few appearances of the popular hand held
device. A couple of weeks ago, the character of Beth
Turner played by Sophia Myles of Underworld
fame, whipped out her iPhone to receive a call
from the vampire himself, Mick St. John.
In this week's episode, Beth Turner is working on a story and goes to the coroner for a favor. He asks her what is she going to get him for this and they both say in unison, "iPhone." Good product placement definitely doesn't hurt, especially when the iPhone's beautiful screen is all like, KAKOW!
Apparently, even the guys on Mythbusters have an iPhone. I guess it really is everywhere. This is of course why I see it as the perfect outlet for iPhone manga. There will be more content read on mobile devices than in print one day! It may already be getting to that point in Japan. The Japanese version of this site will be going online soon. Until then, I'll keep watching out for the iPhone in pop culture, and getting cool manga onto it!