@samhenrigold This is like having Sinistar infecting your phone. https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/i-am-sinistar-33206/

@samhenrigold I forgot how much they thought they cooked when they did the Droid branding.

You know they thought people would be saying "DROID" like they do Kleenex.

@samhenrigold @siracusa As techno played though a bad speaker Invasion ain’t half bad

@samhenrigold This is the phone version of prepending everything with "cyber" decades after Neuromancer was published.

@samhenrigold Bring back the awesome android navigation icons!

@samhenrigold at first I was hearing “brainstorm” but then I heard “green needle”

@samhenrigold the key is after more than a decade, you remembered. Seems like perfect branding.

my first cell phone

an Android smartphone that runs 4.x

Well, NOW I feel old. My first cell phone was a Siemens A60. There were midi ringtones and two games. You could load more ringtones with a data cable or through the crappy web browser that cost a fortune to use on my carrier because I didn't figure out how to set up GPRS yet.

@samhenrigold I totally get why these are terrible, but at the same time, I love them.

@samhenrigold my first phone was Nokia 1610, and I can officially feel my bones turning to dust in the grave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1610

@samhenrigold wow that’s one cursed phone

@samhenrigold
I truly wonder how things like this get past the marketing higher ups that realize how polarizing brand decisions like this will be. Like, you’re trying to put phones in the hands of all types of people from every walk of life, yet you HEAVILY tie the whole brand identity to the equivalent of gaming PCs for 19yo boys. Just…why