httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkqpul38wE&feature=player_embedded#at=12
I have watched this advertisement for the Verizon Thunderbolt several times now, and all I can say about the actual phone is that it looks hard to charge. Those of you who have seen The Daily Show or a Shia LaBeouf movie in the past three months will recognize this latest in a series of tone-deaf Verizon commercials that present the smartphone as an alien product that smashes trees and evokes submissive awe in rural people. Like that spot—in which a young man waits eagerly for his new phone to arrive and, once he actually gets it, decides to hurl it as far away as possible—this commercial manages to capture my two main fears about any new smartphone:
1) I have to charge it for eight hours every 16 hours.
2) It may provide evidential proof that I am some sort of douchebag.
I don’t think I’m alone in this.