mobile phone

Well, not exactly... What has Marketing here at EQO been up to for the last couple months? We’ve been making kick a** short films, that’s what – a quadrilogy, in fact. The finished products below promise to enthral viewers young and old alike.

The EQO Legacy Quadrilogy is in no sense of the word "adult" or "mature," so more sophisticated comedy, drama, action and fantasy lovers may be a little disappointed by what it offers. There are however some popular tried, tested and true themes: hot girls in bikinis, a hot guy, a caveman and a trampoline. There are no wizards or goblins, but there is a slightly odd (sorry, “artistic”) announcer guy who does a good job of developing the plots.

To humanize the characters, the films were shot right here in Vancouver on the scenic DTES, amidst an angry landlord demanding we pay him for the use of his badly unkempt backyard. There's not much of a moral here, though, unless one considers it a lesson that, when filming hot girls jumping on trampolines, one should avoid doing so during a 12 year old boys street hockey game, but I digress.

Still not sure what the films are about? They’re about learning how to get the most out of your mobile phone by using EQO, of course. Despite the fact we are all about the mobile social networking and VoIP, we too enjoy some sweet eye candy whilst slaving away (the caveman being an acquired taste, and was my boss’ idea).

Check out Part 1 below entitled, “Hot Girl Jumping on a Trampoline”

You can catch the riveting sequels to the EQO quadrilogy on YouTube at the links below. Feel free to leave favourable ratings and comments, pass them onto your friends or post them to your very own site!

Hot Asian Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtYx7-l6A0g

Hot Guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2wtAfK2908

Caveman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0LPIOfxtvU

Yesterday I came across this Wired article "10 Reasons To Throw Away Your Cellphone", the contents of which I wholeheartedly do not agree with. Therefore, I shall refute each claim and defeat the evil cellphone haters.

1. It makes your life more complicated: Wrong, my cellphone makes my life easier. It makes my wife less angry with me, it helps me when I am lost, it amuses me when I am in a line, it helps me realize what meetings I am missing, it lets me check my email without starting my stupid laptop, and, above all, it lets me call people wherever I am. My cellphone makes life more complicated than sitting alone in the woods, yes, but easier on the whole.

2. It's horribly expensive: Maybe. Thankfully my Nokia E61i super phone is a loaner from Nokia and my bill is EQO subsidized. For me it is cheap, and that's what's really important. For the rest of the world, cost versus benefit, people are shelling out aren't they?

3. It enslaves you to a one sided contract: Agreed, the carriers are screwing us because they can, but without them our phones would just be walkie talkies. Googletel, please save us.

4. It makes you perpetually available: Turn it off. Set it to silent and ignore it.

5. It is boring: Clearly this man has not played S-Tris 2 for S60 3rd edition or taken naughty pictures and immediately Shozu'd them to unsuspecting victims. And how could he cite the iPhone as boring!?! The iPhone is the most fantastically amusing device I have ever come across.

6. It must constantly be recharged: True, but so must all of us. This is really not that bad, I spend more than half my life sitting at my desk or driving, both convenient charging locations. I have never run out of battery, plus batteries these days usually get at least a few days.

7. It knows where you are: If you are like me, and you are, nobody cares where you are. More important is that you know where you are, which is really the true value of GPS on a phone.

8. It encourages stupid people to become a public menace: That I will agree with, cellphone use while driving is bad. Thankfully I have been blessed with the prodigious skills required to call my wife every night on the way home from work. Come on, everybody does it.

9. Ubiquitous pleather accessory shops: I agree, I hate cellphone accessories, mostly because I work in Richmond, BC, land of Hello Kitty cell straps. I am defeated on point nine, but I must go on...

10. It turns you into a public annoyance: Whatever, everybody can remember a hilarious incident involving a poorly timed incoming call! There is truth to this point, but with great power comes great responsibility. We can all do our part; I throw popcorn at, or kick if they are close enough, anybody who even opens their phone in a movie theater.

I believe I have proven by the theory of mathematical induction that cellphones are indeed quite beneficial. Even though I failed to strike down each and every point, I still give myself 7/10.

Q.E.D.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

Yeah, I know it is July--and that it has been July for a quite some time now--but I can't just blow off June. June was an exciting month at EQO. The first month after launching a new product is always a busy time and June was no exception. This first month is always the month were the most bugs are found on any Beta program. This translates into a lot of work for beta testers. Thanks to the efforts of our users, we have fixed a lot of bugs--thanks for the help everybody!

Speaking of EQO users, Philippe-Henri Bazire of Switzerland is probably the hardest working Beta tester we have ever had. He has tried fruitlessly to get EQO on his Nokia 6170. Every time he tries to download the file he gets an error message that says "invalid file type". Are there any Nokia 6170 users out there in EQOland who have advice for Philippe? He would really like to see this work on his 6170.

On the bright side, Philippe has had success with his Nokia 6234. So he has had a taste of what EQO has to offer. For all his hard work, Philippe will be receiving one of the hottest prizes out there--an EQO Prize Pack! Woot!

Peter
EQO Customer Support