Ok, so I'm lusting after this Q. I've got a V710 (a phone most crippled by Verizon) but I've always chased the geek phones. I've liked the v710 because it has removable storage in the form of a TransFlash card. A phone that looks like an ordinary phone, but I can store an entire movie on it and watch it.. and loads of room for hacking.. that's geek. Unfortunately the phone is far from perfect and as noted, quite crippled. But that's about the phone, not the site.
So the Q looks fine, and I was admiring the all Flash site.. noted that they used FlashObject to embed the SWF.. checked out the noFlash version of the page.. nice menu and details, but I struggled a little if I switched between selections too quickly... and then it hit me.. there's no sound at all. It's nothing new, but it kind of creeps me out. I'm all for sites not interrupting my groove and respecting my audio space. So I guess it's that a lot of the new sites are so blurring the line between traditional TV ads (with video), and loads of motion and animation, and have so broken from the mold of plain old HTML sites that it seems unnatural to have silence.
budweiser has music.. which is annoying if you're listening to music already.. (btw.. somebody tell them about SWFObject). Acura is silent..
Dodge Charger is over the top..
Anyway, the phone looks tempting, and the site/page is good, but there's something otherwordly about rolling my mouse over a menu that is in nearly constant motion,seeing the phone twirling around, and hearing no sound.
The Silent Q Thursday, June 08, 2006
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