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Nokia’s Humorous New Ad Depicting Smartphone Culture

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Sep 3, 2013
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TECHi's Analysis

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If you’ve been to a play or other event put on by your child’s elementary school recently, you might have experienced something similar to what the Nokia ad above depicts. Meant to tout the prowess of the Lumia 1020, it does a better job at showing just how close we’ve gotten to ridiculous when it comes to smartphone photography.

The whole point of the ad is that everybody in the auditorium has to fight to get a decent picture of their kid on stage, because your typical smartphone cam just can’t do its job if you’re even a couple of rows back.

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