Sony Ericsson Jalou. Not not not not not
Yes it is. No it’s not. Yes, it is. No, it is not. Yes! It is! No. It is not. Is. Not. Is. Not. Is is is….
etc and so on and so forth. So go most of our conversations with younger folk. Cousins, nephews, friends’ sprogs – anyone with a snotty nose, an inability to survive for themselves and the great joy of still being able to carry round their lunch in a lunchbox – we just always seem to find ourselves getting into arguments with them. And, somehow – through some weird kind of child logic that we haven’t yet learnt to overcome – they always win. No matter how many times you tell them that the Tellytubbies aren’t real, or that Santa Claus is a myth designed to brainwash them into bugging their parents to buy consumer products, they won’t have any of it. Sent on our way, more often than not, with is is is is is is is, ringing in our ears.
And, more and more, we find that mobile phone manufacturers are like nothing but big (bloated, multi-national) children. Because no matter what the truth might be, no matter what anyone with anything above a six year old’s logic could see in a second, you’ll quite often find a mobile phone manufacturer singing and shouting about something that is the exact opposite in their press releases, adverts and promotional videos.
The Sony Ericsson Jalou, for example, is an ugly phone. Look at it. If that phone were a child in fact, it would most likely spend the whole of its adult life in deep therapy, so painful and persistent would the bullying be. Sony Ericsson would have you believe that this is a phone worthy of the world of high fashion. That it’s the best looking phone since sliced, erm, diamonds. That it’s the must-have accessory for all you glamorous girls out there. The Sony Ericsson Jalou is nothing but a terrible attempt to be any of those thing though.
Fair enough, as this Sony Ericsson Jalou review shows, it’s not a bad phone in itself. And some people might actually be tempted by its “distinctive” looks. (‘Hey guys, look at this, look at how god damn ugly my phone is – my phone so ugly it looked about the window and got arrested for mooning…’). But can’t Sony Ericsson just admit that. Well, judging by the video below, they can’t. Not by a long way. Because it is a pretty phone. It is it is it is it is it is. Is is is is is….
