Black is the New Black

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 2:20 PM PT Comments (9)

MobileTracker says T-Mobile plans to launch black Sidekick. Black iPod Nano, and before that, Black RAZR - looks like black is back, and is the new black! What next? Pink?

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[...] I was reading Fortune and it said Samsung will release something like 6 new phones in black this year. Om also points out T-Mobile’s releasing a black sidekick. Engadget even says sales weighted heavily towards black 4GB nano. [...]

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Charlie Sierra said:

Awaiting word that they’ve secured the rights to the AC/DC song….

Om Malik said:

will not surprise me if AC/DC go the way of Rolling Stone. selling the rock-n-roll spirit for a few thousand dollars :-)

Jesse Kopelman said:

Didn’t Cingular already use “Back in Black” for their black RAZR commercial? I swear I didn’t imagine it . . .

manish said:

yeah, cingular has used “back in black” from AC/DC. saw it a couple weeks ago.

Charlie Sierra said:

That figures, I mean Cingular is in Atlanta, and everything in Atlanta is great, smart, etc…

PS. Note to self, watch more TV before posting on Om’s, tic.

PPS. Has any carrier used a song from the Donna’s yet? Maybe Boost?

Julie said:

Well, Trent from Pink is the new Blog loves his Pink RAZR they sent him…maybe it’ll be on sale to the public soon just for you. ;-)

September 20th, 2005
10:46 PM PT
Nigel L said:

Black is the new white.

September 22nd, 2005
12:24 PM PT
Jesse Kopelman said:

Donna’s would be more Virgin Mobile. Boost is all about hip-hop.

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