Warning: if you haven’t seen any of series 3 of Heroes, this post DOES contain spoilers!
Woohoo! Heroes is back!
Yes, I’m excited… Heroes rocks, as I’ve said at great length before, even if one of the new villains in this series is basically Pyro out of X-Men, and another is a German and can manipulate magnetism. Now where could we have seen a German super-villain who had magnetic powers, before, hmm…?
Oh, and look, we have product placement in it, right from the get-go! From all the cars being Nissans, through to an African bushman saying he should’ve gone with Sprint (American network, to those who don’t know), it seems everything is back to being business as usual.
Oh, and for the phones, it would seem that Samsung have paid a boatload of cash to get their mobile phones up on screen. First up was the Samsung Ace (wielded by new character Tracy Strauss), a Windows Mobile-powered Blackberry-type mobile phone thing. Which isn’t available in the UK.
Ok, forget that one, then.
Oh, and then there was the big, blatant bit of product placement, the one shown in the pic on this blog post, with Nathan Petrelli showing off his mobile phone. Like, right in the centre of the screen. Annoyingly, I couldn’t identify it, but that’s hardly surprising, with it being another phone the UK hasn’t got (as I found out after trawling the web for a bit), the Samsung Instinct.
Ah, but here, we can go ‘nyer, nyer‘ to the US of A, because we have a mobile phone that’s similar to it, but better (apart from the fact ours doesn’t have GPS). The Samsung F480 Tocco. More or the less the same interface, far better camera. The Samsung F480 Tocco’s prettier, too. Well, I reckon so.
To mitigate that, though, the guy holding the Samsung Instinct can fly.
Grab yourself the Samsung F480 Tocco, and be cooler than a superhero! Note, however, it won’t make you able to fly…
