Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m a sucker for sci-fi. More specifically, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a massive, massive Doctor Who fan. And with good reason, because it’s the best thing on telly. Annnnnnnnnd, not only it is the single best TV show out there, it has mobile phones in it. Like, lots of mobile phones, properly engrained in the plot. As in, ‘Earth is in peril, and we need to call the Doctor, using every mobile phone on the planet!’
Now that, my friends, is product placement.
However, we don’t get to see all those billions of mobile phones, obviously. There’s probably not enough time in the universe for each one to have even a second of exposure (although if you had a TARDIS…) But what we do get are a couple of hero mobile phones. Rose Tyler’s phone, Martha Jones’s new phone, annnnnnnnnd, not forgetting, the mobile phone up on the TARDIS itself.
The question, is though, what mobile phones were they?
Well, scrolling through the video, the one Martha Jones has got is a Motorola Z8. And Rose Tyler still has her Samsung D600 from series 2, the forerunner to mobile phones like the Samsung U900 Soul. And as for The Doctor himself, a Time Lord from Gallifrey, what uber-awesome mobile phone does this alien time traveller have?
A BenQ-Siemens EF81.
Erm, a what?
After all of the Torchwood characters (spin-off, you see) had Nokia N95s, the best they could pop for, for an amazingly advanced alien time traveller is a Siemens? And yes, I know technically it’s not The Doctor’s, I know Martha left in on the TARDIS at the end of series 3, which is why it’s there now, but that’s not the point.
No wonder it took me 18 months to identify it…
Have you spotted any more mobile phones in Doctor Who? Leave us a comment and have your say!