Charpie

Finally, the iPhone has a true competitor. Introducing the Pomegranate NS08 smartphone. Yes, that’s right. Goodbye iPhone.

The NS08 includes a vivid touch screen, built in camera, email, full internet browsing capabilities, MP3 player and GPS navigation. Yeah, yeah. Boring, right? Well, those are just the basic features. The Pomegranate phone also has a built in projector for displaying large images whether it’s for a business meeting or simply a replacement for your plasma or LCD television you just bought. As if that wasn’t cool enough, try out it’s built in coffee brewer, electric razor, and harmonica.

Ok, by now you’ve gotta be thinking what you’re reading is ridiculous. As badly as we’d all love a mobile phone with a built in harmonica, the Pomegranate NS08 is actually part of a $300,000 campaign for Nova Scotia. The Canadian province has set out to get people to take a look at what they have to offer through some very non-traditional means. In my opinion, it’s very well put together. Whether you’re sifting through the site watching all it’s videos and downloading wallpaper or you simply click a link that takes you right to the kicker, you’re sure to get a chuckle. It may be the kind of chuckle that you give Uncle Larry after a really lame joke, but a chuckle nonetheless.

Regardless, good for them. I’d never actually looked into Nova Scotia, but this at least got me to further check out some of their material. I’ve heard they may be getting some bad remarks for spending over a quarter million in taxpayers’ money, but if you ask me, that money spent will have a lot more legs than if spent on traditional media.