Pink Blog

I know the LG Chocolate has been available for a while, but I wanted to discuss the color of the “Strawberry Pink” version. Aside from the fact that strawberries are never pink, I just do not like this phone. Having an all-pink phone seems like a good idea, but the execution on this LG model is just not grabbing me. For one thing, I’m not a fan of that shade of pink – it’s bordering on magenta and it’s just too garish for my taste. The red buttons are a huge no-no; why couldn’t they stick with the white that’s used elsewhere on the phone? Even if this phone had the latest and greatest technology, I wouldn’t go for it. There are much more attractive pink phones out there, even ones that don’t cost quite as much as the Vertu.

I’m posting this because I like the concept of a mobile photo printer…seems awfully handy to share with your friends. The PoGo Mobile Printer is an example of such a product, and it comes in pink. But don’t get it – it’s by Polaroid, a brand that has been tarnished by years of shameful products. Of course you remember Polaroid for its instant cameras, so you’d think the mobile photo printer is a good idea – but bear in mind that the old Polaroid went bankrupt in 2001. They have licensed their name to all kinds of crap since then. I used to own two Polaroid JukeJam MP3 players and they were utter crap, made by some scam artist Taiwanese company. Of course they had the Polaroid name, so I thought they were good…but now the name means nothing. So anyway, this item is cute, but don’t get it. There must be other mobile photo printers out there, but they may or may not come in pink.

I don’t know why I’m still using this camera when I could be using this camera and it would be PINK. It’s got 10MP and it’s pink, and it’s got 4GB of built-in memory and it’s pink, and it’s very cool-looking and it’s pink. It’s a GOOD pink. $275 seems to be the going price. This thing is pretty cute…I wouldn’t turn one down.

This thing is adorable! The screen is only 10″ so it’s a tiny notebook. It packs 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, a built-in webcam, wifi with Bluetooth, comes with XP home (wipe it and install Linux imho), oh my god where do I sign up?! It’s $430 which seems pretty high when you consider the Eee PCs cost less and do more, but it’s so cute! It’s pink and it has a design and I need one!!

The Chococlock could be really cute if it didn’t border on offensive. Mostly what I’m thinking about is: why is this thing pink? Far be it from me to question a pink product…except when it’s only available in pink, and you don’t expect it to be a gendered product at all. Sure, the clock can be used by anyone, but the marketing decision involved when making it pink seems directly tied to the fact that it produces chocolate – little chocolate pellets, wrapped in pink foil, are included when you buy it. It opens the doors and ejects the chocolate every hour on the hour. What is the point of making this thing pink? Why isn’t it white or silver or black or green or anything else? I smell something funny.

I’ve picked the most pink watch of the Baby-G line to share with you, and unfortunately it’s also the ugliest. This jelly watch is a glaring piece of plastic that tells the time, has five alarms, is a stopwatch, is water-resistant to 100 meters, and is “tough” according to Casio. It also has “Afterglow” for lighting, which I assume is like Indiglo, although I cannot actually find out what it is like – Illuminator is supposed to be Casio’s version of Indiglo (which is a Timex feature), so who knows what Afterglow is…maybe it’s that crappy little bulb type that doesn’t actually show anything. Although given that this thing is bright pink you’d really need something like Indiglo or Illuminator to see anything. Anyway…the scary thing about this watch is that Casio refers to its “gender” as female. I realize that it’s for women, but I don’t see how a watch can have a gender. At any rate, some of the other Baby-G watches are much nicer, like the oddly-named Sweet Poison, this one that doesn’t have a name, the BGA, and even the Square. But this one is just a ghastly feat of pink engineering.

This is the perfect phone for a little girl. I don’t normally say that pink is only for little girls, but in this case it’s appropriate – little girls do like pink, and this phone isn’t going to have the features that most people would like in their phone. The Alcatel OT-E227 Butterflies phone lacks a camera, music player, web browsing, or any other features we’ve come to expect from base-model cell phones today. It does have a phone book and accepts text messages, but that’s about as advanced as this puppy gets. It does not appear to be available in the United States at the present time.

I’m starting to find all the USB sticks just a little bit pointless. I have a perfectly good USB stick that I paid $20 for (over two years ago) and it has served me well. So why would I need yet another USB stick? There’s tons of them out there, including this Elecom Stylo stick, the only interesting feature of which is its capacity (up to 16GB) and the fact that it has a password lock. Other than that, there is nothing interesting about it – it’s not a humping dog, it’s not shaped like a hamburger, it’s not made by Swarovski. It’s just a dumb little USB stick. Why do we need these? Why?

What I like about this cute little flower fan is that it will look like a beautiful flower when running, and a slightly grotesque, all-plucked-out flower when standing still. It’s two looks in one! Unfortunately the damn thing is $20 and it takes two AA batteries. It must be popular, though, because it’s out of stock as of this writing.

Do you have this phone? I do! My in-laws gave it to me for Xmas. It’s $40 at the Sanrio Online Store. It has caller ID (if you have it from your phone company), all the buttons you’d expect including redial, a blinking button to tell you if you missed any calls, and the wings and wand light up! I think they should have been pink, meaning they would light up with a white LED, but it turns out they light up red – probably more visible that way anyway. It’s corded, I’d rather have had a cordless one, but it’s still totally faboo and we do use it!