Neko
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Dec 13, 2003, 10:07 PM
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Scarborough, Ontario - December 10, 2003 - Just six weeks after its introduction, TELUS Mobility clients across Canada have used the company's unique picture messaging service to send more than 250,000 multimedia messages from their wireless camera phones directly to business colleagues, friends and family across Canada and around the globe. "With our camera phones priced as low as $99.99 and the cost of sending a photo anywhere in the world at just 25 cents, TELUS Mobility has made it a snap to get into picture messaging," said Wade Oosterman, TELUS Mobility's Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
"Thanks to their ability to say a thousand words in an instant, it's no surprise camera phones outsell digital cameras worldwide and will soon surpass the DVD player as the fastest-selling electronics product of all time. With special launch pricing in effect on TELUS Mobility camera phones, expiring at the end of the holiday season, this is the perfect time for business and consumer users to click with camera phones."
Instant Multimedia Messaging
TELUS Mobility's unique multimedia picture messaging service allows clients to send their photos instantly to any e-mail address in the world or to other camera phones, and even add voice or sound files to their snapshots. Clients can also send an Internet link to their camera-phone photo albums to any wireless phone in North America equipped with text messaging capability.
"Our camera phones are being scooped across Canada, and not just by consumers. We've seen fast acceptance by a broad range of business - retailers, real estate agents, product developers, architects, and anyone else who needs the ability to instantly show as well as tell," adds Oosterman. "The best camera is always the one you have with you when you need it. From the messaging we've seen already, it's clear our clients are carrying their camera phones with them wherever they go, and sending photos as quickly as they snap them."
Pictures can also be stored in personalized and secure online photo albums at the mytelusmobility.com Web site, where clients can organize their photos into slide shows and albums, customize them with sounds, titles and descriptions, link them to favourite Web sites or output them on personal printers.
Clients can even send their pictures directly from their photo albums to more than 2,000 photo finishing retail locations for high-quality printing on photo paper, mugs, t-shirts, fridge magnets and more. Participating retailers include Black's, Brunet, Camera Expert, Fotoclik, Future Shop, Henry's, IGA, Japan Camera, Loblaw Companies (including Zehrs, Real Canadian Superstore, Fortinos, YIG and Valumart), London Drugs, Overwaitea/Save-On-Foods, Uniprix and Wal-Mart.
Affordable Camera Phones
TELUS Mobility now offers two cool camera phones, the LG 5450 and the Audiovox 8900, for as little as $99.99. Both are fully featured tri-mode phones with built-in 300k pixel digital cameras and large, high-definition colour displays. Like all TELUS Mobility digital PCS phones, both can also download ringtones, images and games, send and receive text messages, and surf the Wireless Web. For the month of December, both phones are priced at $99.99 with a three-year contract. The Audiovox costs $349.99 without a contract while the LG retails for $379.99; both are available at reduced prices on shorter term contracts as well.
Pigs Do Fly!
TELUS Mobility's camera phones and picture messaging service are being promoted in a national advertising campaign featuring Lucie and Sparky, miniature pot-bellied pigs selected for their engaging expressions, gentle nature and tiny size. The photogenic spokesporkers appear in television, print and outdoor ads right across Canada.
The first of three holiday TV ads features Lucie held aloft by a flying red balloon while the popular 1980s song "99 Luftballons" plays in the background. The print and outdoor ads show the pigs in a variety of humorous situations - such as Sparky wrapped in a blue blanket under the headline "It's a boy!" - followed by the tagline "cool camera phones say it instantly."
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