Drowning in cute – save me from the Hello Kitty mobile phone
I think I’m going to get whined at forever. I may have accidentally mentioned to an extremely impressionable woman, who should know better, that there’s supposed to be a Hello Kitty mobile phone coming to the UK at some point (mind you, there has been since May, when the licensing deal was signed, according to Mobile News).
I’m never going to hear the end of this, am I? All the extensive (well, extensive-ish) knowledge of mobile phones, and I’m destined to get badgered about one with a cartoon cat on it…
Perhaps some back story is needed here.
In May, this year, a deal was struck by CRS (the company responsible for supplying and managing over a million mobile phones per year, through shops like WHSmith,
Woolworths, Littlewoods and Sainsbury’s), giving them the exclusive rights to distribute Hello Kitty-branded mobile phones, mp3 players and other gadgets in the UK.
Now, quite apart from the fact Hello Kitty, as a brand, is aimed at 5-15 year olds, and I don’t reckon kids should use mobile phones (although CRS are at pains to clarify they’ll be aiming the phones at 20-30 year olds), there is one other fact that’s driven me mad about the whole episode.
I really, really can’t stand Hello Kitty…
This is why I’m feeling a little, tiny bit disheartened. Every day, from now until the end of eternity (or at least until they release it), she is going to ask me about the Hello Kitty mobile phone. Never mind that she knows full well that, say, the Samsung U900 Soul, for example, will be a far better phone, and never mind that she said she wanted a U900, not 3 days ago.
She is a slave to the cartoon cat, a woman of 32 turned into a 7 year-old girl by the colour pink and kitten ears.
So, I implore you, CRS, I am begging… please get the Hello Kitty mobile phone released as quickly as possible. Because she will not stop talking about it, and merely cancelling it won’t do the trick.
Please release it. And save me from the horror of being asked about the Hello Kitty mobile phone every, single day of my life…
You fancy a proper mobile phone? Grab yourself the Samsung U900 Soul, one of the best looking mobile phones ever made!