Over lunch I was flipping through the 24 April 2006 issue of Newsweek and came across a brief tech article (available online via MSNBC) on a new cell phone from Virgin Mobile that’s being marketed to tweens. (For those of you that don’t know, a tween is a kid aged between eight and twelve.) The title of the article is Technology: Calling All Tweens so it’s clear as to this device is for. Then the article says:
“As for entertainment features, the phone comes with three game demos (Lemonade Tycoon, Tony Hawk Underground 2 and Sexy Poker) and access to downloadable content from Comedy Central and MTV. [emphasis added]
Uh, what? A device for tweens that includes a game titled “Sexy Poker”. Maybe I’m misinterpreting the title of this game (unlikely) but they can’t be serious.
Who’s to blame? Is this people at Virgin being idiots or is it a reporter at Newsweek attributing a device for the older set to the younger set? We’ll probably never know.
