04:24 
Wed, 7th January 2009
April fool: AbleComm forgets what day it is, retracts Panasonic plasma cellphone release
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets
Alright everyone, let’s review: If you’re feat to place discover a jape advise promulgation for Apr Fool’s Day, it’s essential to attain trusty it’s actually Apr 1st. That’s a lowercase warning the folks at AbleComm ostensibly didn’t get, because the company’s Apr Fools advise promulgation most Panasonic swing partially-Ablecomm-sourced ECF screens in radiophone phones went discover yesterday, Apr 3rd — and got afterward picked up by a difference of programme outlets, including us. Yep, we got punked, we’ll adjudge it. Unlike us, however, AbleComm hasn’t still had the stones to supply its possess retraction, instead arrangement PR Newswire to completely vantage the promulgation and place discover a new, PRNewswire-written three-line disavowal elsewhere. Yikes. We’ll belike springy without plasmas in our cellphones, but but c’mon, people, at small adjudge it when the jape goes bad. Check discover the disavowal and the example imitation advise promulgation after the break.
[Thanks, David]
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