So, as you no doubt know, Netflix has released a slew of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Obviously I could tell immediately back when Craig first came out that he'd be the worst Bond there ever was, so I gave his films a miss at the time. Quite a mistake as some of the films are not bad. But I noticed one shocking detail, James Bond is now issued with a Nokia phone. A Nokia phone! I mean, clearly Britain has hit hard times, but issuing their top secret agent a Nokia phone? I started feeling sorry for poor James. Then I noticed his boss was a rather unattractive woman, Judi Dench, his stand-in, 007 part deux so to speak, was a black woman. As was Moneypenny. The question is really, if Daniel Craig feels sorry for himself, for starring in the most pc-infested, product placement cursed Bond films ever? Poor James Bond.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Cameroni

Daniel Craig, net wealth $160,000,000 doesn't give a flying ****.

I mean, that was just cynical, wasn't it, make James Bond carry a Nokia phone. No matter how hard up the UK, is we all know never in a million years would the UK stoop so low and issue its secret agents with Nokia phones. It ruins the whole illusion, and you realize James Bond is not real, nothing in it is real. Even in these hard times the UK would at least spring for a Samsung A54 for Bond. Even a used one would be better than a Nokia.

Ahhhh but that Nokia phone has a built in laser and bunker busters.

Maybe that's why Daniel Craig stopped doing Bond? He said he wanted at least a Vivo X300 and they told him "No, mate, Nokia is paying the big bucks, you'll be using a Nokia".

Who'd want to be a James Bond with a Nokia phone? That's like being a Tennis ace with a wooden Dunlop. Come on. It's 2026.

10 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

I mean, that was just cynical, wasn't it, make James Bond carry a Nokia phone. No matter how hard up the UK, is we all know never in a million years would the UK stoop so low and issue its secret agents with Nokia phones. It ruins the whole illusion, and you realize James Bond is not real, nothing in it is real. Even in these hard times the UK would at least spring for a Samsung A54 for Bond. Even a used one would be better than a Nokia.

Those Bond villains are pretty real , sometimes even worse.

But glad to see you back , Cam.

Good to see you too, Flor.

According to Wired magazine, there is a precedent, in that another exciting personality uses a Nokia phone. East Germany's Angela Merkel.

I wonder if in the next bond he'll be filming blueprints with a Polaroid? Assuming they pay enough coins of course.

Or maybe Sony can issue Bond with a Betamax. To review the villain videos.

41 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

So, as you no doubt know, Netflix has released a slew of the Daniel Craig Bond movies. Obviously I could tell immediately back when Craig first came out that he'd be the worst Bond there ever was, so I gave his films a miss at the time. Quite a mistake as some of the films are not bad. But I noticed one shocking detail, James Bond is now issued with a Nokia phone. A Nokia phone! I mean, clearly Britain has hit hard times, but issuing their top secret agent a Nokia phone? I started feeling sorry for poor James. Then I noticed his boss was a rather unattractive woman, Judi Dench, his stand-in, 007 part deux so to speak, was a black woman. As was Moneypenny. The question is really, if Daniel Craig feels sorry for himself, for starring in the most pc-infested, product placement cursed Bond films ever? Poor James Bond.

Probably because, at that time, Nokia was the market leader (until 2012).

55 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

The question is really, if Daniel Craig feels sorry for himself, for starring in the most pc-infested, product placement cursed Bond films ever? Poor James Bond.

He's more versatile as an actor than the previous Bonds, everything from gangsters (layer cake), queer junkie (queer), goofy redneck (logan lucky), poirot style detective (knives out). Think he got tired of being typecast as Bond.

18 minutes ago, candide said:

Probably because, at that time, Nokia was the market leader (until 2012

No, no, the top rated phones of 2012 were the Samsung Galaxy S III, alongside heavy competitors like the ⁠Apple iPhone 5 and the ⁠HTC One X. These devices defined the mobile market that year with larger screens, faster multi-core processors, and sharper cameras.

Nokia began its rapid market decline between 2007 and 2011.

None of that matters of course, since it was all about who's stumping up the greenbacks for the makers of Bond, they'd probably put a Chinese Huawei into Bond's hands if the Chinese paid for it. Obviously they're not stupid, so Bond is stuck with Nokia. Which is about as believable as Moneypenny using a Sony Vaio in HQ. What were they thinking?

If they're just out for the Dollars, why not go the whole hog and get Bond into the Food and Beverage game? Have Mister Donut and Weetabix sponsor Bond. It's ludicrous. It just underlines that nothing in Bond is real. Not even his phone.