The Amazon Blaze on TWiT

So, I was a part of this elaborate prank on the Android community this past April 1st, calling for the design of a realistic smart phone with controversial features. It was a joint effort between myself and the writers of AndroidPolice.com, whom I've been working with on designing their Android App for some time.

I came up with many of the visual features and developed the design mock-ups currently being passed around the internet while Jaroslav Stekl and Artem Russakovskii took care of the full article and specs write-up posted to AndroidPolice.com

Bottom Line: Leo and Brian owe me $5 :D
In all seriousness though, I'm an AVID fan and listener of the TWiT Network and having nearly four minutes of dialog dedicated to a concept I created is both exhilarating and humbling. In fact, my end game was getting something I produced on TWiT, and that happened. Complete success for myself and Android Police

Thanks for the support!
Grant Garrison

Check out the full article on the Amazon Blaze here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/04/01/exclusive-amazon-to-introduce-4-3-inc...

Check out TWiT here: http://twit.tv/

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• smart phone
• Android
• Android Police
• Grant
• Grant Garrison
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• concept phone
• solar panel
• TWiT

[OMGrant]

@icee0711 Thanks Icee

[OMGrant]

@benmarvin Haha, yea, that was Jaroslav's idea and let me tell you, WHAT a challenge to pull off.

Now that every things said and done though, I'm extremely pleased with the way it came out.

Even though the solar cell gave it away, I feel it gave the phone the much needed 'flare' (forgive the pun) that helped represent the name we so eloquently embraced.

[icee0711]

I love how much traction this prank gained. This was an excellent april fools joke guys!

[benmarvin]

I knew the solar cell would give it away.