Sentences with phrase «pointless gimmick»

Do you think the Galaxy Round is a pointless gimmick that Samsung released just so it could say that it was the first - ever company to release a curved smartphone?

It was, to be quite blunt, a rare example when a «pointless gimmick» turned out to be a relevant and useful supplementary addition to the product itself.

There's also tilt controls included, but like usual they're just a pointless gimmick added to goof around with, and while they work OK, (since the speed is still determined by holding down the A button, meaning you thankfully can't suddenly jerk it from one side to another) I can't help but feel an option to stop the pausing would have been more appreciated.

2.31 pm: «Stop Wasting money On Pointless Gimmicks» is my advice to Gordon Brown and his citizen jury idea.

Not exact matches

In a Daily News OpEd, Queens Sen. Tony Avella (a onetime NYC mayoral candidate) calls de Blasio's new HomeStat plan «nothing but a press - release gimmick; a pointless publicity stunt to flip public opinion that has found him unable to admit, much less reverse, the increasing homelessness problem.»

You don't want to trick someone into liking a false version of yourself, you want them to like you for you, so fakery and gimmicks are pointless.

Sticker Star brought back turn - based battles, but replaced the RPG elements with collectible stickers, a gimmick that quickly grew tired and even made battles predominantly pointless, since your only reward for winning battles were more stickers and coins... for buying more stickers.

Potentially without having the original figurines, reducing the whole «toys to life» gimmick more than a tad pointless.

The era of pointless software gimmicks is gone (or should be) and no one wants to see a Nokia phone cast in the same mold as the ill - fated BlackBerry Priv.