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"Many smartphone ads tout all of the wonderful ways their devices will help you keep on top of your job, but we all know that there's more to smartphones than that.\nPerhaps that's why this ad from AT&amp;T promoting Research In Motion's BlackBerry Torch 4G has struck a chord. The ad broke on Monday, but is already up to close to 400,000 views. Why? There's something inherently funny about brutal honesty delivered as if it was plain vanilla management speak. Here, the boss barks out orders to do things that employees are going to do with the phones anyways, such as loading videos of their kids on YouTube and checking in everywhere on Foursquare.Updated: As our readers have pointed out, a posting on Reddit had a hand in sending this video viral. An actor in the commercial posted the video with the caption, \"After three years of auditioning, I booked my first commercial. I say \"Huh?\" in this AT&amp;T spot.\" After one day, the post has nearly 3,000 comments. \nTo see an expanded use of this deadpan technique, check out the \"Truth In Advertising\" video below, which made the rounds in ad circles a few years back. Warning: Language is NSFW. \n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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