Celebs Who Can't Ditch Their iPhones Despite Endorsement Deals
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We understand, smartphone addiction is real. In the case of celebrities, sometimes their device dependency is specific to Apple's rectangle with rounded corners — the iPhone. This is especially problematic when those celebrities are sponsored by other phone makers, like Samsung or Windows phones. This slideshow proves that all the money in the world can't buy 100 percent brand loyalty! In what follows, the celebs who just couldn't kick their iPhone addiction — and got busted for it.
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Adam Levine
During Samsung's launch event for the Galaxy Note 4, Maroon 5's Adam Levine jested about a "ceremonial iPhone burning" after this. But today, the Voice judge tweeted from his iPhone about an upcoming visit to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The tweet was quickly deleted. Oops.
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Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba became the face of Windows Phone 8 in 2012 but was quickly caught snapping away on her iPhone at Fashion Week. Yikes!
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Alicia Keys
BlackBerry crowned Alicia Keys as its new global creative director in 2013, which charged Alicia with evangelizing the brand to the masses. But it seems that the songstress couldn't stay faithful to BlackBerry and started tweeting from her iPhone shortly thereafter.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Turns out Ellen's epic Oscars selfie was actually a publicity stunt. Ellen's Samsung-sponsored Oscars night was foiled when she was tweeting from backstage with her iPhone.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah's "Favorite Things" picks for the holidays is the most-anticipated gift list of the year. So when the host named the Microsoft Surface tablet as her top tech choice for 2012, we were confused when her enthusiastic tweet about the Surface ("Have bought 12 already!") was sent from an iPad. Details, Oprah!