As a GameStar editor, I've written a lot of absurd news, but I've never seen anything like it. On McDonald's smartphone? The fast food company advertised in China at least recently. And now it's here … and it's just a new kind of chicken.
I beg your pardon? You read quite rightly: On April 13, McDonald's announced a new 5G smart device, including chic pictures that could easily come from an Apple presentation on the next iPhone. The first media have already speculated whether the fast food giant has made a deal with any software company.
In fact, you can see on the pictures of the mysterious 5G product some thin tech device that could possibly also master face recognition. It could possibly be a new payment system.
McDonalds is hosting a 5G conference in China to unveil its latest product.
It's teasing some type of smart product with slim bezels, the latest tech, facial recognition, high quality sound, camera and 5G.
Speculation says it's some new self checkout product. pic.twitter.com/ETR4JJT5E4
– Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 15, 2020
The product was due to be unveiled on April 15th. And so it happened. about a million people watched the live stream on the Chinese video sharing website Bilibili.
However, McDonald's has not presented a smartphone or anything similar, but the new McCrsipy Chicken. However, according to Phyllis Cheung, the CEO of McDonald's in China, the development of the new chicken product would have taken a year and a half.
Chicken revelation as a parody at tech conferences
"5G" does not stand for the fifth generation of mobile devices, but for five features of the new chicken product: "Taste, freshness, juiciness, crispiness and various forms (ie chicken drumsticks, wings and breasts)". Also means Chicken in Mandarin "Ji" and is pronounced like the English "G".
Obviously, McDonald's wanted to parody big tech presentations like we know from new announcements from Apple and Co. Now. The core of this news is: No, McDonald's does not bring out its own smartphones.
