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Microsoft is turning its $100 "Smoked by Windows Phone" campaign into a $1,000 challenge at its retail stores across the US this weekend. Visitors can walk into a Microsoft Store between 9AM and 10PM local time to challenge Microsoft to a Windows Phone speed test — winners will walk away with a Hunger Games Special Edition PC and "losers" will be offered the opportunity to swap their current smartphone for a Windows Phone. There are 10 prizes per store each day.
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Please note, this promotion is different than the deal only part listed in Hot Deals. It will not be merged as this post is about the contest, not the deal.
CONTEST DESCRIPTION:
Contests -
(1) Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post
(2) Real-Time Information with Live Tiles
(3) Using the People Hub to Stay in Touch with the People You Care About Most
(4) Updating Your Status Across Multiple Social Networks
(5) Local Scout ("Challenge").
(6) Pulling up a list of movie times from a local theatre (make sure you download an app like fandango or flixster. the rep used flixster in this case and I could have easily have won if I had downloaded the same app).
This Contest starts at 9:00 AM, local time, on March 22 2012, and ends at 10:00 PM, local time, on March 29, 2012 or whenever the ten (10) prizes per store have been exhausted, whatever comes first ("Entry Period").
If your smartphone completes the Challenge faster than the Microsoft sales associate using the Windows Phone you will be the winner. In the event of a tie between the Windows Phone and Your smartphone your smartphone will be considered the winner.
Contest Prizes
First Prize: One (1) Hunger Games PC (CWF-00587 HP Folio 13 Special Edition). Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $1,049.00.
Microsoft Store Locations
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Resources on Smoked by Windows Phone
#SmokedByWindowsPhone [twitter.com] - Twitter HashTag
facebook.com/windowsphone [facebook.com]
youtube.com/windowsphone [youtube.com] - Find videos on SmokedbyWindowsPhone
Google [google.com] or Bing [bing.com] - "Smoked by windows phone CES"
Informal Stats on SmokedByWindowsPhone
http://wmpoweruser.com/wp-content...kedmw
COSTA MESA STORE EXPERIENCE:
Wait time around 15 - 20 minutes. The promotional hours ended 1 hour before closing time.
Participants are asked to fill out 3 waivers, including 1 to consent to media coverage by Microsoft for marketing purposes, and 1 to consent to the recycling of your phone.
IMPORTANT: You should perform a FULL WIPE / FORMAT / FACTORY RESET on your old device before you hand it to them! You must give consent to allow the recycling firm to access the (software) contents of your phone!
Once they're ready for you to compete, you are asked to choose ONE of the FIVE modes of competition! They did not require specific app usage, so you could just use your browser. This store required participants to use WiFi if their device is capable.
If the phone you want is out of stock, this store offered a $10 gift card + a rain check. You keep your phone in the meantime, they will call you in when the phone you want is in stock.
Mobile Carrier eligible
T-Mobile
Verizon
AT&T
Sprint is no longer carried in their stores.
Promotion Rules:
http://content.microso
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CONTEST DESCRIPTION:
Contests -
(1) Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post
(2) Real-Time Information with Live Tiles
(3) Using the People Hub to Stay in Touch with the People You Care About Most
(4) Updating Your Status Across Multiple Social Networks
(5) Local Scout ("Challenge").
(6) Pulling up a list of movie times from a local theatre (make sure you download an app like fandango or flixster. the rep used flixster in this case and I could have easily have won if I had downloaded the same app).
This Contest starts at 9:00 AM, local time, on March 22 2012, and ends at 10:00 PM, local time, on March 29, 2012 or whenever the ten (10) prizes per store have been exhausted, whatever comes first ("Entry Period").
If your smartphone completes the Challenge faster than the Microsoft sales associate using the Windows Phone you will be the winner. In the event of a tie between the Windows Phone and Your smartphone your smartphone will be considered the winner.
Contest Prizes
First Prize: One (1) Hunger Games PC (CWF-00587 HP Folio 13 Special Edition). Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $1,049.00.
Microsoft Store Locations
http://content.microso
Resources on Smoked by Windows Phone
#SmokedByWindowsPhone [twitter.com] - Twitter HashTag
facebook.com/windowsphone [facebook.com]
youtube.com/windowsphone [youtube.com] - Find videos on SmokedbyWindowsPhone
Google [google.com] or Bing [bing.com] - "Smoked by windows phone CES"
Informal Stats on SmokedByWindowsPhone
http://wmpoweruser.com/wp-content...kedmw
COSTA MESA STORE EXPERIENCE:
Wait time around 15 - 20 minutes. The promotional hours ended 1 hour before closing time.
Participants are asked to fill out 3 waivers, including 1 to consent to media coverage by Microsoft for marketing purposes, and 1 to consent to the recycling of your phone.
IMPORTANT: You should perform a FULL WIPE / FORMAT / FACTORY RESET on your old device before you hand it to them! You must give consent to allow the recycling firm to access the (software) contents of your phone!
Once they're ready for you to compete, you are asked to choose ONE of the FIVE modes of competition! They did not require specific app usage, so you could just use your browser. This store required participants to use WiFi if their device is capable.
If the phone you want is out of stock, this store offered a $10 gift card + a rain check. You keep your phone in the meantime, they will call you in when the phone you want is in stock.
Mobile Carrier eligible
T-Mobile
Verizon
AT&T
Sprint is no longer carried in their stores.
Promotion Rules:
http://content.microso
This post can be edited by most users to provide up-to-date information about developments of this thread based on user responses, and user findings. Feel free to add, change or remove information shown here as it becomes available. This includes new coupons, rebates, ideas, thread summary, and similar items.
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I see how a lot of the features of the OS could be useful if I were a compulsive tweeter, texted, facebooker, etc. Windows Phone makes sharing media eons easier than any other OS out there.
The problem is that I don't have that much stuff I want to share. Many individuals are just looking for a phone with a nice web browser and cheap games. In these areas, WP lacks.
Anyways, I do feel the OS is actually very "fast" despite older hardware. Definitely much faster than Android if it comes to tasks natively integrated within the OS.
That's why modders with OCed Droids and custom ROMs aren't likely to win. WP is an efficient OS written by a competent corporation. Android is an inefficient OS with bogged down, clunky customizations.
Stock Android was never well written and practically every modder/corporation that lays hands on it only makes it worse! (No offense intended to the modding community... Just a careful observation.) -.-
As for the competent corporation bit? Really? You're going to throw that card in there? Have you forgotten already about Window Mobile/Pocket PC? Or how about the $240 million failure of the Kin series? Please. I'm going to raise the fanboy card right now.
And the modding community was about the same when I dealt with Windows Mobile as I see some developers who moved on to Android. I'm into Android devs and yeah it is sometimes a problem with them fighting and bickering on code. It's like with true hackers complaining about script kiddies. I feel every OS has it's strengths.
Windows Phone for it's fluidity. Android for being customizable. iOS for it's simplicity. (And if it's still relevant anymore WebOS for beauty. It was and still the most beautiful OS I have ever used out of the box, that was just unfinished overall and never got the support it needed).
Windows Mobile (in case you blew that off for some reason), was also customized by manufacturers like Android is now. Microsoft is taking a little bit of what Android is doing (by having multiple manufacturers involved), but taking the iOS approach on software (by having a unified UI across all their devices).
Windows Phone still crashes and freezes like any other mobile OS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JKgfZW
..but MS has addressed those problems. Windows Phone arrived later to the game so they have had less time to transform like iOS and Android have so they are still an infant OS which got off to a good start.They saw what others were doing and took what they knew from their past mistakes, and what the others were doing successfully and went with that.
In time I think it will turn less from a "Kinified OS" (which pushed social into every single aspect of you life), and hopefully into a more serious OS, in time. We'll see. It addresses a younger crowd and is still not widely adopted by many, and I like the effort Microsoft is pushing to get people to use it from having their whole product line (Xbox, Windows 8, etc.) use the Metro styling of windows Phone.
My 2 cents as well and while I agree with most of what you said, some of it just came off as being Microsoft worshiping. Just saying.
He calls the manager and she says oh the windows phone gets to that screen in 1 button where your phone gets to all the information in 2 button presses so I lose. Biggest pile of crap ever. Then they have the nerve to say you're just trying to get the laptop and tell me I have to leave.
He calls the manager and she says oh the windows phone gets to that screen in 1 button where your phone gets to all the information in 2 button presses so I lose. Biggest pile of crap ever. Then they have the nerve to say you're just trying to get the laptop and tell me I have to leave.
But that is messed up. I don't recall the "hours" thing being part of the test. At all. I only recall that you find a 4-star restaurant and it gives you directions. Both of which Google Maps does.
I think someone just needs to write their own app and do everything Windows Phone does one step faster, because what you said sounds like blatant cheating.
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What exactly were all the challenges? Reason for asking is I want to see if my crappy Android can even finish the tasks before I drive all the way over there.
https://play.google.com/store/app...hnical.wp
..and if you lose..smile with a big grin on your face and make sure they get a good shot of your phone
What exactly were all the challenges? Reason for asking is I want to see if my crappy Android can even finish the tasks before I drive all the way over there.
I would say you can beat 1 (especially with ICS. Just get a camera app to take a picture on launch of app and have it auto upload.), 2(with the right widgets, easily), 3 (I have no idea what this one means. I saw one video and it was like "texting your spouse faster" which is such a load of crap, because it depends on who types faster), 4 (have not found a good app for this YET. It entails either taking a picture and posting it to facebook, twitter, and MAYBE linkedin all at once or posting your status to those at the same time. Tell me if you find something good for this)., 5.) Would be the "4 star resturant" or something else local quickly, which is clearly rigged from the prior post, so don't get stuck with that one.
Only AT&T and T-Mobile customers with old phones can really take advantage of the losing offer, since they can swap sims.
Verizon and Sprint customers probably have newer phones activated that are way better than the CDMA windows phones.
Dzap, could you link twitter to post tweets to Facebook and accomplish 4? Unless there's some odd social site they want you to post to...
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