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NEW Smoked By Windows Phone Contest [3/30/12 - 4/5/12] 100 Phones Per Day, 500 $25 Gift Cards
March 30, 2012 at
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Last Edited by Rainjet March 30, 2012 at 12:39 AM
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Dates: March 30/12 - April 5/12
Rules are similar to the previous contest, in that you may challenge a Microsoft store employee to complete a task on your smartphone before they do. The challenge selections include:
IF YOU BEAT THE WINDOWS PHONE:
Each store will have a minimum of 10 first place prizes available per day, a Hunger Games PC (CWF-00587 HP Folio 13 Special Edition).
IF YOU LOSE AGAINST THE WINDOWS PHONE:
The first 100 "losers" will receive their choice of the following Windows phone if they choose to trade in and recycle their existing and qualifying smartphone.
After the first 100 phones per day, per store have been given away, the next 500 "losing" participants will receive a $25.00 Microsoft Store gift card.
UNKNOWNS: Double-dipping with another phone after participating in the first contest? According to the rules this is a separate contest from the one that ended on March 29th.
Dates: March 30/12 - April 5/12
Rules are similar to the previous contest, in that you may challenge a Microsoft store employee to complete a task on your smartphone before they do. The challenge selections include:
- Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post
- Real-Time Information
- Stay in Touch with the People You Care About Most
- Update Your Status Across Multiple Social Networks
- Get Directions to a Local Restaurant
- Pick What's for Dinner
IF YOU BEAT THE WINDOWS PHONE:
Each store will have a minimum of 10 first place prizes available per day, a Hunger Games PC (CWF-00587 HP Folio 13 Special Edition).
IF YOU LOSE AGAINST THE WINDOWS PHONE:
The first 100 "losers" will receive their choice of the following Windows phone if they choose to trade in and recycle their existing and qualifying smartphone.
- HTC 7 Trophy (Verizon)
- Samsung Focus S (AT&T)
- HTC Radar 4G White (T-Mobile)
- HTC Titan Black (AT&T)
- Samsung FOCUS FLASH Black (AT&T)
- Nokia Lumia 710 White (T-Mobile)
- Nokia Lumia 710 Black (T-Mobile)
After the first 100 phones per day, per store have been given away, the next 500 "losing" participants will receive a $25.00 Microsoft Store gift card.
UNKNOWNS: Double-dipping with another phone after participating in the first contest? According to the rules this is a separate contest from the one that ended on March 29th.
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Last Edited by pinko
March 30, 2012
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06:32 AM
Beware, the contest is rigged [skattertech.com] unless you happen to get great publicity.
**NEW RULES** IMPORTANT! READ!!!
...you should read these changes if you don't want to waste your time.
Read the important parts in red that have changed the way this contest is handled.
CONTEST DESCRIPTION
This is a skill-based Contest. The object of this Contest is for You to come into a participating Microsoft Retail Store and try to beat the Microsoft Windows Phone with Your personal smartphone in one of the following six "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenge scenarios: (1) Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post; (2) Real-Time Information; (3) Stay in Touch with the People You Care About Most; (4) Update Your Status Across Multiple Social Networks; (5) Get Directions to a Local Restaurant; or (6) Pick What's for Dinner. These six challenge scenarios are collectively referred to as the "Challenge". The Challenge will be picked by You at random from six unmarked cards, each card will have one of the Challenges printed on the reverse side. You will only have one chance to select a random Challenge card, if You don't like the Challenge that You selected, You may not select another Challenge. For purposes of this Contest, each entrant who participates in the Challenge with their own personal smartphone will be called an "entry." All eligible entries received will be judged using the criteria described below to determine the winners of the prizes described below.
You must meet the following content / technical requirements:
You must personally execute and complete the Challenge using Your own eligible smartphone.* Each smartphone can only be used once for a Challenge during the Entry Period. The smartphone must:
1. be activated
2. have the basic functionality required to compete in the Challenge including: check weather/movie, take pictures and post online, text, post on Facebook, find nearby restaurants, update status on social media, and translate web pages into English.
* Microsoft Windows Phones and non-smartphones are excluded from this Challenge. Non-smartphones include, but are not limited to Feature Phones, Flip phones, "dumb-phones," "go-phones," pre-paid phones, or other pay as you go phones. Phones must be activated with a cellular carrier. Your smartphone must be using the original, unmodified operating system that came standard on your smartphone. Any entries for which the challenge task has been pre-loaded are not eligible.
Before the challenge begins, Smartphones are required to exit out of any background applications either by closing each application individually and/or by power cycling the device, and contestants may be required to do so if asked by the Store Associate administering the challenge. Some Challenge scenarios reflect set-up and pre-installed apps.
The free Windows Phone offer is available for the following Windows Phones, while supplies last. The free Windows Phone must be activated with the specific Cellular Carrier that is listed with each phone.***
Included Phones Model Number Cellular Carrier
HTC 7 Trophy CYF-00045 Verizon
Samsung Focus S CYF-00050 AT&T
HTC Radar 4G White CYF-00051 T-Mobile
HTC Titan Black CYF-00052 AT&T
Samsung FOCUS FLASH Black CYF-00053 AT&T
Nokia Lumia 710 White CYF-00055 T-Mobile
Nokia Lumia 710 Black CYF-00056 T-Mobile
**NEW RULES** IMPORTANT! READ!!!
...you should read these changes if you don't want to waste your time.
Read the important parts in red that have changed the way this contest is handled.
CONTEST DESCRIPTION
This is a skill-based Contest. The object of this Contest is for You to come into a participating Microsoft Retail Store and try to beat the Microsoft Windows Phone with Your personal smartphone in one of the following six "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenge scenarios: (1) Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post; (2) Real-Time Information; (3) Stay in Touch with the People You Care About Most; (4) Update Your Status Across Multiple Social Networks; (5) Get Directions to a Local Restaurant; or (6) Pick What's for Dinner. These six challenge scenarios are collectively referred to as the "Challenge". The Challenge will be picked by You at random from six unmarked cards, each card will have one of the Challenges printed on the reverse side. You will only have one chance to select a random Challenge card, if You don't like the Challenge that You selected, You may not select another Challenge. For purposes of this Contest, each entrant who participates in the Challenge with their own personal smartphone will be called an "entry." All eligible entries received will be judged using the criteria described below to determine the winners of the prizes described below.
You must meet the following content / technical requirements:
You must personally execute and complete the Challenge using Your own eligible smartphone.* Each smartphone can only be used once for a Challenge during the Entry Period. The smartphone must:
1. be activated
2. have the basic functionality required to compete in the Challenge including: check weather/movie, take pictures and post online, text, post on Facebook, find nearby restaurants, update status on social media, and translate web pages into English.
* Microsoft Windows Phones and non-smartphones are excluded from this Challenge. Non-smartphones include, but are not limited to Feature Phones, Flip phones, "dumb-phones," "go-phones," pre-paid phones, or other pay as you go phones. Phones must be activated with a cellular carrier. Your smartphone must be using the original, unmodified operating system that came standard on your smartphone. Any entries for which the challenge task has been pre-loaded are not eligible.
Before the challenge begins, Smartphones are required to exit out of any background applications either by closing each application individually and/or by power cycling the device, and contestants may be required to do so if asked by the Store Associate administering the challenge. Some Challenge scenarios reflect set-up and pre-installed apps.
The free Windows Phone offer is available for the following Windows Phones, while supplies last. The free Windows Phone must be activated with the specific Cellular Carrier that is listed with each phone.***
Included Phones Model Number Cellular Carrier
HTC 7 Trophy CYF-00045 Verizon
Samsung Focus S CYF-00050 AT&T
HTC Radar 4G White CYF-00051 T-Mobile
HTC Titan Black CYF-00052 AT&T
Samsung FOCUS FLASH Black CYF-00053 AT&T
Nokia Lumia 710 White CYF-00055 T-Mobile
Nokia Lumia 710 Black CYF-00056 T-Mobile
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Also, I'm assuming they don't take your current phone for the $25 gift card?
Also, Radar vs the Nokia 710, which is better?
Also, Radar vs the Nokia 710, which is better?
I'd take the nokia 710.
since they've basically eliminated everyone who tried to "dump" cheap/dead phones
But windows phones are not eligible. It is so slow that even if I gave it away free, i will feel guilty knowing of the torture of using the phone. But it is well built.
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