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March 23, 2012 at
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Last Edited by widgit March 24, 2012 at 11:49 AM
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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March 26, 2012
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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
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
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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'd definitely do this if it weren't so far away from my house. I have an old Nokia 5800 lying around.
They are excluding bundles. May be phone is still okay.
"This offer does not include the following Windows Phones: Nokia Lumia 800 Unlocked GSM Phone Entertainment Bundle - Magenta, CYF-00058 and Nokia Lumia 800 Unlocked GSM Phone Entertainment Bundle - Black, CYF-00059."
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go buy one of the cheap android phones from the BB frontpage deal. I would def trade the samsung vitality for one of these newer phones. The phone should still be 49.99,,,it is a prepaid type though...which I can imagine them saying no to.
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.
http://content.microso
https://twitter.com/#!/MicrosoftS...53
Why would somebody want a No CONTACT Windows Phone. It would be kind of dumb, you would think?
The only ones with comparable specs are Gen 1 WP devices and are not likely even stocked since most have been discontinued for a while. There's basically very little chance you'd be trading down. (In other words, your phone is ancient.)