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LG to give $1M to the fastest texters on the planet

14 July, 2009 | Read the news | Post your comment
LG to give $1M to the fastest texters on the planet - read the full textToday LG announced the initiation of the second Mobile Worldcup competition for fast and accurate texting. Mobile Worldcup 2009 is the official name of the contest that will have a stunning prize pool of 1 million US dollars. This first round of this year's competition will start on 15th August...

 

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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-07-15 00:32 from 4hJg - click to readyou will take on no one, gumby. open your eyes sunshine, it clearly says US has already named its finalists. you are not one of them.

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  • 2009-07-15 01:39
  • ijDg

How do u enter?

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  • 2009-07-15 00:47
  • ImSu

Where do I sign up? I'm in the US and will take you all on.

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  • 2009-07-15 00:32
  • 4hJg

how do i participate ? ,i live in brazil -sao paulo,

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  • 2009-07-15 00:03
  • P4FY

why LG? they don't even have sales. Nokia should have been the one. too bad nokia is busy launching new symbian handsets

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  • 2009-07-14 21:40
  • 0Up$

Well this is all a matter of opinion but I find that Samsung and LG are the phone companies that have the broadest range of phone designs in their portfolio. You may not like all their phones but they do have some desireable phones.

I have historically loved Samsung's menu as easy to understand, regardless of being boring, and hated LG's menu. But I hear good things about the S-Class UI.

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  • 2009-07-14 21:30
  • kar1

Actually is $75K per country!

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  • 2009-07-14 20:11
  • yfqh

> In reply to stefan @ 2009-07-14 18:59 from p3DU - click to read
While I think its fantastic that LG is holding the competition, you must realize it was put on as a way for people to accept the LG numeric keypad of their flip phones as an efficient and valid way to type messages. Unfortunately the whole concept is flawed. Numeric keypad letter typing needs to die. It is an archaic and poor user interface that needs to be dumped asap.

@stefan
Being a popular seller (chocolate phones) doesnt mean it was a good phone by any means. It simply means there was enough people that could afford it and it was marketed well. The Ford Taurus/Mercury Tempo were "popular" vehicles yet that didn't make them a 'good' car. Same thing applies to the 'chocolate' phone line. Sometimes the product is just popular because the people don't know there is better and the garbage they are buying is still an upgrade to the last hunk of junk they were used to using.

Not a knock against the purchasers/users, just simple statement of how people perceive things. More often than not, the 'suckers' of the world are simply people that have a faulty perception of the value they are getting from the product they buy. :)

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  • 2009-07-14 20:03
  • 46aa

what a waste of money...
so many people would use this to have a better life period, cause some day it will finish

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  • 2009-07-14 19:37
  • L0{M

Yes, you can use any mobile phone you have!

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  • 2009-07-14 19:32
  • PFJ%

> In reply to Rip @ 2009-07-14 18:11 from G2GS - click to readare u serious??? are u talking about the same company that designed chocolate, one of the best sold phones ever??? or the one that designed crystal, one of the "hottest" phones out there??? or about the inventors of the "s-class ui", if we`re steel talking about design??? it`s a great think what LG is doing.they`re not the best, but they are one of the best. a company that should change something is samsung, in there menu, cause it`s the same crapy and boring menu for years now. or apple, cause it`s the same medium performance in they`re phone that was years ago.

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  • 2009-07-14 18:59
  • p3DU

can you use any handset? or does it have to be LG model?

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  • 2009-07-14 18:51
  • iAm{

QWERTY or standard keypad? LG PHONES ONLY or even other brand? just 1 winner? coz it says "$1M to FASTEST TEXTERS"

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  • 2009-07-14 18:38
  • jx$s

LG should consider the options of including the texting capital of the world," PHILIPPINES", as one of there venues.

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  • 2009-07-14 18:29
  • wYBF

I think those who always do "First" comment in GSM Arena have big chances of wining the competition kakaka... cheers :)

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  • 2009-07-14 18:19
  • tjFA

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2009-07-14 17:44 from uExu - click to readwell the iPhone has spell checking on the go, something no LG phone has. And the article says fast and accurate, you only have to tap anywhere on the screen thats close to the letter you want to press and it guesses correctly.

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  • 2009-07-14 18:12
  • mCSY

Instead of conducting dumb and silly competitions LG should probably use this money to hire new designers... some that won't copy everybody else in the market!! Lol!

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  • 2009-07-14 18:11
  • G2GS

Still does not add up...
13 countries + India + US and Canada = 16 countries
10k USD x 15 countries = 160k USD
160k + 100k (final prize) = 260k USD.
260k is still far away from 1M.
Either the Indian prize is well below average, or some other countries are missing.

- I am not a very good SMSer anyway... so it doesn't matter that much! :))

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  • 2009-07-14 18:08
  • b6hx

Well isn't this fun. Specially if they use LG phones "dumb assumption, but u never know". This will be big comedy cause LG phones can quite laggy when texting or writing something.

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  • 2009-07-14 18:05
  • M8Tu

The article says "$1M to the fastest texters" not "fastest texter", don't say this article is misleading

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  • 2009-07-14 17:57
  • P@Tm
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