This is your chance to get your own Nokia N810 as soon as it hits the shelves.
Watch the video above for the general idea of the contest. It is your task to create a video response to the video above. In that video, show how you would use the tablet in the real world. It's that easy. There will be five judges: Reggie Suplido of InternetTabletTalk.com, John Tokash the ReaderMini author and blogger, Jonathan Greene of Atmaspheric Endeavors and maemoapps.com, and myself, Dan.
Judging criteria, in order of importance, will be:
- Real-world consumer applications. Show off something just anyone can do - hopefully with out-of-the-box or readily available accessories. Attaching it to an orbital space station won't win... Unless you ACTUALLY attach it to a REAL space station and launch it out into space. In that case - we'll find a special prize for you.
- Originality: "Reading Email at the doctor's office" won't win... Originality is if you ARE the doctor - the psychiatrist, actually, and you manage to compose the whole video during a session and still make the patient think you're paying attention to them.
- Proving how mobile Internet access is truly valuable to you. Watching Homestarrunner.com while in bed may be a lot of fun, but it's not really VALUABLE per se... Unless you are the Brothers Chaps (Creators of Homestar Runner) in which case you should Email me and I'll let you play with MY tablet.
- Showing examples: Go ahead and be specific on sites you use and the features of an Internet Tablet. Even suggest how they could be better. Drop in a slide show of screenshots if you'd like. No actual Internet Tablet needed - use a proxy or use a hunk of wood in a pinch. As long others can enjoy the same features, you've met this requirement. Lonelygirl15 style "just talking to the camera" videos won't win... Unless you're actually Jessica Lee Rose (the actress who played Lonelygirl15) in which case you should come over and play with my tablet.
- UPDATE - THIS CONTEST IS NOW OPEN INTERNATIONALLY thanks to dynamism.com for offering international shipping.
- This contest is subject to actual release and shipping time of the tablet. I'm not going to give away my pre-release (I have to return that) or my personal N810 when it arrives. Therefore, actual prize shipping depends on when the tablet can be purchased.
- Entries are due on or before November 16, 2007. Finalists will be posted November 18 on InternetTabletTalk forums when voting will be opened.
- Voting will close on November 22, 2007 at midnight Pacific time.
- Go to the Contest Announcement Video on YouTube.
- Click "Post a Video Response"
- Make sure your video response has these tags: "thoughtfix Nokia N810 Giveaway Contest Entry"
- Upload or record the video.
- Watch InternetTabletTalk.com forums to see if you are a finalist.
OFFICIAL RULES - The fine print.
No purchase or obligation necessary
1. How to Enter - Participants must create a video and upload it as a "Video Response" to the official announcement video. No other methods of entry will be accepted. Entry to this contest constitutes acceptance of these terms and acceptance of YouTube's terms of service. This contest is sponsored by ThoughtFix LLC and has no affiliation with YouTube, Nokia, or any other companies discussed or shown.
2. Eligibility - Contest is open to YouTube users aged 18 years or older. Judges and family of judges are not eligible. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. One entry per household.
3. Prize - The grand prize is one Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Delivery is subject to availability.
4. Prize Restrictions - Prizes are non-transferable. No substitution or cash equivilent offered except at Sponsor's option. All taxes are the responsibility solely of the winners.
5. Winning - One winner will be chosen from a pool of five finalists, rated by voters of the InternetTabletTalk.com community. Finalists will be chosen by Judges.
6. Notification of Winner/Claiming Prize - Winners will be notified by e-mail message over YouTube only and have up to 10 days to claim their prize via an e-mail reply, stating their name, address, city, state, zip, home phone number and/or work phone number. If selected winner does not claim their prize via an e-mail reply within 10 days from being selected as winner of the Contest, an alternate winner will be selected until the selected winner replies via e-mail within 10 days of being selected as the winner of the Contest.
7. Additional Terms - By participating, entrants agree a) to the Official Rules, and the decisions of the Sponsor and judges, which shall be final in all respects; and b) to release, discharge and hold harmless ThoughtFix LLC, its respective affiliated companies, subsidiaries, franchisees, agents, and advertising and promotion agencies, and their respective directors and employees from all claims or damages arising out of their participation in the Contest and the acceptance, use or misuse of a prize. By accepting a prize, winners or, if minors, their parents or legal guardians agree, where legal, to the use of their names and/or likenesses, for advertising purposes without compensation. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or web site; to be acting in violation of the Official Rules or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
8. Limitations of Liability - Sponsor is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access of the web site; any injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer(s) related to or resulting from participating in this Contest, or downloading materials from or use of the web site. If, for any reason, the Contest cannot be conducted as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend this Contest and may select the winner from among all entries received to the action taken. IN NO EVENT WILL THE SPONSOR OR ITS PARENT, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS, AND ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEB SITES WWW.TABLETBLOG.COM, WWW.INTERNETTABLETTALK.COM, AND WWW.YOUTUBE.COM OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE SITES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE AFOREMENTIONED LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY. CHECK LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR CONDITIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS AND/OR EXCLUSIONS.
9. Resolution - This contest is shall be construed and evaluated according to United States law. Do not enter this contest if you do not agree to these terms.
17 comments:
No International entrants - Bummer I get punished enough by living in the UK, but now I cannot enter your great contest.
Only joking I understand & good luck to everyone who takes part
If I were to enter, and if I were to win I would be glad to pay any shipping costs for sending it over to Norway. I could enter under a false name that happened to live at your address! I would do ANYTHING! though of course, this may be a "law" issue that has something to do with contests within the US.
However, Nokia IS in Finland, and my N800 got shipped from Finland just fine when I ordered it, will the availability be different for the early days of the N810?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/002-8306945-6499256?ie=UTF8&nodeId=596184
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GPS is cool… but, need longer battery life.
I am trying to decide. ASUS Eee PC with all it’s full featuredness. USB can power devices, size, full office suite, etc (problems, Eee PC battery only 3 hours & how often they lie about this, all of them), no sunlight readable screen (unlike what the OLPC has), no user upgradable storage (flash is hardwired to mother board). OR the choice, but more expensive is, the Nokia N810 (I tested the N800 and gave it back to CompUSA due to no JAVA, and no sunlight usable screen and no USB hosting (wanted to use USB external storage, and to network by USB to networking RJ45 ethernet plug cable, where there is no WIFI, yes this is a problem still in some places, where WiFi does not yet exist, so we have to hunt for an ethernet connection). Yep - I had a list of 20 complaints about the N800. However, I cried when I had to give it back after those 2.9 weeks to CompUSA for a refund (I handed them the long typed out complaint sheet and also emailed it to Nokia as well).
Nokia has improved the N800, but...
Main concerns/questions about the N810:
USB hosting - can we use USB keyboard, Hard Drive, Networking cable, plug-in cable direct to a camera, etc?
Storage - the Nokia site says CD micro and mini (with adapter), other bloggers have it that the N810 no longer has a regular SD capable slot and that you must go to the small format, and that leaves you not able to use SD cards that you have invested in already. What is truth? Can we still use all the SD cards we have bought in the N810?
Sunlight readable screen - how good is it outside in day light? How does it compare to the One Laptop Per Child OLPC device (a dual mode device with wonderful low power use features).
Java - what is the story on Java? Yes or No?
Email - what email client is it by default (is it IMAP capable)? I tested some Maemo.org ones, and they were a bit cramped to use, and really, a full size keyboard for a lot of email is a must.
Why don’t they package a full size USB keyboard (or even the blue tooth one) with this unit FOR FREE, built into the expensive price point they have chosen?
At $259 (1/2 the price of the N810) for same flash ram and screen, the ASUS Eee PC has a more usable larger keyboard… VGA external output (various resolutions so that one traveling can use it with a projector at a meeting). OpenOffice.org, lots of applications too. I just wish that ASUS had the OLPC dual mode screen, better battery life, and tech replaceable on board flash storage (but a plus is that it has a SD slot on the side)
Price - someone looking at a regular laptop at $500. then looking at this N810 might scratch their heads (you have to be a tech geek to maybe get it, I fear that the average consumer will buy the more value for the buck full size laptop, or get an Eee PC for 1/2 the price of the N810.
In the competition department, Quanta (maker of Dells, HPs, Acer, and other laptops, including the One Laptop Per Child OLPC) announced a $200 commercial version of the OLPC this past spring, and no news about it yet? Now, that might be something to look for as well? Far cheaper than the N800 and still will fit in a backpack or a purse. With the Quanta machine to be like the OLPC then we can look then at maybe it having the same OLPC battery life, is the best that I know of. And the OLPC, it is both a laptop, and a tablet as well (albiet bigger than the N810), yet if Quanta does the same, and makes it like the Eee PC... then both the Eee PC and the N810 will feel the heat from that device.
Intel has announce that they will be in this market too... with another Linux based device that is sure to compete with the N810.
I would enter the contest, but I might have too many complaints about the N810 and even if free, if I won, I would then send it back if it didn’t please me (like the N800 before that I gave back to CompUSA).
At the price of the N810 - I might just shell out the $400 and buy one and donate one OLCP (a deal they are offering in a few weeks for only two weeks)! I love the OLPC dual mode screen, and I love the battery life, and I think that the Mesh Networking is a huge plus as well.
Oh - one more complaint I wrote to Nokia about, is that with the various 15 minute re-chargable AA battery tech that I use for photo camera, that can also charge 15 minute AAA batteries as well, why not just use AA or AAA batteries in the N810? When ever proprietary battery is needed, an extra to have on hand, they stick it right where it hurts. Sure wish the UMPC level devices would allow us to use AA or AAA batteries (that we could charge in 15 minutes and be good to go). Oh - 15 min re-chargers have automobile cable to recharge on the go (all devices should use AA or AAA, OR SOMEONE SHOULD BUILD universal AA or AAA adapters to use instead of the proprietary batteries that have AA or AAA inside them anyway that you pay 400% more for - pure profit, when devices die is when you suddenly find you can’t buy their batteries anymore). That is the risk of buying something that does not sell well, in a year, you can’t find the batteries.
Why is the N810 so expensive? Too much $.
So - in my email to Nokia about the 20 problems with the N800, I told Nokia I would pay $250 for N800 (if blue tooth keyboard was incl), and I think that N810 is worth $300 (w/keyboard) and could add price for GPS (some of us rarely get lost).
Oh - I know why the N800 didn’t sell well in this area, the CompUSA store employees knew not one thing about it. I asked about it’s features of several store employees (in that area of the store) and they almost looked like they wanted to run away (they knew nothing about it). So, I took it, evaluated it, rejected it, took it back, got my money… and supplied them with a long list of my complaints, told the store manager to make sure the employees knew of this list, and walked out of the store with my money in my pocket.
Right now, I really am almost waiting for Quanta to arrive with their OLPC that might be like the ASUS Eee PC (but only better with better screen, better battery, better Mesh Networking, etc…)! N810, I might try it, but there are still about a dozen things that DON”T tickle my fancy over it… It could be better, only it they accepted all my complaints and fixed their problems with this unit (AND LOWERED THE PRICE)!
Hmmm, can the maemo OS, and maemo apps, all Debian based, be ported to the lower priced basic Eee PC, that runs another Debian based Linux OS (with 2GB storage at $259.)? Or could a N810 be set up to synch with the Eee PC, and be able to run with each depending on the need on your trip to the outside mobile world?
I was getting excited until I saw it's for US residents over 18 only. If you relax the age restriction then I do have friends in the US (Very near Phoenix actually) which you could send it to if I were to win, and I'm going there this Xmas. I do have some good ideas, but being 17 I guess there's no chance.
Same as James said :'( I'm only 17, but I'm a college student, and a nokia tablet would do wonders for me!
Hrm.... I'm another 17 year old user (and I thought I was the only one :P) but I turn 18 on November 17th, before the prize would be handed out, am I still SOL?
Also, if it's over 18s only, why do you bother mentioning minors here? "By accepting a prize, winners or, if minors, their parents or legal guardians agree, where legal, to the use of their names and/or likenesses, for advertising purposes without compensation."
Standard legalese. The fine print is always there to cover one's own ass.
Well if I create a new youtube account and supply a US address if I win, you'll never know anything about my age or nationality :P I suppose I'd have to put on an American accent in the video though...Howdy y'all! And there's the voltage difference, I'd probably let my friend in Arizona keep it as she wants one. You could give it to her in person! Aaanyway ignore me I'm thinking too much and need to study maths!
Why US resident only (for a European product !).
It's often the same limitation ?
USA isn't the world center. And Youtube is a world institution.
In France, we are so proud to have nothing to deal with war in Irak. Is that a punishement for those who think different ?
Again the US limitation is due to my OWN ability to ship internationally and I am trying to find a way around it. I WANT international entries! I do!
see (and tell Nokia about this please as the N800, and N810, and N820 really would be helped by the ability to do this):
http://www.linux.com/articles/53463
" Turn Thunderbird into a collaboration tool
By default, Thunderbird doesn't have a calendar, and it lacks the ability to synchronise data between multiple clients. However, the Calendar plugin combined with the SyncKolab extension can fill the void. You also need an IMAP account, which SyncKolab uses to synchronise the contacts and calendar data. You can either use a local Kolab server or an IMAP email account; the latter option is probably easier".
Blogged:
http://www.joetech.com/2007/11/08/thoughtfix-nokia-n810-contest/
http://www.linkbaitme.com/2007/11/08/thoughtfix-nokia-n810-contest/
Hey, don't be so bitter that no one cares what the French think any longer ( I suppose there are a few people in Canada who still care). You had your chance to be a the top of world civ. and, frankly, just could not hack it. Sorry you are no longer able to sell Sadam weapons : (
Feel free to give us a call if you need to get bailed out again!!
Cool contest, if not for the cry-baby Europeans....
Great blog contest!
I have post this blog contest info here
http://myblogcontest.com/last-day-to-enter-the-nokia-n810-giveaway-contest/
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