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

14 July, 2009
Today 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...

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  • Anonymous
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  • 15 Jul 2009

Anonymous, 15 Jul 2009Where do I sign up? I'm in the US and will take you all on.you 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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    • Gdog_53424
    • ImS
    • 15 Jul 2009

    How do u enter?

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      • Anonymous
      • 4hJ
      • 15 Jul 2009

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

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        • Anonymous
        • P4F
        • 15 Jul 2009

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

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          • Anonymous
          • 0Up
          • 14 Jul 2009

          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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            • nicksti
            • kar
            • 14 Jul 2009

            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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              • yfq
              • 14 Jul 2009

              Actually is $75K per country!

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                • Clint
                • 46a
                • 14 Jul 2009

                stefan, 14 Jul 2009are u serious??? are u talking about the same company that ... more
                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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                  • Anonymous
                  • L0{
                  • 14 Jul 2009

                  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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                    • Heri
                    • PFJ
                    • 14 Jul 2009

                    Yes, you can use any mobile phone you have!

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                      • stefan
                      • p3D
                      • 14 Jul 2009

                      Rip, 14 Jul 2009Instead of conducting dumb and silly competitions LG should... moreare 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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                        • iAm
                        • 14 Jul 2009

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

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                          • aiein
                          • jx$
                          • 14 Jul 2009

                          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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                            • fastbreak
                            • wYB
                            • 14 Jul 2009

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

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                              • Anonymous
                              • tjF
                              • 14 Jul 2009

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

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                                • Anonymous
                                • mCS
                                • 14 Jul 2009

                                Anonymous, 14 Jul 2009I wonder if non-lg user can enter the event. I also wonderi... morewell 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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                                  • Rip
                                  • G2G
                                  • 14 Jul 2009

                                  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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                                    • b6h
                                    • 14 Jul 2009

                                    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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                                      • Davide
                                      • M8T
                                      • 14 Jul 2009

                                      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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                                        • Raksmey89
                                        • P@T
                                        • 14 Jul 2009

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