IntoMobile’s iPhone 3G S Launch Day Giveaway Bonanza!
By Will Park on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 11:17 AM PST In AT&T, Apple, Blog Updates, Contests
Update: Stefan here, I’m turning off comments to this post since the contest is over. Will is going to get in touch with the three winners once he recovers after 12 hours of camping for the iPhone 3G S. Thanks to everyone who participated!
What could be better than a faster, more powerful iPhone launching this Friday?
A faster, more power-packed iPhone 3G S for FREE!
Whether you’re still bitter about AT&T (NYSE: T)’s decision to penalize current customers with an iPhone “loyalty tax,” or just cringing at the $199 entry-price for the 16GB iPhone 3G S, IntoMobile is here to help.
You still have time to enter, but you’d better enter quick! The first two iPhone 3G S winners will be announced at 4PM PST (Los Angeles time). We’ll announce the winners on the front-page (either in this post or a separate post). You can continue to enter until 11:59PM – we’ll be announcing the winner of our BONUS iPhone 3G S live from IntoMobile’s iPhone 3G S launch live-cast. We’ll be live-streaming the launch-day crowds at Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Store starting later tonight!
[Update]
Two winners have already been selected. Congratulations to Twitter user deanna_j and commentor Rob Werther on winning an iPhone 3G S! (Now all they have to do is contact IntoMobile)
The final winner of our one remaining iPhone 3G S will be picked tonight, live from Santa Monica Third Street Promenade Apple Store. We’ll be covering the launch festivities (and lines) live, so make sure to tune in tonight for our live-cast!
Announcing the IntoMobile iPhone 3G S Launch Day Giveaway Bonanza! Here’s what IntoMobile is doing to take the pain out of upgrading to an iPhone 3G S:
We’re not actually giving away 3 iPhone 3G S’s, that would be a logistical nightmare. Instead, we are giving away THREE (3) $200 Apple Store gift cards.
Three ways to enter the contest:
- Leave a comment that answers the question “Why do you deserve to win an iPhone 3G S?” in the comments section below this post
- Tweet (@IntoMobile) a short, coherent tweet that answers the question “Why do you deserve to win an iPhone 3G S?” to @IntoMobile
- Leave a comment and Tweet something – you get double the chances (or something like that) of winning!
Three winners:
- Two winners will be chosen on Thursday, June 18th at 4pm PST – one winner will be chosen from our Twitter feed and one winner will be chosen from the comments section.
- Bonus: One extra winner will be chosen from either the Twitter or comments section on Thursday June 18 at 11:59PM during IntoMobile’s iPhone 3G S launch-day live-cast!
- Winners will be announced on the IntoMobile front page as well as through Twitter (make sure to follow @IntoMobile, @WillPark or @SimonSage)
The rules – follow them or be disqualified, it’s that simple:
- Leave only ONE comment in this comments section below. If you post multiple comments, you will be disqualified. If you suspect there’s something wrong with your comment, contact us.
- ONLY US residents aged 18 or older. You are only eligible for the contest if you are 18 or older and live in one of the 50 United States of America. We can’t accept any non-US entries. If we could, we would.
- Winners will be chosen at random.
- Winners will be announced on the front-page and through Twitter (follow @IntoMobile, @WillPark or @SimonSage for the announcements).
- Winner has have five (5) days to contact us to claim the prize. If you don’t contact us within five days, your prize will be given away to another lucky reader.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3gs to use as an additional test platform for my app: inside redbox mobile
gimme gimme free iphone..gimme free..gimme free..
i deserve it because i have been working so hard to get one and i still can’t buy an iphone besides i’ve never won something
I deserve one because my wife is constantly stealing mine to look up random people on imdb.
I deserve an Iphone 3gs because I’m awesome. That is all.
I deserve the iPhone 3gs because I need my life back! I had the iPhone 3g but it was stolen last week after I went to the Apple Store to replace it!!! I’ve only not had it for less than a week and these have been the longest days ever! I use my iPhone for everything, it was my life. Now I find myself trying to pull out my iPhone to use, and all I find in my hands is a LG Shine!
Please help me get an iPhone……. I NEED it!!!
I want an iPhone 3G S really badly.
Or a gift card to help
Thanks
I would love an iPhone 3G S. However, there is a girl I know (the smartest, most beautiful girl in the world) who has been wanting an 8 GB iPod Touch. I know she would love it if instead she was surprised with a 16 GB iPhone 3 GS. I hope you pick me for her sake (and mine). Thank you!
i deserve an iphone 3gs so i can give it to my partner and hack the crap out of his iphone 3g!!
I deserve to win an iPhone 3G S because June 19th is my birthday and I’m still using a battered Sony Ericsson Z520a.
I deserve an iphone 3gs because I want to learn. I am very interested in astronomy and would love to be able to make use of the new Google star map but need the new iPhone 3g s with the compass to be able to do this. Please pick me! I will really appreciate it! Thanks!
I deserve to win an iPhone 3G S, because:
I spent my money on one for my wife before myself.
I LOVE intomobile and have been following if for a long while, and never won anything.
I want to learn it, and get my wife to use hers the same way; to it’s full potential!!
I deserve an iphone 3G S because I follow the greatest website in the world, intomobile, religio…..hold on, there some brown stuff on my nose. Religiously. Crap, its still there.
I deserve an iPhone 3Gs because I want to take spur of the moment videos of my wonder son and daughter and share them with family and friends!
i need an iPhone 3G S so I can get my intomobile fix on the go….pretty please!
I deserve to win an iPhone 3G S because I just graduated from high school and archived 4 years of high school.. I am going to college this fall.. And i have been very blessed in many ways with positive things in my life!!
I deserve a iPhone 3G S because I’m broke and an iPhone would allow me to pawn off my current cell phone, my alarm clock, maps, and most likely my TV. You know that way I could pay for the plan!
I should win the iphone 3g s because I really really want one an can’t aford it so please pick me . Please!
I deserve one b/c I’m a loyal fan of this website and I love the iPhone!
Reason for winning: I have an old Nokia 6300 on a T-Mobile prepaid account and no iPod. Nuf said.
I deserve an iPhone 3G S because it would be handy to be able to shoot and edit video on the spot for my job. (I’m a newspaper editor.)
Only one reason: I read intomobile when I am at work or home, with the 3GS I will read it even on the road.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3GS so that I can be at the forefront of technological revolution and lord over my college minions.
I deserve one because I promised my daughter a new iPhone when her 3G was stolen her last day of school
I deserve to win an iPhone because I have hated them for so long. Move over Blackberry! Show me the money!!
I would love an iPhone 3GS because I need a “get out of the dog house” card. Our anniversary is coming up and I am still paying for the wedding…FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!
I deserve the 3GS because I was recently tearing out and rebuilding a porch for an old neighbor Lady for free. a 2×6 fell and smashed my current phone. And guess what. AT&T won’t give me upgrade pricing on a decent phone.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3G S because having the ability to quickly access Epocrates and other quality medical apps will help me to better serve my patients in the hospital. (I’m a medical student and currently need to carry a Palm TX…I’d love to just carry an iPhone instead.)
i deserve the iphone because im going to school to be a application developer and i want to make apps for the iphone and windows mobile but i dont have enough money to buy one. i have the htc touch pro and now all i need is a iphone so when i develop apps i can try them on both phones…. in ther words the iphone 3gs will complete ME, let me become one with the iphone.. oh yeah i said iphone 6 times and thats my lucky number… k bye
I deserve to win an Apple iPhone 3GS so I can unlock it, sell it on eBay, and use the money to pay for my hefty UNC tuition.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3G because the price of the phone alone has put it out of reach for me… and this would go a long way toward allowing my iPhone dreams to become reality!
I deserve one because I want one, period. Thank you!
HI, I deserve to win because I really want one. and I havent got my hands on one yet. since its release on 07. I think its a great phone. It has everything I want on a phone. mail, web, picture. so on on.
I deserve to win an Apple iPhone 3GS because everyone deserves to have an iPhone, but I’m currently too poor to buy one.
I deserve to win an Iphone3GS because I’m not an apple fanboy…
I wouldn’t mind winning a free iPhone 3G S. If I did win I would give back to the community by making videos and doing comparisons with the Palm Pre on my Palm Pre site.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3GS because I want to give my wife the best tech gift ever:)
I would like to have it so I can see what all the hype is about the IPhone, I’ll post about it.
I deserve an iPhone 3G S because I love Apple, but hate that I have to wait for my contract to run up before I can get the upgrade price.
i deserve an iphone 3gs because i left a comment
“Read in tune of Jingle all the way….”
3GS,3GS and 3G all the way
Oh! what fun it is to read
Intomobile everyday
I would love one because I’m with T Mobile for 6 years and i don’t like AT&T period.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3GS because I’ve suffered for the last 2 years with an inferior phone that couldn’t even alert me when I’d receive voicemail or miss a call. Clearly I’m due for some good technology karma.
I would love to have an Iphone 3gs to give to my mother who wants truly wants one. We would both be grateful.
i deserve an iphone 3gs because i called att and they said i cant upgrade untill december.
FYI (or TMI?) — I am kneeling before the keyboard as I type.
I deserve an iPhone 3G S because I am addicted to my iPod Touch, so this is the natural progression of all things Apple. I am at the end of my contract with another carrier, so AT&T (ugh, eek, please don’t drop my calls) here I come. My wife knows (not ‘thinks’) I spend too much time on and with my gadgets, so spending money on this without some help from IntoMobile is out of the question. “Step up and be a man” you say? I’ve tried. “Who wears the pants in your relationship?” you ask. She does. This would be a major bone (sorry) you’re throwing me.
I deserve to win an iPhone 3gs to use because I’m using Sony Ericsson T290i
I deserve to be blessed with an iPhone because I’ve been dealing with Verizon’s shenanigans for toooo long!
I think I deserve an iPhone3G S because I have had so much trouble with mine since the get-go. I have had to switch my iPhone3G out 3 times since I first bought it a few weeks after launch day. I had problems from screen going out on me and leaving me stranded with no way to call anybody to having a ton of software malfunction issues. I loved my first gen iPhone so much and it never gave me any problems until one of my employees stole my phone. Took alot of investigating but we found the evil doer :{. Anyways, I had to get my parents to buy me an iPhone3G and bring it to me on their trip to PR, which by the way could not sell the iPhone at that time. Then I finally get my new pearly white baby to have it be the most flaky, unreliable, phone I’ve ever had. Don’t get me wrong, I still love my baby but seeing that new sexy iPhone makes me want to jump on it asap. Unfortunately, At&t has other plans and wants to keep us apart. What is a single gigelo like myself to do? PLEASE HELP INTOMOBILE!!!! PLEASE!!!
me me me so i can upgrade for the same price as newbies