The general rule of thumb is if you’re on Myspace and you see a “I got my free iPod in the mail!” bulletin from one of your friends or as an ad banner, don’t click it. 1) your friend was the victim in a phishing expedition and 2) there’s just no such thing as a free lunch. So imagine my surprised when Cingular sent me a free phone to test their mybluenotes.com music features. I mean, for really free. I’m a real person. I really got a free phone. This is not to say YOU are going to get a free phone, cos you’re not.
So a few years ago I got involved in word of mouth marketing for Disney. And since the word of mouth space was new, we did a lot of bad stuff like SPAM message boards and email random people in various online communities uninvited and not be 100% transparent. But, they/we learned from our mistakes and learned the best thing to do is partner up with people who have a voice and get them to talk about our products, good or bad.
So that’s what we have here, give the girl with the computer a free phone and free access to this service and see what she thinks. So I got my free phone today. It’s an LG CU500 and at first glance I’d guess it’s LG’s answer to the incompetent Razor phone. Let me just say this much. I hate Motorola phones. I had a Motorola phone before the phone I have now and I hated how when you pressed end in the middle of dialing a number it took a few seconds to end the call. Anxiety much? Like OH FUCK I DIDN”T MEAN TO CALL MY EX RIGHT NOW! So anyway, back story is I WAS with AT&T, and I LOVED them. Imagine my dismay when AT&T become Cingular. And Cingular won’t extend the plan I had with AT&T, which was far superior, number of minutes, night time hours etc…so I’m by default a Cingular customer with an AT&T SIM card. So they won’t let me get a new phone unless I get a new Cingular plan. Undaunted, I get a cingular phone from a phone reseller and pop my SIM card in. Not surprisingly, I hate my new phone, which came recommended by a drunken crack whore named Jiminie. Seriously, that’s her name. Anyway, I despise my new phone (Samsung SGH D307) which looks a lot cooler than it is. So I hate that thing too. AND it doesn’t even have a camera. Not that I need one, but sometimes its helpful.
So anyway, I got my new phone now. It’s really pretty, but not very user friendly. But it’s not about the phone, it’s about the Cingular Music experience. They even got me a super cute music premium pack accessory thing. I’m very excited. Now if I can just get the damn thing to start working.
Love,
Gen
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sweet, i got this email through my blog today and i'm glad to hear it's real. by any chance, do you know the url of the cingular blog wehere we're supposed to post our thoughts? i saw it earlier, but i can't figure out where it was.
I got the phone too. I actually like it. In the area I am in I cannot get the great 3gp experience, but I got connected through Cingular's old EDGE.
Nothing like the beauty of the 3gp with connection speeds up to 600kbs. Oh well, however, I love the cingular TV. I got to admit, I am addicted now.u
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