OK. Another hard contest. You have exactly one week to do this one, so please bear with me. T-Mobile dropped me a line last week offering:
A HotSpot-enabled phone (Nokia 6086 or Samsung t409), T-Mobile HotSpot @Home Wi-Fi router (D-Link or Linksys brands) and one year of free T-Mobile HotSpot @Home service that includes (per month) unlimited calls to your myFaves contacts, 2000 nationwide WHENEVER Minutes®, unlimited T-Mobile-to-T-Mobile domestic calling, 1500 messages sent, 1000 messages received, and access to t-zones.
That’s right: A hotspot, a phone, and 1 year free service. Pick your jaw up off the floor and stop drooling. Listen up. This is the end of the landline era and to celebrate this momentous occasion we’re asking CG readers to make a 1 minute video of them destroying their landline phone. That’s right: a full-on, Mafia-style cordless beat-down. Take the video and email it — or a YouTube or other link — to contest @ crunchgear dot com. The deadline is next Monday, July 23 at Noon EDT. We’ll then vote on the best video until Wednesday of that week and the winner will get free phone calls for an entire year. Cool? Good. Get filming.
This should prove entertaining. I wonder if I could smear mine with peanut butter and convince my doberman to attack!
I must have missed the post for the winner of the TeleNav contest. Can someone someone point me in the right direction; the search feature doesn’t want to be my bff today.
John,
This is proving to be quite difficult. Actually filming my methods for destroying our landline phones would be like handing the evidence over to the police. Maybe I’ll just write the words “CrunchGear” on the phone somewhere but not actually show my face or record my voice for the sake of some level of anonymity. Ya? No? mwahahahaha
This will be excellent to see ;) cant wait for entries
Well, from my experience of cell phone providers, T-Mobile is definitely on the d-list (and not nearly as funny as Kathy Griffin ;), so if you’re planning to ditch your landline, make sure you test a T-Mobile connection (find someone who uses it and march them into your yurt and see if you get any bars at all… and can hold a connection for 5 minutes).
I am keeping my landline. I can’t actually get calls where I live via cell phone, or where I work. Funny though, I had TWO cell phones with 2 different lines, so it isn’t like I didn’t TRY! The irony is that ever since the phone company hooked up DSL the land line hasn’t been the same. Now there is all this static and noise. The phone company said it wasn’t due to the high speed internet connection.(even though the static wasn’t there before I got high speed internet) So I got rid of it. The phone company said it was my cordless phone, so I got rid of that and now have a plain boring handset with a hard line, no caller ID etc. I love technology. So I just turned off the ringer and let everything go to voice mail. I can access the voice mail from anywhere, and I don’t have to worry about charging the cell phone or missing calls. And I can ignore the same amount of people cell phone users ignore(except I won’t know who I am ignoring unless they call. My whole family has cell phones, but they never answer them. So this works well for keeping in touch. Not only that but basic service via quest is costing me 39.00 a month. Why do they charge so much for old technology?
I would move into town, but it is kind of hard to meet people when they are always talking to other people on their cell phones, or listening to their messages, or their music. At least out in the country I don’t have to listen to the phones ring while I am eating dinner.
I may actually have to do this! Hilarious idea!