By Cristina Porter
23rd January 2012.
18:21
Category Archives: competition
In October, we told you about an exciting new project that our colleagues in the Extras team had been working on with London College of Fashion.
The project required students to research design and produce creative concepts for new, wearable technology incorporating the remote display LiveView™. We couldn’t tell you then but, behind the scenes, the students were also working on similar concepts incorporating our exciting new Android remote SmartWatch™, recently unveiled at CES 2012.
The winners of the project have now been announced.
A while ago we ran a competition on Facebook where our fans got to compete on being the first to review on of our two upcoming feature phones Sony Ericsson txt pro and Sony Ericsson Mix Walkman phone. Some of them got phones for review and finally four was selected as the finalists. The video reviews from these four finalists where put on Facebook where the other fans could select the winner by using the like button.
The assignment was a tricky one, record a video review that should show the phone in a creative and informative way – all this in only 45 seconds!
The one with the most likes was Pavan from India. Congratulations Pavan!
Here’s his review of the Sony Ericsson txt pro:
Some of my colleagues made a short interview with Pavan to get to know a bit more about him, why he entered this competetion and what he’s going to do with the prize:
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? – I am from Bangalore studying 3rd year Engineering course in Don Bosco Institute Of Technology.
Why did you enter the reviewer competition? – When I came across the review competition, I felt like this is something different, something unique, asking customers to make a review of a brand new phone. So I just had my 50 words submitted in seconds.
What did you think of the competition? – It’s the first time I have taken part in such a huge competition. Right from making the review video to the voting part I enjoyed every bit of it.
Have you always been a fan of Sony Ericsson? – Yes! I have always been a fan of Sony Ericsson. I love the walkman phones you make.
What do you usually look for in a phone? – Apps! A phone which supports a lot of apps would be an ideal phone for me.
What was your favourite feature of the Sony Ericsson txt pro phone? – I liked the Friends App and the threaded way of displaying messages. Both features make texting fun and easy!
Will you recommend the txt pro to your friends? – My friends are already excited to receive the phones!!!!!
What is your favourite Sony Ericsson phone? – My fav is the Xperia X10. One because it’s sleek and second I love the Timespace app it has.
Did you expect to get so many votes and great comments? – Initially I wished the judges selected the final winner, but as the voting went on I was happy to see my LIKES going up by 100 each day.
Now you have won the prize how are you going to decide on how to share the phones? – This is harder than winning the competition. I am waiting for the phones to decide on sharing.
As you might have seen from the earlier post here on the blog or on our global Facebook page we have been running a competition with our Facebook fans to be the first to review one of two new phones before they were even fully announced.
From all the applicants in that competition (and I tell you there were many!) we chose a few that was sent phones to create video reviews of them.
That work is now done and four out of these reviews will be published on our global Facebook page where the one that gets the most likes from the fans will win the competition and besides the enormous glory also get 10 phones for themselves and their friends and family. 
It’s now also time to fully introduce these two new feature phones:
We just announced a cool thing on our global Sony Ericsson Facebook page.
There you can enter a competition to be one of the first reviewing one of our two upcoming feature phones before they’re even fully announced. 12 finalists will be chosen from the applicants and will be sent a phone to create a video review. 4 of those reviews will then be posted on our Facebook page and the one that gets the most likes will win a great prize. The selection of the 12 finalists will be made by a jury which I’m honored to be part of.
I’m sure many of you here would be a perfect fit for creating these reviews so I hope some of you sign up for it.
Interested? – Head on over to Sony Ericsson on Facebook and sign up!
So – Our beloved top commenter Piotr now got his Satio and has started to give some impressions here in the comments on previous posts. However he has also started a blog of his own where he continuously puts down his thoughts on using Satio.
You find his new blog at: http://mazurkwicz.wordpress.com/
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