Are you a student in the US? Get a free Windows Phone

http://dennisdel.com/blog/are-you-a-student-in-the-us-get-a-free-windows-phone#.T4D19l1CJo0.hackernews

by DenDen • 14 years ago

38 19 14 years ago

jrockway• 14 years ago

All you have to do is write two Windows Phone apps in the next month! You can test them on real hardware after you release!

rsanchez1• 14 years ago

You can write free versions of paid apps and release the paid version after you have hardware, or just release apps that would've been free anyway.

I think it's a good deal and I'll be taking advantage.

dhbanes• 14 years ago

What part of the deal is good for you, the developer?

rbanffy• 14 years ago

Seriously?

  Basic Info

    Location: BTMLayout Bangalore, India 560076

  Contact Info

    Phone: 0000000000

Shouldn't this be at least a little Redmond-related?

getsat• 14 years ago

This does look a little bizarre...

  Random blog claims free phones for students.

  Links to official rules PDF hosted on some PHP dev site.

  You have to register on Facebook to participate.

No indication of Microsoft being involved, yet you're disqualified if you've previously gotten something else through a Microsoft student promotion. What?

balakk• 14 years ago

There's a similar contest in India.

http://www.microsoft.com/india/iunlockjoy/

Perhaps it's being managed from India.

sliverstorm• 14 years ago

There are a number of possibilities. It could be a promotion that is outsourced to an Indian company. Microsoft could be hoping to hook developers in India.

jf• 14 years ago

If you're in the Silicon Valley, the Hacker Dojo has Windows Phone hardware you can do testing on.

Gigablah• 14 years ago

There was a similar promotion in Singapore, although it was open to everyone who submitted 3 app ideas. Those who got accepted could pick up a Lumia 800, and if they finished and released the apps within 3 months, they got to keep the phone.

necenzurat• 14 years ago

Joy, but i'm not from US

Achshar• 14 years ago

Well now I hate US only stuff even more. No this is not a trolling. I really am sick of the schemes that are limited to certain demographic. I understand there must be some reason behind this, some good reason mind you. But heck, it is not a pleasant experience seeing all this from out side.

mdaniel• 14 years ago

That blog has some of the weirdest spam comments I think I've ever seen. I can understand posting links to "lowest cost shoes" or whatever the current spam fad is, but I can't recall ever seeing that much lorem ipsum. I didn't check, so maybe there is a hyperlink hiding in the text somewhere.

robert_nsu• 14 years ago

(Personally) I don't consider troll comment to be a spam comment, but it's annoying all the same.

DenDen• 14 years ago

OP here. Just to clarify - the contest is ran by the Microsoft student division. Yes, I am aware that it is Facebook only and there is no webpage. I have no control over that, so again - cannot do anything about it. The PDF rules are linked from the same Facebook promotion page, by the way, so if there is any suspicion about that - feel free to read them from the FB page instead of the post.

Are you a student in the US? Get a free Windows Phone

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