Make your iphone worth the money

Steven | marketing, advertising & campaigns | Monday, 14 July 2008

ipone 3GNot that I’m suggesting it’s a worthless piece of shit. I must admit it’s quite nice actually. Not that sophisticated as my Nokia N95 though, but it looks good, smells good, feels good. Marketing. Lovebrand. Yeah irrational love. Must have .. *slap*

Well, you can’t use QIK on an iphone, nah! Yet, crap.

But the $199 is a laugh here in Belgium. They go for sale from €525 here in Belgium. That’s about $830, or 4 times as expensive as announced. Sure, no simlock, but hell gimme simplock please and I’ll buy myself some freedom with the $630 that’s left.

Anyway, whatever you paid, you can win a trip to Minneapolis if you got one (or an ipod touch will do as well). Simply use your device to surf to www.vikingsmackdown.com. It’s a neat little game that uses the motion sensors, and you can throw AXES!

The game is developed to celebrate the 1th anniversary of Hello Viking, a so called advertising entity.

You can read more about this at this page, or on their blog.

I think it’s excellent. Time to market rules. Brilliant use of the motion sensors, yet simple. Nice graphics. Cool price. Advergaming to the next level. This will definitely put Hello Viking on the map.

Hat tip: Marketing Profs Daily Fix.

Update 17u50, just saw an email from Cain Ransbottyn. They got an early iphone and decided to blend it :-) (I just don’t like the bag being involved)


Speaking of, the Will It Blend platform is absolutely the most brilliant advertising out there. Yes they sell stuff, guess what? :-)
Here’s the WIB version of the iphone 3G.