Daily Archives: July 9, 2009

Photo-A-Day

Nokia E75

Nokia E75
Photo-A-Day #1553

For the past three weeks I’ have had a Nokia E75 smartphone. I’m going to fully review what I thought of it tomorrow and add it here. Let’s say that I’m still not up for getting rid of my LG EnV.

The Good – This phone looks amazing. I picked it out of the box and was very impressed with the styling. The slide out qwerty keyboard is something that I’ve been asking the WOM World folks to send me. As a blogger who does a lot of on the road type posts I really wanted something with that kind of keyboard. Unfortunately that was also a point against this phone as well.

There were a ton of features for this phone, apps, games and music. I was impressed with the 3.0 MP camera that was built into the phone. The very cool thing is that the phone actually has two cameras. One for taking pictures and the other for taking self portraits. That is a very innovative feature that I wish more phones had.

The Bad – I unfortunately wasn’t impressed enough with this phone. It has wi-fi and I used that for one frustrated evening. Things loaded very slowly where my iPod Touch loaded them so quickly. While I could add Google to my main menu and a quick shot to my gmail account it wasn’t worth the effort because of the slowness of the load time for the phone.

The keyboard was a full on qwerty keyboard but the keys were so flush that you couldn’t tell which key you were pressing and because it was a slide out format I always felt cramped. I don’t like it when my tech makes me feel cramped.

Overall – The phone is a decent one but not one for me. I’m on the search for a phone that will make me want to replace my LG enV and this one was not it.

Contest

I Wanna have a Happy Blu-Year!

If you have not entered the Its a BluWorld then you are most certainly missing out on a great opportunity. There are five great prizes up for grabs but there is one that I would really love to win and that is the Happy Blu-Year one. The winner of that gets to go to New York City for New Year’s Eve.

Every year we watch the giant party that happens in New York on television. I would certainly love to be at that party at least once in my lifetime. It would be one of those bucket list type of items and truly an amazing time. Not only would I be able to see the ball drop and party in the streets of New York at midnight, Allison and I would be able to also take a helicopter ride around the city, that would be simply incredible to do and I could take some amazing photos.

If we won this contest I’m pretty sure I’d throw my own little New Year’s countdown celebration. I’d pop some champagne or more appropriate for this situation, I’d pop a can of BluFrog after a spirited 10 down to 1 countdown.

The contest prizes are below. I encourage you to enter the contest and leave me a comment telling me what prize you want and why. Good luck to you.

Win One of Five Blu Prizes! The prizes that are being given away are incredible and I want you to win them. Here are details on each of them.

Prize: BluGamer The Ultimate Gaming Package
What’s Included:

  • Xbox 360 Elite System (includes 1 controller & Xbox LIVE Headset)
  • Rock Band 2 Bundle
  • Call of Duty: World at War Complete Package
  • Xbox Wireless Networking Adapter
  • Complimentary X-Shot
  • 2 Cases of Blu Frog Energy

Event: Happy Blu-Year – New Year’s Eve in Times Square in New York City
Date: Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 – Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010
What’s Included:

  • Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
  • Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
  • Luxurious Hotel for 3 nights
  • Helicopter Ride for 2 over New York
  • Complimentary X-Shot
  • Food and Beverages NOT included

Event: Blullapalooza – Lollapalooza at Grant Park in Chicago, IL
Date: Friday, August 7 – Sunday, August 9, 2009
What’s Included:

  • Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
  • Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
  • Luxurious hotel for 2 nights
  • 2 Tickets to Lollapalooza
  • Complimentary X-Shot
  • iPod loaded with music
  • Food and Beverages NOT included

Event: Blu Streak – Richard Petty Driving Experience in Orlando, FL
Date: your choice of a Friday thru Sunday
What’s Included:

  • Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
  • Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
  • Luxurious hotel for 2 nights
  • 2 Tickets for Rookie Driving Experience
  • Complimentary X-Shot
  • Food and Beverages NOT included

Event: Xtreme Blu Aspen – Winter X Games 14 in Aspen, CO
Date: Thursday, January 28 – Sunday, January 31, 2010
What’s Included:

  • Round Trip Air Fare for 2 from Major Gateway Airport
  • Ground Transport to and from the Hotel
  • Luxurious hotel for 3 nights
  • 2 Tickets to Winter X Games
  • Complimentary X-Shot
  • Food and Beverages NOT included

Want to win these prizes. Well you can only win one of them so you are going to have to chose. You are also going to have to tell everyone why you want that specific prize. and there are three ways to enter. Tweet, Comment and Blog. That’s right send a tweet, leave a comment and blog about the contest. It is really very simple but for official contest rules http://itsabluworld.com/contests/rules/.

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