MSFT Gambling $100 Bills on WP7 Speed Tests in Vegas
Money, meet mouth.
The host city for CES might be Las Vegas, but anyone who's actually been will tell you that you don't exactly get to experience Vegas when you go to CES. In fact, you barely see anything at all. Between the convention center, the press rooms (complete with handy packed lunches), waiting in line for keynotes, and late-night writing marathons in your hotel room, you're lucky if you get to the hotel gift shop, never mind the casino. However, this year, the ever-caring Microsoft is ensuring we don't miss out on the biggest Vegas activity going -- gambling.
Microsoft's Ben Rudolph is in Vegas this week, waving around a stack of $100 bills and bragging about how fast his Windows Phones are. Specifically, he's betting that his phone can beat your phone in a head-to-head speed challenge. There doesn't seem to be any specific app or test for the challenge -- Rudolph says that he and the challenger will make the call based on what they do on their phone every day. If the Windows Phone can't beat your Android, iOS or other device, he'll give you a hundred bucks. However, if you lose, you have to go on camera and admit your phone got smoked by a Windows Phone, which might be difficult for diehard Android or iPhone fans to admit.
According to Ben's Twitter, he's beat the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy Nexus. He's also had an Android blogger back out because she was afraid she'd lose. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, though, as Ben has been beaten -- in a race against an iPhone 4S to load a photo on Twitter. He's going to be running the challenge today from 2pm to 6pm and tomorrow, too. Be sure to nip down to see him if you're at CES!
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Damn I wish I was there, easy $100..
I have a Galaxy Nexus, and I bet my Galaxy Nexus is faster at being a torch..
Best. Marketing. Tactic.
EVAR!
If the gamble is based on boot up time, can I bring my old Nokia 3310?
Too bad hackers will just as quickly be able to exploit a weakness in the Windows coding and steal that $100 before you even see it
Yea so he is using some custom quad core arm 1.5ghz in a crappy WP7 case.. and has about 40 phones charging under the table and swaps them between bets.. Cheaky sod.
So Jane, did you take the bet?
Oh god I'd love to turn up with a rooted device that I'd manually overclocked, just to see the look on his face when he is beaten by a Galaxy S II running at 1.75ghz...
Couldn't the photo on twitter have been cached on the iphone if he's already viewed it?
I'm going to challenge him to a throw in the ground test vs my candy bar phone which isn't worth the sum of its parts. Fastest speed hitting the ground wins.
my phone can make a speed dial call by pressing 2 buttons in less than half a second
So Jane, did you take the bet?
Nope. In my eyes, my Nexus S is queen.
Too bad hackers will just as quickly be able to exploit a weakness in the Windows coding and steal that $100 before you even see it
Geeze guys, learn to take a joke. You know it secretly made you laugh inside!
Which WP7 phones is he using?
Does this include overclocked phones with custom ROMs?
I have seen some slick ROMs in my days. A friend of mine has a nice SGS2 at 1.6Ghz that is really fast.
This is a great marketing approach and I will laugh my ass off if these videos make it to some commercial spots.
It does say a lot about their confidence if they are willing to put WP7 head-to-head at "the" tech conference.
Is it just me or does the photo look photoshopped ?
got to say, this is excellent marketing.
Great ethical marketing on Microsoft's part to make a point unlike say Apple who's marketing is down right deceptive more secure please they get hacked into quickest only people they are are fooling are the naive people that wouldn't know the difference between Ford and a Lamborghini.
Oh god I'd love to turn up with a rooted device that I'd manually overclocked, just to see the look on his face when he is beaten by a Galaxy S II running at 1.75ghz...
And then it catches fire. You're up $100 though!
Nope. In my eyes, my Nexus S is queen.
You're just camera shy. Hint hint.
results: http://www.wpcentral.com/recap-win [...] llenge-ces
Oh god I'd love to turn up with a rooted device that I'd manually overclocked, just to see the look on his face when he is beaten by a Galaxy S II running at 1.75ghz...
I'm sure they could be interested in the results as well. If they manage to beat your device, then they have a lot of bragging rights