June 16, 2011

WIN: Nokia N8 Pink smartphone worth $639

Can you remember your first mobile phone? I can. It was a Nokia. And pretty chunky.

I used it to *talk* to people. And people phoned me. To talk. We’d have a conversation that didn’t require a keyboard. Strange but true.

None of this texting or Tweeting malarkey.

But I am what’s known as an early adapter in the geek department. Before long I was SMSing like my thumbs were playing pinball.

Now, I can’t seriously imagine life WITHOUT a smartphone. I started with a Blackberry, swapping to an iPhone4 last year. As a small business operator and blogger, a Smartphone is an essential tool (well that’s what I tell my husband when I’m sitting on the lounge at night Tweeting my way through an episode of Grey’s Anatomy).

So imagine how rapidly my inner geek levels rose when the lovely people at Nokia contacted me to see if I wanted play around with a Nokia N8 smartphone. Did I mention it was pink?

Nokia N8 Pink $634

Yep, that’s right. Pink + geek = love at first sight.

Apart from it’s obvious good looks, does it deliver the goods as a solid “mobile office” alternative?

The short answer? Yes, it does. And, dare I whisper it in the vicinity of my iPhone … possibly more.

Get this … the Pink N8 features a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash and clever social network uploading capabilities. That’s some serious camera power in a phone. You can also edit photos and videos on the device, share them with friends and family instantly and upload them to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter straight from the home screen.

The phone even lets you organise your social life simply by syncing calendar events from Facebook to the Nokia N8 calendar.

So, what about apps? The Nokia equivalent of Apple’s App Store is Ovi Store. It works the same way – there are free apps and paid ones. Yes, the kids can still play Angry Birds while you’re buying five minutes extra to drink your coffee in peace. And yes, I can blog straight from my phone with the WordPress app. There’s no Instagram but I’m loving the look of Pocketbooth and Colorizit in the photo app department.

Now, to get to the REALLY exciting bit. Yep, that’s right Nokia and Styling You has a N8 Pink to give away to one lucky reader.

How good does the Nokia N8 Pink look?

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THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. For your chance to win a Nokia N8 Pink valued at $639, simply leave a comment below. Tell me about your first mobile phone. Was it a brick? Can you remember your first text? Entries open June 16 at 7am and close on June 23 at 8am. This competition is open to Australian residents only. One entry per person. The total prize pool is valued at $639. The winner will be drawn at random using www.random.org. He or she will be notified by email and their name will be listed here.

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By Nikki Parkinson

587 comments

anny

i remember the firsy phone i had it was a nokia and it didnt work propely the first text i sent was to a random contact on the phone they repleyed asking who am i?
Jesse Forsyth

It was my mum’s old mobile… kind of small…one key didn’t work, but had the worst ring tones EVER!!! – and the back cover kept falling off.. but I still felt blessed to have A phone… no matter what it looked like.. I love PINK… so this would be my ideal mobile…
Lisa

I remember my first mobile – I waited so long for it! My parents told me I couldn’t get one until I had finished school, so trust me, by the time I could get one, I was desperate for the most coolest phone there was! At the time, that was a silver Nokia phone with the blue screen! How amazing it was! Not just an ordinary screen, but a funky looking BLUE screen! My first call was to my best friend “I’m talking to you from my stylishly-cool hip phone!” “Stylishly-cool and hip” – haven’t times changed!
PAULINA REINOGA

I put off getting a mobile phone and my first one was very basic and so slow compared to now (or was that just my lack of texting ability!). My first message was probably checking that the teeneagers had done their homework. At least they read texts, Mum’s voice is usually ignored!
Liz

The day I received my Motorola BRICK, I used it to whack who I thought was a bag snatcher, he was only a homeless man who quickly said “WTF if THAT!!!”

Liz

Wtf IS that, NOT Wtf if that!!!

jake

my first mobile phone was in 1999, it was actually a remarkably small and tough Sagem phone. but texting was obviously a new phenomena – no predictive text, one click to scroll through each letter one at a time – it’d take 5 mins to write a basic sms, so i rarely bothered! oh, and i wasted my entire prepaid credit because i wasn’t aware of the phone lock option, and i accidentally redialed when i put the phone in my pocket, whilst my mother listened in for over 15 mins of me trying to chat up some girls!
suef2011

It was big and black and ugly. Oh yeah that should be IS. I have still have it – time for an upgrade. Would love to be pretty with pink
Christine

When phones first came out I used to make fun of my friend and the way he always put his brick of a phone on the table whenever we went out and made a real show of using his phone. Years later he took me out for my birthday and gave me a present which promptly started to ring. Although it had stopped ringing by the time I had finished opening it , everyone was now watching as I took out one of those big plastic yellow Fisher Price phones into which he had inserted a modern day phone. There was an SMS message on the phone which read …”A brick for my brick’. That phone was such a good memory of our great friendship and the way he always made me laugh
Jujji

OMGoodness!

My first time was with a large Nokia blue walkie talkie

My first ever text was to my high school stalker “Leave me alone!”

LMAO… well it only resulted in a $2000 phone bill as I kept switching my phone off and in those days under contracts we were charged HUGE amounts of money to listen to voice messages

Oh well!

At least now days Nokia’s look more akin to supermodels and
my stalkers carry flowers and not back packs!

>^.~<
Danielle King

My first mobile was a Motorola brick…. I was 17 and thought I was so cool having a ‘cell phone’. Back in those days nobody even knew what an sms was!
http://nowebsite Kelly Wilson

My first mobile was a nokia, 15 years ago, and I’ve had nothing but Nokia’s since!
Samantha W

My first phone confused the hell out of me with all the messages I’d get saying, “Please call”. Please call who? What? When? I didn’t realise that I had to scroll across to the next screen to reveal the number for my voicemail service.

June

Weighed a ton as I recall. Could put it in your pocket but had to watch out that your pants don’t drop down.

Isobel

My very first mobile phone was not QUITE a brick. I used it on the go, to phone my aunt in Ireland and thought that an amazing achievement!
Theo Hronopoulos

It was a brick alright, I was careful not to drop it just in case in landed on my foot and it broke a toe or two.
Stacey

My first phone had an aerial! First text was hi sexy legs. I didn’t even know what a SMS was
Kallina Heynatz

I was given a Nokia by my older brother. It was like carrying around a barbell it was that big nd heavy, but I thought it was the coolest phone out!
kelly

Who would have thought that my original brick mobile shrunk to the size of a weeny calculator and can do so much! My first text messages took me ages to write and I couldn’t figure why people used instead of calling. Thought I was so cool finally learning the abbreviations, lol c u l8r
Christine

It was a very yellow Motorola that my partner gave me. I still have a hankering for yellow phones.
Jessica

I seen my first mobile phone at about 18 years old. my uncle had it, it was this huge black brick with a thick antenna.

We were in awe and I remember thinking “no one will ever want a mobile phone, what for? we have house phones and public telephones”
But he was still thought of as the cool uncle with the latest gadget.

Who would of thought!
http://roamingal.wordpress.com Alice

My first phone was a blue and grey Ericsson, with an antenna that used to get caught on just about everything. Can’t remember what my first text was, but it was most likely to my husband! My sister gave me her Nokia a few years back, and when our youngest put it in the loo I just had to get another Nokia
wendy christidis

Hubby works in IT and used to be “On Call” About 20 years ago he was given home a mobile phone to replace his old fashioned “pager” Everyone was amazed with it and the phone became a real talking point at parties as it was state of the art technology! Looking back now, we laugh as the “modern” phone was so big it couldnt fit in his pocket, had an 18 inch antenna that you had to manually put up and couldnt even send texts!!!!
Aaron

My first mobile phone was a Nokia 1100. It was a birthday present. Unfortunately, I didn’t take care of it well. At my party at the beach, I entered the water without realising that the phone was still in my pocket. Fortunately, the people at Telstra were nice enough to give me a new one.
Elizabeth

a bloody great big brick that wieghed a tonne
Jin Park

My first phone was indestructible. It could withstand heavy forces, water damage, and contact sports, and still be able to call my mum to pick me up from school!
denise

Our first mobile with huuuuuuuuuge, hubby used to drive around in his truck with it and when the phone rang the truck horn would BEEP really loudly. Was hilarious!
leanne

Those red nokias you were not up to date unless you had one
http://Stylingyou Catherine

It was a Nokia 3210, it was good for its time, it was a brick but unbreakable. Feels like a million years ago now how funny, no way i could remember my first txt though
Simone

I still own my first mobile phone. A Silver Buick that makes my shoulder groan. A large keyboard helps my fading eyes. A flip top ensures no dialling surprise. A simple menu that even I can master. No Internet distractions means I can go faster. The only problem is they no longer make a battery to keep my phone awake!
http://www.wallspank.com/ sarah

I resisted a mobile phone for a long while, not wanting to be disturbed when I was out and about. How times have changed. My first was a Nokia as is my current phone!
http://danutazasun@gmail.com Danuta Zasun

My first mobile weighed a ton. You carried the battery in a seperate bag on your shoulder. Now mine Fits in my jeans pocket.
Katrina

my first phone was a Nokia. It was shaped like a giant pill. It was white and the screen was in black and white, no colour! The first time I texted was in year 7 and it was to ask my dad if he was picking me up. The phone was my brothers old on but I felt so cool with it, when I look back at it I laugh because the phone was just so funny looking.
michelle

my first phone was a sky blue nokia which i got for mothers day in 1997 but dropped and broke it a few years later. now i have an old nokia pink flip phone which doesnt have blutooth or internet and is on its way out…….i would really love a new up to date phone
http://- Kristina

I was 16, I believe it was a Panasonic brand, small but wide and I only had it for a couple weeks before it got stolen at a party along with my whole handbag. I was devastated and had to save up to buy another. i had to flip alot of burgers )
Laura J

I had a brick, found a pic of the exact phone here: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/697/x270e48e.jpg/sr=1
It was the main phone offered by British Telecom. It was 1995 – I was at high school and I was one of the few kids who had one, but Mum insisted to be in contact with me! It was embarrassing!
Anna

First phone was a nokia so it would be fitting if I won this new one as well!
S.Pfeiffer

A hideous blue & black coloured brick,
Sony Ericsson was the brand,
Compared to what we have these days,
I would be horrified holding it in my hand!
Daniel

My first phone was a massive brick. Enough to win a fight or argument with. I was the envy of all my classmates.
http://facebook Sian Barry

My first phone was a nokia 3315, a black and white phone.
I was 12 and i had been wanting one for ages because everyone had one. When it was christmas my dad finally said i could get one, he even asked me if i wanted a color phone, but i said no because everyone else had these black and white ones! the cool thing was to have one with a funky case and lanyard. Every birthday, christmas or easter me and my twin sister would buy one for our phones haha, my first one was a paul frank case and lanyard. I miss that phone, it was easy to use and had my all time favorite game snake,which was so addicting!
http://www.stylingyou.com.au/2011/06/win-nokia-n8-pink-smartphone-worth-639/ Lisa

i never had a mobile phone, so if i won this, this pink phone would be my first ! :]
Lucinda

My first phone was an old blue nokia brick with the black and white screen and none of the things phones have nowadays. All i used to do was sit there and waste all my battery playing snake! haha. Such a good phone
Jennifer Ashcroft

My first mobile was back in 1990 and it was a huge clunky thing – more like a walkie talkie than a phone. It wouldn’t even fit in my hand bag. I thought it was pretty cool, despite the fact that the bills were HUGE.
Julie

I held off getting a phone for some years until my daughter decided I should ‘get with it’ and gave me her old Nokia flip. It was covered in diamantes that she’d glued all over it!
Leonie

It was the Nokia 5110 and i loved it, all my friends did too and bought the same 1, if it wasnt for the fact that you could change the faces on them, we’d have gotten very mixed up whos phone was whos!
Tanya

It was a motorolla flip phone and believe it or not my boyfriend and I (gasp) shared it. We are now married and both totally addicted to smart phones but his is newer than mine and totally not pink……
Tess

My first phone was a hand-me-down, my sister told me it’d give me cancer if I used it, so naturally I buried it
Justin

My first mobile phone was when i was about 6. My aunties got it for me and as you would expect, it was a nokia. A nokia 1202. I currenttly have an Alcatel OT-880 XTRA but if I win this Nokia N8, I would give it to my mother because she has never had a phone and is currently fighting cancer and it is almost her birthday (1st of July). I would appreciate it soo much if I won this phone and would never stop thanking you.
Kaye Lowes

I currently have an LG phone and I am over it. I am desperate for the sassy pink Nokia N8 smartphone.
Lesley

Big buttons and pale blue.My first love was a Nokia and It was flawless.The year was 1998 and my model was really hip.No such thing as iPhones or smartphones then.Mobile life was simpler then,I miss it.
http://12 Grant

MY first phone was a motorola V6 when I was twelve for christmas. I think my first text was merry christmas from my nanna
Jordan

My first phone came very late, I held off what I thought was a silly trend, until I saw this one Nokia. I saved and saved for this very expensive phone by working my part time job (I was still at school). By the time I had enough money the amazing phone I wanted was so cheap, so out of date and so old I had heaps of money left over to buy more clothes!

Loved that Nokia!