As a website for people who are constantly on the go around Auckland, we recently got contacted by Vodafone who wanted us to know that they’re changing the way their mobile internet works.
Vodafone is making it even easier for people to connect to the internet – wherever they are – with the launch of revamped mobile data pricing and a smart backend that reformats webpages for easy viewing on a mobile screen.
Now, for up to just $1 a day on the days you use it, casual users of the mobile internet can browse the world wide web easily and inexpensively… without committing to a fixed monthly data contract.
The new $1 a day casual rate gives customers up to 10MB of data.
And how do we know this is actually true? Because we’ve got a new Nokia 6121. And even more excitingly, we’ve got one to give away, so you can have a chance to find out for yourself too. Find out how after the jump.
We want to know how you would use your Nokia 6121 in Auckland. Post your answer in the comments section.
Your story could be as simple as:
“I want to be able to use Vodafone’s mobile internet to cheat when I’m doing the pub quiz up at Shadows”
or it could be wildly creative (and we encourage this!) like:
“As I was drinking at the King’s Arms one rainy Sunday, I noticed that my favourite musician was standing at the bar. Thanks to the gossip I read on the Aucklandista I knew he’d just broken up with his girlfriend, and I was hoping he was up for some consolation shagging. But how to get his attention? I’d tried talking to him before at the Rising Sun but he’d ignored me. Hmmm. A flash of inspiration hit me, and I pulled out my phone and quickly downloaded his latest single and set it as my ring tone. Desperate, I know, but his jeans were so tight I needed some way to get into them. A quick text to my friend had her call me when I was standing right next to him. I pretended to blush, as he looked at me and raised his eyebrows. A couple of Epic beers later, and we were on our way to his musty Grey Lynn basement for ‘band practice’…”
The judges will pick five of the best stories and draw the winner at random from those entries.
Here are the rules of the competition.
- Your answer must include the name of the phone company, and some aspect of Auckland that makes it the awesome city that it is.
- You must live in Auckland and have a Auckland postal address for us to send the phone to if you win. (Psst, check out the Wellingtonista if you’re not from around here)
- The members of the Aucklandista and their partners (PAGS) are not eligible to enter, although we encourage them to tell us a story anyway.
- You have from now until noon Wednesday August 27 to post your entry.
- The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
WELL, now that spring’s around the corner, I’ll again suffer the sunlight cajoling me from my sunny home-office. As I set out for the 10-minute walk up to the Fridge, or Crucial Traders, I’ll lose my nerve and leave my MacBook / Vodem combo at the house. Despite the glut of online self-employed entrepreneurs in Shaky Isles, I’m still too chicken to tap on my lappy amid the artistes and musos. But oh! The lure of sunshine and coffee… With the mobile internet on my trusty-yet-unobtrusive Nokia 6121, I can enjoy my coffee without fretting about not-working, since I can check my remote boss’s plea-mails at my leisure.
I was getting nekkid at the domain with this guy from shorty street. And my mate texts ‘Hi what ui up2′ so I texts back on my nokia 6121 ‘getting nekkid with that guy from shorty’. And my mate texts ‘r u gacked out?’. So I used my 6121 to look up what ‘gacked out‘ means on urbandictionary.com and texted back ‘nar!’. And then I took a pic of the guy from shorters on my 6121 camera and sent it to my mate as proof.
I forgot the vodafone bit!
I was getting nekkid at the domain with this guy from shorty street. And my mate texts ‘Hi what ui up2′ so I texts back on my nokia 6121 from Vodafone ‘getting nekkid with that guy from shorty’. And my mate texts ‘r u gacked out?’. So I used my 6121 to look up what ‘gacked out‘ means on urbandictionary.com and texted back ‘nar!’. And then I took a pic of the guy from shorters on my 6121 camera and sent it to my mate as proof.
I’m waiting at the train station for the next ancient diesel engine to chug along. Waiting, waiting. And waiting. Still waiting. I finally remember my brand new Nokia 6121 has magical internet powers for cheap, so I whip it out, and head to maxx.co.nz to check the train timetable. It was due ten minutes ago, so I keep waiting. It rains. Fortunately there is a copy of the Central Leader on the bench. I make a hat out of it.
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