Your chance to win
UPDATE: This competition has now closed. We are currently going through your awesome entries and we’ll let you know who has won once we know.
UPDATE 2: The competition was won by MrGadget who has been notified via email. Thanks to all our entrants and congratulations to MrGadget!
As we mentioned the other day, we’ve teamed up with Vonage to celebrate the launch of their Time to Call app by giving away a shiny new 32GB WiFi iPad 2 to one lucky reader (although we originally had to pull out the folks at Vonage have been amazing and have made it possible for us to run it).
All you need to do to enter is hit the comments of this post and tell us in 500 characters or less the following: if you had 15 minutes to call anyone past, present or future, who would you call and what would you talk to them about?
Your answer can be serious or funny, fact or fiction, so get creative and get writing.
As always, there are rules to be mindful of and they are:
- Competition closes 11:59pm 20th August, 2011 NZT.
- Competition is open to all New Zealand residents registered with iPhonewzealand.
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- The winner’s entry and their site user name will be published on the site.
- Winner’s details including name and postal address will be passed to Ivy Communications who will send the winner an Apple Store NZ voucher to the value of a 32GB WiFi iPad 2.
- Judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- One entry per person. Additional comments will void your entry.
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I would call myself, 10 years into the future (assuming I that wouldn’t somehow destroy the space time continuum), and I would ask myself what the latest Apple product was like! What crazy new features does it have; holographic displays, glasses-less 3D, integrates coffe machines, etc etc.
(dylangiacon has made 10 comments)
If I could call anyone I would call my fiances recently departed mother and tell her how her son proposed, as she used to talk about it often with her family. I would then pass the phone to him and let him have one last conversation with his mum.
(emzyl06 has made 3 comments)
I’d call Bruce Dickinson and ask if he could possibly be persuaded to fly Ed Force One over to New Zealand next year so Iron Maiden can play at my 40th birthday bash. And thats where you fellas come in… I reckon they wouldn’t be prepared to do that simply out of the goodness of their hearts, but if I won this competition I’d be able to tempt them with a shiny new iPad 2. That’ll be sure to work, I reckon.
(dclegg has made 19 comments)
I would probably call myself in the past and tell myself to buy Apple stocks. It might take some convincing though! They didn’t have as solid a future back then.
And also attempt to break space time ;D
(NoranRadd13 has made 2 comments)
I suppose I could call myself in the future and get the the upcoming lotto results. Or make the call to stop disasters and mayhem in the past.
But knowing me I’d forget and use the call to just dial a pizza.
Clayton.
(CPHayward has made 1 comment)
I’ll admit this is pretty geeky, but I’d ring the BBC Archives in the early ’70′s and ask them very nicely _not_ to dump all those early Doctor Who episodes as I’d really appreciate it (not to mention the BBC themselves when they realised their mistake).
Aside from the sad loss of the stories, it’s really annoying to have gaps in my DVD collection.
(Barnaby.Russell has made 1 comment)
I’d call myself 15 minutes in the future and talk for 14 minutes, have a 1 minute break then answer the same call again
And again
And again……
(hereandthere has made 2 comments)
Sunday night , October 23rd – I would call Richie McCaw and congratulate him and the boys for winning the Webb Ellis at the RWC final. I could ask for a signed shirt and the wife could ask Mr Carter for his phone number
(disogs has made 1 comment)
So much to say in so little time, I’d call my mother, way back in time. Let her know how much we miss her, and how i wish she could have seen her grandchildren.
(Bert has made 14 comments)
I’d call JFK and tell him to duck.
(nzben has made 1 comment)
Id call myself about 6hours from now to remind myself to get milk on the way home from work.
(housecat has made 6 comments)
I’d call James Cook just before his final and fatal visit to Hawai’i and say “Jim lad, when it comes to it, just let them have the boat. You can always get another dinghy, but a head without a whopping great hole in it, that’s priceless”.
(Kevin Daly has made 1 comment)
I would phone Steve Jobs today and ask for some Apple stores in NZ!
(nevrar has made 1 comment)
If I had 15 minutes to call, I would call 15 minutes into the past (or is it future) to anakin skywalker, tell him to not listen to chancellor palpatine, that the chancellor is the sith lord, and warn him that his future involves killing his wife, his master, master windu and putting the entire universe in darkness. Most of all he will be wearing a ridiculous metal mask and that his breathing would be joked at for life.
That definitely should prevent him from cutting mace windu’s hand.
[img]http://www.iphonewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/darth vader.jpg[/img]
(N0_NAM3 has made 4 comments)
I would call myself about 3 months ago and tell me to sit tight and not to take the new job as they lied in the interview and the job is nothing like what they said it was.
I would then call myself again but this time 1 month ahead and see if I got the new job I had a interview for last week.
And Ipad2 would help make me feel better now lol.
(sprag has made 1 comment)
I would call Steve about the launch of the iOS 5 and iPhone 5
(henrytai has made 2 comments)
I’d call my self in 1999, to when Apples stock price was terrible and tell my self to do anything to get some cheap stock. As this won’t be happening I’ll happily enjoy an iPad2 as a bobby prize!
(lotech has made 1 comment)
Who d’ya call when you want answers about everything? God of course. I’d drop him a line and ask why the fork has He let us humans fall so low that we whore ourselves out online for gadgets that will be obsolete in three years time. What is so wrong with us that we crave bits of circuitry that give us the ephemeral satisfaction of owning something new and shiny, some Thing that pretends to make our lives easier but will just end up filling up more of our days with meaningless tripe, and distracting us with increasing volumes of increasingly superficial information, while true meaning and value passes us by? And what is the Meaning of Life anyway? Is it Guinness? Time for a drink.
(absurdity has made 1 comment)
I would call my father. He died when I was six year old. 15 minutes is not much time to let him know the man I became.
(Shadowfoot has made 4 comments)
I would call Elvis just before he died, and tell him to instead go into hiding so people all around the world can report sightings of him for the next 50 years.
(stelari has made 2 comments)