Incredibly Stupid Phone Promotion: Smash Your Current Phone!

Remember that viral video of the guys smashing his phone and the battery spraying chemicals everywhere (audio heard at the end is the best)? Apparently these guys saw it and thought it was a great idea. I get they want to generate attention, and that phone smashing gets lots of hits, but this is just stupid.

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OnePlus announced its first Android handset this week, the One, but the phone won’t be available to consumers next month. However, 100 lucky winners of the company’s Smash promotion will have the opportunity to smash their old handset and receive a 16GB One Plus One handset for just $1. The company on Friday announced the official launch of the contest, saying that interested buyers can apply on the company’s special Smash page to be selected. Lucky winners will also receive three invites, which they can give to friends interested in buying the phone.

Aside from people jumping the gun and misunderstanding the contest, partly because they rolled out the contest rules in the same manner they've rolled out this phone (very slowly), it is just wasteful. Sell your phone and someone else can use it, and you will get probably just as much money (only recent flagship phones apply).



Otherwise the phone has incredible stats at a dirt cheap price.

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First, the list of phones on here is limited to mostly high-end phones that you could sell and actually make a buck or two from. For example, Verizon’s low-ball trade-in site will give you $300 for an iPhone 5c. Most of the Android phones are closing in on $150-$200, through there as well. If you sold it yourself on a site like Swappa, you could fetch anywhere from $250-$400 for a 2-year old Galaxy Note 2. Sell your phone, then just buy a OnePlus One whenever (if) it is ever available. Second, wasn’t it just Earth Day on Tuesday? Not exactly the best timing here. And I know they are only asking 100 people to smash their phones, but those phones have chemicals galore in them, especially in the battery. Remember this video? Also, glass? Sharp objects? If you really don’t want your phone, donate it to a good cause. Third, since you can only smash really good phones in order to receive your new OnePlus One, I’m wondering if it’s really worth it. You would be destroying a perfectly good phone from a manufacturer you trust, for a phone from a manufacturer you know nothing about. We don’t know when updates will ever rollout to the OnePlus One, if anything they have done with the phone is any good in real life use, or if this company will even be around in two years.

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