LG Will Lend You a Free Phone If You Talk About It On Social Media

jfruh writes LG will let people in a host of countries use its G4 free for 30 days — with the hope that this will result in positive buzz on social media sites. From the article: "By offering 4,000 people a G4 for 30 days, the company hopes to create some buzz around its new device as flagship devices from its rivals Samsung Electronics and HTC go on sale. The Consumer Experience Campaign kicks off in South Korea on Wednesday, and will then expand to Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, U.S., China, India, Brazil, Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Mexico, Japan and Hong Kong, LG said."

Comments

Cheap is cheap.

[Needs2BeSaid]

Free for 30 days? Why bother giving free advertisement that, based on Internet standards, last for eternity just to get a 30 day trial? Is the company doing so poorly that they can't sacrifice 4,000 phones? Also, when they take them back, do they repackage them as new? What do they do with the used phones?

Re:Where have I heard about that before...

[sribe]

Seems like Apple did invent everything before Android makers did ;)

I have no idea what you're talking about, and it seems I will remain clueless, since you didn't bother to make sure the link was correct ;-)

been there

[slashmydots]

I just got a brand new LG phone and I'd be talking about it on social media constantly with it except it KEEPS FREAKING BREAKING. It's a freezing, glitchy piece of crap.

Re:been there

[Venerable Vegetable]

I just got an LG phone (a budget model) and it works fine. However, it keeps nagging me to agree to a privacy agreement, which says LG will collect ALL my data and use it for ANYTHING they like including selling personally identifiable data to third parties and using it for advertising. I don't even want to use the preinstalled LG apps but the privacy agreement keeps coming up anyway.

Additionally it wants to do a system update which "will improve my experience". That's literally all it says. No details on what it will actually improve and no version number.

This annoys and worries me enough to skip LG next time I buy a phone.

No such requirement?

[Gavagai80]

The article says nothing about a requirement to talk about the phone on social media. Obviously any company hopes to get good word of mouth from freebies, but that's a very very different thing than requiring positive reviews in order to get the freebie. Is the headline just attempting to slander LG or is there any source that says there's a positive review requirement?