Those who have got themselves hooked on to LG’s next high-end flagship smartphone, the LG G6, can now get it for free. Yeah, that’s true. LG has commenced an Experience program for G6 and the response has been overwhelming. On the first day of the program, which began yesterday, 35000 people were signed up by the company.
LG G6 Experience program is a tool used by the company to market its product and receive the user feedback ahead of the official roll-out. This takes place between the time after official announcement and the actual date when the device is made available in stores for sale. Fans who apply for the program get a chance to test drive the device for 30 days.
This is the second time that LG has come with the Experience program before launching a new smartphone. The company started this experiment with LG G4 in year 2015.
Must say, the experiment has truly paid off as 35,000 people have logged in on the very first day of the program roll out, which is double the number of applicants who signed up for G4. This means that LG received an application every 2.5 seconds.
‘There were many more applicants than expected in the morning bringing the site server down,’ a company official said adding that ‘this seems to reflect the increased interest and expectation of consumers in the run up to the release of the LG G6.’
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The application period for the ‘LG G6 experience group’ is from February 15th to 24th. One can enroll by filling up a simple questionnaire posted on homepage of LG Electronics.
Out of the thousands of applicants, only 210 lucky winners will get the chance to get their hands on a LG G6, free of cost and even before it hits the retail stores. The names of the winners will be announced on February 28th.
The phone will be shipped to all the selected winners and they will be required to perform various assignments such as surveys and personal social networking activities for a period of up to 30 days. At the end of the period, LG plans to provide the G6 free of charge to all of them.
via Zdnet
