ITNews Africa’s Charles Fripp is the winner of The Amazing Race with Huawei challenge. Dashing around two cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town in two days armed with just a Huawei Vision cellphone, a R1000 cash injection and his wit, Fripp beat his two competitors, Cleo’s Roxanne Fagri and Gadget’s Sean Bacher for the title of ‘Amazing Racer’.
He walks away with a Huawei Media Pad, the world’s first 7inch, Android 2.3 Smartphone with Google. His team mates, Seventeen’s Zainab Slemang and IOL Technology’s Kim Kay who joined in, in the last two legs of the race walk away with a Huawei Ideos X3 smartphone each. The Amazing Race with Huawei culminated at a Huawei press briefing on the first day of AfricaCom at the Cape Town International Convention Centre today.
“I am so excited, this is such an amazing smartphone and I am really chuffed that I was one of the first journalists in the country to exclusively preview the devices ahead of its official launch in South Africa,” says Fripp who also expressed his gratitude to Huawei for the concept of the competition.
Roxanne Fagri of Cleo magazine dashed into the press room minutes later with Sean Bacher arriving over twenty minutes later.
Highlights of The Amazing Race with Huawei included a drive up and down Table Mountain, lunch at Mr Chan Chinese in the Seapoint area and collecting various media from a variety of media houses across Cape Town. The participating media houses include, Seventeen magazine’s Zainab Slemang and Taugheedah Abdullah Jacobs, IOL Technology’s Kim Kay, African Communications’ Malcolm Solomon and Memeburn’s Stuart Thomas.
Huawei’s Marketing Director: Devices, Eastern & Southern Region, Liza de Wet congratulated Fripp and thanked Fagri and Bacher for entering the competition and having fun with Huawei and their new devices.
“The concept for the Amazing Race challenge came about during a brainstorm of how journalists can creatively test and exclusively review devices ahead of its launch in 2012,” adds de Wet. The three contestants were the first three journalists in South Africa, to have access to the MediaPad and Vision smartphones both set to be launched into South Africa during the first quarter of 2012.
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