LG
Mobile Phones hosted the third annual LG U.S. National Texting
Championship, which concluded Tuesday with 15-year-old Kate Moore from
Des Moines, Iowa as the winner. Moore, who sends on average 500 text
messages a day, took home the title, along with $50,000 in prize money,
after beating out over 250,000 participants nationally.
The
winning phrase was "Zippity Dooo Dahh Zippity Ayy ... My oh MY, what a
wonderful day! Plenty of sunshine Comin' my way ...
ZippittyDooDahZippityAay! WondeRful feeling, Wonderful day!" which Moore
completed flawlessly in less than 60 seconds. The contestants used the
new LG enV3 phone, the newest edition in the enV family, which features
a full QWERTY keypad.
"When I
heard the final phrase, I got so nervous and thought how can I finish
that!" said winner Moore. "But apparently, my thumbs are faster than
everyone else's! I'm so excited to be this year's champion."
These days, companies are
hosting texting contests to promote their mobile devices and solutions.
Earlier, Interop Technologies, a provider of wireless solutions for
messaging, decided to host Ben Cook, a 22-year-old college student and
text messaging champ from Utah. (Read:
Who has the Fastest Thumbs?)
In a
similar event hosted by LG Electronics in July last year, Nathan
Schwartz defeated over 15,000 others towin the
LG National Texting Competition in the
US. On July 9, LG Electronics had invited some fastest texters from all
over the country to New York City for the competition that was held
second year in a row.
Samsung Mobile went in the sky for a texting
contest. It attempted to establish the Guinness World Record
for "Fastest Text Messaging While Skydiving." A team of professional
skydivers text messaged while freefalling from 12,000 feet outside the
Los Angeles city limits at the Samsung Mobile XTREME TEXTING event.
As the
messaging craze is growing among mobile users,
AT&T reports that more than
178 million text messages crossed its network as fans interacted with
the country's No. 1 TV show this season -
American Idol. This is the highest
total for any season and more than double the 78 million messages AT&T
reported last year. (Read:
'American
Idol' Gets Flurry of Text Messages)
LG
Mobile Phones hosted the third annual LG U.S. National Texting
Championship, which concluded Tuesday with 15-year-old Kate Moore from
Des Moines, Iowa as the winner. Moore, who sends on average 500 text
messages a day, took home the title, along with $50,000 in prize money,
after beating out over 250,000 participants nationally. 
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