The iPhone cometh – so win a Nano instead
by Mike Butcher
on November 7, 2007

The Apple iPhone launches in the UK this Friday, and we’re already running a comp to win one. However, you may be happy with your Nokia/Samsung/LG/Crackberry/whatever smartphone, so to win one of five iPod Nanos instead, just do this simple task and indicate which UK or Irish town/city you live in. Remember to enter your correct email address when you comment so you can be contacted. The winning answer will be picked randomly from the entries, and announced, on Friday. The competition is open to anyone in the UK or Irish Republic.

Competition: Please write a Haiku containing the word Nano and post it in the comments.

Hint: It doesn’t have to rhyme.

P.S. Yes, I know this is a totally evil competition, but it was just too tempting, sorry.

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  • Christian

    Nano sleek colorful and fair
    Like sunset in glass chrome and aluminum
    My hands long for thee

    I’m not living in the UK, therefore disqualified… But I am a Haiku fan…

  • Raphaël Arbuz

    Let me backup my world
    Save me in a nutshell
    Nano is my world

  • Raphaël Arbuz

    I’m not in the UK, but I felt like participating in this contest anyway ;)

  • http://www.sciencebase.com David Bradley

    Techno logic time
    Upgrading for new advances
    Pray for the reboot

  • http://www.sciencebase.com David Bradley

    Techno logic time
    Upgrading for nano advances
    Pray for the reboot

  • http://simondoggett.com Simon Doggett

    It’s not an iPhone
    But it has to do for now
    I hope it’s 8 gig.

  • Sam

    y halo thar! WANT!
    i can has cheezburger too?
    nano for teh win!

  • Tony Molloy

    Nano, my desire
    Is to hold you in my hand
    and play sweet music

  • Mark Roche

    I load it and run
    travel across land and sea
    my nano and me

  • Sandro Gasparoto

    The nano is the one I want
    The one I want is the nano
    I just want the nano

  • http://www.add3.co.uk Danny

    a nano for me
    to replace my 4g;
    it died.

    Reading, Berkshire

  • Andrew Turner

    Christmas is coming
    So many presents to buy
    Nano means one less

    Northampton, Northants

  • james

    Three things are certain:
    ipod, imac, and iphone.
    Guess which one I want.

    London, UK

  • http://suburbia.org.uk Rick Curran

    no yoko ono
    nor cher nor sonny bono,
    are on my nano

  • Ben Smith

    I googled ‘Nano’;
    It said a chap in Peru,
    enjoys this surname.

    Ben
    London, UK

  • Imran

    The Nano is a very small thing,
    Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
    Steve Job has a small brain.

    Birmingham, UK

  • Imran

    The Nano is a very small thing,
    Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
    Steve Jobs has a small brain.

    Birmingham, UK

  • http://www.mosgito.com/ Lee

    nano please
    the voices grow louder
    make them go away

    Swansea (ish), UK

  • Alfredo

    My fingers on it,
    nano, stylish and unique.
    Music keep playing.

    London, UK

  • http://www.momac.net Stuart Day

    Small lyrical box.
    Any colour will do
    I just want you

    London, UK

  • Sara

    It is still four am,
    I turn my red nano on.
    I am happy again.

  • Sara

    It is still four am,
    I turn my red nano on.
    I am happy again.

    London, UK

  • Diane C

    Sometimes, petals fall.
    Papers sing then the eyes sing.
    Blue nano carouses.

    Dundee, UK

  • http://www.localdatacompany.com Scott Jones

    Serious error.
    All shortcuts have disappeared.
    Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

    Greenford (2nd capital of Poland), U.K.

  • http://www.localdatacompany.com Scott Jones

    hmm, although i actually forgot to put in the word Nano *gets coat*

  • Andrew

    Unsightly bulging pocket,
    Of suit from Savile Row,
    Nano to the rescue.

  • Andy H

    My Nano -
    She enjoys Countdown.
    Grandado prefers Catchphrase.

    Reading (ish) UK

  • Andrew

    Unsightly bulging pocket,
    Of suit from Savile Row,
    Nano to the rescue.

    Doh, London UK

  • http://mclarke.wordpress.com Martin Clarke

    stand on desk
    my nano my nano wow.
    happy i am

    Edinburgh UK

  • http://mclarke.wordpress.com Martin Clarke

    Actually, can this be my entry instead?

    stand on desk
    my nano my nano wow.
    salute you I do

    Edinburgh UK

  • Frances Turner

    Bakerloo line down
    Long and crowded journey home
    Nano brings me peace

    London, UK

  • Andy

    the winter wind
    sounds like music
    on my shiny nano

    Cheltenham, UK

  • Martin Porcheron

    It can please the bored
    And entertain the dreary,
    All I want is it.

    Hinckley, UK

  • http://www.veedow.com Fabio

    Earbuds in my ears,
    Nano in my pocket,
    I’m a sort of human socket!

    London

  • http://www.iforgothemilk.com William Tildesley

    Nano, Nano, Nano,
    iPod, iPod

    ;)

    - Penrith, Cumbria, UK

  • Neil MacLean

    shiny player
    can’t wait
    a nano second

    Glasgow

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    These are seriously good people. I think we’re going to have to have another poetry competition some day.

  • http://www.weblogcartoons.com Dave

    Small white box
    The nano plays songs
    and makes tea

    Basildon

  • http://www.staticeclectricity.wordpress.com Tony Molloy

    Nano, my desire
    Is to hold you in my hand
    and play sweet music

    Oops 4got – Bolton, UK

  • David Lenehan

    Make our pockets cry,
    and ears of children die.
    Ipod Nano opiate.

  • Gonzalo Zavala

    The new nano is fat
    and uglier than the old
    never mind, I want one

    London

  • http://www.amortgagenow.co.uk Rad Koudela

    Take NANO on your way
    Enjoy the better day
    Wish to listen all the time
    Nothing stops you, use your mind

  • http://www.scoopt.com Kyle MacRae

    My brother has one
    Mum, dad, aunt, uncle and nan
    O, I want one too

    Kyle
    (E-poet Laureate 1999)

  • Matt Rush

    old nano looks rubbish
    new nano looks good
    Can I have a new one please

    Berkhamsted, UK

  • http://twopointouch.com Ian Delaney

    Christmas is coming
    My pockets they are empty
    Make my wife happy

  • http://www.amortgagenow.co.uk Rad Koudela

    well forgot to add location

    London, UK

  • Mark Roche

    And again with location!

    I load it and run
    travel across land and sea
    my nano and me

    Liverpool, UK

  • Vlad

    I dream of a nano
    My hands are shaking
    Make my dream come true

    London, UK

  • David Gibbs

    Hear the Nano play,
    Magical technology,
    Music to my ears!

    London, UK.

  • http://www.bss.co.uk Antony Pace

    Handy video
    all your music on the move
    and not an apple.

    Herts, UK

  • http://voicesage.blogspot.com Paul Sweeney

    Winter moon -

    A nano between my fingers

    Playing the sound of cicadas.

  • http://www.must-know.info Keith

    Pics, vids and music
    In my pocket do you store
    Nano, my Nano!

    Torquay, UK

  • Aimi

    I’d love a nano

  • Jeff Van Campen

    The iPod nano
    Technology and design
    In one small package
    London, UK

  • Aimi

    I’d love a nano
    To fit inside my handbag
    Both are very small

    London

  • http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/ Tim Beadle

    My 4th gen iPod
    It stutters on its last legs
    I can has nano?

  • http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/ Kate Bolin

    Knit cozy in blue
    Patterns and samples ready
    There’s a *new* nano?

  • http://gilest.org gilest

    oh nano so small
    you are a gadget with bite
    that is your tech crunch

  • Craig

    said eve to adam
    take a bite of this nano
    evil temptress she!

    Nailsworth, UK

  • http://www.butterflydonuts.com Jean Mountford

    Sitting in my palm
    So sleak and squat and pretty
    Nano you’re the best

  • http://www.butterflydonuts.com Jean

    Sitting in my palm
    So sleak and squat and pretty
    Nano you’re the best

    Edinburgh, UK

  • http://www.yinkaadeyeye.com Yinka

    Oh! not again
    If now a real nano I gain
    then your integrity you will regain

    London UK

  • Ugomma

    How I love the Nano
    On it I can watch the Sopranos
    and also listen to Bono

  • Aidas

    Nano playing in my pocket,
    Engine roaring like a rocket,
    Aidas driving for a croquet.

    Northampton, UK

  • http://www.nfp2.co.uk Steve Bridger

    Friday, six oh two
    love fulfilled yet unrequited
    Apple of my i

  • http://www.nfp2.co.uk Steve Bridger

    Friday, six oh two
    love fulfilled yet unrequited
    Apple of my i

    Bristol, UK

  • http://www.broadstuff.com alan p

    Hey Mike I want a
    nano even if I have
    to write a haiku

    :)

  • http://reflexivemedia.com Stephen Radford

    iPhone and iPod
    Have nothing on the nano
    Oh so thin and small.

    or

    Go nano nano
    nano nano nano
    go nano nano.

    I really aint good at this at all.

    Meh.

  • http://reflexivemedia.com Stephen Radford

    iPhone and iPod
    Have nothing on the nano
    Oh so thin and small.

    or

    Go nano nano
    nano nano nano
    go nano nano.

    I really aint good at this at all.

    Meh.

    Bristol, UK

  • Duncan

    just hold on a nano second
    dunstone and o2
    unlimited data, do, do, do

  • Matt Tate

    love ipod Nano
    fulfills all my ipod needs
    soon broken

  • Reader

    While balancing the
    barbers, Nano approved
    without pulling time

    Courtesy of randomhaiku.com
    London, UK

  • Sara

    Hi sorry, In the previous one I had miscalculated the number of syllables!
    Can you accept this as my definitive one? Thanks a lot!

    It is still four am,
    I turn my red nano on.
    I’m happy again.

    London, UK

  • Rich

    Celebrity Nano?
    “Nanoo nanoo” said Mork to Mindy
    Nano Nano for me?

  • http://www.engadget.com/ Conrad

    I’ve an iPhone now,
    yet I want a Nano too.
    What am I to do?

    :)

    Canterbury, UK

  • Ed H

    Nano on trains play
    Winter commutes hum gently,
    To muffled iTunes

    London, UK

  • http://www.youtube.com/thebigbosh Ben E

    I don’t know nano
    But nano is knowing me
    Nano nannooo nee

  • http://www.youtube.com/thebigbosh Ben E

    I don’t know nano
    But nano is knowing me
    Nano nannooo nee

    Ben E, Portsmouth, England

  • http://www.iknowthe.net Emma

    I love my nano
    but its now made obsolete
    by iphone – pick me!

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    I want to win a
    Nano, so I enter-ed
    this competition

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Write a poem or
    a hundred and seventeen
    pounds on Amazon?

  • Alex B

    Using a nano
    Is like making love to a
    beautiful woman

    London, UK

  • Andrew Grieve

    A little video for everyone
    A little podgy for some
    No rounded edges = no love from me

  • http://alexgti Alex

    the first video iPod Nano
    at first I though it was fat, now I think its slim
    if you don’t want one, you must be dim….

    (excuse various bad puns throughout the poem!)

  • http://www.iknowthe.net Emma

    I love my nano
    but its now made obsolete
    by iphone – pick me!

    Oh – I’m near Oxford :)

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Nano-ing me, Na-
    -knowing you, aha! there is
    nothing i can do

    …..ouch… inspired by Ben (and Abba)

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Alone, on the web,
    drops of sensitivity
    embrace a nano

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Glass balls and glowing lights.
    Dead tree in living room.
    Killed to hold Nano

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Gently bold abrupt
    People wait icily
    for Apple nano

  • http://www.iknowthe.net Emma

    who will win at last
    a lovely next gen nano
    is it me or not?

    I’m in the UK and wondering when you’ll post the winners. Go on, or Tom Smith might write more :)

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Ha ha ha ha ha!
    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
    ha nano ha ha!

    …only kidding, as if I’d write another… I just saw that there were only sixty odd messages and thought blimey, a 1 in 60 chance is better than most raffles…

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    …and if I wrote 60 haikus, that might increase my chances to 1 in 2… maths has never been my strong point but that sounds about right…

    ahem…

    iPhone minus phone?
    Why would you want one I think?
    Don’t really Nano

  • http://www.iknowthe.net Emma

    That last one is SO your best mind you….

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Why thank you, I’m just
    getting into my stride and
    I have to go out

    (Thank one doesn’t have the word “Nano” in…)

  • Chris McAtominey

    Life in a colourful world,
    black and white vision
    in the nanometer spectrum

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    Hi everybody. So thanks to everyone for entering and I’m happy to announce the winners (and their haikus) are below. They’ll be contacted shortly. As this was such a fun competition I think you’ll be seeing Haiku comments on TechCrunch again some day…

    Emma:
    I love my nano
    but its now made obsolete
    by iphone – pick me!

    Diane:
    Sometimes, petals fall.
    Papers sing then the eyes sing.
    Blue nano carouses.

    Imran:
    The Nano is a very small thing,
    Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
    Steve Jobs has a small brain.

    Sara:
    It is still four am,
    I turn my red nano on.
    I am happy again.

    Danny:
    a nano for me
    to replace my 4g;
    it died.

  • http://www.theotherblog.com Tom Smith

    Bugger! No prize… sigh.
    Strange but the winner’s names have
    have two syllables

  • http://www.iknowthe.net Emma

    it IS me what joy
    a new video nano
    I like techcrunch lots

    Oh god somebody stop me. I do think Tom deserves something for effort – not my ipod though.

  • http://iamnotanonymous.blog.co.uk/ Helen Harrop

    Please call the police
    Tom Smith has been nano-jacked
    for having no town

    … I loved Tom’s Nov 9th, 7:05pm one … think I’ll use it as the verse in my xmas cards this year

    York, UK

  • http://www.theotherblog.com/Articles/2007/11/12/the-iphone-cometh-so-win-a-nano-instead/ The iPhone cometh – so win a Nano instead: Tom Smith’s the OTHER blog

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    i am sania.i love ur company.
    its ossom.u r very brilliant.

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