Nokia has just launched the all new Nokia N8, and in celebration I am giving away one of the first 8 Nokia N8 mobile phones right here.

The Nokia N8 is packed with features such as:

• A 12 Megapixel Camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash.
• HDMI output to view all your photos and videos in 720p high definition on your TV.
• Symbian^3 operating system with support for multi-touch, pinch zoom and flick scrolling.
• 16 GB of internal memory

This is just a few of the cool features the Nokia N8 has, so how do you enter?

To enter and claim bragging rights of being one of the first 8 persons in South Africa to own the Nokia N8 all you have to do is head over to the Nokia N8 Competition Page and follow the instructions.

Please note that the competition closes at noon on Sunday 19 September 2010, entering the competition is subject to acceptance of the term outlined below.

Terms and conditions for Nokia N8 competition

• To enter the competition, simply tell us what your favourite feature is on the Nokia N8.
• By entering, you approve that we may post a facebook status update on your behalf promoting the competition.
• Winners will be contacted via their Facebook email address.
• The delivery of the prize is subject to the arrival date of the device in the country.
• Entries received after 12:00pm 19th September will be disqualified.
• The competition is open to everyone living in South Africa except employees and immediate family members of Nokia, Fleishman-Hillard and iGeek.
• Please note that if you are a winner on the Nokia Ringaz Blog you may not be eligible to win another Nokia Ringaz competition for a period of three months.
• The winner will be selected at random by the judges, no correspondence will be entered into.
• Entry into this competition constitutes acceptance of the above rules.

Vacation time is over and now its time to get back to business. Some of you may recall that just before the Holidays I was lucky enough to get a HTC Hero powered by the great new mobile OS from Google, Google Android.

I have been using the Hero now over the holidays and has gotten quite familiar with the OS and I’m loving it to bits. The HTC Hero is not the only phone currently available in South Africa running the Google Android OS, there is also the HTC Magic, HTC Tattoo and HTC Dream.

There is also the OpenMoko any geeks dream when it comes to phones. Why you ask? Well just because its open source and you can basically run anything on it the cpu and memory is capable of. The OpenMoko works well with Google Android and now you can win one.

Rafiq from WebAddict(s) is now running a competition where you can walk away with a OpenMoko phone capable of running Google Android. All you have to do to win this Google Android phone is to follow the steps on WebAddict(s).

Just last night I wrote about Amatomu closing down until Mail & Guardian finds a new buyer for the product. And now upon the closing down of Amatomu a new South African Blog Aggregator has surfaced.

MyScoop is the latest addition to the South African Blog Aggregator familly. Although I alway welcome competition MyScoop is rather limited when it comes to functionality.

A great thing I noticed upon signing up was that I could make use of my Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, OpenID or Blogger accounts to sign in with. Another nice thing about MyScoop is that fact that I do not need to install a badge of any kind, this may be needed for some nice functionality, it looks like MyScoop periodically fetched rss feeds and adds new posts when they appear in the latest fetch.

Now I did say it is rather limited, and here is why. Too put it simply MyScoop only displays latest posts from the blogs it crawls, this is due to the fact that is does not make use of a badge on your site. It would be nice to have some stats about your site and a ranking system. Another nice thing that is missing is adding categories, would be nice to be able to add you blog to a certain category, and even be able to view blogs of only certain categories.

I would say it is a good start for now, but to keep up with the competition the guys from MyScoop will need to add some of the functionality Amatomu had and Afrigator currently utilise.

Good luck to the guys at MyScoop and hope you guys make a success of the site.

ZATorrents opened it doors today to the public. ZATorrents is a new initiative by owner of ZA-Portal, the free local proxy service that allows you to browse and download content with local only cap.

ZATorrents is having a new signup competition, and I decided to help out a bit. The ZATorrent competition is a refer contest , the top 3 members to refer the most users get a prize as listed below.  To refer someone is quite easy , during signup you just put your name into the refer box and that is it.

Prizes:
1st Place: 5GB International – Unshaped
2nd Place: 5GB International – Shaped
3rd Place: 3GB International – Shaped

All account SAIX Based.

The contest will end on 28th August 2009! and the winners will get their prize exactly at 7:00PM.

So this is what I propose, go sign up to ZATorrent and use referer name igeek. Then if igeek gets one of the prizes, I’ll have a small competition for you guys to win the prize.

UPDATE

If there is no referer box simply pm the user ZAPortal with the words Referer: igeek