Garmin vs. Huawei: Become a reader tester for fitness trackers
23.7.2020
Translation: machine translated
Together with the tech magazine TechStage, Galaxus is calling for reader tests. Apply by 25 August 2020 and test the Garmin Vivoactive 4 and Huawei Watch GT 2 Sport fitness trackers. As a little goodie, you get to keep one of the two watches.
Test reports show whether a product is good or not. We do this almost every day in the editorial teams at Galaxus and TechStage. But who would be better suited as a tester than the people who might end up buying the product?
In cooperation with the tech portal TechStage, we are now carrying out reader tests. This means that you will receive one or two products from us and then put them through their paces.
We start with fitness trackers: you compare a high-priced Garmin Vivoactive 4 with a Huawei Watch GT 2 Sport. Can both trackers do the same thing? What are the differences? Are the watches good for fitness, work, style & Co. We'll answer these and other questions you may have.
How to take part
Produce a video by 25 August 2020. Show us in around 60 seconds why you are the ideal reader tester: Do you enjoy swimming, climbing or going to the gym? What excites you about sport and why is health important to you? Upload the video as a comment to the article on TechStage's Facebook page by 25 August 2020.
On 26 August 2020, we will announce five winners of the reader tests on techstage.de and Facebook. You will then be contacted via direct message on Facebook. We will then send you the devices.
Please remember: To take part, you must be at least 18 years old and live in Germany.
How to test
First of all, we want to know how you like the look and feel of the devices. Is the workmanship good? Does everything feel good? Are the accessories satisfactory? For this purpose, you will provide us with a short video (2 to 3 minutes) within 14 days - a kind of reader unboxing. Let your creativity run wild! The watches should fit in with everyday life, whether it's a building site, supermarket, running track or hip fashion café.
You then have another 14 days to get an impression of the devices. Then send us a short video (2 to 3 minutes) about your impression and five to ten pictures of the products in your everyday life. A little tip: Feel free to challenge the devices, take them with you on a mountain hike or for a swim; whatever you like to do.
All five reader tests, pictures and videos are presented in one article on TechStage and Galaxus. This way, all our readers can find out what the devices are really good for.
At a glance
So let's briefly summarise once again:
- You apply via video by 3 August 2020 via Facebook
- We will announce the five reader testers on 4 August 2020 and contact them via direct message on Facebook
- We will send the devices
- You produce a short unboxing video within 14 days
- You then send us a tested video and 5-10 pictures
- We will prepare everything in one article
- You can keep one device and send the other back (Galaxus pays the shipping costs)
Have we convinced you? Then upload your "application" for the fitness tracker reader test to Facebook by 25 August 2020.
About the collaboration
TechStage (TechStage is an offer from Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG) and Galaxus are cooperating on this sale. The online shop Galaxus provides the reader testers with the devices and sends a voucher worth 50 euros to the testers afterwards. Galaxus or TechStage will not exert any influence on the testers. Furthermore, TechStage and Galaxus will not send unsolicited advertising to testers and applicants or pass on the data to third parties. The reader test will be published at the end of the campaign on techstage.de, in the Galaxus online magazine and associated social media.
Notes on the application videos
Articles that are offensive, discriminatory, racist or otherwise offend common decency or violate the law are expressly not permitted and will be excluded from the competition.
The determined reader testers grant Heise Medien GmbH & Co KG (Heise) the exclusive, transferable right, unlimited in time and space, to use, redesign or exploit their submitted videos and photos as part of the reader test and for other purposes. Further details are governed by a separate agreement. We ask interested parties who do not agree to these conditions to refrain from participating in the competition.
Conditions of participation
The competition is organised by Heise Medien GmbH & Co KG, Karl-Wiechert-Alle 10, 30625 Hanover. All persons of legal age residing in Germany who upload videos to the Facebook page linked above are eligible to participate. Employees of Heise and their relatives are excluded. The five reader testers will be selected by a jury. Legal recourse is excluded. The closing date for entries is 3 August 2020 and the selected reader testers will be notified on 4 August 2020. The competition is not affiliated with Facebook and is in no way sponsored, supported or organised by Facebook.
Information on data protection
Your public Facebook profile and your application video will be visible to Heise and other Facebook users when you enter the competition. It is not initially necessary to provide any further personal data. If you are one of the selected reader testers, Heise will ask you for your name, e-mail address and postal address. This data will be transmitted to Galaxus Deutschland GmbH, Schützenstraße 5, 22761 Hamburg for the purpose of product dispatch (privacy policy, available at: www.galaxus.de/de/wiki/5567). Your data will not be passed on to other third parties. The legal basis for the processing of personal data is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR. Further information on the topic of data protection, in particular on your rights as a data subject, can be found in Heise's privacy policy, available at www.heise.de/privacy.
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