When we saw Hoang's entry in the What Would You Do for a BlackBerry 10 Phone? contest, we immediately made the decision to pick him as a winner as we absolutely wanted to see him carry out his idea.
Hoang, from Chicago by way of Vietnam, said for a free BlackBerry 10 phone he would make ONE THOUSAND origami paper cranes in under three days. Legend has it that a person who folds a thousand paper cranes is granted a wish. Hoang's wish? The successful launch of BlackBerry 10 of course! And that's something all of us in CrackBerry Nation want to see.
Be sure to watch the video above all the way through. We absolutely love Hoang. And after he's finished making all the cranes -- after a couple all nighters fueled by coffee -- he sent them to us in CrackBerry HQ, where we had a little American Beauty moment. Congrats Hoang - you absolutely deserve the free BlackBerry 10 phone that's coming your way!
Reader comments
BlackBerry fan folds ONE THOUSAND origami paper cranes and makes a wish for the success of BlackBerry 10!
Congratulations on both the phone and having your cranes given to Thorsten Heins in Canada at the big release.
I must say Hoang must have folded each crane in under 2-3 minute each to complete 1000 cranes in less than 3 days? Because I have folded 1000 paper cranes three times already and each time I folded the cranes in about 3 minutes but after a few hours of folding, my hands started to get very tired; when I had spent 8+ hours folding paper cranes non-stop, it eventually started to take me around 5 minutes to fold 1 crane. Some days when I folded about 120 cranes in 10 hours I was already very pleased with the results. Maybe it's because I have folded my cranes smaller than his, which must have taken longer because my 1000 cranes all fitted in a jar that is about 0.75 litre.
By the way I am also vietnamese and I was inspired by Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
Congratulations Hoang! simplest thought , hardest word and greatest dreams
Chúc mừng em, chúc em luôn thành công từ những suy nghĩ giản đơn và thú vị như vậy!
Love it when he pulls out the keyboard drawer with 250 more cranes!
HOLY DAMN!
THAT WAS ONE HECK OF A TON OF CRANES!! :D
WOOP WOOP SWAG
Very impressive, wow.
Good job! Enjoy the best thing for free ;)
Kevin, Where/how did you get those red stars on the floor and how do we get one (or more) ????? Please share your secret.
This guy is a well-deserved winner! Also, Vietnamese coffee is da bomb!
I'm come from Vietnam like Hoang. we proud of you and you deserve BB10 :)
best effort so far - well deserved.
Congrats Hoang! You are a truly a BlackBerry person. To fold 1,000 cranes must of required you to "Keep moving forward"!
BB10 is going to be Epic!
Good job Hoang
Congratulations Hoang !!
hope ya enjoy the BB10 ya would think with all that folding, your fingers will be all limbered up for it :)
That was just... beautiful. Congratulations to Hoang on his win/wish; he truly deserves it. I've never constructed a paper crane myself, but I'm sure this was harder and more arduous than it sounds.
On the heels of Apple's biggest stock market loss in its history (since entering the stock market in 1984), at -$63.51, in which it lost $52 BILLION of market value, this can't be a coincidence. (For comparison, all of Starbucks Coffee's assets are valued at about $40 billion.) The percentage change multiplied by the dollar amount change has produced the single greatest "magnitude" in the shift of Apple stock ever, at 7.84, and save for one event in 2000 (in which Apple lost 51% of its market value in a day), nothing came remotely close. All things considered, it's absolutely astonishing.
Congrats to you..!!!
Good job
And that whole couch pose thing was...was...well it was....
Way to go...awesome that you wished for others success too.
Congrats, really deserved it :)
By far my favorite winner, can't wait for BB10! Great video.
Very nice, but I would have expected hoang to have a recorded the 3 day of himself folding paper crane or time lapse the video of himself folding the paper crane for 3 days to 1 thousand paper crane. Don't want to sound harsh or mean or anything. indeed very impressive if he did show us the process like the other entry with the tattoo being recorded the whole process.
He could have either done with with other helps or he coulda bought it off ebay for $90 1 thousand crane.
I was gonna say the same thing - I believe him and all credit to him, but I would would have liked to see at least one being made. Must take a lot of skill - congrats!
Well done dude! very cool indeed and by no means easy. Congrats on your reward, enjoy it when you get it!
Very cool! My favorite one so far.
Can we PLEASE get a flying Unicorn(s) flying over the shot as the cranes bless Kevin with their luck! I was crying non-stop, but I'm all for any luck for RIM/BB to keep it going.
Congratulations, Hoang! Great work - you definitely deserved to win the phone. Nice touch with Kevin at the end being showered with cranes. :-)
That was awesome Hoang! Enjoy your BB10 phone!
Hoang, thanks for wishing RIM success!
Congratulations on your BB10 reward.
That's a good man. You put in the work, and you definitely deserve the reward. I also love the wish at the end.
Thank you CrackBerry Team.
It's my great honor to be the winner of this contest and get my video posted in CrackBerry.com
Thank you all for the comments. I really appreciate it.
#BB10BELIEVE
You rock Hoang, you rock!!!
Yes, Hoang,you definitely rock!
Thank-you.
Congratulations!
#BB10Believe
Hoang. I have sent you a congratulatory tweet on @beaverim1.
Well done. It is simply thoughtful.
It reflects the hard work that RIM's teams have done for the last couple of years to get the BB10 ready for launch.
The entire RIM teams need to be congratulated as well for bringing a fruitful product.
Well done, RIM!
BeavertailCanada
Haha nice "American Beauty" Moment insert! Congrats to Hoang!
Nice one! Might be tacky but you guys are crackberry should do something with all those cranes. Hang them up or put them somewhere for display, It would be a shame to either toss them or just keep them in a box.
A needle and thread would allow you to hang them, which would look pretty awesome. Or maybe a give away for the Toronto meetup being one of those cranes. (while supplies last)
is anyone outside of the US gonna win ??? ... seems unfair to me !
Looks like Fruity Pebbles! Awesome!
He is definitely deserve the BB10.
I know a girl who tattooed the BlackBerry logo on her boobs. But she doesn't seems interested in the contest.
Here's her Fb account.
ThuyTrangNguyenDo
Look it up
Love the extra slide of 250 - well done sir! You definitely deserve the Z10.
That was killer! Thank you Hoang for your wish! On another note, I personally kept playing "Pour Some Sugar on Me" in my head when then cranes were falling out. I think that song wouldve been much more entertaining! Great job though!
Good Job Hoang. Congrats
Very cool! Congratulations Hoang!
Great job Hoang! You deserve your z10!!!
Great work Hoang!! That could not have been easy, and I love the wish too!
Wow nice work Hoang.........I like the slow motion origami pouring down on Kevin. Would on have only been better if they recreated the scene from the movie FlashDance!!! ;)
YIKES! Talk about carpal tunnel syndrome. Thank goodness for bb10's voice control ;).
Good work!
Way to go Hoang!
Congrats Hoang. Great to see Chicago representing!!!
Well done Hoang. Very proud of your efforts, you are a real trooper.
What I like about this video is that many staff members at RIM have been working and continue working VERY long hours and I'm sure many can relate to Hoang.
Very creative and you deserve the phone.
I see this making a huge impact in Asia!!!
Maybe Crackberry nation can organize "Send cranes to RIM" campaign. I would totally make a 100 and send them over to Waterloo.
That was really awesome. Congrats to Hoang! Spectacularrrr
That was tough and creative congrats hoang.
The guy with the tattoo is still #1 very crazy.
I know a lot of.people might try to say hoang doesn't deserve the phone because it wasnt as extreme as a tattoo.
Trust me making those paper cranes are a lot of work. You could tell in the video he really worked hard and didn't get much sleep.
omg that is SPECTACULAR! Great work to Hoang and the CB crew!
That is actually really cool! Way to go Hoang! Love the music at the end of the video,nice touch guys...lol
Good job Hoang and wicked response from the CB team. Enjoy your BlackBerry 10 device!
Awesome! Congratulations!
... I prefer "African American Berry"...
BB8800 (First BB) -> 9530 -> 9550 -> 9860
This has got to be one of the coolest contests.
Congrats Hoang! That was by far my favorite so far! You totally deserve that new BB10 phone you're getting :) I especially loved when you were showing the finished cranes on the desk and you slide out a bunch more. That was pretty funny. Congrats again!
DAMN!
The intro was rendered reddish again! :/
That looked like hard work, loved the end btw!
That was the old intro... we did the re-render (that's proper orange) this morning. Next video will be all good!
Congratulations Hoang!
RIM should make him an offer for them. They surely must be able to use that in an advert somehow. Or put them round their offices and tell the staff why they're there...motivational.
Beats trying to kill yourself with a chili burger, in my opinion.
I like the idea of them putting them around the offices.
We were literally in tears laughing when editing in the music.
ssssssssssppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeccccccccccccccttttttttttttttt
aaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
arrrrrrrrrr
Loved the softly spoken spectacular at about the 3:15 mark!
EDIT: Yup, just listened again, that was a great touch!
Lol there's something disturbing with the image of Kevin getting covered with cranes a la American Beauty
+1 lol
Congrats Hoang that's what it takes, people that #BB10Believe
PS. @Kevin all I could think about when I watched the slow-mo crane shower was Chris Bosh's champagne celebration lol #ItsTheMusic
http://mariamore.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/chris-bosh-champagne.jpg
@NerdBoss514
That is truly awesome. Making those isn't easy, especially the small ones and to make 1000. Nice one Hoang!
They need to give this person a free Z10 for their efforts :)
Yup. All of the videos we are posting from the BB10 contest are of the winners... receiving a free BB10 phone and prize pack!
wow i am very impressed thats actually quite alot of work congrats for that entry and actually doing it
Congrats to Hoang for an impressive job and being able to drink the highly potent Vietnamese coffee. :-)
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