China: Free blogphones from fring for the Olympics

Posted 21 June 2008 14:05 GMT

Countries	China
Topics	Arts & Culture, Photography, Sport, Technology, Economics & Business
Languages	English
Special	Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All Posts

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Vlogging the Olympics might be off-limits now (so they think), so hopefully that won't affect fringsters who show up with new free fring swag, in return for blogging Olympic events.

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