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Monday is National Dog Day so take your dog for a walk and count your steps with a free Huawei Band 3e fitness tracker!

CONTEST NEWS – Next Monday (August 26th) is National Dog Day, which is a day to honor every breed of dog and to be aware of how many dogs need to be rescued.

To celebrate this day, Huawei encourages dog owners to get active and take their four-legged friends on a walk and while you’re walking, you can track your activity with a Huawei Band 3e fitness tracker. This wrist or shoe worn fitness tracker is a watch that also collects fitness data like steps, distance, calories burned, and sleep details using the Huawei Health App.


If you opt to wear the tracker on your shoe using the included clip while you’re on a walk/run with your dog, it will also record step length, landing impact, total time, and more. The Band 3e pairs with your phone and buzzes when you receive a notification or if you’ve been sitting too long and need to get up and move.

For an entry-level fitness tracker, the Huawei Band 3e has a nice set of features and Huawei has offered 2 free bands for The Gadgeteer to give away today to our readers! To win one, see the details and rules below.

Prizes:

Two people will be chosen to win one Huawei Band 3e fitness tracker watch.

How to enter (please read carefully – any missed steps and your entry will be disqualified):

Between now and 08/23/2019 midnight EST leave a comment on this page answering the question below.

If you have a dog, what’s its name and breed? If you don’t have a dog, what breed would you get if you could have one?

 

Get a 2nd bonus entry by tweeting:
The Gadgeteer is giving away 2 Huawei Band 3e fitness tracker watches to celebrate National Dog Day! Entering is easy! https://the-gadgeteer.com/2019/08/21/win-a-free-huawei-band-3e-fitness-watch

Get a 3rd bonus entry by subscribing to our newsletter:
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If you’re already a newsletter subscriber, let me know and you’ll still get a 3rd bonus entry.

Get a 4th bonus entry by liking The Gadgeteer on Facebook and leaving a comment on the Facebook page that you liked it.

Make sure you come back to this page and leave a separate 2nd comment stating that you subscribed to the newsletter, a 3rd comment with a link to your tweet and a 4th comment with a link to your Facebook post. To get the links for Twitter and Facebook, just click the time stamp of your post and it will give you the page with that post so you can grab the link.

At some point on 08/24/2019, I’ll pick two random winners using random.org. The winners will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to claim their prizes. If I do not receive an answer to my emails in that time period, I’ll do other random.org drawings till the prizes are claimed.

Rules:

1. Only one entry per person (warning: I check IP addresses).

2. Gadgeteer writers and their immediate family members may not enter this contest.

3. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages due to incorrect shipping addresses.

4. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for the winner not accepting their prize offer within 48hrs. The winner will be posted on this contest page, in the contest page comment section and will be emailed using the email provided in the comment section. Check your spam folder.

5. Winner must have a US shipping address.

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Monday is National Dog Day so take your dog for a walk and count your steps with a free Huawei Band 3e fitness tracker! originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 21, 2019 at 11:00 am.

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