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OFFICIAL RULES NOKIA U.S.

PHONE TRIVIA SWEEPSTAKES THE FOLLOWING PROMOTION IS INTENDED FOR PLAY IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY AND SHALL BE CONTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO UNITED STATES LAW. DO NOT ENTER THIS PROMOTION IF YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY. 1. ELIGIBILITY: NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. The Nokia U.S. Phone Trivia Sweepstakes (Sweepstakes) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers and directors of the Nokia, Inc. (Sponsor), Tic Toc, Inc., their respective subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising, promotion, or production agencies and Web masters/suppliers (and their respective IRS dependents, immediate family members and individuals residing in their same household) are not eligible to participate or win. The Promotion is subject to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Sponsor reserves the right, at any time, to verify eligibility requirements in any manner it deems appropriate. By participating, participants agree to these Official Rules, which are final and binding in all respects. Void where prohibited. 2. PROMOTION PERIOD: Promotion begins at 6:00:00 a.m. EDT on August 26, 2011 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on September 1, 2011 as described in Rule #4 (Promotion Period). 3. PROMOTION REGISTRATION: Become a Nokia follower of the Nokia US Twitter feed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nokiaus to participate. To sign up for a free Twitter account, follow the onscreen instructions to register for a free Twitter account at http://twitter.com. You will be asked to provide your first and last name and email address and to set up a user name and password. You may also be asked to answer optional questions; however, they need not be answered in order to be eligible for the Sweepstakes. Participating is subject to Twitter Terms of Use, available at http://twitter.com/tos. YOU MUST REGISTER BY THE ABOVE REGISTRATION METHOD TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROMOTION. TWITTER REGISTRATION ALONE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A TWEET BACK OR ENTRY (AS DEFINED IN RULE #4) IN THIS PROMOTION. 4. TO PARTICIPATE: During the Promotion Period, Sponsor will post a trivia question. To enter, reply to the Tweet with the answer to the trivia question. Each Tweet Back containing the correct response to the trivia question will receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes (an Entry). Each Tweet Back must include #NokiaUSTrivia to be valid. Each Tweet Back must be at least one (1) character in length and must be in English or in numerals (e.g. 1, 23, etc.). Limit one (1) Tweet Back per person/email address/Twitter account for each Initiating Tweet for the Promotion Period. Only the first Tweet Back from a particular participant will be eligible, subsequent Tweet Backs from the same participant for the same Initiating Tweet will be void. All Entries must be received by Sponsor after the Initiating Tweet and before the end of the contest period as defined above in order to be eligible. Entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the Twitter account that the Entry is submitted from at the time of entry. Potential winners may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winners are the authorized account holders of the Twitter accounts associated with the winning Entries and/or an eligible entrant. All Entries submitted become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. 5. TWEET BACK GUIDELINES: Entries must contain the correct answer to the trivia question and the #NokiaUSTrivia hashtag to be valid. Tweet Backs may not be obscene or indecent; cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, profane or pornographic, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs,

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tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message; cannot be offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group; cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products or services, or other people, products or companies; cannot communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity; may not in any other way violate any applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations or the Twitter.com Terms of Service; may not contain any reference to any third party trademarks, names or third party logos or any copyrighted components; and cannot contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses. Tweet Backs not in compliance with the Tweet Back Guidelines may be disqualified. ENTRIES POSTED TO THE WEBSITE WERE NOT EDITED BY SPONSOR AND ARE THE VIEWS/OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ENTRANT AND DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF SPONSOR IN ANY MANNER. Any waiver of any obligation hereunder by Sponsor does not constitute a general waiver of any obligation to entrants. By submitting an Entry, you agree that your submission is gratuitous and made without restriction, and will not place Sponsor under any obligation, that Sponsor is free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the Tweet Back on a nonconfidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you. You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you. Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not, monitor/screen Entries. By entering, you acknowledge that Sponsor has no obligation to use or post any Entry you submit. If you think that any Entry infringes your intellectual property rights, click here if you wish to report it http://www.nokiausa.com/commonlinks/site-terms. 6. WINNER SELECTION: One (1) potential winner will be selected in a random drawing to be held on or about September 5, 2011, from among all eligible Tweet Backs sent in compliance with these rules, by an independent judging agency, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to this Promotion. Prizes cannot be transferred, redeemed for cash or substituted, but Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value at its sole discretion. 7. PRIZE/ODDS: Grand Prize (1): One (1) Nokia E6 mobile phone. Approximate Retail Value (ARV): $400.00. No mobile phone service will be provided. All costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specifically provided herein are the responsibility of the winner. Participants understand that phone models may only operate on certain carrier networks, which may or may not be compatible with participants existing network, if any. Requests for phones compatible with a winners existing network cannot be accommodated. Any difference between stated ARV and actual value of prize will not be awarded. Winner must accept prize as stated, or prize may be forfeited. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Tweet Backs received in compliance with these rules. Prize winners will be solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, and for any other fees or costs associated with the prizes they receive, regardless of whether it, in whole or in part, are used. Limit one (1) prize per person/address/household. Unclaimed prize will not be awarded. 8. GENERAL CONDITIONS: As a condition of entering, participants agree (a) that Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents are released, will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by participants against any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to person(s), including death, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prize or participation in this Promotion or any Promotion-related activities; (b) under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and participant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental,

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consequential, or any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses; (c) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (d) any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, excluding attorneys' fees and court costs. Except where legally prohibited, winners grant (and agree to confirm that grant in writing) permission to Sponsor and those acting under its authority the right to the use of his/her name, picture, likeness, voice, biographical information and statements, at any time or times, for advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes without additional compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the Internet and World Wide Web, without notice, review or approval. 9. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Potential winner will be contacted by Twitter Direct Message to the potential winners Twitter ID as recorded in the potential winners Twitter account to obtain mailing address and/or phone number. Sponsor is not responsible for any change in participant's Twitter account, email, mailing address and/or telephone number. Prize winner may be required to complete, sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity Release within seven (7) days of receipt of notification. Prize won by an eligible minor will be awarded to a parent or legal guardian who must sign all required documents. If documents are not returned timely, or if the prize notification or prize is returned as non-deliverable, or if a winner is found to be ineligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules, prize may be forfeited. 10. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for lost, illegible, late, misdirected, incomplete, mutilated, or non-delivered Initiating Tweets, Tweet Backs, Entries, mail or email; or for interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Website, telephone or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, or lines, or technical failure or jumbled, garbled, corrupted, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software or telephone malfunctions, failures, or technical errors or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of Entry or other information or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information. Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Website users, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Promotion; and assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of the Website. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with entry process or operation of Promotion or to be acting in a nonsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person. Potential winners may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder of the Twitter account associated with the winning Entry and/or an eligible entrant. Sponsor is not responsible for injury or damage to participant's or any other persons computer related to or resulting from participating in this Promotion or downloading or copying materials from or use of Website. If, for any reason, Promotion, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, hacking, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes which, in sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Promotion, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Promotion, and randomly award the prizes from among all eligible, non-suspect Tweet Backs/Entries received prior to action taken. Use of any device to automate entry is prohibited. 11. GOVERNING LAW: By entering, participants agree that all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, participants rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules. By entering, participants consent to the jurisdiction and

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venue of the federal, state and local courts located in Westchester County, New York. 12. WINNERS LIST: For the names of the winners, hand print your name and complete address on a 3x5 card and mail in a first-class stamped envelope to: Nokia U.S. Phone Trivia Sweepstakes, 4228 N. Central Expressway, Suite 200, Dallas, TX 75206. Requests must be received by September 9, 2011. 13. SPONSOR: Nokia Inc., 102 Corporate Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10604. This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Twitter. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Sweepstakes shall be directed to Sponsor and not to Twitter.

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