Samsung introduces Golden Galaxy S4...(Yup, really)

[jamezr]

Congratulations samcraig, now you realized how I feel about a golden galaxy s4.

so did Apple patent that too? No one else can use that color?

 

[irDigital0l]

so did Apple patent that too? No one else can use that color?

Which one are you getting?

gold/brown or gold/pink or gold/ugly?

 

[AngryCorgi]

Wow.

iPhones have "Designed by Apple in California" on the back...might as well put "Designed by Apple in California/Copied (Poorly) by Samsung in Korea" on the back of Samsung products.

 

[samcraig]

Which one are you getting?

gold/brown or gold/pink or gold/ugly?

Why does the fact Samsung have a gold phone upset you so much? Were you going to buy one and don't like the offering?

I'm going go with what's behind door #2 - just shameless Samsung bashing.

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Wow.

iPhones have "Designed by Apple in California" on the back...might as well put "Designed by Apple in California/Copied (Poorly) by Samsung in Korea" on the back of Samsung products.

Clearly you haven't read this thread. Or you wouldn't have made the mistake of stating that Apple was the one being copied.

 

[irDigital0l]

Why does the fact Samsung have a gold phone upset you so much? Were you going to buy one and don't like the offering?

I'm going go with what's behind door #2 - just shameless Samsung bashing.

I'm actually getting both the Gold/Brown and Gold/Pink Galaxy S4.

Already got my flight booked for Dubai, UAE.

 

[apollo1444]

looks ghetto as hell... this guys take elegant and turn it into white thrash

 

[jamezr]

Which one are you getting?

gold/brown or gold/pink or gold/ugly?

Oh i think you can only get those color combos on the 5C with a case to protect you plastic iphone.
Oh thats right....plastic is cool now that Apple does plastic.....but when the S4 first came out it was blasted for being plastic..... So did Apple copy Samsung and the plastic S4?

Personally im waiting for the IP6 and a larger screen hopefully a 5 inch screen in the IP6 next year.....

 

[AngryCorgi]

Why does the fact Samsung have a gold phone upset you so much? Were you going to buy one and don't like the offering?

I'm going go with what's behind door #2 - just shameless Samsung bashing.

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Clearly you haven't read this thread. Or you wouldn't have made the mistake of stating that Apple was the one being copied.

Of course I read it and I know Samsung's history (of releases AND blatant intellectual property theft), and while this is not "theft", its timing is pathetic. Right on the heels of Apple ordering more gold phones to meet demand, Samsung yelps out "Me Too!! We are gonna have gold paint on our phones too!!", as though putting lipstick on their pig makes it competitive. It's sad.

 

[jamezr]

Of course I read it and I know Samsung's history (of releases AND blatant intellectual property theft), and while this is not "theft", its timing is pathetic. Right on the heels of Apple ordering more gold phones to meet demand, Samsung yelps out "Me Too!! We are gonna have gold paint on our phones too!!", as though putting lipstick on their pig makes it competitive. It's sad.

I agree with you on the "me too" part.
But you know that Samsung makes a TON of what is inside that gold iPhone 5s right? The chip is made by Samsung I think the memory too.....

 

[irDigital0l]

Oh i think you can only get those color combos on the 5C with a case to protect you plastic iphone.
Oh thats right....plastic is cool now that Apple does plastic.....but when the S4 first came out it was blasted for being plastic..... So did Apple copy Samsung and the plastic S4?

Personally im waiting for the IP6 and a larger screen hopefully a 5 inch screen in the IP6 next year.....

Actually I'm pretty sure the S3 was plastic and so was the S2 and so was the iPhone 3G and 3GS (which I'll tell you a secret...came out before S3/S2).

Anyways I'm off to the UAE. I need to get my gold S4s so I can smelt them and sell it on the black market back to Samsung.

 

[samcraig]

Of course I read it and I know Samsung's history (of releases AND blatant intellectual property theft), and while this is not "theft", its timing is pathetic. Right on the heels of Apple ordering more gold phones to meet demand, Samsung yelps out "Me Too!! We are gonna have gold paint on our phones too!!", as though putting lipstick on their pig makes it competitive. It's sad.

Or they already had it in the works.

And the S4 is a pig? News to me. But it's cool to be biased. Especially here!

 

[identity]

I agree with you on the "me too" part.
But you know that Samsung makes a TON of what is inside that gold iPhone 5s right? The chip is made by Samsung I think the memory too.....

Don't feed these guys. They're here to troll, not reason with.

 

[jamezr]

Actually I'm pretty sure the S3 was plastic and so was the S2 and so was the iPhone 3G and 3GS (which I'll tell you a secret...came out before S3/S2).

Anyways I'm off to the UAE. I need to get my gold S4s so I can smelt them and sell it on the black market back to Samsung.

Sweet! Take lots of pictures with your iPhone 5s...be sure to use the fingerprint reader for security when traveling abroad...oh wait...thats been hacked already....nevermind.....

 

[samcraig]

Sweet! Take lots of pictures with your iPhone 5s...be sure to use the fingerprint reader for security when traveling abroad...oh wait...thats been hacked already....nevermind.....

Well I hope he's not relying on Apple Maps to get to the airport or around the UAE

 

[Digital Skunk]

They could benefit by cloning (copying/replicating) Sir Jonny Ive?

OH GOD PLEASE NO! After seeing how that clown "revamped" iOS I'd rather he just stick to screens on sticks and paper thin laptops.

While I want a gold 5S, nothing about gold plastic sounds as appealing.

Imagine a shiny gold 5C...actually, please don't.

The fact that you would prefer gold metal over gold plastic says all that I need to know.

The next big copy is coming!

Shocking.

Cheap plastics gold, ew lol.

Unlike some I have a very good memory, and before the 5c it was just, "Ew plastic is cheap!"

Now, after the 5c, degenerates have to say, "Ew I hate cheap plastic!" just so they can still bash other tech companies while not looking like total buffoons. I am sure you'll be pulling up links to support your notion that the plastic in every other piece of tech is somehow inferior to the plastic used in the iPhone 3G, 3Gs, 5c, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Retina Macbook Pro, MacPro, iMac, MacMini, Magic Mouse ** you hear my voice trail into the distance naming Apple products from as far back as the Lisa **

And Apple beat Samsung to the modern smartphone first.

Please define modern, and please don't just move the goalposts (as you did in the comment anyway) to define an iPhone.

Which one are you getting?

gold/brown or gold/pink or gold/ugly?

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I will totally and unequivocally agree with you if you also agree that Apple's pilfering of WebOS, PalmOS3 and Android 2.5 to feed the "update" that is iOS 7 is also as you describe with Samsung.

 

[dojoman]

Samsung and arm worked TOGETHER making the big little a15 chip and Samsung is one of the few that own a license to use arm arch to there own custom design and Samsung made that 64 bit chip for apple to use.

The chip is using arm v8 instruction set and is owned by arm and is absolutely nothing about apple in it.the a15 in the exynos 5 soc by Samsung is arms reference design and is the last 32 bit design they have before jumping to av8 instruction sets and 64bit.

Samsung uses arm reference designs and there only choice is to go 64 bit v8 next year as they are already using there latest last gen 32 bit arch.

Its stupid people spreading **** about 64 bit that think apple invented it and now Samsung is copying it.

First off Samsung made and designed it and second its arms arch that is free to use to who ever wants to license it

No one said Apple invented 64-bit.
Show me a single Samsung device with 64-bit chip prior to 5S announcement. It's so obvious that Samsung wants to do whatever Apple does. It's not coincident that Samsung announces 64-bit just after Apple and Gold color phone. Do you not see the trend?

 

[identity]

No one said Apple invented 64-bit.
Show me a single Samsung device with 64-bit chip prior to 5S announcement. It's so obvious that Samsung wants to do whatever Apple does. It's not coincident that Samsung announces 64-bit just after Apple and Gold color phone. Do you not see the trend?

Show us an iPhone with different colors, notification center, palm os card switching multitask, flat icons, slow-mo camera before the 5s?

See how easy it is?

 

[samcraig]

No one said Apple invented 64-bit.
Show me a single Samsung device with 64-bit chip prior to 5S announcement. It's so obvious that Samsung wants to do whatever Apple does. It's not coincident that Samsung announces 64-bit just after Apple and Gold color phone. Do you not see the trend?

Another person who has no concept of a product pipeline and how long it takes to develop a phone.

Further - Samsung created the 64bit chip that's being used. You don't think they already had plans to use it before they sold it to Apple?

Seriously?

 

[jamezr]

No one said Apple invented 64-bit.
Show me a single Samsung device with 64-bit chip prior to 5S announcement. It's so obvious that Samsung wants to do whatever Apple does. It's not coincident that Samsung announces 64-bit just after Apple and Gold color phone. Do you not see the trend?

I agree with you on this.....Apple is the trend setter in the mobile phone space. But they always portray things like they invented it first......

 

[appleii.c]

Samsung and arm worked TOGETHER making the big little a15 chip and Samsung is one of the few that own a license to use arm arch to there own custom design and Samsung made that 64 bit chip for apple to use.

The chip is using arm v8 instruction set and is owned by arm and is absolutely nothing about apple in it.the a15 in the exynos 5 soc by Samsung is arms reference design and is the last 32 bit design they have before jumping to av8 instruction sets and 64bit.

Samsung uses arm reference designs and there only choice is to go 64 bit v8 next year as they are already using there latest last gen 32 bit arch.

Its stupid people spreading **** about 64 bit that think apple invented it and now Samsung is copying it.

First off Samsung made and designed it and second its arms arch that is free to use to who ever wants to license it

OK, I'm not a chip engineer, but my understanding is that ARM owns the Architecture of the chip, not the chip itself. And if I'm not mistaken (if I am, I apologize) but Apple designed the A7, not Samsung. Samsung is just the manufacturer. The memory chips... possibly Samsung, but not the processor.

And NO, Apple did not invent 64 bit... but give them their due credit when it comes to the chip design.

 

[wxman2003]

Hey, if Samsung wants a gold phone, so be it. But at least they should have some tasteful color combination. Pink/gold brown/gold. Yuck. Did someone vomit those colors at Samsung?

 

[identity]

OK, I'm not a chip engineer, but my understanding is that ARM owns the Architecture of the chip, not the chip itself. And if I'm not mistaken (if I am, I apologize) but Apple designed the A7, not Samsung. Samsung is just the manufacturer. The memory chips... possibly Samsung, but not the processor.

And NO, Apple did not invent 64 bit... but give them their due credit when it comes to the chip design.

Correct. ARM designs the chips, Apple pays ARM to fork their own version of ARM's chips. Apple designs their ARM based chip based on Samsung's frabication design.

Most people wouldn't have problems with Apple being the first to utilize ARM's 64 bit chips but Apple sheeps will troll that anybody else who uses it in the future is copying Apple. We've already seen this in this thread and multiple other threads and we'll continue to see it in the future.

 

[onthecouchagain]

Err, if you're trying to make a point about Apple copying, I don't think their use of colour in their products is the best choice to make:

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As for the topic, I really don't care. Samsung's made gold phones before, as have other manufacturers. That they'd choose to do another one now does scream a little 'me too', but Apple hardly owns the colour, or invented it. If gold phones are going to become popular, then why not get in early.

Uhm, that's my point. No one has any real hold on "colors" so if you agree, shouldn't you address the OP.

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The only reason we always say Apple works behind closed doors is because we KNOW they do, and all that evidence was brought up in the Samsung lawsuits earlier this year.

What?

If anything, the trials exposed how closely Apple keeps an eye on the competition, how much they care about public perception, and how much they care about keeping precisely the image that they work behind closed doors. You are greatly deceived!

 

[appleii.c]

Another person who has no concept of a product pipeline and how long it takes to develop a phone.

Further - Samsung created the 64bit chip that's being used. You don't think they already had plans to use it before they sold it to Apple?

Seriously?

Samcraig, are you sure Samsung created the A7? What exactly do you mean by "created"? my understanding is that they simply "manufactured" it. It's an apple proprietary chip. I don't believe you'll see the A7 used in a non apple product.

What Apple does apparently use is Samsung's HK+MG process to achieve the 28nm tech (as opposed to using Toshibas HK+MG or TSMC's). Here's an interesting article on the A7:

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/2

 

[samcraig]

Samcraig, are you sure Samsung created the A7? What exactly do you mean by "created"? my understanding is that they simply "manufactured" it. It's an apple proprietary chip. I don't believe you'll see the A7 used in a non apple product.

What Apple does apparently use is Samsung's HK+MG process to achieve the 28nm tech (as opposed to using Toshibas HK+MG or TSMC's). Here's an interesting article on the A7:

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/2

I didn't say they created the A7. I said they created a 64bit chip.

ETA: ahh - I see my incorrect implication in my previous post. My apologies.