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See Samsung's Sunday newspaper ad about the iPhone 5. Whats your thoughts? (merged)
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Some of these are just stupid. I swear some of the Apple fans just make it worse. Stop playing their game. If you want to do it, do it right.
It'd be a better ad if they just stopped at NFC, after that point it gets silly.
I've an old 4, a 5 on preorder, and a Galaxy Note. The latter is great, but only after ridding it of Samsungs bloat and putting Cyanogenmod9 on it. Basically, in future, I'd rather not have to suffer jumping through hoops to make a phone really good, hence why I'm sticking to iOS for the foreseeable. Like many here I'm a nerd and have the ability to custom rom stuff and jailbreak (I just can't be bothered most of the time), but the average Joe hasn't a clue, as such I'd always recommend an iPhone to them (or Nexus phone). Samsung make good hardware IMO, but their homegrown software is mostly gimmicky, ill thought out crap.
All this talk of x blows y out of the water though, grow up, they're both great phones clearly.
Oh, and lol at 790 hours standby time haha. My Note has a 2500mah battery, not sure what the S3 has, but even with CM9 on my Note (very battery friendly and efficient) no way in a million years would it have that kind of standby time. Given idle battery life is far far worse under Samsungs skinned android, I'd be genuinely surprised if the S3 managed even half that.
I've an old 4, a 5 on preorder, and a Galaxy Note. The latter is great, but only after ridding it of Samsungs bloat and putting Cyanogenmod9 on it. Basically, in future, I'd rather not have to suffer jumping through hoops to make a phone really good, hence why I'm sticking to iOS for the foreseeable. Like many here I'm a nerd and have the ability to custom rom stuff and jailbreak (I just can't be bothered most of the time), but the average Joe hasn't a clue, as such I'd always recommend an iPhone to them (or Nexus phone). Samsung make good hardware IMO, but their homegrown software is mostly gimmicky, ill thought out crap.
All this talk of x blows y out of the water though, grow up, they're both great phones clearly.
Oh, and lol at 790 hours standby time haha. My Note has a 2500mah battery, not sure what the S3 has, but even with CM9 on my Note (very battery friendly and efficient) no way in a million years would it have that kind of standby time. Given idle battery life is far far worse under Samsungs skinned android, I'd be genuinely surprised if the S3 managed even half that.
They could actually use the same guys! John Hodgman would be the perfect SIII since he is a lot bigger than Justin Long...
Apple didnt invent the MP3, smartphone or the tablet. They just copied others before them and patent it. So to say anyone is copying Apple is a joke. Oh and the LG Prada wasnt the first touchscreen phone either. Simon was the first touchscreen phone way back in 1994
"The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show. A refined version of the product was marketed to consumers on 16 August 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first device that can be properly referred to as a "smartphone", even though that term was not yet coined.[5][15] In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon was also able to send and receive facsimiles, e-mails and pages through its touch screen display. Simon included many applications including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards."
"The first cellular phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show. A refined version of the product was marketed to consumers on 16 August 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first device that can be properly referred to as a "smartphone", even though that term was not yet coined.[5][15] In addition to its ability to make and receive cellular phone calls, Simon was also able to send and receive facsimiles, e-mails and pages through its touch screen display. Simon included many applications including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards."
I am curious how accurate or misleading it is when Samsung claims to have substantially longer standby time (790 vs. 225 hours) and longer talk time (11.4 vs. 8 hours) than Apple. I am suspicious of this and would like to see some real world numbers. It has seemed to me that Android phones, especially using 4G, just don't get good battery life at all. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I've looked for articles that would explain these numbers and their reliability in the real world, but have had no luck.
The one major differences between the two devices is the software.
An iPhone is capable of answering a phone call when lifted to your ear, but we don't want it. Even if we did, I'm sure their is a Tweak to install it if your iOS device is jailbroken.
I do give props to Samsung for attempting to compete against Apple, it what makes the world go round. They'll win some and then Apple will win some.
The one big con with devices running Android is that their are many, many versions of Android, and not all versions will be able to run on your device because your device will have to have the particular hardware for it to run. This is not a problem for Apple devices though, Universally they all run the same hardware, and software for that matter!
An iPhone is capable of answering a phone call when lifted to your ear, but we don't want it. Even if we did, I'm sure their is a Tweak to install it if your iOS device is jailbroken.
I do give props to Samsung for attempting to compete against Apple, it what makes the world go round. They'll win some and then Apple will win some.
The one big con with devices running Android is that their are many, many versions of Android, and not all versions will be able to run on your device because your device will have to have the particular hardware for it to run. This is not a problem for Apple devices though, Universally they all run the same hardware, and software for that matter!
Still don't know why you need a removable battery for the phone to be better - they fall down and in 99% battery is out; trust me, I'm a student
Panic advertising!
iPhone not even released yet and they are clearly worried about the floods of customers they will lose.
iPhone not even released yet and they are clearly worried about the floods of customers they will lose.
Samsung comes off as desperate to me. The average comsumer is a non gearhead and will choose design over techstats and things they dont know what are.
I hope Apple responds in a mature and non agressive way.
This silly ad just shows how threatened Samaung feels from a phone that hasn't even hit the marked yet, and will not hurt Apple sales.
I hope Apple responds in a mature and non agressive way.
This silly ad just shows how threatened Samaung feels from a phone that hasn't even hit the marked yet, and will not hurt Apple sales.
Those kind of competitive ads...
Those kind of competitive ads are forbidden by law in most european countries.
We know, why: Comparing products is just comparing apples with bananas. Maybe its just a missing competition-law in the US?!
Those kind of competitive ads are forbidden by law in most european countries.
We know, why: Comparing products is just comparing apples with bananas. Maybe its just a missing competition-law in the US?!
Seriously?... Its no wonder Apple fans get so much abuse with absurd things like this. Some of those points are just silly
No one is saying they copied because they made a phone though... so your point is actually pointless. Samsung copied loads of things like style of the phone and icons the way the software behaves even down to the charging adapter and product box.
No one is saying they copied because they made a phone or an MP3 player etc. You can still copy someones idea from something that already existed. Apple improved phones for everyone, samsung then decided it wanted a piece and copied a lot of things apple did with their phone.
As for copying others then patenting for tablets. Apples version of a tablet is completely different to what came before it.. do some research. All tablets before apple ran desktop software making them a nightmare to use. No company had made a tablet with its own specific OS with an integrated store.
I'm still on the iPhone 3Gs - I for one think the design of the 4 and 5-series suck. I like to hold something tapered in my hand. I use my phone to talk and hold it in my hand - that is so basic and what I regard the most important feature. The iPhone 5 seem so big and I would love a smaller one with only three rows of icons
Anyway I looking for something smaller anyway I don't really see why they battle to make the largest phone with the biggest screen!?
Anyway I looking for something smaller anyway I don't really see why they battle to make the largest phone with the biggest screen!?
Our companies pay our politicians who already lie to us....to allow them to lie to us as well.
This. There's like over 200+ versions of Android. It's why its software is flaw because its not suitable for all the different type of hardware (Samsung, HTC, Asus,etc).
Think about the iPhone 3GS it will support iOS 6. A phone thats about 3 years old. Does any of Android phones that are 3 years old (Samsung, HTC,...) support the latest version of Jelly Bean?
Man, sounds like you were having bad days with Apple products. I suppose the user experience is different for each person
I would imagine all those 3GS owners who started a 2 year contract last week might not agree when IOS 6 is released?
Are you saying that phones with touch screens must be copies? Or, that it's the touch screen it self is the only thing defining a touch screen phone? That argument is a bit too simple to buy.
I guess they really need to sell a lot of them to pay of the 1billion they owe Apple. I guess the line that is missing from this add is:
40% profit for apple - The first $billion profit also goes to Apple
40% profit for apple - The first $billion profit also goes to Apple