I'll be upgrading my iPhone 4 soon. I'm not sure insulting me is the best way to encourage me to switch to Samsung...
iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung
Not content with the trans-continental patent lawsuits, Samsung have struck another blow at Apple. This time somewhere it might hurt - its branding. A new TV ad for the Samsung Galaxy SII showing from today in the States sticks it directly to the iPhone, by suggesting that the Jesus mobe is an over-hyped pricey status toy for …
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Thursday 24th November 2011 15:22 GMT Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
Clam down, Calm down
http://files.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_96/963905/file/reebok-clothing-calm-down-small-62207.jpg
Jeeezzz would you lot ever calm down, this is advertising, not reality. You can easily see that the whole scene is a cleverly contrived piece of advertising make-believe bordering on viral advertising.
The other give away that it is a cleverly staged production is that although it looks like the fanbois have been queuing for hours, their phones haven’t run out of battery…
Mines the one with the very long charging cable in the pocket.
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Friday 25th November 2011 09:37 GMT goldcd
Not entirely true
Previous Nexus phones were cuttting edge examples.
Nexus - fast CPU and OLED screen
Nexus S - NFC
Nexus Prime... erm you're right. I was hanging on for it, managed to break my original Nexus and got an S2. Was quite relieved when the specs of the Prime came out - it's got a 720 pentile screen, but that's the only thing that was actually better.
Seemingly the S3 is coming out early next year with a non-pentile 720 screen - so I'm guessing Samsung wish to keep the top models in their range as 'theirs alone'
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Thursday 24th November 2011 13:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
I'm using...
..a fair chunk of my S2. Wi-fi on all the time to sync pop3 and exchange e-mail accounts, record a bit of video footage to sling up on YouTube, play a little Angry Birds now and then, check up on the news, and my battery lasts two days on average.
The best thing (don't know if Apple does this) is that in bad areas, the S2 latches on to the wi-fi and uses that to make and receive calls - via Orange.
I'm happy. ... and you can downvote me for that all you want. 'cause I don't care.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 13:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Two days is crap, iPhone, Samsung or anything else.
So some people get as much as two days use out of their phone and then complain that an iPhone has poor battery life. They all seem pretty much so slose that they are virtually indistinguishable.
I stand by my original comment, Samsung can't take the high ground on battery life.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 15:22 GMT chr0m4t1c
Yep
Spectrum vs C64, Amiga vs ST, Sega vs Nintendo, PC vs Mac, Xbox vs PS1/PS2, Xbox360 vs PS3, etc.
If you can only define yourself by talking down people who have made different choices then you are the one with the problem.
Personally, when I find ad campaigns like this that spend as much time insulting or talking down the competition I immediately wonder what serious product flaws they are trying to hide and I tend to shop elsewhere.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2011 20:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Confessions of a former Android user
I have an iPhone. Yeah, I've come out as an Apple user. I really tried with an Android phone. I really did. I even got a new shiny HTC Sensation.
Seriously, it is a POS as a frigging phone. Guess what, that is what I use it for!
The 'touch' is so sensitive that many times when I have hung up a call, it has redialled the party before I can stop it.
A total failure.
Yeah, all the other stuff works pretty well but as a phone it is a failure.
I sold it on Ebay last week and bought an iPhone 4s. A very different experience.
I am most certainly not a Coffee Shop worker. I run my own business and employ more than 20 people.
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Wednesday 23rd November 2011 22:21 GMT GitMeMyShootinIrons
Jeez, 'droid fans...
Bitching about whether this guy has signed in as AC or not isn't really the point. He tried Android, didn't like it and went for Apple.
His choice. Grow up and live with it, instead of sniping at the irrelevant. Droid fans insist on how wonderful an open platform is, harping on about choice and yet they can't handle someone going elsewhere.
It's like Linux vs Windows, Xbox vs. PS3, degenerating into childish rants, with little reason.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 00:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Jeez
Whether he's AC is exactly the point when he says he's "come out" as something. And that is the point people were making. Why think they're android fans? Why think they can't handle someone choosing a different phone? There's no evidence for either so will you grow up and live with that?
I've got an HTC and have the same problem with the redial. The issue is that the End Call button becomes the Start Call button when the other person hangs up. But it's not difficult to press the thing twice before the new call is connected. It's hardly with a downgrade.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 09:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
@GitMeMyShootinIrons
This wasn't a bitch about what he's done. If anything it was a challenge to his use of English.
"Coming out" is publicly confessing to something. i.e. going public about something which you have kept hidden in the past, e.g. being gay, owning an iphone, being a Chelsea supporter, all the usual things which could could cause you major embarrassment should your friends and family find out. Okay, maybe not the first one, that's pretty acceptable these days.
Using the anonymous button is still hiding... He's still in that closet with the door firmly closed, posting away via his wireless connection I assume.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 12:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
What?
Poor bugger. It was clearly an ironic (even creative, now he drives a real smart-phone) comment.
Your Android response is typical of the whole nature of android partisans, with their playschool talk of "the dark side", "would never, ever buy, use, be in the same room as ... and iphone". "Yes, my battery lasts just five minutes, but I am pleased to carry 20 more and a charger - what a feature...". "it's got this inane bug where it hangs up - rings back -goes silent - laughs at me . but I just stand on my head and play the national anthem on the four still working keys and all is lovely again - no big deal".
I personally went off the whole idea of buying smart Nokia, Windows, Android or Apple when I realised the pitiful mindset and religious belief associated with the things. Anyway, I've got a life, except when reading the drivel on this site.
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Thursday 24th November 2011 16:11 GMT Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
@AC 20:23
I thought all iPhoney users were sensitive and touchy, oh sorry you mean the phone.
OK, joke out of the way, AC 20:23, has a point, it is annoying to take your $BRAND fondle phone out of your breast pocket to find that your left nipple has being trying to set up a VPN, however it is easily remedied by locking the phone before putting it away.
Paris, ‘cos I said left nipple.