S5660, S5830, S5690, S5570 are showing up at 'less than 400' without a contract for me. (Some less than 200)
Those all have higher volumes than the 32gb 4s.
I know this is off-topic, but why is LTD banned? I don't think I've ever seen him insult a single person. I know his beliefs are to the extreme, but I find it a bit strange that he is banned while those with extreme beliefs on the opposite end aren't banned. Very strange.
Regardless, impressive that Apple is ranking in categories that include dumb phones.
Yeah the sgiiii may be the fifth best phone sold this year behind four apple handsets.
I count 3 Apple smart phones, the 4S, the 4 and the 3GS. What is the fourth one?
Samsung is a corrupt company and I'm glad Apple is distancing itself from them especially in the supply chain.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-17/samsung-head-charged-with-fraud-avoids-arrest/2407266
My next phone is the iPhone. Can't wait.
Anywhere in the world, you cannot find a Samsung smartphone for less than $400. 400 by 42 million is $16.8 billion. More than the total revenues reported by Samsung for their IM division.
Just goes to prouve how ego-centered other phone makers were in staying content with valueless incremental improvements to their boring products
What makes these stats even more incredible is the profit Apple makes on each iPhone sale. Others don't come close.
I've used both phones and the difference between a 4S and 4 is negligible. The 4S in the grand scheme of things wasn't a big fail in the market-place because it was an iPhone. However, it's important to realize that the phone "succeeded" due to the infrastructure built up from the Apple brand and the success of the previous iPhones. The 4S in itself was a pretty unremarkable upgrade.
I can guarantee that if Apple continue with one or two more upgrades like the 4S (I know they won't but for arguments sake), they'd get swamped by Android, etc.
Your going to be heart broken when you find out samsung is the mfg of all the guts in all of you iphones and ipads, they also just built a new factory in texas to supply Apple with the A6 chip bump up. Apples a long way from ending thier partnerships with samsung any time soon.
I'm curious to know what quad core phone or tablet is noticeably better in terms of performance than iPhone 4S or iPad. I keep hearing about how such and such device is quad core but I never hear about the benefits to the end user in terms of over all end user experience. As long as my phone does what I want it to and the UI isn't laggy I could care less how many cores the processor has.I'm curious. What is it you think that android will have in hardware for this year and next besides the quad core that will be leaps and bounds way better than iPad 3 specs. LTE? Bluetooth 4? NFC? They can't even upgrade current phones to ICS which is still <2% of the installed base
When Apple releases the 5 later this year.
That's the power of Apple's triple play. Clever Marketing, Cult like worshipers spreading "The Word", Insatiable Greed = Obscene Profits & Explosive Sales, Simply Brilliant.
If Apple follows what they have done in the past, the iPhone 4 will replace the 3GS as the free iPhone. The 3GS will then be retired.
So the 35M who purchased iPhones are members of a cult, or are to stupid to know they're being played by Apple? Yet the 42M or so who purchased Samsung phones aren't? Brilliant logic there.
I love how often the availability of choice is somehow a bad thing on these forums.
and how is that bad? its just a different approach, not everyone needs a 300 Euro phone. im not necessarily fond of android or the samsung plastic crap but that doesnt mean their business strategy is bad.
so what?
just because it doesnt retail for $649 dollar its automatically a bad phone?
i got my iPhone 4S for 1 Euro here, same price as the Samsung Galaxy Note. doesnt mean either one is worse. it depends on ones needs and what he wants to do with it
Can I see your badge?Citation please for your assertion that "samsung is the mfg of all the guts in all of you iphones and ipads".
According to what I find: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/1:
"The iPad's new A5X application processor, with improved graphics horsepower, is based on energy-efficient technology licensed from Britain's ARM Holding and is manufactured by Qualcomm, as in past Apple devices."
"The NAND, part number THGVX1G7D2GLA08 is a 16 GB 24 nm MLC Flash from Toshiba"
More to be found in the article I cited.
Can I see your badge?
feel free to read over any of these, by the way qualcomm makes the phone chips that give you the ability to send and recieve calls and connect to 3g 4g whatever, the phone part of the iphone, just like broadcomm makes the wireless chip to go online. Samsung makes the A4, A5, A5X, the current retina display, and the nand and ram, the latest ipad has Apple using both samsung and toshiba for nand. Im pretty sure they make the power managing controller chip as well.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/02...amsungs-texas-chip-making-plant-says-analyst/
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4G-Carries-364-35-Bill-of-Materials.aspx
http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/hardware/processors/229300842
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Now+Making+Apples+SmartphoneTablet+Chips+in+Texas/article23537.htm
http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/22/apple...iphone-and-ipad-pushing-samsung-further-away/
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/03/16/in-new-ipad-samsung-display-and-processor/
hooray!
So now you did not state "samsung is the mfg of all the guts in all of you iphones and ipads". Thanks for refuting yourself. LOL!