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Samsung and Google Delay Android Handset Launch in Wake of Steve Jobs' Death
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Hey DashTacker, that's funny coming from someone using the name of a Transformer as a forum name. How original.
i'm really impressed with what these companies are doing. especially since they are rivals of apple. props to them for doing this
Bad move on the part of Samsung and Google. Steve's death aside, they just signed the death penalty on their product because in the next few months, stores will be swamped with orders of the iPhone 4S. Would they likewise get the attention their product deserves? And by the time sales for the iPhone die out, better phones than what they have now would have been out. It's commonsense to sell your phones before and after Apple puts out their iPhones and not directly compete with it.
Well turns out the funeral is today, so the one big possibility for the postponement - Googlers attending the funeral - isn't really the problem...
I wonder how they'll explain this delay to their shareholders on the next report
Googleung- We are a month late with ICS and a new phone, but we were mourning Steve... It was all out of respect you see.
Investors - But Apple is spot on track, and they were the ones who actually suffered the biggest loss. There was even talk about how they lacked a succession strategy, but now it seems it was all well in place.
Googleung - But but it's respect, how can you go against respect? It's like going against doing no evil. Or killing kittens. We're respectful and don't do evil (well Samsung does but it gets hidden away in Korea). We're perfect like that.
Investors - Yeah right..
I wonder how they'll explain this delay to their shareholders on the next report
Googleung- We are a month late with ICS and a new phone, but we were mourning Steve... It was all out of respect you see.
Investors - But Apple is spot on track, and they were the ones who actually suffered the biggest loss. There was even talk about how they lacked a succession strategy, but now it seems it was all well in place.
Googleung - But but it's respect, how can you go against respect? It's like going against doing no evil. Or killing kittens. We're respectful and don't do evil (well Samsung does but it gets hidden away in Korea). We're perfect like that.
Investors - Yeah right..
Samsung has put out an official statement saying it's out of respect. Why do people keep trying to guess at hidden ulterior motives here ? It's out of respect and that's that.
Correct. But Super AMOLED+ is not on all GSII phones.
Super AMOLED+ uses an RGB matrix.
Super AMOLED HD uses another PenTile Matrix.
Correct.
Not exactly. Since the Super AMOLED HD use pentile, the subpixel arrangement makes it hard to delimit a "point." This is because the green of RG-BG is a different size than the red and blue. So your perceived PPI actually is dependent on the color and shape of the test pattern. In the past, Samsung has posted a number which has been controversially high given the "screen door" effect exhibited on the Nexus One and Nexus S devices. (yeah, I have one.)
As for Super AMOLED+ (not HD), appears to simply be less PPI.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Super-AMOLED-Plus-vs-Super-AMOLED-vs-Retina-Display_id18088
Speculation? Wikipedia? Average? The Android UI average and the iPhone UI average isn't even close to the same.
Quoted from Wikipedia:
"While an OLED will consume around 40% of the power of an LCD displaying an image which is primarily black, for the majority of images it will consume 6080% of the power of an LCD: however it can use over three times as much power to display an image with a white background such as a document or website. This can lead to reduced real-world battery life in mobile devices."
What is the typical color for the iPhone UI? Bright or dark?
'nuf said.
What's this "perceived" PPI thing you're going on about? a 720p pentile matrix will display a 720p image with no scaling, so it is a true 720p screen and therefore its PPI is 320, end of story.
While many could argue against this, I tend to agree. Japanese companies, and culture in general, take things like this very seriously and it isn't to far fetched to believe that they did this out of respect. I would probably assume that it was their idea to do this.
First off, Samsung is a Korean company. I don't know if you've ever been to Japan and dealt with the whole permanent resident visa deal before, but there's a big difference. That's a totally different discussion though.
I tend to agree though with the news discussion about Steve Job's death, that this was probably an inappropriate time to announce a direct competitor and would probably be drowned out in the news. Financially, it would probably make more sense to delay the opening. This is still business, and even a Japanese company would probably do that. 我田引水
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Ah yes, the specs. Something 95% of consumers don't give a crap about. We'll see if it sells 1/10th of what 4s is going to sell.
Agreed. Samsung, Google, and Apple are competitors, not mortal enemies. At the end of the day, they are all run by human beings who understand basic human emotions. Even Microsoft lowered their flags to half-mast this week. Steve Jobs was a legend in the industry, and in the popular culture, as well. This is like the death of Henry Ford. He was worthy of respect, even from his fiercest rivals.
Oh ,....That's not true
When you die I will be crying for weeks
Your posts touch me in a way thats hard to describe
Right !
And that's another reason I think we might see Flash coming to the iPhone now that he's dead.
His Butt Hurt over Quicktime loosing to Flash is irrelevant now
I see people say Apple fan boys/Microsoft fan boys and the so called hatred between them.
Ask yourself this, Is it hatred or just competition ?
I say it's just good ole american competition and has been since the early days.
Whether you disliked Jobs or Gates you have to give both Kudos. They knew what they were doing and went for it. They created competition among their own companies in the old days ad both were always thinking outside the proverbial box.
Steve will be missed and I always seen him looking more like a kid with a new toy when he introduced a new product more than a man with hatred or greed.
R.I.P Steve
Ask yourself this, Is it hatred or just competition ?
I say it's just good ole american competition and has been since the early days.
Whether you disliked Jobs or Gates you have to give both Kudos. They knew what they were doing and went for it. They created competition among their own companies in the old days ad both were always thinking outside the proverbial box.
Steve will be missed and I always seen him looking more like a kid with a new toy when he introduced a new product more than a man with hatred or greed.
R.I.P Steve
Not a family Linux is part of. Nor iOS for that matter. The fact is, Linux and iOS are 2 different things for one. One is a kernel and the other is a OS. Linux and Darwin are what you want to compare and aside from both being OS kernels, the similarities end there.
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They're copying Apple again!
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Samsung is Korean. And those who argue against the fact that the official reason is "respect" are the ones with ulterior motives (hating on Samsung and Google), not the players directly involved here.
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Good thing Apple is not selling a phone based on specs this go... oh wait
Funny how Apple doesn't share your vision.
Apple competes on specs as much as the next guys. Heck, I didn't even understand half of the camera specs they gave out (nor do I really care, in the end, it's a cellphone camera, it's barely "good enough" by definition).
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I wonder about this question: when will Samsung and Google make their announcement for the first cellphone running Android 4.0 now?
My personal "wild guess": probably late October at an event on the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.
My personal "wild guess": probably late October at an event on the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.
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This is something that bugs me. Why would you post just for that ? There's a ranking system now. If you want to "+1" a post, then just uprank it.
Is there a forum rule about this stuff ?
This is something that bugs me. Why would you post just for that ? There's a ranking system now. If you want to "+1" a post, then just uprank it.
Is there a forum rule about this stuff ?