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Samsung Announces New Flagship Galaxy S 4 Competitor to Apple's iPhone

firewood said:
Look at the specs. Chocolate has far more kilocalories than vanilla. And flavonoids. That's real innovation.
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Who cares about specs? It's about marketshare and profit. Vanilla is winning.

According to a recent survey of International Ice Cream Association member companies, vanilla remains the most popular flavor among their consumers.

http://www.idfa.org/news--views/media-kits/ice-cream/ice-cream-sales-and-trends/

Besides - vanilla is more flexible. You can add anything to it and it just works. Chocolate is a walled garden. Sure it might have great taste - but it's limited in function. You simply can do MORE with Vanilla.

Now don't get me wrong. I eat both Vanilla AND Chocolate Ice Cream. I just pick the flavor I like best that accompanies my meal. I'm glad there's a choice.
 
Oracle1729 said:
True enough, but he could have been descibing me and countless other former fans. Apple is tell a lot of their best customers where to go and by the time it bites them in their sales ass, it will be too late and apple will be a pathetic has-been.
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Yes, but that was my point about Apple foot dragging on the pro update... Apple doesn't care. Don't flatter yourself. Apple is a consumer electronics company; has been for a few years now and makes no bones about that fact. They even removed the "computer" from their corporate name. Macs are less than half its income, and pro desktops are a sliver of that. #1 selling Mac is the 13" MBP. You walk, Apple won't weep; it won't even know you are MIA.

Also unless you are spending 100K+ every quarter you are not a "best customer," you are just another customer. Heck, school districts spend millions each school year and Apple barely budges to make a specific model for that market.
 
Oletros said:
If people want to be believed they don't have to write unbelievable things
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lol right

One of my friends with the Galaxy Fascinate had to carry an extra battery with him because the thing used up a charge so fast. He used it a lot, but still, he had to charge the thing 2-3 times a day.

Long story short, when his contract was up, he traded the thing in for a 4s and hasn't looked back.

It's a nice phone but there's nothing it can do that an iPhone can't. Meanwhile, unless I'm missing something, Samsung has yet to come up with a comparable feature to iTunes match, which is a deal breaker for me IMO. That 1080p screen probably sucks battery like crazy too.

I'd like an iPhone with a slightly bigger screen but 1080p on a 5 inch screen is just a waste of battery power.


This is about the 77th phone that's been labeled the "iPhone killer" in the last 5 years and yet not a single one has been that.
 
The arms race for smartphones is over, as we see with progression from the iPhone 4 through 4s to 5 and Galaxy S3 to S4 we're really just seeing incremental hardware updates as happened to PC's. The only area where there needs to be a significant step forward is battery life.

It's all about software now.
 
WTH!! I guess the S5 will be the phone you can put in your car with no hookup and travel through the Galaxy?? Hence the name? Looking forward to that feature, gotta wait I guess.

Iphone 5s apparently actually gives oral, but I bet that will be the 6.

On point: Both will be great phones and sell a lot. Those mega rich at each company will laugh their butt off at the net nerds going at it as they count their cash.

Same song, same dance, same music. Rinse and repeat next year.
 
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samcraig said:
Who cares about specs? It's about marketshare and profit. ...

Besides - vanilla is more flexible. You can add anything to it and it just works. Chocolate is a walled garden. Sure it might have great taste - but it's limited in function. You simply can do MORE with Vanilla.
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No. It's about quality, not quantity.

There's scientific proof that Chocolate users are smarter and live longer.

Who wants to spend all their time tweaking vanilla? Some of the stuff people add to vanilla contains dirt, or mold, or even viruses. Chocolate is so elegant, it just works.
 
I've been an iPhone user from the 1st gen through 5 and I must say that Android has me now. I found iOS to be getting stale and switched to a Nexus 4 and haven't looked back although there are numerous iPhone apps I really miss. I really hope iPhone 6 has a revamped iOS and hardware specs to blow away the Galaxy S4.
 
I'm an iPhone (5) user and I have to say that I am quite impressed by this phone. I have never used an Android device and really don't know much about the Galaxy line, but this one seems to have a lot of interesting features. I dislike the polycarbonate build, like many others on this forum...that being said, the screen looks awesome (I always wished the iPhone 5 had gotten a tiny bit wider and not just taller), though I think 5" might be too big for me to use comfortably. The air gestures is what draws me most to the S4 however...I can see it being extremely useful for me personally.

I do think that Apple needs to seriously consider their next devices and features, rather than blindly saying that the competition sucks compared to them. Will they ever revamp their OS? Will there ever be widgets? These are the things that I want...
 
DarwinOSX said:
Huh? How is Apple overpriced when top line Android phones cost the same or more?
Sgree on brushed metal look on plastic.
I assume you know specs have to be balanced against real world use.
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When I say Apple, I mean Apple as a WHOLE. Laptops, Computers, etc. That's what I mean by that.
 
BruceEBonus said:
I have a iPhone 5. It can do Facetime. Play music. Store files. Show images. Record and play photos. Take photographs. Send emails and go on the internet. It can play millions of Apps and can run all these things at lightning speed on an extremely hi def colour screen - as well as having bluetooth, 4G and Wi-Fi ... and all in a palm-size format which only a decade ago wouldve seemed unimaginable. An amazing feat in nanotechnogy which truly is a modern day wonder.

But all I really wanted it for was to make telephone calls.

Why oh why do they have to keep mucking about with it?

Just leave it as it was.
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OK... but you don't have to upgrade. The rest of the world will while you stick with your old phone :)
 
firewood said:
No. It's about quality, not quantity.

There's scientific proof that Chocolate users are smarter and live longer.

Who wants to spend all their time tweaking vanilla? Some of the stuff people add to vanilla contains dirt, or mold, or even viruses. Chocolate is so elegant, it just works.
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Can't we just agree that both flavors come from beans and serve their purpose. Why all the hate? Is it because people who like chocolate fear the fact that chocolate ice cream is OBVIOUSLY a Vanilla copy but just another ingredient thrown in. The base is the same!
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Yes, but that was my point about Apple foot dragging on the pro update... Apple doesn't care. Don't flatter yourself. Apple is a consumer electronics company; has been for a few years now and makes no bones about that fact. They even removed the "computer" from their corporate name. Macs are less than half its income, and pro desktops are a sliver of that. #1 selling Mac is the 13" MBP. You walk, Apple won't weep; it won't even know you are MIA.
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I walked into a Verizon store one day before I purchased my iPhone, saw the Samsung, played with it for a while and didn't buy it.

Shouldn't Samsung be writing me, calling me, and trying to get my business? No. So, how are they any different from Apple? I love your logic here. Samsung has no clue I'm MIA either.
 
samcraig said:
Either read the thread or do some research. Samsung has already said they will be bringing as many of the software features they can to the S3 that isn't hardware reliant.
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I'll believe it when I see it. I have a GS3 for work. Still waiting on my Premium Suite upgrade. Apparently Samsung is still at the mercy of the service providers so I'm not counting on ever seeing any of these new features on my phone. Based on my experience with my Epic 4G a couple years ago, I'll be amazed if I ever even get a new version of Android.

So, maybe that's partially Sprint/Verizon/AT&T's fault, but luckily Apple doesn't have that problem.
 
zioxide said:
It's a nice phone but there's nothing it can do that an iPhone can't. Meanwhile, unless I'm missing something, Samsung has yet to come up with a comparable feature to iTunes match, which is a deal breaker for me IMO. That 1080p screen probably sucks battery like crazy too.
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Google play music?
20,000 songs. Free.
 
Macboy Pro said:
Apple is hanging on to the smartphone market by a thread, a name, and an IOS. Sorry, but the hardware on this is WAY better than the iPhone 5. Apple is "stuck on thin" and its beyond annoying. They are destroying their mac lines slowly and I suspect the next iPhone will look very similar to the last iPhone. Seriously, who will buy an iPhone 5s that looks like an iPhone 5? If not for IOS, I would be on the galaxy.
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Yes, it will look the same. Apple is going to go the way of Porsche. ;)
 
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