Are you mad that I have an opinion? I've never been a Samsung fan. Always been a Motorola user. But Samsung does seem to have turned a corner on physical design. Their software still seems bloated and icon heavy, but I don't think anybody can give folks crap for saying that their newest devices look very good, especially of course the Edge displays. They're gimmicks, but good looking gimmicks. Sure there are definitely other phones that look just as good. I like the Sony handsets as well as the the new Motorola X's. Not too big on HTC though.
Sorry - I didn't mean that as an insult to you or your opinion. Of course, you're entitled to say and think what you want!
And, I am equally entitled to disagree. As for your other comments regarding other handset designs - I do agree, there are a good number of beautiful Android handsets out there. I did have three different Android phones a few years ago: the original Droid; the Galaxy Nexus; and the Samsung Charge (dumbest name I have EVER heard for an electronic device, I mean,
really!). I liked the Droid a lot (Motorola) and consequently had quite a good opinion of Motorola for several years. The two Samsung phones malfunctioned
very quickly -- within 1 week in the case of the Nexus, and 1 month in the case of the Charge. Verizon replaced both of them for me - so no loss. The hilarious thing about the Galaxy Nexus was that it lost the ability to
make phone calls! But it could still do everything else. I just couldn't talk or hear anyone even though calls connected. Talk about FAIL. The Charge was just clunky, ugly, and laggy, but I really wanted LTE...and the tech sites that push this crap made it sound like a pretty good phone. That was not the case. I knew I would need to move on pretty quickly to a better phone. This was the point at which I decided to switch to an iPhone.
Regarding Motorola, it was upsetting to see Google discard them so quickly after their purchase - I had high hopes that we would see a more refined and up-to-date consequence for all Android phones due to the Google Motorola parentage. I thought that G's idea might have been to spur the other manufacturers to produce 'purer' and better maintained phones (this was my speculation at the time, pre-sale to Lenovo).
When Lenovo bought Motorola...and IBM's once-ThinkPad, I knew that any dreams of improvement for those lines was dead. It's not that anything designed in China can't be great -- historically, they are responsible for a great many inventions and achievements both scientific, cultural, and societal. Today, their medical/technical/engineering & biologic research is world-class and outclasses the West in many cases. They will undoubtedly ascend to brilliant device and software creation at some point in the future, as well.
I like to see competition in the market - it makes the players who survive stronger and better, with better products as the end result. We, the consumers and tech users benefit.
With regard to Samsung, it is their overall false-grandeur, corruption, and criminality (really, look into the last several decades of their business/government dealings in South Korea), including literally poisoning and irradiating workers
routinely and denying culpability when 30-year-old employees begin dying of cancer. Because of their wealth and willingness to spread the dollars or
won around, you don't see much about this in newspapers - but you can find the articles if you are interested. And, that is just my overall set of problems with Samsung. Re the iPhone and other devices, their copying isn't even limited to Apple - they copy whoever makes the best products, as exemplified by their copying of the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
