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Samsung Details New Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge, Gear S Watch and Gear VR Headset
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You do realize that the VR isn't meant to be worn around your daily life but is an entertainment device right? I don't think we would accept people walking around with a TV, PS4 and game controller down the street (trying to play them) yet people do still find a reason to buy those things. It is certainly not meant to compete with Google Glass.
Wacom digitizer with pen ok I'll give u that one!
Wireless AC gimmick
IR Blaster 1940s technology gimmick on a smart phone
Wireless charging (with add-on back) on the fence on this one, that everyone really cares about wireless charging
Standard USB 3 port definitely not necessary in a mobile device lightning connector is more than capable of hooking up to you want to be
MicroSD card supporting up to 128GB i'll give you this one but it should be fixed with the new iPhone 6 with 128 GB storage
As thin as the iPhone 5S and that doesn't really matter iPhone 5s feels a lot better in hand The foe leather was a fail
The 5.5" iPhone will definitely blow away the Note Edge!
*A week later*
So it's just has a bigger screen with no additional functionality?
My bad
Yes, but the bigger screens might just be enough. At least for this year.
20+ mins of cheesy music whilst they make people wait for their "event" to begin? Who decides to allow uploads of keynotes that have all that empty space at the beginning? If that wasn't bad enough, the "event" itself just takes the biscuit... LOL
They don't even introduce the keynote at the beginning, they just have some hipsters playing some awkward, pretentious music... WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE? LOL!
And then some Korean marketing VP blathering on in barely intelligible English.. then jacked-up editing a couple minutes later. The stage even has bits of trash littered around. The whole thing... very, very hard to watch.
Perhaps because if Apple did it, it would actually be polished and not a random mashup of every feature they could squeeze into a case. Really though, it's probably because 95% of consumers don't even know what those features mean, let alone would find them interesting enough to care about.
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So what will you guys say if Apple does indeed release the device with 2GB of RAM? You will then praise it and switch line to something along the lines of it needed it and blah blah blah.
It gets old after awhile, doesn't it? Apple is not a perfect company, they do not make perfect decisions. Sometimes they decide poorly, sometimes they decide well.
A stylus isn't required for the Note, its for software that want to take advantage of additional capabilities that it offers over a finger.
1.9 GHz octo-core, erm am i the only one to be confused as to why you would ever need those clock speeds?
I mean my laptop is a dual core 2.6ghz and is blazing fast. These ridiculous chips have to be for spec wankers don't they because real world usage means they are running at much lower clock speeds anyway so they don't kill a battery in minutes!
Samsung is like an old style tech company that adds any old thing they can because it because viable to make it without asking themselves why they wanted it in there. I just don't understand anything they're about and the touchjizz UI overlay is looking more and more like bits of iOS, like the camera and time & date parts have been tweaked to look more like it.
I mean my laptop is a dual core 2.6ghz and is blazing fast. These ridiculous chips have to be for spec wankers don't they because real world usage means they are running at much lower clock speeds anyway so they don't kill a battery in minutes!
Samsung is like an old style tech company that adds any old thing they can because it because viable to make it without asking themselves why they wanted it in there. I just don't understand anything they're about and the touchjizz UI overlay is looking more and more like bits of iOS, like the camera and time & date parts have been tweaked to look more like it.
they could sell it separately (i mean it is apple after all) but their display technology just isnt made for it
A similar argument could be use against glass backs.
It doesn't matter.
Apple's already long ago proved that people will often choose form over function.
Heck, that's how we switched from devices with raised protective edges to daintier all glass front screens.
To be fair regarding watch faces: I haven't seen anyone* actually wearing a watch in going on five years. All watches look anachronistic and frankly fugly these days.
* excluding *******s who buy expensive watches as a status symbol, which is why I associate watch-wearing with douche-baggery more and more...
Comparing ARM CPUs to x86-64 multi-purpose desktop CPUs shows you have zero clue as to what you're talking about in the first place.
Dito the idea of adding in different input devices will mean a stylus is being used like a finger with no advantage and if you have a model without it you need to disable anything that can only be used with the stylus. It adds nothing that helps you.
Considering your current signature, this is pretty bizarre. Can you really not understand the name of this website?
No, the glass back doubled the likelihood of a drop shattering one of the glass panes (and one of the glass panes was mostly decorative; the chance of a drop shattering the display glass remained unchanged).
The curved glass edge multiplies a near-zero chance by a very very large number. Now one in three drops from such a height will result in your one and only display glass needing to be replaced, so that goes from a rarity to a near-certainty. Worse, no case is going to protect from that likelihood.
I still remember Gizmodo bashing the crap out of the original Note 5.3" years ago for it's size. Pretty funny today because a 5.5" iPhone looks very realistic.
Give Samsung credit folks; they are the father of the large screen phone and weren't afraid to release it back in the day.
Yes, I'm sure that back in 1924 when they had the first annual IFA fair in Berlin, they thougt that 90 years from now, Apple sure is gonna have a long face.
The better specs, the more your phone can do and the better a tool it becomes. It doesn't need to look pretty, it needs to be functional for as many roles as possible, especially if I am going to be spending $500-$1000 on it.
I thought the presentation was difficult and awkward to watch.
Who would want to buy a 6" phone? Silly at best!
And the edge display, I bet they don't sell any.
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Who would want to buy a 6" phone? Silly at best!
And the edge display, I bet they don't sell any.
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