Samsung Expands Anti-Apple 'Wall Huggers' Advertisement to Airports

[cameronjpu]

Are you happy with your iPhone battery life? Wish it was more? Or wish the phone was thinner? Answer this poll to help gather data. And post the link on your Facebook wall to get more answers.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5L2MR7Q

 

[Señor]

Yeah you can definitely tell Samsung is extremely desperate at this point if the only thing they can resort to for commercials is bashing bigger companies.

 

[Hastings101]

weinerman hue hue hue

 

[Burger Thing]

Agreed. Actually my Galaxy Note 1 is constantly plugged on chargers. I have chargers on my car, at work, at home, along my Macbook (so I can charge through USB).

Well, in truth I'm getting more battery life lately because I rooted the phone and freezed all Samsung bloatware and also installed apps to prevent some apps from launching/wakening.

With all these tweaks I'm able to get around 8 hours under normal use (80% of the time with screen turned off).

I had a Galaxy Note as well and I'm very sympathetic to your post, as they matched my dealing with the phone quite exactly. Battery life was poor, the device felt slower by the day and was at the end barely usable because of its sluggishness. Cyanogenmod helped a bit but made the phone buggy, too.

Still, battery was usually dead around 3 pm Heavy user, here...

A bit OT: bought a LG G2 and now I know, i will probably never ever buy a Samsung phone again. Battery life on the LG is fantastic, the UI not laggy as the awful TouchWiz, etc

I know several colleagues of mine who feel in a similar way. Samsung is loosing marketshare and getting squeezed in several markets because of better and/or cheaper alternatives. Brand loyalty is for sure not as high as with Apple and lots of customers can just move easily to another brand in the Android Ecosystem.

 

[mrbrown]

What exactly is the point of Samsung's Ultra-Power saving mode thingamajigger? It sounds to me like you can't do anything with the phone when it's in that mode - yeah you save the battery, but at what cost? What good is a phone if you can't really use it?

 

[cmaier]

Apple at 41 and Samsung at 26 gives apple 15% give or take more subscribers then Samsung

Um, no. It's math. (41-26)/26 * 100 = 57%. Apple has 57% more than Samsung. (Of course rounding by using your rounded numbers)

 

[taptic]

Samsung has got guts... Blatant lies usually stick with politicians...

 

[Born Again]

We? You're speaking on behalf of all iPhone users?

Most

 

[cclloyd]

Location Location Location.

 

[LordQ]

This mode activates a black and white display with limited app access when the phone's battery is low, cutting off LTE and disabling WiFi/Bluetooth to provide up to an additional 24 hours of standby time with less than 10 percent of battery left.

So 24 hours of what, music and B&W Angry Birds?

Wow, kudos to Samsung's marketing team for finding a way to sell this BS as an innovative power saving mode.

 

[rendyr]

I must admit that S5 has superior battery life than my iPhone, but it goes down every apps you install, and iPhone can held consistency of battery longer.

Hopefully android can be more efficient in power usage in the future. I never seen people really use the Ultra Power Saving feature because it crippled the device.

 

[zipa]

Not a single reason? Well, with all respect, you must be somewhat oblivious to the facts. Things like OS stability, OEM support, and applications (most developers flock to iOS) are just a few off the top of my head.

I don't see any advantage there on either side. Well, if you plan on having your phone for years and years, with Apple you can usually count on updates for a longer period of time. That's not in any way relevant to someone who buys multiple phones in a year.

As for stability, all the tests I've seen point to Android Kitkat being the more stable of the two, and my own experience with the iPhone tells me that it is certainly not immune to crashes of freeze ups. Anyway, the difference is too irrelevant to even speak of.

And apps, well, there are apps you can't find on android and apps you can't find on an iPhone. 99,999 % of the time you get them on either, or at least a good enough substitute.

So yeah, outside of personal preference, no reason that I can think of. Well, come to think of it, security could be one. It's not something that concerns me personally, so I didn't think of it right away.

Anyway, personal preference will be the deciding factor anyway in 99 % of the cases, so I really don't understand why you would argue over this?

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As a small business owner i can give you some GREAT reasons. Try having employees install software that has to sync across multiple devices, and have the ability to stay up to date... when you have chosen Android as a platform, and all your employees have different Android phones, and have different versions of Android on all of those Android phones, and different versions of software on each of those Android phones. I can tell you first had... it's a royal pain in the ass. Not that you will care in the slightest way.

So get them the same make and model. Problem solved. You wouldn't get them computers with different OS's and versions, why would you do it with the phones?

 

[AppleInTheMud]

I love how people react absolutely childish to these ads. Just what Samsung wants. It gets attention and they have a muuuuch better battery.

And to the one who wrote, "Samsung is desperate" - Ehmm? No - they actually sell a bunch more phones and other stuff than any other of this companies.

Looking forward to iPhone 6 - mostly because I know Apple knows, this one has to be more than fantastic, if they don't wanna lose more ground compared to competitors.

 

[zipa]

If i actually had the time, and the inclination to go back and look up all the apps we had tried, i would bother. But i don't. We are all iOS for several years, and it's been a lot less hassle.

Several years... That's a bit like saying that macs are awful because OS 8 looks soooo clumsy.

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Some didn't even make it sound like they were reasons that were superior, just their preference.

Thank you. Like I said, personal preference is what it boils down to. Why is this so hard to understand?

 

[UBS28]

Only Samsung could take their biggest overall weakness -- power hungry huge screen phones with short battery life -- and try to make it seem like a strength. Their marketing people are bold!

Just got back from a trip and did an informal wall-hugger poll: I noticed 4 people with Samsung phones, and 0 iPhones. One Samsung user had his phone plugged into the wall, but he was happily typing away on his iPad.

You're wrong. The Samsung Galaxy S5 comfortably beats the iPhone 5S in terms of battery life and charging time. Only the HTC One seems to get close to the Samsung Galaxy S5.

 

[Aidyn's X]

Like Apple did with the mac v PC adds? PC user is the dork while mac user is the cool hipster.

More hypocrisy at its finest on MR.

Never heard this argument before. Good one. It's totally relevant 6 years ago.

 

[Keirasplace]

You are stupid and sorry I'm going from memory apply has 13-14% more phones then Samsung not 60% you are discarding all the other OEMS that the chart is using to give apple and Samsung its %

Apple and Samsung combined have 67% total OEM market share in the USA.the other 33% is broken up by the other OEMS

Class is over and you get an f

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Man, Skratch, I can't believe how dense you are!! How can we ever take you seriously after this so called "schooling".

The RELATIVE difference in market share of Samsung and Apple is 41 / 26.1 = 1.5708 (thus 57.1% more for Apple). The ABSOLUTE difference in overall market share of Apple compared to Samsung is nearly 14% more for Apple.

If you are talking Apple VS all the other platforms (not just Android) its 100 / 41 = 143% more than Apple for all those other platforms combined. With an ABSOLUTE difference of 59%.

That's it. Simple math. Please think before you rant and gloat!.

 

[Mrjoedot]

How silly
I don't know about USA but in Southeast Asia, People these days carry this "powerbank" now....they don't look for power socket no more
But to this topic
Samsung users too using power socket, it's a smartphone, not Nokia 3310. Samsung is exegerrating. Just because there are more iOS user, of course there are more iOS wall hugger. samsung users are wall hugger too

 

[fredaroony]

I can put my 100% charged iPhone 5 on my night stand and wake up in the morning and be at 10%. What is he doing all night?

I always say well at least one of us had fun last night.

See if your usage and standby figures are nearly the same.

 

[TouchMint.com]

Apple, Samsung, Nokia, etc... Everyone is plugged in at the airport for some reason.

Its easier to find a Sasquatch than it is to find an open plugin at most airports.

 

[coldsweat]

Samsung is just too early with these ads. I love the iPhone and prefer it over Samsung devices, but the truth is Galaxy S5 has waaaay better battery life. But the thing is: the previous Samsung Galaxy phones don't and relatively few people own Galaxy S5 compared to other Samsung devices, so these ads can't possibly resonate with a lot of people.

Now, if iPhone 6 shows no improvement in battery life and the next Samsung flagship is shown to maintain the battery life lead over iPhone, then these ads would probably make sense.

Very true, my iphone 5 battery life leaves a lot to be desired (although standby time is greatly improved for me with ios8), but my wife SGS3 is absolutely shocking - with only light use during the day & then left on standby at night - it'll be completely flat by the morning without fail!

 

[Azzin]

The amount of denial in this thread is astonishing.

I sit in a small office with around 10 people. Not one of the iPhone users (4s, 5, 5s) last half a day without having to charge their iPhone. I admit there are two with a Galaxy S4 and they sometime have to charge at the end of the day.

Im at 50% after around 2 hours of screen time, 14 hours off charge, by the time I get home... Note 3.

12 steps people.

Perhaps the iPhone users need charging sooner, because they use their phones so much more, because the phones are simply better suited/equipped for their needs than Galaxy owning peers, whose phones can't/don't run the apps they need...?

 

[ironsienna]

Like Apple did with the mac v PC adds? PC user is the dork while mac user is the cool hipster.

More hypocrisy at its finest on MR.

Im sorry but I find *your* comment to be more of a personal attack, than the Apple's Mac vs PC campaign (even though I was a PC user when it was aired). It's such a shame that MR removed the down vote button and ignorant comments like yours go unnoticed..

The mac vs PC ads were anthropomorphising MACs and PCs instead of making fun of PC users. They turned the computers into human beings were they could expose their advantages and their disadvantages into a level similar to the one of a user BUT they never made fun of the users... You can say that it was close, BUT again they did not pass this fine line of personal attack to the users..

So, instead of talking about hypocrisy and be bitter, please stop being thick and try to open up a bit more your perception of reality...

 

[zipa]

Very true, my iphone 5 battery life leaves a lot to be desired (although standby time is greatly improved for me with ios8), but my wife SGS3 is absolutely shocking - with only light use during the day & then left on standby at night - it'll be completely flat by the morning without fail!

To be fair, unless you have replaced the battery at some point it will be approaching the end of its usable life.

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Perhaps the iPhone users need charging sooner, because they use their phones so much more, because the phones are simply better suited/equipped for their needs than Galaxy owning peers, whose phones can't/don't run the apps they need...?

Or maybe the Galaxy users are just so much more productive, being able to set up their phones just as they want to, that they get the job done much faster and won't need to fiddle with their phones all day long...?

 

[Ballis]

Samsung is right. The iphone battery sucks. I dont know how much better their batteries are, but Apple needs to sort this regardless.