Samsung May Announce Galaxy Note 5 in August to Beat iPhone Launch

[Luis Mazza]

"Android in general only slows down if you fill it up with useless **** apps and bloatware can be solved by a root and vanilla rom install.

Samsung does the job of filling up garbage for us... You don't need to worry about that.
I'm a pretty advanced user and yet I screwed up a Galaxy S5 by updating a with a ROM fRom another country, which messed up my phone that even Samsung could not fix it.
Also you make it sound so simple to hack the phone, but you won't convince me because I know that is not simple nor reliable. If you like to play, get a toy, not a phone.

 

[Vanilla35]

I nearly kept the note 4 over an iphone 6. it was only those damn capacitive back and multi tasking buttons that made me return it, I kept hitting them by mistake when I was holding the phone in landscape. Other than that it was a fantastic phone. Really hope the note 5 has an option to enable software buttons.

There has always been an option to disable capacitive buttons (at least as of 2-3 years ago). It's somewhere in the settings menu

 

[igorsky]

lets face the truth, Samsung created phablet category and made it popular

Samsung made the category popular...they don't create anything. Anything that they've ever "created" was based on other companies' designs (iPhone) or rumors (Apple Watch).

 

[Mike MA]

August is somehow not a good choice. It's just in the middle of the year, too far from christmas, everybody is on its summer holidays, European or World Soccer Championships are being held, people are looking forward to the introduction of the new iPhone and so on...in other words, other interesting things just happen.

 

[teslo]

i'm sure apple is looking to get rid of the protruding camera lens at some point soon, but the note looks like they celebrate their protrusion. the whole phone would sit better with me if it wasn't tapered/sloped to highlight this (now bigger) lump.

i do, however think offering the stylus on a phablet is a good feature. if i was the type to go for the 6+, i'd want an included apple stylus with it. phablets to me are office notepad sized phones which beg to be written on.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

I really like Galaxy Note series,obviously I'm iOS user (iPhone/iPad and ofcourse Mac) but Galaxy Note is the best "phablet" imo.I own iPhone 6,but if I want to go bigger,it's more likely gonna be Note instead of 6 Plus.

Really? Good luck. We will be here waiting for the moment when you decide to come back.

 

[nando87]

nobody cares, it's just a samsung+android like the 90€ ones.

 

[Khalanad75]

They need something to pick up flagship sales.

 

[samcraig]

Samsung made the category popular...they don't create anything. Anything that they've ever "created" was based on other companies' designs (iPhone) or rumors (Apple Watch).

What a ridiculous statement to make. Samsung doesn't create anything? Yeah... ok...

 

[Fenez]

Samsung made the category popular...they don't create anything. Anything that they've ever "created" was based on other companies' designs (iPhone) or rumors (Apple Watch).

You do realize that Samsung did release smart watches in 1999 and again in 2009...while it's OK to hate a company for whatever reason you have... Not ok to just make stuff up.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

That's when you know you're the beta company. When the other guy's regularly scheduled release dates cause you to alter yours because you can't compete otherwise.

Agreed.

Apple felt they had to release the Apple Watch too early due to all the other wearables on the market.

Result: beta product.

 

[nj-morris]

Just remember that the brains (SOC) in the iphones come from Samsung.

So?

 

[Rogifan]

Just remember that the brains (SOC) in the iphones come from Samsung.

Samsung designs the SOC for Apple's iPhones? Since when? I didn't think manufacturing and designing were the same thing.

 

[HenryDJP]

lets face the truth, Samsung created phablet category and made it popular

And???? Let's face the truth. Sammy is sorry they made phablets "popular" because Apple followed suit and is killing them in sales.

 

[kis]

Doesn't matter - won't sell. Samsung's dead.

 

[HenryDJP]

Just remember that the brains (SOC) in the iphones come from Samsung.

And the OS on Samsung phones comes from Google, while the OS on Apple's phones from Apple. Your point?

 

[AppStoreNerd]

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[melendezest]

I still prefer the Note 3 over ANY other phone. So much so I've seen NO need to "upgrade", from Apple or otherwise.

I hope Sammy keeps it's attributes the same; would hate to see the loss of SD and battery access like they've done with the rest of the line.

That said, the Note's launch will be insignificant in regards to Apple sales.

It will not affect Apple at all; Apple has transcended the requirement for actually having the best product out there and makes money on the power of its branding alone.

 

[topmounter]

If they include a free Samsung-branded phanny pack with every Galaxy Note purchase then the iP6S+ won't have a chance

 

[MasterRyu2011]

Holy crap! Certainly welcome news for me. I was planning to get the Note 5, but was cringing waiting for November. Now I can have this much earlier! awesome.

 

[blacktape242]

and people were complaining about the iPhone 6 camera protruding out. look at the beast coming out the back in the middle!!! geez!

 

[nj-morris]

and people were complaining about the iPhone 6 camera protruding out. look at the beast coming out the back in the middle!!! geez!

Yeah. Good luck with the S Pen.

 

[Tinmania]

Interesting, I am not sure historically if iPhones have entered production this early before.

Every iPhone released up to the the 4S has been on sale in July or June.


Michael

 

[Tubamajuba]

Agreed.

Apple felt they had to release the Apple Watch too early due to all the other wearables on the market.

Result: beta product.

Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, over 20 years after the first cell phones were released, and about 10 years after they became mainstream. I don't think that hurt them at all.

 

[igorsky]

You do realize that Samsung did release smart watches in 1999 and again in 2009...while it's OK to hate a company for whatever reason you have... Not ok to just make stuff up.

This is the "smart watch" that you're referring to? Thanks for bringing it to my attention, otherwise I wouldn't have realized that Samsung's design aesthetic hasn't changed much since 1999.