Samsung: I’ve been a bit busy (I have a job now) so here’s a picture of an iPhone and a Samsung phone beside each other. You know, just for the LOLz.
Please do send me any look-y-likes you see - I’m working 9-5 again, meaning that I simply don’t have the time to read the firehose of shit that comes from Engadget, Gizmodo and The Verge every day. If I use it, I write the snark, I get the page views, but you get the credit. That sounds fair to me.
(image from Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy Pocket: Not content with creating a “phablet”* bigger than the universe itself, the world’s premier stealer of ideas Samsung is now going after the ickle phones for people with ickle hands market! And yet, it still looks like an iPhone 3G! TOTES AMAZEBALLS!
*I mean, really, “phablet”. Yes, they are trying to make that a thing. They should stop trying to make that a thing. Immediately.
(image from Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1): BREAKING NEWS!* Samsung cut their own, already shitty, market share in half by introducing a tablet that competes with themselves. Well done.
(*The British columnist Caitlin Moran once pointed out that you could replace “BREAKING NEWS” with “A THING! HERE IT IS!” or words to that effect, and the meaning would still be clear. I can’t watch the news without thinking about this, and, as a result, I repeatedly burst into fits of giggles every time I watch a 24-hour news channel.)
(image from Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2: THIS JUST IN: DESIGN INNOVATION AT SAMSUNG CONTINUES AT LIGHTNING SPEED. MORE SOON.
(images from Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy Note: Remember when Dom Joly did that thing with the iPad? And we all laughed? Because it looks like an oversized iPhone? Here’s a warning to all of you - if you pull one of these, with a surface area the size of Wales, out of your pocket and try to talk on it, I will point at you, and then I will laugh at you. Just don‘t dig out the stylus - unless you want me to roll around on the floor like Porky Pig.
(image via The Loop, by @abdophoto)
Samsung Galaxy S: Apple sure as hell didn’t invent, rounded corners, glass screens, metal accents, and horizontal speaker grills, but then neither did Samsung. Hand on my heart, I thought this was an iPhone until I looked properly.
Observation: it’s amazing that the legal system allow this generic piece of “me too!” through, when Nest are being taken to the cleaners because a pathetic behemoth of a company is too scared to innovate. OK, so I know that’s about patents, and not design, but really. Samsung would copy a robotic vacuum cleaner if they could. Oh.
(image from Engadget)
Samsung Galaxy S Advance: Here’s CNN:
But many industry experts focused more on what the iPhone 4S didn’t include than what it did.
“It was a big disappointment,” said Jeff Kagan, an independent telecom and technology analyst based in Atlanta. “What we expect from Apple every year is something that shakes the earth. What we had was an incremental improvement from what we had last year.”
And it runs Gingerbread.
*cue sad trombone sound effect*
(image from Engadget - in my view, the comments thread on this one is ripe for trolling. Go!)
Samsung Star 3: Someone Left The Fake Out In The Rain.*
(*The point being that it looks like an iPhone that got shrunk. Hopefully that’s clear.)
(image from Fonearena)
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