Samsung Unveils iPhone Killer

[Gigacore]

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Samsung Electronics said Thursday it will launch a multimedia touch-screen mobile phone in Europe in November, hoping to win the premium phone war sparked by Apple's iPhone.

The Mobile Hybrid, codenamed F700, has a full touch-screen control but distinguishes itself from the iPhone with a QWERTY keypad hidden underneath it. The company plans to sell it in Germany, Britain and France from November, and in Southeast Asia and North America early next year.

The handset drew big attention earlier this month when its new screen interface called Croix received the iF Communication Design Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the world.

Samsung is confident that the new handset will outperform the iPhone.

``iPhone does not have a QWERTY keyboard and people are not accustomed to its touch screen. So we decided to pack a keypad into the handset,'' said a Samsung spokeswoman. ``It also has a very intuitive user interface.''

There is a saying in kannada, "Ond Kuri halake bidre... yalla kuri billuthanthe"
Translated: If one sheep falls in a ditch, all other follows it

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[RCuber]

Offtopic: @Giga your exams over?

 

[entrana]

dont they get tired of copying the iphone

 

[Gigacore]

Offtopic:

@ Charan... its not yet started

 

[aditya.shevade]

Sucks... At least iPhone looks way better (I have not had the pleasure of using it.. )

 

[ambandla]

price?

 

[entrana]

^^wahts wrong with u man it has just been announced and u want the price

 

[ambandla]

couldn't resist

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

it sucks ... its not an iphone killer its....... a self killer

 

[Gigacore]

^ Read my quote in the first post

 

[aryayush]

"If one sheep falls in a ditch, all other follows it"

You are comparing a phone that sells more than nine thousand units every day in a single country to a sheep falling in a ditch!

 

[Pathik]

There are many fones already that surpass the iPhone in features.. Yet they dont hav as much hype around them as the iPhone..
To defeat the iPhone u dont need features.. U just need a decent touchscreen ui and a army of fanboys wich outnumber the macboys which is very unlikely for samsung ..

 

[Gigacore]

Hmmm why not samboys

 

[aryayush]

iPhone Follower, Not Killer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

iPhone Follower, Not Killer

Here's the reason the new Samsung phone won't be an "iPhone killer" – it's the very fact that they're trying to make one that guarantees they will fail.

Same thing for the several "iPod killers" that have come and gone – ho hum – the main problem is that, no matter what you do, your moves are dictated by the person who made the first one. It's like a game of Tic Tac Toe in reverse: little kids figure out pretty fast that the outcome is dictated from the beginning. Hence, the game gets boring fast. Read more...

[Via Scribblings of the Metropolitician]


A pretty well written article. I particularly love the paragraph he ends it with:

Samsung thinks it's gonna win a game that's dictated – nay, been created by the guy who has a stellar track record, crazy smarts, as well as killer good looks? And by trying to be a lesser version of that very guy?

Keep dreamin', Samsung.

Couldn't agree more.

 

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[Gigacore]

@ aryayush, OK.......... iPhone rocks!!!