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The Famous Druid
Member # 1769
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 posted July 11, 2012 08:01
Apple sued Samsung in the UK, claiming the Galaxy is a rip-off of the iPad.
Good news for Samsung: The judge threw the case out
Bad news for Samsung: it was because the Samsung is not as 'cool'.
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dragonman97
Member # 780
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posted July 11, 2012 19:17
I think Samsung's statement is quite apt:
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In a statement Samsung welcomed the ruling and added: "Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims in other countries based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited."
Followed to its logical conclusion, Apple could just sue all of its competition to bar them entry into the field, and that's quite disgusting. It's also not becoming of such a 'cool' company.
If it comes down to the Galaxy tab costing significantly less than the iPad, it will certainly find a number of people happy to buy it, but they might find themselves as surprised as netbook buyers to find that all tablets are not made alike. (Or they'll absolutely love it! I have yet to try one to see if it lives up to the hype.)
I want to like Android, but so far I have little love for Samsung Conquer that I was issued for work. (This replaced a succession of utterly wonderful, if occasionally ugly, Motorola phones that /just worked/.) Maybe I'd like it more if it ran something newer than 2.3.4, but I routinely want to throw it at a wall. IMHO, there's certainly no mistaking this phone for an iPhone. :/ The only saving grace is Swype, which is pretty damned cool and makes up for the awful onscreen keyboard.
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Ugh, MightyClub
Member # 3112
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posted July 13, 2012 13:09
I, too, want to like Android, but my limited experience with it thus far is discouraging. The Club-lets both have HTC Inspire phones, and many times they describe how they have to do something on the phone and I can only shake my head at the absurdity of the complications.
Then you've got the hardware quality. The inspire looks pretty nice, with good tight tolerances. But within the last couple weeks one phone stopped charging -- various combinations of different bricks, cables, taking out SD cards, etc. didn't help. And the micro-USB socket was solid as a rock, so it wasn't an obvious loose connection problem. Meanwhile, the other phone started freezing when it was plugged into the charger. Both are under a year old. Luckily AT&T was nice enough to do a warranty exchange on both, except the replacement for the freezing phone did the same but worse.
So I look at all that and say, why would a typical person want to deal with the hassles?
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TheMoMan
Member # 1659
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posted July 14, 2012 07:03
Ugh, MightyClub, Hoo Boy Then it is not just the Mrs' unit. Her device will change Ring tones by its self. I have heard it enough to know that if her choosen ring tone did not play that it is time to Shut it off and Reboot. Weak signal areas drive her nuts,
I believe that this is a Beta Test unit, Pre production sample.
From watching how hers performs I do not want one.
Samsung Transform Ultra.
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GrumpySteen
Member # 170
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posted July 15, 2012 12:07
I have a cheap low-end LG Optimus with Android 2.2.1 (yeah, ancient) and I've never had any major problems with it. It lists for only $130 and routinely sells for $99 or less without any contract to subsidize it (though it is locked to the provider who sells it), so we're talking about a very low-end smart phone.
It doesn't have a very powerful CPU or graphics chip, so it does bog down on some apps, but you've got to expect that with cheap, low-end devices.
The only real complaint I have is that the battery pops out every time the phone is dropped. That's a design flaw with the hardware, however, not a problem with Android and it was solved with addition of a piece of tape.
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