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azrael
on Thursday August 07 2014, @11:23PM
from the similarities-bigger-than-differences dept.
from the similarities-bigger-than-differences dept.
Watch out iPhone 6, Note 4 will be unveiled a few day earlier. Samsung has recently sent a teasing press invite with caption READY? NOTE THE DATE! The September Unpacked event will be held simultaneously in 3 cities - New York, Berlin and Beijing. The launch is in tradition with previous announcement of Note 3 last year at IFA Berlin.
The flagship Note 4 release is a crucial moment for Samsung when it recently reported a drop in its earnings as a result of lower unit sales. For instance, Xiaomi has become China's top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter. For more than two years, Samsung had a leading position in the world's largest smartphone market .
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday August 07 2014, @11:44PM
So, why are Apple and Samsung getting free advertising of Soylent?
Talk about them if you tell us about the great innovative [sic] feature the new toy has.
You don't tell me that Ford/Audi/Dacia has released a new car, like every 6 or 12 months. New year, updated model, that's not news...
(Score: 1) by Nollij on Friday August 08 2014, @01:23AM
Do we have a name yet for the Soylent version of a slashvertisement?
(Score: 2) by tathra on Friday August 08 2014, @01:44AM
advertorials are nothing unique to slash or soylent, its basically where all advertising is trying to go. i wouldnt mind seeing advertorials for stuff thats truly innovative or unique, but for standard product releases like this, its just annoying.
the queue is getting pretty thin, so its not really the editors' fault; submit good stories to keep advertorials from being posted!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mth on Friday August 08 2014, @01:27AM
It looks like the legal and PR games that Apple and Samsung play have become the tech equivalent of celebrity gossip...
I wouldn't mind an article about the device when it has actually been unveiled, but the publishing of just the date of the event is not very newsworthy in my opinion.
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday August 08 2014, @12:55PM
I'd be less annoyed if the article even included rumored features of the new devices. This article just says "Samsung may be in financial trouble". Thanks...but if that was what I was concerned about, I'd be reading Business Insider or some other financially-focused website.
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Friday August 08 2014, @01:39AM
That's how you feel, sure, but you don't speak for everybody here. I'm actually interested in devices like the Note and Surface Pro, including information about updated models. Devices with active digitisers are generally a niche market, so the release of a new one is news for people with interest in them.
Just because it's not your thing doesn't mean nobody cares. I also like hearing when Wacom updates its cintiq or intuos (the proper one, not the rebranded bamboo) lines; the low-priced cintiq clones like the ones by Monoprice, Yiynova, and Huion; and other TabletPC type devices like this, the Surface Pro, and Lenovo's long-abandoned Thinkpad Tablet.
The news here is that a device whose primary selling point is a feature that's generally niche interest at best is profitable enough to keep getting new iterations. I'm surprised the Galaxy Note is popular enough that it even got a second one, and here we are coming up to a fourth version. Same with Microsoft's Surface: a niche product that's up to a third iteration, still rocking the active input years later. Eventually it might become old hat and not worth mentioning, but for now it's still a relatively niche feature.
It's like when AMD started selling x86-64 CPUs. The first one was newsworthy because it was a new thing; the next couple were newsworthy because it didn't fail to catch on like other 64-bit attempts (*cough* Itanium) did. Now it's the norm, but at the time it wasn't.
A better complaint is that there's no concrete information here at all, not even in TFA. It's just a teaser for an upcoming announcement instead of being an actual announcement. I find those annoying regardless of the company; the pre-event Apple hype gets old, too, though I have no problems with post-event breakdowns that tell about what new things are in the pipeline, even for products I don't find very interesting.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday August 08 2014, @06:31AM
Exactly my point. There is no information here on how anything in this future device is better than the previous one, the competition, or any similar more or less integrated tech.
I have a data point for you: my mom has a Note, and so do a lot of her friends (many who converted from more old-people friendly Apple), because you can read the caller ID or dial without reaching for your glasses. The market is a whole lot bigger than you thought. That digitizer that interests you is indeed a coincidental niche application.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Friday August 08 2014, @09:58AM
The interesting thing about that is that there are other phones of similar (or greater) size*, providing similar legibility, but at slightly lower cost because it doesn't have the Wacom tax. (Much like an Apple tax, Wacom tech tends to be disproportionately priced due to mind- and market-share. At least the tech and drivers are usually good.)
So, what I wonder is, what makes the Note the one people go to for the size? Is it because it's marketed better, or do people see the pen too and go "ooh that's cool I might use that" and go for it even if they're not sure why they would want it?
My mother actually has a Note as well, and for similar reasons. When she had to replace her phone, she asked me to go with her to assist with the decision making. Initially, she had iPhones on the brain because of co-workers, but gravitated toward the larger screen Androids. Then I showed her the Note with the active pen and she was hooked, both for the screen and the pen.
Personally, I can't stand the tiny-screen phones because I find them a pain in the ass to use any time I have to input something. On them, the on-screen keyboard takes too much space and yet still isn't large enough for reliable input because of my hand and finger size. I do much better with the Note-sized devices, plus there's the pen for extra precision.
* I saw someone recently with the Samsung Galaxy Mega [theregister.co.uk]. That display is massive.
(Score: 2) by gizmobeast on Friday August 08 2014, @01:57PM
yeah galaxy mega has 5.8 and 6.3 inch display.
(Score: 2) by r00t on Friday August 08 2014, @03:11AM
So, why are Apple and Samsung getting free advertising of Soylent?
Looks like someone ripped the article directly off BuckFeta word-for-word. We really should try to be a little more creative when re-posting stuff from other websites.