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The #1 Reason Not to Buy an iPhone

I just discovered the #1 reason not to buy an iPhone. Of course there are many which you all know about but this one takes the prize! Reading around some of my favorite pocketpc sites I discovered an article from the Boy Genius Report which provides a review of the iPhone SDK. Further research by developer Robert Balousek into the SDK have revealed an incredible flaw:
"Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits."
The quote above is pulled from the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines document available on the SDK site. Too bad they don't mention this kind of stuff on the iPhone ad considering multitasking is the whole point of mobile computing. Ridiculous.
Here is the full article: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/03/08/iphone-sdk-honeymoon-over-no-background-processes/

dude what a bag o wa*k. Would concider one but for a change the Microsoft option has a more open and editable os on a wider range of phones. (yer I know thive apple some time but I do get the feeling that this is going the same take over the world direction the ipod toulk)

<points and laughs>
Anyone who pays extra money *per call* to own an iPhone is an idiot.
"But you pay the same for calls as you do on other phones" you say. No. If your telco was not paying apple a slice of your call revenue, they could afford to cut costs. You ARE paying for the privelidge of owning a feature-poor over-hyped piece of junk.
I had to laugh so hard the other day. Someone I know was extolling the virtues of the apple multi-touch interface. I told him to show me multi-touch. He did a gesture with one finger. LOL. Most of them don't even ever use multi-touch on the phone or know what it is and it's the phone's only unique feature.

Why would anyone want to get sucked into buying a stupid fad anyway?
Sure the iphone is "pretty" or something ... and naturally being gadget freaks, most of us will be interested in it at first ... but after doing the proper research it's totally not work it. No MMS, no keyboard ..etc..
I'm sure WM based companies are going to step it up a notch and as soon as WM 7 is released, its going to completely slaughter the iphone.

There should be a specific thread or forum on why you shouldn't buy an Iphone. My coworker (sex withheld, lol) was show-boating her iphone to everyone. Once she dangled that expensive piece of hardware in front of me, I told her that it doesn't send picture messages, no gps, the touch screen keyboard suck (to me and many others I know), the internet is slower than what the commercials show (no 3G), it's so ridiculously expensive, it has it own plan for pete's sake, you can't remove the damn battery, and more memory slot. I also told her (being that we live in miami) to be careful because if and when the weather exceeds 96 degrees, (and it will), kiss your iphone night night, lol.
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robosiris said:
There should be a specific thread or forum on why you shouldn't buy an Iphone. My coworker (sex withheld, lol) was show-boating her iphone to everyone. Once she dangled that expensive piece of hardware in front of me, I told her that it doesn't send picture ....
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Too late!

yeah. so much for the sex withheld....muahahahah...and all those her are code names??
back to iPHONY. sucks big time. but have to pay big time = WM7 i m waiting!!!

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robosiris said:
There should be a specific thread or forum on why you shouldn't buy an Iphone. My coworker (sex withheld, lol) was show-boating her iphone to everyone. Once she dangled that expensive piece of hardware in front of me, I told her that it doesn't send picture messages, no gps, the touch screen keyboard suck (to me and many others I know), the internet is slower than what the commercials show (no 3G), it's so ridiculously expensive, it has it own plan for pete's sake, you can't remove the damn battery, and more memory slot. I also told her (being that we live in miami) to be careful because if and when the weather exceeds 96 degrees, (and it will), kiss your iphone night night, lol.
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I'm going to send this thread to my wifes brother in-law as he's thinking he is the Sh%# now that he has this thin brick POS....

not only that, your apps have to be approved by steve-o because god forbid, you might code something that might bring down the cell networks and you also have to pay a $99 membership a year i think to develop and submit your applications to the itunes store. LOL

Merlin_reloaded said:
Too late!
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I'd rather be late than have an iphone,
As far as Iphone faults are concerned, the list goes on and on.

mchapman007 said:
I'm going to send this thread to my wifes brother in-law as he's thinking he is the Sh%# now that he has this thin brick POS....
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wouldn't your wifes brother in law be your brother ! unless you live in one of those countries where piligimy is accepted, in which case I guess you could be just 1 of your wifes hareem of husbands

ice_coffee said:
wouldn't your wifes brother in law be your brother ! unless you live in one of those countries where piligimy is accepted, in which case I guess you could be just 1 of your wifes hareem of husbands
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Notice my location... Good call.. LOL! (Her Sisters husband....)

iTunes would have been my 1st guess.

mchapman007 said:
Notice my location... Good call.. LOL! (Her Sisters husband....)
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LOL, I stand corrected

Live WWDC Keynotes! (New iPhone revealed OMG Video chat over wifi!!!!)

Hey many of us would like to be at WWDC but due to various reasons we aren't so why not follow the keynotes live with pics.
Updating every 2-3 mins its fun to read and see pics live. Its here.
Some of the updates which i liked below:
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10:37 PM "It is magical, I know it because I got this email: I was sitting in a café with my iPad, and it got a girl interested in me!." "So there’s proof." Huge cheers.
10:41PM "A friend of mine wrote this, and he sent me an email and he said I could use it. I earned more in the first day of selling Elements than I did in the past 5 years of Google ads on periodictable.com" Ouch
11:04PM "And it’s really thin. This is the new iPhone 4." Leaks were real then?
11:04PM "You gotta see this in person. This is beyond the doubt, the most precise thing, and one of the most beautiful we’ve ever made. Glass on the front and back, and steel around the sides. It’s like a beautiful old Leica camera."
11:05PM "As a matter of fact, it is the thinnest smartphone on the planet." O’rly?
11:05PM "It is 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS."
11:21PM Dual mics, 802.11n WiFi, GPS, compass, accelerometer.
11:21PM Quad band HSDPA, 7.2Mbps
11:21PM Big cheers for that.
11:21PM "Number four, we have another new piece of hardware. We’re adding a gyroscope."
12:08PM "We made a little video to show some of the ways people might use it."
12:08PM "So FaceTime video calling. We’re really happy with this."
12:23AM "We developed a glass that’s 30 times harder than plastic."
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Catch all the action live!

Looks like apple is having the same problems as google did with the WIFI there.
You would think that apple would of done something about concidering they came weeks after google and had to of watched their presentation.
And it looks like they won't be able to show some of the key features on the iphone 4... On day one it already gets a black eye.

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Respectfully, I don´t think this information is relevant to XDA

Farm ville on iPhone

oh okay orb no problem, xda is a win mob fan site (Me too ) but same time there are some apple fan boys here. This might be useful for them ha ha

It is relevant as most users here are used to phone hardware that is far more advanced than the iPhone.
Not anymore. Yes iPhone OS still sucks and of course there is no hardware keyboard, but the new phones display alone is enough to make me a little jealous. 960x640 makes the 800x480 screen on my Rhodium feel like QVGA. When will WE get display's like this? WinMo obviously never will, and WP7 only supports up to 800x480.
I assume Android could support this resolution, but when? Imagine the HD2's 4.3" display at 960x640! LCD pr0n it would be. HTC needs to get on this quickly.

Wow impressive, Video chat over wi-fi and the app which enables this is FaceTime. Cool.

video chat and the book apps is just bs. On the other hand - the screen, the camera (+LED flash), the processor, and the antenna seem like good innovations. Hate to say it, but... Well done, Apple.

orb3000 said:
Respectfully, I don´t think this information is relevant to XDA
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Orb, it is COMPLELTY relevant to XDA
It proves what a fail the iphone is

Badwolve1 said:
Orb, it is COMPLELTY relevant to XDA
It proves what a fail the iphone is
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+1 Vote
BTW, guys the glass used is 30 times stronger than plastic, really?

Badwolve1 said:
Orb, it is COMPLELTY relevant to XDA
It proves what a fail the iphone is
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You are right mate

I really hate to sound even a tiny bit pro Apple but what exactly about this new iPhone is fail? Besides the screen size it meets or bests the HD2 in the hardware department. The 960x640 resolution is well beyond anything HTC has produced (or plans to?); considering one of the main perks of our WinMo and Android phones has been the high resolution screens this point alone is pretty important.
Imagine Android hacked onto this new iPhone. Might make it arguably the best non-hardware-keyboard phone out there currently.
Hardware keyboard is still a requirement for me so it is an obvious no go. HTC has some catching up to do now, I do hope they soon announce a new Android phone with as high of a greater a resolution (and screen size, obviously) than the new iPhone.

I agree with MooGoo, further what i have heard is this new iPhone 4G has only 256 MB Ram and dont know how they though that they are going to do multitasking with that?? Either the Phone will slow down or battery power leak or can't open as many application as on win mob. But who knows may be they have done something innovative for that too.

Hardware seems nice. Software is disappointing though, I was expecting them to more towards the cloud a bit more and maybe cut that iTunes leash.

New Samsung Tab 10.1 has light leakage

Just looked at the one I got from I/O and it had light leakage pretty bad on the left bottom corner. I had to talk to a Samsung Rep and show him to exchange it. He said I was not the first one with this problem. I guess LG is not the only one with quality control issues.
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Most LCD screens will have this.

Does your exchanged unit have this?

Damn, was looking at this or the Playbook.
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player911 said:
Most LCD screens will have this.
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agree. will this ever stop.lol

Buy an AMOLED?

r4d14n7 said:
Buy an AMOLED?
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IIRC there aren't any android tablets with AMOLED display panels yet...

Getting a LCD device an complaining of "light leakage" is akin to purchasing a hummer and complaining of poor gas mileage. That said, I'm not sure why we need a thread about the 10.1 Samsung tablet's "light leakage" in the G2X thread....give it a rest people....

mysterioustko said:
Getting a LCD device an complaining of "light leakage" is akin to purchasing a hummer and complaining of poor gas mileage. That said, I'm not sure why we need a thread about the 10.1 Samsung tablet's "light leakage" in the G2X thread....give it a rest people....
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QFT
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mysterioustko said:
Getting a LCD device an complaining of "light leakage" is akin to purchasing a hummer and complaining of poor gas mileage. That said, I'm not sure why we need a thread about the 10.1 Samsung tablet's "light leakage" in the G2X thread....give it a rest people....
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Haha...very true.
It's inevitable. LCD screens are LCD screens like he said.
It doesn't bother most people..

bonzai3558 said:
Just looked at the one I got from I/O and it had light leakage pretty bad on the left bottom corner. I had to talk to a Samsung Rep and show him to exchange it. He said I was not the first one with this problem. I guess LG is not the only one with quality control issues.
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This forum needs quality control with posts like these

LCD's are NOT supposed to have bleeding. i've only had 1 phone ever besides the g2x that had screen bleed and i returned it and new one didn't have it. my g2x now doesn't have it (had to get through 5 to find one though but hey problem solved).
just because most phones cost $500 these days instead of $50-$100 10 years ago doesn't mean that the bar should be dropped on quality. $500 is a lot of money not to mention $700-$1100 for tablets. theres no excuse for poor quality so don't listen to people who say you should just be ok with that. you would only be allowing companies to keep producing poor quality items if they don't get returned so the company can see first hand the profit losses from poor quality control. the reason people pay a billion dollars for a phone is so they can have a TOP END device.
its sad that people are getting so used to paying such high costs that they would be ok with paying several hundred $ for an item made incorrectly, then consider this to just be normal, and then tell others that "that's just how it is." that mentality only makes things worse for everyone in the long run.
that sucks about the galaxy though cuz samsung usually makes good screens. weird though sense they were reporting on doing a $7.8 billion deal this year with Apple to sell apple processors and LCD screens for the iphone and ipad (yeah its true, read it on engaget. apple is pretty much samsung but with their iOS) even know they were suing each other, lol. makes sense why ipad2 has some bleeding on some units though. i heard LG did some of the ipad2 screens too (from a tmobile rep). which may or may not be true though.

mysterioustko said:
Getting a LCD device an complaining of "light leakage" is akin to purchasing a hummer and complaining of poor gas mileage. That said, I'm not sure why we need a thread about the 10.1 Samsung tablet's "light leakage" in the G2X thread....give it a rest people....
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I think its more like buying a hummer with the tint on the window peeling. sure you can live with it, not many people will notice it, but would you still keep it or have them fix it?

halojinx said:
I think its more like buying a hummer with the tint on the window peeling. sure you can live with it, not many people will notice it, but would you still keep it or have them fix it?
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+1 to that

Foot five to that.
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I dont know why everyone just keeps saying that LCD screens just leak light. Thats not at all true. Ive had an iphone, G1, Mytouch 3g, Nexus One and G2 and none of those had light leakage. I dont understand if its just suppose to happen then why are other companies keeping their QC under control?

Dolphinwigs said:
its sad that people are getting so used to paying such high costs that they would be ok with paying several hundred $ for an item made incorrectly, then consider this to just be normal, and then tell others that "that's just how it is." that mentality only makes things worse for everyone in the long run.
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Amen Brother! And for some a TWO YEAR CONTRACT! I found from the G2Xforum how many ppl are content with mediocrity with the products they purchase. I had my G2X for a week before I took it back I've been waiting for the intial production wave to go through before going back. If it persists then ill move on to the next device.

If you think this is bad? Nokia N73 was horrible.
4 dots of leak shows on one side of the screen. How do think?

I was trying to compare it to my G2x....geez.
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Court cases! Apple vs Samsung!

As I'm sure you've probably read Apple are being total douche's thinking the business world revolves round them....when in actual fact, their products would be bugger all without Samsung as they make the RAM, NAND, and Hummingbird Processor in all their products! What do Apple think their playing at? What are your views?
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Pretty funny that Samsung can make all the tech that makes these things work (and spend billions researching it) and Apple turns around and tries to take over the market based on their proprietary 'tech' which amounts to a shape and a button.

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Pretty funny that Samsung can make all the tech that makes these things work (and spend billions researching it) and Apple turns around and tries to take over the market based on their proprietary 'tech' which amounts to a shape and a button.
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I know mate apparently Samsung make the screen for the iPhone 4 too, Apple would be up a gum tree without a paddle without Samsung lol
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haloimplant said:
Pretty funny that Samsung can make all the tech that makes these things work (and spend billions researching it) and Apple turns around and tries to take over the market based on their proprietary 'tech' which amounts to a shape and a button.
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lmao, apparently according to the many many rumours, the new iphone is meant to have an elongated home button but Samsung beat them to the punch with the new Galaxy SII LTE HD. A screen resolution of 316ppi and resolution of 1280x720 (apple says 300ppi is human eye limit, so technically its a retina display without the proprietary nametag )
Looks like Apple woke up the BFG. If Samsung can market their new phones right, Apple has a lot to worry about. Also since Apple havent released specs of their upcoming phone Samsung might be able to sue for copying the elongated home button if that is the case with the iphone 5.
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haloimplant said:
Pretty funny that Samsung can make all the tech that makes these things work (and spend billions researching it) and Apple turns around and tries to take over the market based on their proprietary 'tech' which amounts to a shape and a button.
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That's because Apple is better at marketing. While Samsung uses technical terms like 1.5GHz dual core processor, super AMOLED screen, etc., Apple uses gimmicky terms like facetime(video calling), retina display(high resolution screen), iMessage(Whatsapp rip off), etc. Non-technical people will fall for Apple's gimmicks. Unfortunately, 90% of consumers are non-technical.
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As I'm sure you've probably read Apple are being total douche's thinking the business world revolves round them....when in actual fact, their products would be bugger all without Samsung as they make the RAM, NAND, and Hummingbird Processor in all their products! What do Apple think their playing at? What are your views?
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By the way, Apple isn't the only douche. The real douches are the people who passed those patents in the first place. Who on earth allowed them to patent technologies like "using a cpu to process data in a mobile device"? Obviously all phones have cpus to process data.

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I know mate apparently Samsung make the screen for the iPhone 4 too, Apple would be up a gum tree without a paddle without Samsung lol
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The Retina Display is made by LG not Sammy.

not Retina display, is IPS screen made by LG.
It help Apple a lot, while Samsung is making Amoled screen

i dunno why they banned samsung galaxy tab 10.1 in germany. its a copy of ipad ? really ?. there is no similarity. the screen in galaxy tab is bigger and longer. there's no physical button. the speakers and volume rockers are placed at different places. the camera is better. its lighter and slimmer. the only thing thats same is the colour and the charging port. and thats because charging through micro usb takes too long. so all tablets are using that now. stupid apple. they're all apples

i can see apple tree is near dead

It dodges and strikes back.
"Samsung targets iPhone 4S sales ban in France, Italy"
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Make apple pay for their sins

I think Samsung is quite clever since the more products apple sell the more profit Samsung would gain too. The market demand different kinds of parties, some in charge of the tech and making products, the other in charge of decorating products and pleasing customers. However, we all know the one with real tech/ability would enjoy the lasting success.

I didn't stop laughing the entire time I was in this thread.
Apple is getting what they deserve... Its coming soon.

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I didn't stop laughing the entire time I was in this thread.
Apple is getting what they deserve... Its coming soon.
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Yup...every day Apple rakes in more money than all of us combined will ever dream of in a lifetime. And they do deserve it...lol

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1246779&highlight=samsung+vs+apple

Samsung - "The next big thing is coming"

So here's the deal. I have no shame in admitting that I'm quite a Samsung fanboy.
My first Android device was a Samsung (Captivate), and since then I have owned a handful of other great Samsung devices over the past two or so years now, not least of which include the GS2 (i9100), the Note (N7000), the original Tab (P1000), Tab 7.7 (P6800), and Tab 8.9 (P7300).
It's not that I don't respect, appreciate, or even like the android offerings of other manufacturers (HTC has had me very close to shelling out my money for their products on a number of occasions), it's just that I always seem to come back to Samsung because the balance of performance, features, build quality, and open development seems to be just right for me ever so slightly more than other manufacturers offerings. I'm not saying they're perfect in any way (nobody's perfect!) but they're the best fit for me.
Now, I'm proud to consider myself a member of the general Android community, regardless of what manufacturer you prefer (if you really prefer any manufacturer at all!), because of the wide diversity we have that makes all our devices as unique as we are as individuals. I'm proud that I'm NOT caught up in the whole self-righteous sense of superiority that the iCommunity seems to exude, simply because they are imbued with a sense of Apple perfection.
Apple's main competition is from Google or Android per-se, because Google isn't in the device manufacturing business; they're in the advertising business. Apple's main competition comes from the likes of all the other manufactures like HTC, Sony, LG, etc, and at the tip of that spear is Samsung.
Samsung has had no shame in calling out Apple, and the iCulture on the whole, in their lemming-like religious devotion in parody ads like "The Next Big Thing" as seen below.
This is all well and good, and frankly entertaining, funny (unless you're a devoted Apple fan), and downright clever advertising, even if it does pass a few punches below the belt, but hey, all's fair in love and war right? Here's my concern though: as I am typing this now, we are all literally just a couple of hours away from Samsung's Unpacked 2012 event in London, where we're expected to see details "the next Galaxy" announced to the world. But with all the hype that has been built up over the last few months, and especially when Samsung themselves are posting advertisements such as the one pictured below, I can't help but wonder if Samsung fanboys such as myself have become the "The Next Big Thing" in Apple-like, religiously devoted, lemming consumers. If so, then the old Super Bowl ad above is probably the greatest irony in recent advertising history. Well, played Samsung, well played.
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So here's my question for you, the Android community: is Samsung becoming the new Apple (or at least Android's Apple analogue)? If so, is this a good thing, or a bad thing for the overall image of the Android community and culture as a whole?
Comment below! Let me know your thoughts and opinions!

Hard to tell. Samsung is huge, but they're not American. That alone should give them the benefit of the doubt. But I dunno. I think in order to get on Apple's level: you need to oversell your products and underdeliver on its performance as well. Samsung hasn't gotten there yet, but Sammy's got a knack for "refreshing" their hardware lineup.
Really now. Other than Galaxy S and SAMOLED: has Samsung really innovated?

alpha-niner64 said:
Really now. Other than Galaxy S and SAMOLED: has Samsung really innovated?
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2. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd KR
> 2011 patent grants: 4,894
> Country: Korea
> Profits: $13.7 billion (20th most)
> Sales: $133.8 billion (20th most)
> 5-yr. stock price change: +67%
> Value: 33rd largest in world
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You are hyped for a reason. Samsung delivers high quality products.

To answer your question, well kind of since thats what sells Android looks like it feels like it too(the interface) however once you need to do some work or something that is normal on a computer an Android can do it... while iOS I could not find the app owned iPhone for ... 3 years (I do not want to get in an argument its just I could not do it...).

I really didn't mind the commercials, at first.
I really didn't care for Samsung, at first.
I'm still not a real fan of LED screens.
However, when I saw the One X running side by side with the Galaxy Nexus, I was shocked. Now of course this is not Touch Wiz and Google may have had more to do with it, but the GNex is a damn fine device. Even though my contract doesn't end for 9 months I am still planning on buying the unlocked GNex and getting a T-Mobile sim plan. (This is also because I will save $100 a month on my family plan).
Although, when I heard that Samsung hired a mob of people to harrang Apple customers I was a bit frustrated. I don't know what kind of validity the story has but the idea that the company would tolerate that is beyond me. And the big bold statements of recent ads are hopefully not going to disappoint.
The next BIG Samsung device in my opinion will be whatever the "Next Nexus" is... Though I will be happy with my GNex and trade up when I see the opportunity.

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Closed, please note we have many existent threads with same topic posted on the proper section.
"Which is the proper section?" Android General