Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices

Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by spiralpolitik on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:12PM (#4319358)

It's also interesting that images on the poster are front on so that feature details such as sliding keyboards and flip keypads are usefully omitted. With names like Slider and Flipper it almost gives the game away.

It's not just the boxes either. See the cabling and power adaptor.

http://cydiahelp.com/samsung-copies-apple/

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by danielweber on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:49PM (#4319524)

I can excuse most of those, but the big exception is the USB plug. A proprietary USB cable is an anti-feature from the consumer's point-of-view. Copying that is like copying Apple's typos.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by SeppoErviala on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:06AM (#4321703)

Samsung clearly wants to interoperate with iPhone/Pod/Pad enabled docking devices by using the same usb/docking port. Accusing them for using it is like accusing laptop manufacturers for using mini-displayport.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by Jelte12345 on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @05:53AM (#4322014)

The plug is actually not the same as the Apple plug. That plug is Apple proprietary so Samsung would have to pay Apple some serious cash if they used it. They just developed their own lookalike cable.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by SeppoErviala on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @09:32AM (#4322716)

Then there is no point in it. What the hell Samsung?

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by astrodust on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:16PM (#4319374)

It's almost as if when the iPhone launched the designs started to heavily converge on whatever Apple was doing, though prior to that there are some surprising similarities.

This whole trial has been enormously educational. Stuff like this rarely sees the light of day.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by Terretta on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:58PM (#4319568)

> It's almost as if when the iPhone launched the designs started to heavily converge on whatever Apple was doing

Absolutely. And now they're diverging again. But it took courts to force that shift.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by twelvechairs on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @09:18PM (#4320629)

Its a poster designed for PR purposes, of course it is designed to convey certain facts and hide others. A couple of other things I noticed:

- the 'before' shows more in the iphone-like category and less in the other category of phones than the 'after'. Also the iphone-like cateogy has heaps of phones compared to other categories. This plays with your sense of weighting and importance because automatically you assume that you can compare numbers of phones on this chart, which you can't (mostly because iphone-like pre-iphone devices are all prototypes, whilst others are just a fraction of produced phones.)

- many of the 'before' phones in the iphone-like category are '2006', probably after Samsung would have known what apple is producing.

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