Samsung expects Galaxy S III sales to reach 10M in July - Page 3

Indeed. Glass shouldn't be fragile at all. Why, I should be able to drop my phone from 30,000 feet and use it the next day.

I should also be able to drop my quartz countertop on the ground or hit it with a hammer and have it not fracture.

 

I don't think it (conspiracy) means what you think it means.

   -I. Montoya

 

Hmmm...maybe you have another definition that I'm not aware of?

 

conspiracy
n pl -cies
1. a secret plan or agreement to carry out an illegal act; plot
2. the act of making such plans in secret

 

Considering all the allegations at AI of cover-ups & avoidance from Samsung (deleting emails, etc), and their lack of transparency, I'm not sure how this doesn't match the definition. Please elaborate....

Depends on what you like I guess, we get issued iPhones at my job but I have a One X also. When my coworkers saw it sitting on my desk most of them really liked it.

You chose to marry someone who is so clumsy they can't even handle a phone. If you want to call your choice ridiculous, that's OK with me.

In the end, though, glass breaks. Glass on Apple's phone breaks. Glass on Samsung's phone breaks. If you don't want to have a phone with a glass surface, you're free to buy one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_radio_telephone.jpg

Because handset manufacturers typically have to offer a refund to carriers for unsold units.

More importantly, they claimed to have 9 M preorders five weeks ago. So between May 18 and the end of July, they're only going to sell 1 M additional units? Wow.

Link?  I think that carriers actually don't get a refund for unsold units.  If they did then they would never mark down the prices on older phones.  If they know they'll get refunded then they will continue to sell phones at the highest possible price and return the unsold phones at the end of the contract period.

I'm not sure it's typically true either. I'd have to see some proof of that as it doesn't make sense considering the sales the carrier's run on the older models.

 

 

See my take on HDTV screen sizes and market segments above.

 

Two (or eventually, gasp, more) phone models - with Apple's control over OS updating and distro means that this "phate" would not occur for their phones. 

Let's see:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1762879-Carriers-Looking-to-Lower-Phone-Subsidies/page2
"Carriers do not typically pay manufacturers for devices until the units are sold. The carrier acts as an agent and sells the device on consignment. Unsold inventory is returned to the manufacturer. If the price comes down on a device, the lower wholesale price would be given to the carrier on their remaining inventory."

I think it'll easily reach 10m by July. It's an incredibly succefull series of phone.

 

I loved my S2 but I'll stick with my Galaxy Nexus (the first phone that will get 4.1 Jelly Bean) at least until the next iphone or nexus phone comes out.

 

Did you actually just quote a forum post as evidence?

 

Here let me try that:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1762879-Carriers-Looking-to-Lower-Phone-Subsidies/page2

 

"LOL, this is not the case at all"

 

For reference, my evidence comes from the reply to your evidence.

 

Did you really just attribute your source to a user comment made in some forum!!!

 

What is even funnier is that the next comment in the thread that replied to your quoted comment is:

 

"LOL, this is not the case at all - I'm sure the carriers would love terms other than net 30."

 

How is your quoted user comment any more valid than the next? In the future, to avoid getting laughed at by everyone here and killing your credibility, please refrain from sourcing any random user comment on the internet. This is just TOO funny!!!

 

Edit: Sorry wakefinance. I must have been writing this when you posted yours. Looks like you beat me to the punch.

 

In jragosta's defense, he usually just makes stuff up or completely distorts the main points of his sources. I suppose ANY accurate quote is a step-up, even one from a completely non-credible source.

 

 

Much, much too late for that.

 

Huh??!!

 

Take another pull there, Scooter.

In all the honesty, number of them will be Galaxy mini and Galaxy Ace.

 

That being said, we got first S3 in our office today, as it is major candidate for new company phone (at least for lucky few). Looks sweet, even if I'm finding size a bit... frightening. Nothing I couldn't get used to, I guess. Built quality feels nicer in real, compared to images. Still below iPhone/Lumia feel, but perfectly acceptable.

 

The rest of my post is clear on the fact that I'm referring to the fact it's natural and smart for Apple to expand its CURRENT line (not just the old models) to two form factors with different ergonomic trade-offs - both suitable for actual, sizable market segments.  The 3.5 incher is great - and likely to remain the best seller, but nothing prevents them from having two screen sizes.   My friends love iOS but they also love the big screens - and often opt for them.

 

One can argue this is done in a "ooh, see bright shiny penny, pick it up" manner of decision-making.  But most of those would jump at a phone that offered both the 4"+ screen and iOS.  And the possibility that Apple's planning anything like this is almost never discussed despite the fact there's a business and user case to make for it.  We're all conditioned to expect one phone a year. 

And thanks for starting a drinking game on AI.  Bout time. 

 

Like every time you see the word "fanboi" you have to take a shot.  Your turn.  :) 

 

I'm sure everyone surmised that exact thing from your ever so clear original post.

 

... and it wasn't drinking that I was referring to...

Pre-ordered. Very excited.

 

Anyone else here getting it?

 

Except I'm wondering about the garbage AMOLED screen... I'm demanding of screen quality. 

 

I looked at some AMOLEDS (Nexus, Note, S II) in stores and was blown away by how dim they are, and the burn in, pentile jaggedness, etc. My droid blows them away. And of course iPhone has the BEST screen. Although Rezound seems about the same. If the S III has any of this, I'll just ditch it for a Rezound or something LCD. If anyone here has a S III can they comment on its screen?

 

So, I love Android almost more than my Mac at this point. I may use it more actually. I find it so easy to use and friendly vs. the cold and rigid iOS which I hate most parts of. I have an iPad 2 btw also. 

 

It feels lonely to be a Mac fan and Android fan at once... I like them both. I want to like iProducts. My original iPod was awesome and Apple made/makes the best MP3 player ever created in my mind. But I find Android much friendlier and more suited to my needs. 

I just wonder when Greenpeace and other "watchdog" organizations will look at the factory conditions at Samsung's partners? While it's totally appropriate to challenge Apple's ethics (and Apple has done a decent job of responding to those criticisms—not just with rhetoric, but by actually doing something about it) other companies (Samsung, LG, Lenovo, Asus, Dell, etc.) must be held to at least the same standards. They cannot be given a free pass simply because Apple is king of the hill for now. Just sayin'.

 

Hnnnmm.  I don't try in general to get involved with the personalities here - more interested in content than the little spitting matches that break out.  But I'm piqued enough by your tweaks to note that the "hermit" in your name is starting to make sense.

So, as for your comment, I guess my inability to communicate clearly is why I made a good living writing textbooks, tech manuals, policy and procedure manuals, newsletters and blogs for decades.)

 

And was/am an editor of same and more.   Which is why I have to tell you that you meant "toke" not "pull."  "A pull" is picking up a bottle and taking a swig.

 

Better luck next time!