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Below is a posting I just found in a newsgroup. The prices seem to low, like below dealer cost -- though I don't know what a dealer pays for smartphones. I emailed the address, and was told I could have a TyTn II for $320, including shipping -- brand new, factory sealed box. Something about it doesn't seem right. Has anyone heard of these guys? The email domain is some web-hosting place with free email. The guy requested my shipping address, I provided a fake one -- he then emailed back stating they only accept payment via Western Union, and that he would 'have the shop-keeper make my shipping label right away'. Sounds like a scam to me...?
We are a registered and authourise distributors. We deal on brand new
mobile phones with original boxes. Our products all has 2yr
international warranty. We are established in the year 2000.We ship
our products worldwide through reliable courier service eg, FedEx,
UPS, DHL or GPDC and We are commited to our customers satisfaction and
happiness. We render quality and effective services and We are working
with fear of GOD, You can never regret doing business with us. You can
contact us contact us through email for more
information:
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Presently we have just start our end of the year promotion "Buy 5
items and get 1 free". Our prices are wholesale prices and we can send
to you on request. we have phones ranging from Nokia,Vertu Phones,
Samsung, Motorola, Apple iPhones 8GB, T-Mobile Juicy Sidekick II,
T-Mobile Sidekick 3, Sony Ericsson, I-Mates, O2 XDA phones,Nextel,
TomTom Go, Qtek, Mister Cartoon Sidekick, Treo, PPC-6700, and many
more and we also have all the model of Apple ipod, Xbox 360, Sony PSP
and Sony PS3 and we also have all the the price list elow.........
Apple iPhone 4GB..................................... $140
Apple iPhone 8GB...................................... $160
Playstation3............................................$200
PSP......................................................$60
Xbox 360............................................... $100
Nintendo Wii ..........................................$100
HTC Shift Pocket
PC.....................................................$300
HTC Advantage X7500 Quad Band GSM PDA
SmartPhone..............$350
HTC Advantage X7501 Quad Band GSM PDA Phone -USVersion..........$320
HTC MTeoR Tri-Band GSM EDGE SmartPhone................$180
HTC P3300 Quad Band GSM GPS PDA Smart
Phone..............$200
HTC P3600 Quad Band GSM HSDPA PDA SmartPhone...........$250
HTC P4300 Quad Band GSM EDGE PDA SmartPhone.............$180
HTC P4350 Quad Band GSM EDGE PDA
SmartPhone..............$200
HTC P4550 TyTN II (Kaiser) Quad Band GSM EDGE PDA SmartPhone.....$300
HTC P6300 Panda Tri-Band GSM PDA SmartPhone.........$250
HTC S411 Quad Band GSM SmartPhone..............$130
HTC S620 Quad Band GSM PDA SmartPhone...........$170
HTC S621 Quad Band GSM PDA SmartPhone............$130
HTC S710 Quad Band GSM EDGE PDA SmartPhone.......$180
HTC Touch P3450 Tri-Band GSM PDA SmartPhone........$180
HTC TyTN Quad Band GSM EDGE PDA SmartPhone.....$200
PIONEER DVJ 1000 ..................................... $450 PIONEER
CDJ 1000 MK3 .............................. $500
Nokia Vertu Pink Ascent LimitedEdition................ $400
NOKIA N95........................................US$200
NOKIA N93........................................US$180
NOKIA N92........................................US$135
NOKIA N91 .......................................US$130
NOKIA N90........................................US$120
NOKIA N75 .......................................US$200
NOKIA N73........................................US$135
NOKIA N72 .......................................US$120
NOKIA N71 .......................................US$115
NOKIA N70 .......................................US$100
NOKIA N80 .......................................US$120
NOKIA 8800........................................US$130
NOKIA 8800 SIROCCO.............................$150
NOKIA 9300i.......................................US$100
NOKIA 6600.......................................US$60
NOKIA 6090.......................................US$60
NOKIA 8910i.......................................US$100
NOKIA 9500........................................US$110
Tom Tom Go 910.................................... $180
Tom Tom Go 710.................................... $130
Juicy Couture Sidekick II ..........................$120
Sidekick II mister cartoon edition.................. $130
SIDEKICK 3 ........................................$130
SIDEKICK II.......................................$120
Nextel i880........................................$150
Nextel i930.........................................$120
Nextel i870.........................................$110
Nextel i860.........................................$100
Nextel i90c.........................................$60
Nextel i95cl........................................$80
BlackBerry Curve 8320 ..............................$350
BlackBerry Curve 8310 ...............................$350
BlackBerry 8820 ......................................$340
BlackBerry 8830 World Edition .......................$300
BlackBerry 8800........................................$250
BlackBerry 8703e........................................$200
BlackBerry Pearl8100....................................$180
BlackBerry7520..........................................$180
BlackBerry 7250........................................$160
BlackBerry 7100i........................................$150
BlackBerry 7130e........................................$170
BlackBerry 7130g........................................$180
BlackBerry 7130c........................................$200
BlackBerry 7130v........................................$200
BlackBerry 8707v........................................$230
BlackBerry 8700c........................................$240
BlackBerry 7100x........................................$165
PPC-6700.............................................. $150
Treo 750................................................$200
Treo
700p.................................................$140
Treo 700w..............................................
.$130
Treo 600...............................................$100
Treo 650................................................$120
MOTOROLA
A1200...........................................US$130
MOTOROLA KRZR
K1........................................US$130
MOTOROLA Q............................................US$130
MOTOROLA RAZR
V3........................................US$70
Apple 4 GB iPod Mini Pink
M9435LL/A..........................40 USD Apple 40 GB iPod
photo...........................................40 USD Apple 4 GB iPod
Mini Silver M9160LL/A...........................40 USD Apple 60 GB
iPod Photo M9830LL/A................................60 USD Apple 60 GB
iPod
photo...........................................55 USD Apple 30 GB
iPod Photo M9829LL/A.................................50 USD Apple 512
MB iPod Shuffle MP3Player..............................40 USD Apple 4
GB iPod Mini Blue
M9436LL/A...............................45 USD Apple 20GB iPod
Nano...............................................80U SD Apple 2 GB
iPod Nano.............................................. ..50 USD Apple
4 GB iPod Nano.............................................. ..60 USD
Apple 30 GB iPod Vidoe.............................................
.110 USD Apple 60 GB iPod
Vidoe............................................. .120 USD Apple 80
GB iPod Vidoe............................................. .130 USD
02 Phones
o2 xDA Exec ........................................$200
02 XDA Atom ........................................$200
O2 XDA Trion...........................................$1 80
02 XDA NEO ...........................................$210
02 XDA mini S
..........................................$210
02 XDA II mini
..........................................$170
SONY ERICSSON
K700i............................................U S$80 SONY ERICSSON
K750i............................................U S$100 SONY ERICSSON
K790............................................US $130 SONY ERICSSON
K800i............................................u s$140 SONY ERICSSON
W800............................................US $120 SONY ERICSSON
W850............................................US $150 SONY ERICSSON
W900............................................US $150 Sony Ericsson
P990...................................................US$180
Samsung P520 ...........................................$300
Samsung
SGH-Z510............................................US $130
Dell Laptops
Dell Inspiron 9300
...........................................$530
Dell Xps
m1710................................................$300
Dell Xps
m2010.................................................$600
Please Do kindly get back to us with any brand and model of the items
you will like to order. Thanks.
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Western Union = Scam, and that's all about it.
Of course its a scam. Those postings circulate every message board there is.
The contact info for the above scam should be removed to protect less attentive members.
Actually, I wish I could just delete the whole darn thread -- it's so blatently obvious to me now, they had my interest though with a $300 Kaiser Somehow I missed some apparent stuff like, "We are working
with fear of GOD"...
mike_moss said:
The contact info for the above scam should be removed to protect less attentive members.
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Contact info removed from the first post and thread moved.
when something sounds too good to be true it's often that it's
not just not true but also a fast way to loose alot of money fast
and possibly get cansor or get killed or abducted
I don't even know where to begin with this one. First of all I don't know many people who use UPS, FedEx and DHL. Normally companies will stick to one or maybe two and create an account with the courier for improved discounts, working for rogers we only shipped using FedEx and used UPS on occassion to send reports. Also I know some people's english is not perfect but if your making a sales pitch I'm pretty sure you would check over to fix your own grammatical errors. I've actually started to see quite a few of these posts around the web and at one point one of these "wholesalers" was selling the retail version of the HTC Advatage before HTC even released the model.
Just to piss em off I'd suggest putting through an order of around 5000 phones just to mess with their emotions.Act real professional and ask for just one first just so you can see how long it takes. Maybe you'll get lucky and the loser will actually think you're going to send him the money and he'll send you one phone for free. Longshot but its worth trying....lol
chaznet said:
Actually, I wish I could just delete the whole darn thread -- it's so blatently obvious to me now, they had my interest though with a $300 Kaiser Somehow I missed some apparent stuff like, "We are working
with fear of GOD"...
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No worries, just looking out.
Is it really that hard to figure those prices are not real.........
Those ads are scam and usually started by nigerians looking for money.
Alan Chan said:
Those ads are scam and usually started by nigerians looking for money.
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LOL
That one laptop in Nigeria is holding it down for the whole country.
liked your comment
chaznet said:
Actually, I wish I could just delete the whole darn thread -- it's so blatently obvious to me now, they had my interest though with a $300 Kaiser Somehow I missed some apparent stuff like, "We are working
with fear of GOD"...
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ha ha ha, Somehow I missed some apparent stuff like, "We are working
with fear of GOD"
you are amazing, dude..
Shift cheaper than advantage
lmao
and this was around september right? [its 1 am and i cbf to ppress back lol]
how these people are ****tards
x
In a German PocketPC Forum a member reported that a German accessories supplier stopped the production because he had the sure message HTC had finished the KAISER production
( http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=124775 )
According to this message my actually experience in Germany is that a lot of important sellers cannot deliver the KAISER any more or set their delivery time on - indefinite time - !
...by the way: The German KAISER has a special feature: Keyboards have a QWERTZ-keyboard, not a QWERTY-keyboard as usual.
Dont know if this is relative, but i read somewhere 4got where..i think here, a rumour, that Kaisers in general have been put on production hold due to the fact that two driver software companies are in litigation (in courts) over a patent infringement.
i will try to find the link where i read this and post it
Great news...then HTC has time to sort out the stupid mistakes on this device.
Well look at the bright side.... atleast they are not planning to rip of new customer with the buggy video graphics... but if they are stopping production i doubt they are gonna be releasing any drivers for the Kaiser.... Boo Hoo
If this is about Qualcomm losing against Broadcom in the IP infringement fight, serves HTC right for picking Qualcomm for their core chipset.
It was probably this stupid decision that delayed the Kaiser release, made it expensive to develop it for performance, disallows tech support in the USA, and now it would starve sales because of chipset shortage. Hence, it's not really saving money versus going with an SiRFIII + Xscale or Samsung combination.
Woo, go Qualcomm!
Now can we get recompense for buying a turkey product that HTC can no longer support?
Doesn't that ruling ONLY apply to the US though? HTC sell their phones in a LOT more countries than just the US, so I doubt a US only ruling would affect the overall design of the devices like is being suggested.
As I understand TyTn II is exactly what the Polaris is Plus the keyboard. Now if the production of the TyTn is being stopped due to some litigation issue then how is it that the same does not apply to the Polaris
The post only states that a company that produces accessories for the Kaiser "said" that there will be no more. The statement was NOT made by HTC
perhaps the company supplying the accessories needs to sell of alot of stock and to create a run.... well it wouldnt be the first time hey...
I made this thread because I'm pretty sure other threads are made of this topic but I wanted to create a newer one since all these new products are coming out.
I would choose Apple because:
1)Selling over priced, under powered (for the price) computers that have no customization (well barely and I mean like building your own)
2) Changing the animal on their OS, add a .1, add features that can come in an update, and calling it a whole new OS.
3) Selling the iPhone and making the iPad (the iPod touch seems like the only good Apple Product). They don't know what the term "smart" phone means. I mean no multi tasking, boring, un-creative UI. The features in the iPhone/iPad may have been ground breaking 7 years ago but not today.
4) How it makes the fanboyz/fangirlz go crazy about the product because they hypnotized them about how they are good and the other companies are evil. The fanboyz/fangirlz are mad because they spent a lot of cash on an over priced piece of doo-doop) and they have to unleash their anger on past mistakes of another company while forgetting about the new features in the product today.
I like only one thing of apple products and mostly their software for computers: They have pretty good video editing software and that is pretty much it.
Unleash your inner fanboy/fangirl and just rant.
Apple has done a lot for the world though, with the ipod influencing other MP3 players, as well as showing that the linux based operating system can be used in mainstream media. I'd go more with AT&T and verizon mostly because of the monopolies that they have on the cell phone market right now. I'd rather have no contract phones which allow a pay per use plan. Either that or Walmart because of their screwing consumers.
All the oil/petroleum companys!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AndroidNoobie said:
I made this thread because I'm pretty sure other threads are made of this topic but I wanted to create a newer one since all these new products are coming out.
I would choose Apple because:
1)Selling over priced, under powered (for the price) computers that have no customization (well barely and I mean like building your own)
2) Changing the animal on their OS, add a .1, add features that can come in an update, and calling it a whole new OS.
3) Selling the iPhone and making the iPad (the iPod touch seems like the only good Apple Product). They don't know what the term "smart" phone means. I mean no multi tasking, boring, un-creative UI. The features in the iPhone/iPad may have been ground breaking 7 years ago but not today.
4) How it makes the fanboyz/fangirlz go crazy about the product because they hypnotized them about how they are good and the other companies are evil. The fanboyz/fangirlz are mad because they spent a lot of cash on an over priced piece of doo-doop) and they have to unleash their anger on past mistakes of another company while forgetting about the new features in the product today.
I like only one thing of apple products and mostly their software for computers: They have pretty good video editing software and that is pretty much it.
Unleash your inner fanboy/fangirl and just rant.
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I agree with you completely. Don't forget Quicktime (terrible UI and runs background services), iTunes (way to lock up music, Apple), iPods (same dial, same disk space, half the price elsewhere), and the iPod touch (what's the purpose or purchasing a stand-alone portable media wifi device again? that must come in real handy on the beach, in clubs, bars, and everywhere else wifi doesn't exist).
Also, who can really respect a company that basically releases dumbed-down technology basically saying that their customers are slow and stupid and lack self-respect when it comes to not being able to customize their portable devices? Notice how in the Windows Phone 7 Series walk-through found on MSDN today, the president/manager of the project said, "If you buy the phone we are going to let you customize it."
Also, special mention for Verizon, who really has worked hard to rip off the average consumer.
verizon. worst company ever.
AT$T has to go. This is undoutedly the worst company in the world. They have their heads so far up Apple's ass they should be called Apple T$T.
They simply do not care that people hate them, they have no new phones, except updated Tilts and Diamonds. They have the absolute worst customer service
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/...sumer-reports-best-cell-phone-service-survey/
Latest example: My wife and I split ( no big deal , long time coming ) she decided that she wanted to take the iPhone that I bought her and the Propel that I bought her son, both of which I had put on my account, and get her own acount with AT$T. Without any notice to me, AT$T allowed her to take the phones and signed her up to two new two year contracts, and as I only found out yesterday, charged me with $300 dollars in early termination fees. When I challenged them on this, they said that I can always continue to pay for the numbers until the contract runs out. I asked them , since they allowed her to take the phone off of my account, why don't they just terminate the contract.
They informed me that the contract was for the numbers not the handsets. And that who ever was using the handsets, was out of their control. They further said that the contracts are meant to offset the subsidizing of the phones. I clearly pointed out that holding me to the balance of the original contract for the phones and then signing them up to two new two year contracts for the same two phones, was " double dipping " and that any reasonable customer service rep who wanted to keep a 7 year customer with four phones on AT$T would see that by cancelling the two contracts, AT$T was not losing any money and had infact guaranteed themselves more money by signing the ex and her son to two new 2 year contracts.
At which point they continued their mantra " the contract was for the phone numbers, not the phones themselves. " At which point, I cancelled the two phones that I had that were out of contract. Put the ex and her son's # on suspended service for $9.99 a month until the contract expires. And now must make a decision on what to do with my iPhone in July when that contract runs out. In the last seven years, I have paid AT$T $ 10,000- $14,000 in connection fees, and some dope in their customer service dept is forcing me to go elsewhere over $300 in early termination fees that are being paid for by " double dipping " in another account. Stupidity like this has got to go.
Where would this company be if Steve Jobs decides to yank there heads out of his butt ?
Oh Yeah, iPhone, Mac Book, iPod touch, 2 iMacs, U2 iPod classic = Apple Fanboy here.
Everybody hates the people who " get it "
Rogers Wireless, which used to be Rogers AT&T. We're seeing a pattern here
Probably AT&T. AT&T has terrible service nearly everywhere, crappy customer service (moreso than most telcos), and poor overall selection of devices.
Ever since the iPhone was introduced, AT&T has basically given up on maintaining their network at a usable level. The worst is when you call their terrible customer service only to be greeted by a voice announcing that they are "home of the iPhone" before you actually get help. I don't hate the iPhone, I have a few of them in fact, but I hate how AT&T having exclusivity over the iPhone has led to them ignoring all other aspects of their company.
They've almost forgotten about Windows Mobile and have completely ignored Android and WebOS devices, instead opting for more feature phones, because we all need more $20 Nokias and Samsungs. AT&T stopped trying once they got exclusivity of the iPhone, figuring that they wouldn't have to actually get business by being good at what they do, but rather by forcing people into switching in order to get their desired device.
If you don't believe me about the terrible customer service, I have a story for you. For Christmas of 2009, my mother and sister wanted iPhone 3GSes to replace their aging original iPhones. My father I waited to go to the AT&T store until the night before, because one of the incompetent CS representatives we talked to over the phone said that the original iPhones would deactivate, and we didn't want them deactivated for very long, should they need their phones. However, this was untrue, meaning we had to wait in long lines on Christmas Eve when we could have bought the iPhones months ago with no negative effects
After we finally got served by a representative, we were told that the bill we had mailed out almost two weeks ago still hadn't been processed yet, and in order to pay the lower upgrade price instead of the full retail price (~$500), we would have to pay the bill at the store, and have the check we mailed out be credited to our account. After we did that, the lady sold us the iPhones, which seemed fine. Except it wasn't fine, since she upgraded of the iPhones on my father's account, instead of my mother's which was a pain to deal with when we bought my father an iPhone a few weeks later. After we finally got the iPhones and drove home, we immediately got a call from the AT&T store, letting us know that the woman who sold us the iPhones had forgotten to put one of them back in the box after activating it, meaning we had to drive back again and pick up the phone which they forgot. The moral of this story is that AT&T is a horrible company, and a good portion of their customer service representatives are incapable of doing their jobs properly or giving correct information.
I actually have a few more AT&T stories to share, but I think I'd probably run past the 10,000 character post limit were I to share them all
AT&T...I left them a few years ago because of their ripoff plans, iphonia, no customer support, etc.
No point mentioning any as basically every coporation would be on my hit list
Fallen Spartan said:
No point mentioning any as basically every coporation would be on my hit list
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This is true! I listed one, but could have easily listed hundreds!
I'm not against corporations in general; I'd love to take money from consumers to better myself. But I do have a problem with every Apple idiot thinking Apple is doing great when really they are just taking advantage of people without their own identities and morons.
Yesterday's closing stock prices:
Microsoft>$28.63
RIM ( Blackberry )>$70.40
Nokia>$13.35
Motorola>$7.05
Palm>$9.31
HTC Corp.>$9.65
Apple>$201.47
Wow, sure must be a lot of us idiot, identity lacking , morons, getting taken advantage of by Apple.
Down with Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc.!
denco7 said:
Yesterday's closing stock prices:
Microsoft>$28.63
RIM ( Blackberry )>$70.40
Nokia>$13.35
Motorola>$7.05
Palm>$9.31
HTC Corp.>$9.65
Apple>$201.47
Wow, sure must be a lot of us idiot, identity lacking , morons, getting taken advantage of by Apple.
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And don't forgot Google at $543!
galaxys said:
And don't forgot Google at $543!
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Lawlz. Apple got pwned. Google gets lot of money from gmail, gtalk, google maps, etc. Plus they put all that on their android phones too.
Apple
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denco7 said:
Yesterday's closing stock prices:
Microsoft>$28.63
RIM ( Blackberry )>$70.40
Nokia>$13.35
Motorola>$7.05
Palm>$9.31
HTC Corp.>$9.65
Apple>$201.47
Wow, sure must be a lot of us idiot, identity lacking , morons, getting taken advantage of by Apple.
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I'm hoping that this is sarcasm and that you realize that this is actually support against Apple's dominance. Stock prices for the most part are based on hype and a LACK of knowledge about a company. There's more idiots than smart people in the US, so a company like Apple should thrive. George W. Bush got elected twice. There are plenty of idiots around to think Apple is worth it.
A carpet die company somewhere in LA county. The XXXX told me to XXXX when I asked if they could sell me a smaller portion of carpet die for a smaller price.
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poetryrocksalot said:
A carpet die company somewhere in LA county. The XXXX told me to XXXX when I asked if they could sell me a smaller portion of carpet die for a smaller price.
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hahahahhahaa
Morning peeps,
just a mention, i'm quite amazed with the lack of marketing for the HD7.
Just walked into a o2 shop to confirm if the HD7 is still on for 21st Oct and the answer was YES. But there no HD7 pics or notice on the o2 shop front.... why?
2 days left and no advertising...
It was exactly the same last year with the release of the HD2 and I imagine it happens all the time with new phones.
Last year they released the HD2 without marketing online or in any of the UK shops, but by lunchtime they had sold out their stocks. It was the same story over at Vodaphone UK.
Remember, you're probably not the only person to have walked into the shop and asked for the HD7 and I can imagine demand will be high for the first few weeks. After that HTC will probably have more units made.
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It was exactly the same last year with the release of the HD2 and I imagine it happens all the time with new phones.
Last year they released the HD2 without marketing online or in any of the UK shops, but by lunchtime they had sold out their stocks. It was the same story over at Vodaphone UK.
Remember, you're probably not the only person to have walked into the shop and asked for the HD7 and I can imagine demand will be high for the first few weeks. After that HTC will probably have more units made.
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cool, but as i recall correctly, IPHONE 4 was marketed much better and well before its release. why not just copy it
I agree, Apple are good at that. MS doesn't have any real say over the OEMs and it is HTC supplying the devices to O2. HTC are also supplying several models on launch day, so I imagine they don't have all their factories making one model. AT the end pof the day we will never know.
Lets just hpe we don't have the hardware mess that was the iPhone antennae
So far here in the UK I haven't seen any advertising for Windows Phone 7. The only ads I've seen are ones I've found myself through reading about WP7 on sites like engadget and other tech news sites. If I was a member of Joe public, I'd have no clue it existed unless I'd actively been looking on Orange's website at phone upgrades.
Maybe I haven't been hanging around bus stops enough to see the advertising posters?
I agree I haven't seen anything either. I do recall knowing about the new iPhone 4 about a week before it was released, I think MS has missed the boat here.
The marketing of the features on this phone is truly a disappointment. My single favourite feature is the wireless sync. My brother always tells me hes jealous for that feature alone (he has an iphone 4). But most likely no one will hear about this and apple will introduce it in their next update and it will be the greatest thing that apple has done and all microsoft can do is sit there and say we had that first.
So Apple is suing the pants off of Samsung in Europe, in Australia and possibly everywhere else. That’s because it claims that (1) Samsung stole the look and technology of the iPhone for the highly successful Galaxy S II Android phones, and (2) Samsung stole the look and technology of the iPad for the rising tablet stars, the Galaxy Tab 10.1/8.1.
But that doesn’t stop the two from being the best of friends when it comes to other business matters.
Utilizing data from “teardown” research firm iSuppli, The Economist reports that the iPhone 4 is 26 percent Samsung. At least in terms of components. According to iSuppli’s reverse engineering data, Samsung supplies three key components for the iPhone 4: the flash memory ($26), DRAM memory ($11.60), and the applications processor ($8.08).
Apple doesn’t do any of its manufacturing, leaving the dirty work to its Asian partners. Manufacturers in fact earn just a pittance compared to what Apple earns, which is an estimated $368 per phone (!). Apparently, that money is tribute money for Apple’s design, marketing and engineering prowess.
So despite the lawsuits and legal wranglings, Apple needs Samsung, and vice versa.
The question now is who needs who even more?
Because the iPhone has captured over 19 percent of the global market, Apple is a lucrative partner for Samsung. On the other hand, few companies can deliver quality components in volume the way Samsung can, so Apple will be hard pressed to find another supplier who can fit the bill the way Samsung does.
Besides, Samsung’s components business unit is separate from its consumer electronics units. So they probably couldn’t care less about what the other is up to… unless the CEO steps in.
You should qualify that with "for now." Once all these chip manufacturers like VIA (via HTC ) and Samsung are done playing with Apple's lawsuit frenzy, I'd fully expect repercussions (especially if it hurts their stock price). Don't expect a board of directors to sit idly by while Apple (their customer) tries to crush their corporate value.
The tech world is pretty incestuous. I bet most tech execs don't actually know where their supplies are coming from half the time.
During WWII The US sold lots of Ford cars to Germany....at the same time when they were fighting on the western front.
$8?!! Cheap!
Sent from my HTC Vision