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Future Samsung Phone Plans Leaked
djgil writes "Looks like Samsung needs to be more careful what they do with their powerpoints. A number of prototype Samsung phones have appeared online including three that used Windows Mobile. One phone uses a 500Mhz processor and other had a 3Gbyte Hard Drive for music."
I managed to get a mirror if needed.
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One phone uses a 500Mhz processor and other had a 3Gbyte Hard Drive for music."
In other news, the RIAA has filed a lawsuit against Samsung for encouraging pirating of music on mobile phones. Details to follow...
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
I long for the days when I used to be able to get a simple cell phone with a simple interface, contact phone book, and good reception -- for less than $25 dollars a month! Cell phones are getting so ridiculous that I finally gave up on them. You have to pay at least $45 a month (after taxes...), and for what? Internet access that I don't use. Games that I don't play. Instant text that costs me even more.
I wonder if a bare-bones plan with simple, easy to use phones (not glorified PDA's/cameras/gaming consoles) would actually do quite well in today's market for people like me that don't need all of the frills. I know people have talked about this before, but why aren't the cell phone companies listening?
I believe in de-evolution. God made the world perfect, man fell, and its been going downhill ever since!
Yet another set of phones that amalgamates more crappy functionality and drives the cost up for the user who simply wants a phone...
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3GB disk? Too small for most music collections.
Let's not forget the crappy DSP most phones have anyways and 22Khz DAC
Oh and yet another camera with mildly low resolution...
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Why doesn't samsung introduce a cell phone that lasts for 6 months on a charge [standby not talk] or that can take a 5 story fall off a balcony or something. Or at least a fall from 6 ft without splitting in half... of the three cell phones I've had the cheapest POS motorola v120c was the toughest. My 300$ flip phone and my current c256 phone both will split open upon the slighest drop...
Those are features people can actually use. Not flimsy cell phones with short battery lives [well that's not entirely the case] and a whole slew of semi-functional additions that are otherwise totally fucking useless.
If I want to carry tunes with me I'll bring my mp3cd player. It's easier to deal with, was a hell of a lot cheaper and has excellent sound quality. If I want to snap pictures I'll bring my PowerShot. It has a much higher [5MP] resolution and is more configurable for actually taking pictures [the average camera phone can't adjust things like exposure, white balance, etc...]
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
What does this do for battery life. I like that my current Samsung phone is small and runs for most of a week without any recharging.
OTOH i have to recharge my ipod every day that i want to use it (although it is a pretty old one).
Do "consumers" really want this kind of convergence? I know i dont.
It was only a matter of time until phones and ipod style mp3 players converged.
Ah, but this isn't the case - the 3gb hard drive is just there to hold even longer, more annoying ring tones. The factory default will use bluetooth to sense when the owner is nowhere near the phone and then launch into a 4-hour midi retrospective of Nelly: the early years.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
And no doubt, Verizon will pick one up, except the hard drive capacity will be reduced to 1GB, and it will have its multimedia features and bluetooth removed. Of course, they'll compensate by branding it with a five Verizon logos on the outside, and 3 Verizon banners in the software that can't be changed/removed, and the clock will spent as much time displaying "Verizon Wireless" as it does the time.
Seriously, I'm impressed by these phones, but they're like auto manufacturers' concept cars. And just like I go to the Detroit Auto Show every year and drool over the amazing concept cars (i.e. last year's Eclipse), when the things finally do hit the road, they're stripped-down, boring, tame, overpriced, and not at all exciting.
The same thing happens with cell phones (especially after Verizon has a hand in crippling them a la the Audiovox CDM-8900). They're exciting now, sure, but when these come out, they'll be advertised at $400, but existing customers will have to pay $800 for them, and half the features will have mysteriously vaporized.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love the idea of having one unit that takes the place of an iPod and a PDA and a cell phone in an elegant design, but it'll be another 3-4 years before we have those, and if Verizon, Sprint and the like have any say in it, they'll never be affordable to the masses.
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*sigh*
2005 is going to be another year of boring, stupid tech crap, isn't it?
500 MHz processor and it will still have the call quality of a tin can and string. Can't wait to see the battery life.
Flying cars. Personal jetpacks. Robot maids. Vacations in space. They promised me those things as a kid. THEY PROMISED, DAMMIT! Martin Landau was supposed to be on the Moon by now!
--- Ban humanity.
To all thoes "I just want a phone phone" or thoes "Will i be able to get reception in my apt in metropolitan area #5?" to you i say.. STFU! this phone isnt for you.
i hate taking my mp3 player, cellphone, pda, and ocasionaly camera with me. The first 3 i cant leave the house with. taking public trasport is a hassel every time i enter or leave a subay i have to pay 4 pockets just to make sure i didnt forget anything. its a hassel.
i for one welcome our combo-cellphone-do-everything overlords
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Where's my phone that I can just throw in my pocket, rough it up, and still have it work right? With all of these flip-phones, slide phones and their touch screens, camera lenses and hard drives, they don't seem like they're going to hold up to being bumped, jarred, or just tossed into a cargo pocket for a quick bike ride down to the convenience store. I love little gadgets as much as anyone else, but I'm not always going to be able to attach the device to a belt clip, and I don't always care to, anyways.
Can't they work on a good old phone that I could accidentally mistake for a hockey puck, and still have it work right?
I don't moderate anymore. Karma penalty for 90% fair mods? Can I mod that unfair?