“Samsung Electronics plans to unveil the latest in its Galaxy line, the S4, at a European technology exhibition in February, according to company officials and local parts suppliers for the technology giant,” Kim Yoo-chul reports for The Korea Times.
“The timetable was released just three days after rival Apple introduced the iPhone 5, which has received a mixed response from industry experts and consumers as it is seemingly lacking in innovative features,” Kim reports.
MacDailyNews Take: The media is so impartial in Samsungorea, isn’t it?
Samsungorea. It sounds like a disease because it is.
“‘Samsung is ready to unveil the next Galaxy smartphone _ the Galaxy S4 _ at early next year’s mobile world congress (MWC) in the Spanish city of Barcelona,’ said an official from the firm asking not to be identified, Sunday. The new device is expected to hit shelves globally in March at the latest,” Kim reports. “The new Galaxy, expected to be the firm’s most powerful handset yet in terms of hardware specifications and software advancement, will help the Suwon-based outfit further cement its leadership in the global smartphone market.”
MacDailyNews Take: What leadership is this, covering the world with cheap plastic Duplophones™ while generating a tiny slice of Apple-dominated smartphone profit share? Apple rakes in 71% of the world’s smartphone profits – September 8, 2012
Samsung Duplophone™. Designed for the fat hands and small imaginations of cheapskate settlers.
Kim reports, “The screen size of the S4 is expected to reach 5-inch from the the current 4.8 screen size of the S3, while it will use Google’s Android software and sport an OLED display, said the officials.”
MacDailyNews Take: Bwahahaha! “Duplophone Max™!” Or will it be the “Super Playmobilephone™?” Do they come with iron-on oversized pockets?
Kim reports, “The S4 will help Samsung take on Apple in the United States, according to officials. Market research firm IDC shows Samsung has a 30 percent share, globally, while Apple has 16 percent. But NPD’s recent data shows Apple controls 31 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, followed by Samsung on 24 percent.”
MacDailyNews Take: ‘Tis easy to generate market (unit) share numbers with umpteen phones continually pumped via Buy One Get X Number Free promos. It’s another thing altogether to dominate the world’s profit share as does Apple Inc.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The fear and desperation is plain for all to see. Samsung must see that Galaxy S III sales figures have fallen off a cliff since Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled iPhone 5 and they have panicked, Osbourning themselves.
We’d say that Samsung is being stupid to freeze their Galaxy S III sales, but the cheapskate ignorati who buy Samsung’s Duplophones™ are obviously way too out of it to process this “news” and pause settling for cheaply-built inferior wares.
Related article:
Apple’s iPhone 5 sets AT&T sales record; most successful iPhone launch ever – September 17, 2012
Samsung runs print ad attacking Apple’s iPhone 5 in major U.S. newspapers – September 16, 2012
A6 is Apple’s first with custom-designed CPU cores; iPhone 5 memory size and speed revealed – September 16, 2012
Apple shares hit record high as iPhone 5 fever sets in worldwide – September 14, 2012
Piper Jaffray: Apple’s iPhone 5 is the ‘Rolex of smartphones’ in a sea of Timexes – September 14, 2012
iPhone 5 pre-orders sell out in one hour, 22 times faster than iPhone 4S, further spotlighting Apple’s dominance – September 14, 2012
Apple’s Sir Jony Ive on iPhone 5: ‘We don’t want to just make a new phone, we want to make a much better phone’ (with video) – September 13, 2012
iPhone 5 pre-orders start at 12:01am PDT, Friday, September 14 – September 13, 2012
Time for copycat wake up
The Slamdung Garbagity S tree,
is being advertised as, “the future is already here”.
what then does a S4 mean, the after life has arrived?
and what os shall it offer as updates
If the future is already here, doesn’t that mean that it is the present, quickly on its way to being the past?
Just sayin’
I think Samsung will copy iphone 5 widescreen.
The modern definition of vaporware: Next Samsung phone.
The Korea Times is obviously a subsidiary of Samsung, and this reporter is now enjoying his gift of twin hookers in Seoul.
More likely he would have been fired for NOT writing the story. Now he’s busy writing his next pro Scamdung article for tomorrow’s edition.
Correct Shamsung doesn’t provide incentives only fear to its workers. If they don’t comply with their requests their families will have hard time finding work in a country owned primarily by the country. I guess you could always get a job in the fish market.
Apple halo affect from the Iphone is amazing.
Right now the battle for the masses is on Apple side.
Samsung need to remember Apple provides an ENTIRE ecosystem that works seamlessly.
That is Apple trump cards besides great design,OS, stability and great customer relations.
A samsung user can easily IN ONE DAY dump android and jump to the Apple bandwagon.
While entrenched Apple consumers are not easily moved, either due to the huge cost they have spent for such an ecosystem.
So samsung, do sell more phones at lower profit margins so that Apple can sue you again…
The S3 has been drastically discounted even in Korea. Before the iPhone5 was even announced the S3s price dropped drastically. If “they who shall not be named” are dropping prices on their home turf you know something is going on. Panic might be an understatement.
Osborned! (though I’m sure the impact will be minimal to their “customer” base)
Kids, look it up on Wikipedia.
Gosh, I thought that I was the only one that remembered Adam Osbourne claiming he was going to put Apple out of business back in the Apple // days. Funny that 8 out of 10 Osbourne computers were dead out if the box.
Michael Dell attended the Adam Osbourne school of computer marketing. That was the only place he could have been able to graduate from.
This is dumb. It is unlikely to stop very many buyers who were just about to buy an iPhone. Most of these buyers have waited a while and have made up their minds a while ago. However, it will likely stop many buyers who were just about to buy a Galaxy S3.
2 cents
@MDN
Why shouldn’t the media be impartial to Samsung? I actually appreciate impartiality in the media. I wish there were more of it. I can make up my own mind. You should try it some time MDN.
obviously you’ve forgotten what MDN means.
I think you should re-read the article and the take and try again.
So we should treat thieves, liars, and bullies just like everyone else? Really?
Meanwhile, Apple announces their new phone one week before availability, makes more than 2 million available for pre-order, and not one of them ever sees a store shelf.
S3 meets iPhone 5 in the wild:
S3 – “…so after two months on the shelf, my brother was our purchased, and they threw me in as a bonus.”
iP5 – “What’s a shelf?”
Funniest thing ever 😀
5 inch screen???? Is that their solution to “innovation”….. If that’s their plan, they only have 1.5 inches of innovation left before they Innovate right into their mini tablet…. This thing is huge already…. What type of NBA sized humanoid do you have to be to hold and use it one handed… No offense to the NBA players who are all using iPhones and now iPads.
So, it will be just a short time before I see ads with the Samsung phones with longer and longer screens like the spoof on iPhones right? I mean, surely the same people that seem to make fun of the iPhone will do the same for Samsung. They aren’t partial to brands they make fun of right?
oh, I knew it. typical fanboys have to say with big mouth, huh? no matter what people say, these fanboys are just fucking deaf. that’s why they became slavery a long time ago. it’s pathetic. as a matter of fact, most iphone 5 preorder was achieved by isheep. remember. these people are so dumb. they don’t even know what new one has spec. they just buy it because it’s apple. so tell me. what is the hell new features? 4 inch screen and LTE? thinnest phone ever? come on. it’s not thinner than new nokia lumina by the way. apple is just out of creation, innovation. they just bought so many patents and companies because they don’t have ability to do that. they also don’t own any factory for building their own. manufacturing parts are also contracted by other companies. so 100% is just fucking outsource. this kind of company will fall anytime soon because they didn’t build basement.
Thanks for inserting a period randomly every so often in your post.
It made it marginally easier to read.
Next time you might try capitalizing the first word of your sentence fragments.
Oh, and perhaps throwing in few scattered paragraph breaks here and there would help.
I look forward to reading your second draft.
Now, now, please take your meds and go back to the basement. And no, you do not get to shoot any pigeons with your AK47 today.
Hi Edward… do you mind writing more often on this site… I really need a good laugh sometimes and adding comedy writers to MDN would definitely be a fun thing.
Hope you feel better soon. Cheers!
Does our employer know you employ the “F” word in your corporate communications?
The Hell New features is a grammar porgram for making people get better at write, you know.
When does Appel get the hell new feature? Probabaly when they get a iphone 7 or what something.
Appel isheep are dumb like garbage can or similar metaphorical notion, yes?
You fine make english for talk much debate. Google translate help assist big fail or what something, yes? Keep you holding breath for new grammar porgram. Need much or similar notion.
Paragraph breaks – Good.
Random periods gone – Good.
Nearly complete sentences – Good.
Capital letters at the start of attempted sentences – Good.
Now, work on spelling and, if you have time, some coherent content.
I eagerly await your third and final draft!
Yes! Another classic post from edward. Awesome, as usual. I love how he keeps repeating the manufacturing thing. We’ll see what he thinks when Apple moves its chip fab to TSMC by 2014.
Favorite post quote: “that’s why they became slavery a long time ago”
Aside from the language barrier, I’m starting to think there’s something else going on with edward.. closed head injury? Definitely some impulse control issues..
Anyway, keep posting edward!
Does your mother know that you have left your basement bedroom and are running loose on the streets? Best you go back where you belong. It will all be better in the morning when you take your meds, just like all the times before.
5 inch screen that phone is gonna be mahoosive!!!
People are gonna look stupid holding that to there heads when on a call
samsung has a 6″ model coming out mid-march 2013, called the S6; it’s a knockoff of jerry seinfeld’s old portable.
And tomorrow’s lead story – “Plastic surgeons announce hand enlargements for Galaxy S4 buyers” 😀 😀 😀 😀
Over the weekend I saw a photo on some website of some celebrity using some Big Ass smartphone. Made her look stupid. But she probably has a PA to carry it for her.
^ this
Next up :
The Samsung 12 John Holmes Edition, so you can really get f…ed.
I own a Samsung Galaxy player 5.0
picked it up very cheap a while back… I rooted it and hardly even mess with it anymore.
compared to the iPhone 4S (currently have, 5 on order) it’s HUGE… as a mini tablet it works, as a phone…. it does not.
it requires two hands to type anything. you can’t hold the player with one hand and use your thumb to type, well you can on the small keyboard at the bottom, but you can only access 2/3 the screen with one hand.
Need to launch an app at top of screen with one hand? can’t unless you move your hand.
a die hard Android loser at work has some droid version with at least a 4″ screen. I have never seen him use the phone with one hand, ever.
When I mentioned it to him that he can’t use his phone one handed, he tried to prove me wrong. and almost dropped the phone…
With apple keeping the width the same, and just making it a little taller, i don’t think one handed usage will be a problem.
a 5″ screen… android has nothing on Apple.
“look, we have a 5″ screen!!! (never mind the phone can’t fit in your pocket anymore, or be able to use with one hand easily) Apple has a tiny screen!”
and the specs conscious guys go for samesung instead of get the real thing.
Samesung is in panic mode, and it’s only going to become worse 🙂
“The new Galaxy, expected to be the firm’s most powerful handset yet in terms of hardware specifications and software advancement…”
Well, I hope so. I assume, as do most people on the planet, that S4 follows and is an improvement on S3, just as iPhone 5 follows and is an improvement on iPhone 4/4S.
Now, one wonders whether that is really that interesting, given how “disappointing” the iPhone 5 was with its “2x the GPU” power, etc. I mean, shame on you Apple for doubling the RAM and putting a new chip in and everything to try and disguise how absolutely disappointing this lack-lustre update really was!
Of course, Samboys think the Galaxy S3 already has the specs to beat the new iPhone 5, so just imagine how great the S4 is gonna be! True, even Samsung doesn’t know what they will put in it yet (they have to analyze the iPhone 5 first), but hey, it’s bound to be better on paper!
Plus, the mighty Samsung came up with their “Epoxy” chip design and since Samsung semi-conductor division also makes the A6, Apple surely couldn’t have come up with anything unique, right? Surely, there are just run-of-the-mill, off-the-shelf-parts under that A6 label — who’s Apple trying to fool? After all, Samsung wouldn’t give better stuff to its competitor. I mean, what does Apple know about chip design, right? And even if it did, we can bet Samsung’s Chip Fab Division will find a way to advance its phones as well, wink wink, despite trying to maintain appearances since the Patent Case.
So, who cares about benchmarks and UI smoothness and “snappiness” and real-world use cases! Samsung will always be better on paper, and the iPhone is always gonna be out gunned with its out-of-date components. Take that, you Apple sheep!
like when apple announced the first iphone 6 months before it shipped. remember, when u file for FCC it all comes out anyway.
non story. just something to make apple fans happy.
Troll alert!
Samsung Galaxy S4
Intel core i7 3930k 6 core CPU!
16gb 2133mhz ram
26″ 1920×1080
That’s great!! But it makes no sense to have those specs in a PHONE
March?!?!?
So, what they are saying is that Samsung is going to come out with a new phone . . . someday?
Whew, that as close, I thought Samsung was leaving the phone business!
Also in the news…Apple will introduce their next iPhone sometime in Fall 2013.
It doesn’t take a genius (S3 vs iPhone 5). Indeed, it doesn’t. It doesn’t take a genius, why would you need to be when you can be damn lazy?
Is there any innovation in Samsung S3?
It offers you 4G LTE. Before you get carried away, it doesn’t have a chip that offers you LTE worldwide. There are many models of S3, each with different chipsets and processors. When Samsung offers you choice, this is what they mean – you can have 1 version in South Korea, another in Japan, a third in USA and a fourth in Europe and rest of Asia.
So to give you the widest LTE coverage and 3G coverage, it combines two radio chipsets (lazy man’s way). And to power that, they have to put in a bigger battery (a liability that they claim to be an advantage!) and more RAM. To accommodate a bigger battery, they have to build a bigger phone – hence the bigger dimensions than the S2 and the bigger screen of 4.8in. These design flaws/ liabilities have been marketed as advantages – bigger screen, bigger battery. They forgot heavier and thicker. Where’s the innovation? None, whatsoever. Just pack it in and give consumers a bigger phone and market it as an advantage!
The next S4 is reported to sport an even bigger screen. Looks like Samsung ‘innovation’ is on the right path.
You want innovation? Show me a faster phone with the same screen, show me longer talk time with smaller dimensions, show me more storage space without taking the lazy way out by putting in a micro SD card slot (for customers to put in their own extra storage).
You like a bigger phone with a bigger screen and longer battery life and a faster processor? Dude, we are already there – it’s called the iPad. For those who need a bigger screen for their eyes and their hands, you already have the answer!
It doesn’t take a genius. Indeed. Lazy all the way =)
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and the stooopid press will really call it ‘innovative’.
boggles my mind that the press keeps calling bigger screens ‘innovative’.
press dudes don’t you think Apple (which builds iPads) COULD EASILY build phones with bigger screens if they WANTED to , i.e if they thought it was good idea?
samdung has to innovate to bigger screen, coz its the only way to
go around Apple’s pinch to zoom patent, that way, with bigger screen Samdung users don’t need to ZOOOOOOOOOOM😄
lol
The people who run Shamesung apparently have a small penis complex. They’re obsessed with more inches.
This is a classic FUD technique. Let me bold the “active” propaganda words:
the iPhone 5, which has received a mixed response from industry experts and consumers as it is seemingly lacking in innovative features
The mixed claimed to be ‘factual’ if one, and only one, ‘expert’ and ‘consumer’ stated publicly that their response was not favorable. If some people don’t like it, what if they’re right. We’re injected with FEAR.
What exactly is an ‘expert’? But it sure sounds impressive and official. If an ‘expert’ thinks that way, there must be a valid element of UNCERTAINTY.
Then that lame word ‘seemingly’ that is entirely subjective, but we can’t help feeling DOUBT.
Language as a weapon of mind rape.
Korea Times is just a propaganda mouthpiece for ScamDung. As I mentioned here numerous times, Samesong literally owns that country.
If that’s the case, I feel extra sorry for Korea. Not good. Bad karma.
I’m a Korean-American and lived a good chunk of my youth there. I still go there on business every 2~3 months for 2 weeks at a time. Samsung accounts for nearly 20% of the entire South Korean GDP. You can’t walk around Seoul for more than a few minutes without seeing the Samsung logo blaring in your face.
Samsung also builds oil tankers, constructs apartment complexes, runs hospitals, sells life insurance, trades securities, produces commuter buses, operates a department store chain, etc. besides selling phones, TV’s, washers/dryers, rice cookers, microwave ovens, PC’s, etc. Samsung feels like it needs to do every possible thing out there and drive everyone else out of business.
The CEO/Chairman Lee Kun-hee is a convict who should be in jail right now for bribery, fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to cover it all up. Just do search of his name on Google or Wikipedia. He got in an ugly public spat with his siblings fighting over $600 million or something like that when he’s the richest man in Korea worth over $10 billion.
His daughters or other young female relatives in the Samsung family decided that they wanted to start a bakery chain. Well, the public outcry against it was so loud that Samsung was forced to abandon the idea. This is the type of company that Samsung is. I wish more people here in the States would do a little more research instead of just clinging on to them because they’re not Apple.
I’m picking it’ll feature an even bigger screen