“Last week we reported on Samsung preparing their next round of smartphones for September 3 and due to poor smartphone sales in the first half of 2014, Samsung announced that it would release an all-new smartphone later in the fall that would use new materials,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Today we’ve learned that Samsung may have a surprise launch of another smartphone with a white metal body and chamfered edges – like the iPhone 5s,” Purcher reports. “The photos [below] came from Weibo.com in China.”
Purcher reports, “Rumors are running rampant that Samsung’s new metal bodied smartphone will come in two sizes: 4.7 and 6.7.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shocking.
Can’t sell phones with their own crappy “design,” so they go back to their only successful play: Knocking off Apple’s iPhone.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Copiers running full steam!
But are they DIAMOND chamfered?
Just makes me anticipate the iPhone 6 even more. I know that it will have several levels of refinement that this phone cannot match. iOS on a 4.7 inch screen with Touch ID will be such an unbeatable combination, I’m damn near salivating at the thought of holding one in my hand.
Agreed. The Samsung G5s stuffed into a metal chassis won’t touch the iPhone 6.
The Samstunk smell of desperation is permeating the air.
Sorry, Galaxy S5…I don’t buy their crap, so I don’t bother to keep up with their product nomenclature.
That Samsung smell is the same one that Dell uses on its laptops. It came from the same cat
Or the iPhone 1.
Samsung didn’t copy Apple, you can clearly see in the photo that the person’s thumb is on the right. And the color, that’s not Apple white, it’s facsimile white . . . totally different. 😉
Samesung
I’m starting to hate my refrigerator.
A company that is cold and heartless probably makes great refrigerators.
Their vacuum cleaners are their only products that don’t suck.
Lol.. Lol..;)
I will never buy any samdung products… Never..Not handing over my money to a lowlife company like that !
Speaking of vacuum cleaners, we ended up with a high end new refrigerator from Electrolux. It’s a great refrigerator. We didn’t buy either of the two Samsung similarly priced models sitting next to it ENTIRELY because we don’t do business with thieves and liars.
Exactly. As I’ve written about before, I steered my in-laws away from Samsung washer and dryer set they were prepared to buy. Sure felt good.
Except that the other day I was at a Lowe’s, walking past the refrigerators. I noticed that the Samsung and Whirlpool looked exactly the same. How many brands are private labeling Samsung products? I don’t want to buy a Whirlpool if it was really built by Samsung.
It works both ways. I purchased a Samsung Washer & Dryer before the war. Turns out that Samsung dryer is basically a re-packaged Whirlpool (based on parts & service issues).
Before the war. 🙂
Do you suppose the Samsung appliances are ripoff copies of the Whirlpool appliances???
I am talking about 5 years ago, before the war Samsung started with Apple.
Surprisingly, the washer is way more reliable that the last Kenmore I had, and the dryer has required constant service.
Non-the-less, I will not purchase Samsung W&D next time around.
What a surprise!
MDN, copies are not news. After all, we don’t look to the Mafia for insight into government, much less, product design.
This gives Samsung great pleasure.
Samsung is simply a troll and enjoys this game.
The more Apple takes them to court, the more we flame them, the more they enjoy doing this.
Sad. I cannot understand why so many americans buy things from these criminals.
Samsung – always on the cutting edge of roughly approximating Apple from a year ago.
If the new iPhone has rounded edges like the iPad, what will Samsung do then?
Break out a router!
Phone with 6.7 inch screen ???!!!
Soon all Apple’s gonna need to do is add telephony to iPad mini.
They release a new phone every couple of months. Same POS with a few changes. No shame.
Most people said they’d rather prefer an abscess or genital wart to a samsung galaxy phone.
Samsung has their nose inside Apple’s Ass for so long, they probably don’t have time to smell their own fart. Hence What Apple Shat out a year earlier is Swallowed Whole by Samsung and shat out again. So what the fan of Samsung have in their hand is a useless pile of manure, devoid of any nutrients.