“Samsung’s pursuit of great design could lead to another iPhone clone if these images, purported to be the handset’s new aluminum frame, turn out to be genuine,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Android.
“The South Korean company appears to have dropped the sharp, straight edges seen on the Galaxy Alpha and the Galaxy Note 4 for a smoother, more rounded design just like that of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus,” Bell reports, “and it looks like the removable back panel is gone, too.”
“If you were to look at the shot of the top and bottom edges of this device below, you might think it was in fact an iPhone prototype Apple gave up on,” Bell reports. “It has small holes for a speaker and microphone drilled into it, integrated antennas, and a headphone jack all along its bottom edge.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Drop that knockoff in that toilet where it belongs and go get yourself a real iPhone.
oh come on, remember Lucy Koh stopped all those kinda shenanigans a long time ago.
Good job Lucy – you are an outstanding judge – hope that the bribes from Samsung are worth your corruption – stick it !!
And it’s over a squatter toilet…. barbarians.
I’ve seen those in France.
…They get even worse in the Middle East. Just saying.
I wish Apple could drop them as a supplier.
Tired of them. Seems two faced. Part of the company keeps Apple happy with parts. Another part of the company slaps Apple in the face by stealing their look and feel.
Samsung’s exceptional chip fab capabilities are one reason Apple is killing Android profits. Bravo for both Apple and Samsung for acting rationally and cooperating in one area despite competition in another.
This openness between competitors means the best phone (in this case Apple’s) is winning.
Also worth pointing out that corporations are not anything like people. Corporations are made up of often very independent groups, some very good, some bad, most mixed.
Its pointless to try and judge most corporations character as you would a single person. Apple is an exception to that rule due to the high degree of centralizing.
Sorry for the multiple posts – but my point is that Samsung’s phone division is a shameless copiers of Apple, but that doesn’t apply to their fabs business who are state of the art.
nevermark,
I am assuming that Apple does all the designing of their own chips.
Can Samsung incorporate what they learn from fabricating chips for Apple into their own chips they design for themselves?
Yes, there are companies that specialize in reverse engineering of chips. It is very specialized and precise work to tear a chip apart layer by very small layer.
Well absolutely not…
But, yes.
Apple can not drop Samsung as supplier at least for political reasons: they have plant in Texas, and it is important for Apple to manufacture as many components as economically feasible in the homeland.
This is why even though Apple now engages TSMC for Apple A8/X, A7, A6 and future SoCs such as A9 are/will be done by Samsung.
Those Scamsung photocopiers seem to have been running 24/7. With no business ethics and no sense of true innovation, a company can get a lot done in 5 months. Shameless.
2 bit Samscum offers 32 bit POS again.
Yep, it was in the koreatimes.co.kr yesterday.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/02/133_172942.html
They wrote, “will look a lot like Apple’s iPhone 6”.
and,
“”It will have a metal build, which will make it look even more like Apple’s latest models.””
“”Batteries will be embedded”
“have rounded corners.”
So, the Korea Times wrote that it will look like an iPhone 6, have a metal case, be rounded, have a non-replaceable battery, etc. Just think about it, they went their own way on design and sales stunk, the tried-and-true method is to just copy Apple. Voila. Did you expect anything else?
If batteries are indeed embedded I am going to throw that into the faces of every “but… removable battery!” Android fan I know, because the premium line of *every* major Android maker would have the same “problem.”
They might come back with “it’s all Apple’s fault” but that would be a cop-out. Samsung will have *chosen* to no longer differentiate themselves that way.
Don’t worry many of them will end up unsold in warehouses and landfills worldwide. 😊
Samscum Blood sucking leech !
It’s regrettable that Samsung has chosen imitation as a strategy, in spite of copyright laws. It’s even more regrettable that the U.S. law courts allow Samsung to do this against Apple.
What’s next, will Samsung just put the Apple logo on the back of their phones?
Yeah. But the “bite” will be out of the left side of the apple.
Completely different, don’t you see?
How fitting! Samdung photographed in toilet.
Lol.. Next move.. Drop it in… Where it belongs !
My thoughts and observations exactly!
So a worker snuck it in the urinal area to grab a few pics for cash. Pee pee at the same time. Now that’s multitasking!
The style of toilet is very suggestive of the only kind of countries that this rip-off will sell in.
And Lucy: we’re approaching 3 year anniversary of Apple’s jury decision over Samsung – but take your time making Sammy pay up. No rush.
It’s actually an interest fact that the squatting position is a much better form when using a toilet. I never knew toilets like that even existed! The Western world has toilets all wrong!
Apparently they have the concept of intellectual property wrong too, seeing as they invest so much money in establishing it only to have bench moss like Koh utterly nullify its value.
My first reaction seeing this prototype from scamscum is you’ve got to be flipping joking! I seem to recall just reading recently expect a bold new design from scamscum on their upcoming S6 as they hired a new designer, I think what the article meant to say was ‘expect a bold new clone of the iPhone 6’.
Didn’t they make fun of the iPhone putting the headphone jack on the BOTTO of the phone? Looks like they are doing the same thing here. Huh.
Nothing like snapping pics in the bathroom stall… In some countries you could loose your life, doing that.
lose.. one of them.
let loose your balls in the stall.
…Yeah. It’s been known that the S6 was gonna be yet-another cheap wannabe knockoff for a couple months now. Just another ShamScam.
iPhone 6/6+ looks like a cheap Samsung knock off. I still think that 4/4s/5/5s designs were the best mobile designs, unfortunately there is no one in apple to now call a shit design as a shit design.
Steve Jobs was right 3.5″ was a sweet spot for a mobile device. 4″ I can live with any thing bigger is just looking silly carrying around and talking on that device.
iPhone 7/7+ will be a 5.5 and 6.5″ device good luck lugging that device around. oh yeah I did not forget the 6s/6s+
Looks like Samsung learned their lesson trying their own hand at design with their watch. Since that didn’t work, it’s time for them to go back to their old ways of copying whatever is selling.
Business Insider in covering much the same topic viewed the similarity between the new Samsung phone and the iPhone 6 as a plus. Incredible. Samsung designs something that purposely apes the iPhone and the press (if BI may be called that) highlights that fact as if that’s a positive selling point. “Comes with an improved version of TouchID that works better! And, it looks almost exactly like the iPhone! Wowsers!”
The he’ll is this. They haven’t even announced the phone yet. This is probably false. FALSE!
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