MSNBC, under the headline, “Samsung unveils iPhone-like handset: Ultra Smart F700 plays music, surfs the Web, and runs version of Mac OS X,” carries a report from The Associated Press today:
“Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new mobile phone that features some of the sleek design and functions of Apple Inc.’s much-hyped iPhone,” the Associated Press reports.
AP reports, “Samsung’s Ultra Smart F700 will be exhibited at next week’s 3GSM World Congress, a telecommunications exhibition in Barcelona, Samsung spokeswoman Sonia Kim said Friday.”
“Mobile phone makers have been scrambling to match the iPhone, unveiled last month by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The device, which will be available starting in June, marks the iPod and Macintosh computer maker’s entry into the mobile phone business,” AP reports.
AP reports, “The ultra-thin iPhone is controlled by touching the screen a large touch screen, plays music, surfs the Internet, and runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system, among other functions.”
Full article here.
Note to MSNBC headliner writer: the AP report says that Apple’s iPhone “runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system.” Nowhere does AP claim that Samsung’s superficially-iPhone-like Ultra Smart F700 “runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system.” Samsung’s meager press release only states their phone features a “Flash UI.”
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[UPDATE: 8:00pm EST: MSNBC has now revised the headline to read: “Samsung unveils iPhone-like handset: Ultra Smart F700 has slide-out key pad, large touch-screen.”]
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Samsung previews potential Apple iPhone competitor – February 08, 2007
don’t forget the MS stands for Microsoft
AP=asshole people… worst news organization for accuracy on the planet. They literally have 1000s of errors a week.
Proof that MS has trouble with copying. They can’t even copy an article from AP (or understand it). Imagine the result when they try to copy an entire OS. Yep, you got it: Vista. A crappy OS X copy at best. A repackaged Windows Server 2003 with eye-candies at worst.
what do you expect from PMS-NBC?
Samsung and all others should delay any iPhone copy until all of Apple iPhone patents are released. Steve Jobs did say some 400 patents.
What do you expect out of the Entertainment and Propaganda Industry – they just need Content that attracts attention!
Apple itself says OS X for Apple’s iPhone, not Mac OS X ..
It’s all Darwinian from here. Survival of the unsquirted.
Just a thought here –
Might Apple be Licensing interface technology to someone like Samsung or Nokia or Motorola et. al? Why not? Unlike computers, Apple is starting at the beginning of touch-screen phones, and the clearly put much research into it. Why not recoup some of the R&D through licensing?
This might finally bring some simple standardization to the stupid interface on ALL brands of mobile phones. I think they are ALL annoyingly complex. I for one would welcome Apple’s GUI approach to cell phones. I’ve been using Apple products since 1985 largely because of reliability of the hardware, and the obvious time and expense put into making the user interface as simple as possible.
Besides if folks like using easy to use Cell phones, they might opt for easy to use computers , ipods, ITV’s etc. etc. Compared to other brands. The obvious familiarity of the phone functions to other functions in other devices would make the purchase decision less complicated for average folks.
Unlike computers, you really don’t choose the interface for your phone, Digital Camera, etc. Embededed OS is the next big thing, and the I phone is the first step in this direction. If Apple can get Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and one or two others to use their touch screen technology, then who are the carriers to argue.
Just a thought..
Samsung mobile “as good as OS X on iPhone”.
Microsoft Vista “as good as OS X.”
I guess Apple has set the standard for product design.
Is it just me, or does the MDN take make no sense?
“MSNBC, the AP report says that Apple’s iPhone “runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system.” Nowhere does AP claim that Samsung’s superficially-iPhone-like Ultra Smart F700 “runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system.” “
The first quote from the AP report is either wrong, or the entire sentence is ill-conceived.
Dumb mistake on their part, but anything that gets our OS in the limelight is great. People may ask, “What is OSX?” then do some research and see…
To Step,
look at the banner MDN copied and placed at the top of this article – seeing is believing
Step –
AP got the story right. MSNBC’s headline writer got the story wrong. The MSNBC story is actually correct.
AHHHH! It’s another iPhone Killer running Flash Lite!
hmmm or did Apple actually license their OS and supply the clone makers a really shitty skin? I wonder…hmmmm.
MDN makes mistakes too.
Oh c’mon people! The Samsung does the same things an iPhone does – and Yugos are the same as Ferraris.
Brau,
Yugos and Ferraris are both made in a country on the Adriatic Sea.
How different can they be?
they updated the page
RE: GOW
Don’t be dumb gow, AP didn’t make the mistake this time so why are you blaming them… bring something useful or don’t show up.
These sort of statements can affect stock prices can’t they. Lucky I didn’t pour my money into Samsung.
fixed
Either the headline was updated or MDN has finally lost the last shred of credibility they ever had. I’m all Mac all the time, but MDN’s lemming-like, blank stare dedication to anything Apple is really starting to get old.
They may have fixed the headline, but in the body it still mentions Mac OS X:
“The ultra-thin iPhone is controlled by a large touch screen. It plays music, surfs the Internet, and runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system, among other functions.”
The iPhone will see OS X get the sort of attention even the iPod couldn’t bring. It will be the mobile computing platform of the future, and that should translate to desktop market share as well.