“Samsung has finally revealed its latest oversized smartphones, the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3,” Aaron Souppouris reports for The Verge.
“Larger than even Samsung’s enormous 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 2, both phones are low- to mid-range in terms of specifications,” Souppouris reports. “The larger Galaxy Mega has a 6.3-inch 720p display, LTE connectivity, 8GB or 16GB of storage, and a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, while the 5.8-inch model has a qHD display, HSPA connectivity, 8GB of storage, and a 1.4GHz dual-core processor.”
Souppouris reports, “Samsung hasn’t detailed exact availability, but says the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3 will launch in Europe next month before gradually expanding to other territories. ”
Read more in the full article here.
Hubert Nguyen writes for UberGizmo, “I have to say that the Galaxy Mega takes things to the next level. This is almost like typing on an iPad mini, except that it is a fully featured phone in a form-factor that is usable in my hand.” “I say it’s not for everyone because there is still a large crowd that wants a one-handed smartphone, or thinks that beyond 5-inch, it’s really ‘too big.'”
Nguyen writes, “The raw performance of this smartphone will be less than the Galaxy S4, and possibly even less than the Galaxy Note 2 — we haven’t had a chance to run any benchmarks since this unit was not the final hardware. What we can say at the moment, is that we don’t expect it to score very high.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We just wrote yesterday about what would happen if Apple made a 5-inch iPhone: “They’d say that a 5-inch display isn’t large enough as Apple continues to pile up quarter after quarter of record-breaking, yet somehow ‘disappointing,’ iPhone sales.”
The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3. For when you’ve got no taste, <a href="http://macdailynews.com/2012/08/06/court-shown-evidence-that-samsung-copied-apples-iphone-icons/" target="_new"no morals or no clue – and no eyesight.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
When you are a shameless one trick size pony like Shamdung is it’s all yah got to compete with for the buggie board sizetards out there. Is there no end?
For years the desirable feature of a phone was how small it was, people laughed at old fashioned bricks that people carried about. Now analysts seem to think bricks are the future.
The innovation is staggering…
The Chinese girl that’s staying with us bought a big-ass Samsung phone over spring break. When she came back, we were all so shocked, not that it wasn’t an iPhone exactly, but that she’d need a purse to carry it in. And now they’re trying to go even bigger?
I think in a year you can use a Samsung phone as a raft in case of a flood
Who’s hand is that holding that phone… Bigfoot?
What’s next? Multi-line smart phones- with corded styluses?… No cases, backpacks.
iPad mini/phone. With a new retina display and true telephone capabilities, a phone-let, from Apple will arrive before Samsungs new claim.
I’d give these the 5-Edsel ugly rating
Yes, and the crane and suitcase for that phone is included free!
Why not just get this:
The wheeled carrying case with retractable handle sold separately, and is fully TSA compliant. Only $89.99!
If you really want BIG use your iPad with the Magic Jack app. It is a very cheap service that works as a home phone and when on vacation in our RV with the iPad portable “home phone”. It’s our second phone used to call home when I’m out shopping with our iPhone.
Cuz these idiots can’t design anything smaller that doesn’t run out of juice in half a day…
At the rate that Samsung keeps making it’s phones bigger I expect them to reintroduce the bag phone sometime next year.
Wow – they are bringing back bag phones…
This is from the Onion, right?
Yes Samsung is the best they can certainly out innovate Apple. How you may ask? By going bigger. Its amazing since Apple hasn’t released a new phone Samdung seem to have no ideas of their own. They seem to be stalling and waiting and hoping that Apple will release a new phone soon so they can do what they do best and thats to ……. So to all the analyst what is it you see in Samsung that we don’t. Maybe its not what you see but what you get free dumbass phones with a bribe attached
By the way I thought this is a mac ios forum. If i want to read about samdung or android i will go to cult of knock off android.
I was talking with a friend who is a big Android fan about this yesterday, and even he thinks it’s too much. I can see a market for a small pocket-sized, a larger-sized phone, a small-form tablet and a large-form tablet. Apple have the best 3 of those 4 already, and a larger phone is likely to be the iPhone 6. Samsung, however, have devices at 4 inches, 4.5 inches, 4.8 inches, 5 inches, 5.5 inches, 5.8 inches, 6.3 inches, 7 inches, 7.5 inches, 8.1 inches, 8.9 inches, 10 inches and 10.1 inches. That’s not design (because they’re all running largely the same OS and bloated TouchWiz “layer” rather than anything optimised for the demands of the product in question), or considering consumer needs. That’s flinging everything you can against a wall and seeing what, if anything, sticks. And all the while my “lowly” iPhone 4S runs more smoothly than even the newest Galaxy model, making it a pleasure to use despite its alleged comparative lack of horsepower.
If any Android manufacturer deserves to succeed, it’s HTC. They “get” it. They design things to make them good to use. Samsung’s idea of design is to try and make a phone big enough to literally shove a kitchen sink into.
LOL Ugly.
Btw. Goosung must soon run out of different display sizes to make new phones of.