“With a 6.3-inch screen, Samsung’s ginormous Galaxy Mega smartphone verges on the absurd,” Florence Ion writes for TechHive. “And it’s further evidence that Samsung won’t rest until it has a mobile device of every conceivable size and shape, the accepted conventions of smartphone ergonomics be damned.”
“How big is too big? When do we, as consumers, step in and stop this maddening inflation of screen dimensions? Samsung has ignored the pleas of the rational by adding yet another model to its already saturated phone lineup,” Ion writes. “And with chassis dimensions that come perilously close to those of tablets such as the Nexus 7, it’s aiming to fill a niche that doesn’t exist.”
Ion writes, “At 6.59 by 3.46 by 0.31 inches, the Galaxy Mega is bigger than both the LG Optimus G Pro and Samsung’s own Galaxy Note II. If you wear skinny jeans, or anything smaller than giant man pants, you will struggle to get the Mega fully inside your pocket. And if you have small fingers, as I do, you’ll find yourself constantly cradling the Mega with both hands so that it doesn’t slip out. This isn’t a phone that you can hold discreetly, or comfortably use one-handed. Dialing a number or replying to a text message with just your thumb is a challenge, and in my tests I often hit a button I didn’t mean to.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “How big is too big?”
“It doesn’t fit in my pants.”
“I often hit a button I didn’t mean to.”
“Constantly cradling the Mega with both hands so that it doesn’t slip out.”
This review reads like a compendium of things the girl said at the picnic.
MacDailyNews Take of the Year.
I actually did a spit take with my coffee. Thanks for the laugh, MDN!
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Found a couple of images of her. The first one, I thought “Kind of geeky, but not bad”. Then I looked closely and saw she was wearing a GoogleGlass device (are they supposed to be called GoogleGlasses?). Found another image and came to the conclusion she probably gets lots of offers to cradle megas.
She used to write for MacLife. Funny she is now an android user.
That’s what she said..
It certainly was a picnic.
I want a 15″ screen on my phone! Ya.
I want a apple to work harder and better. Ya
You’re not thinking big. 21″ or nothing at all Go Samsung!!!
I want my phone to have memory cards. and floppy disk! Ya.
Scamscum won’t stop until you need a pulley system to hoist it up to your ear.
Apple just needs to add a “Phone” app to iPads that have cellular. Make iPads useable as phones, using a wired or wireless headset. Wireless carriers can add the voice feature to data plans for a small extra fee, for customers who want to make phone calls using an iPad.
Is that a Samsung Galaxy Mega or you just happy to see me?
Is that a Samsung Mega in your back pocket or did you crap your pants? Either way, you have shit in your pants.
This is a fatal mistake by Samsung. They are diluting their product line to help drive sales. However instead it will just increase their cost and cut their margins. Once another competitor comes in and takes their business they will start losing money.
SDSJS (What did Steve Jobs say?) When the marketing guy runs the company……..
Just saying.
Nah, it won’t be fatal, except maybe to the Mega. Samsung sells too many phone lines for any one, particularly a niche one, to b fatal.
But add 2 or 3 or 4 together and we may have something . . . .
Don’t like it don’t buy it.
In Asian markets bling bling and big screens are much more appreciated than in Europe or in the US.
Samsung provides a product to a market requesting it. It’s as simple as that. One model doesn’t always fit to all.
FYI: This is a one shot comment. I won’t lose my time answering all the insults you will send in reply to my post.
You think too highly of your post.
There is nothing wrong with your post, Novad, so no insults are warranted. However, just because a “market” requests a product does not mean that it makes sense for a company to provide that product. What are the anticipated unit sales? The profit? Is it worth adding additional complexity to an already complex range of handsets? Sometimes you just have to decide not to go after the last few percent of the market. And sometimes you have to recognize that what people need (or really want) is different than what they tell you they want (or what you think that they told you).
But I agree – if you don’t like it, then don’t buy it.
No, Samsung is “Innovating” again. Next, they will innovate in a new color. Maybe put little rubber feet in the corners. Their research team is hard at work on the “innovating”.
Not to worry, as soon as the team can pick up the next new device at the Apple Store, they will be on to their next really “New” “Innovative” “WOW” device.
“Their research team is hard at work on the “innovating ”
Don’t you mean their marketing team…??? LOL
I think they need to develop a Galaxy with an Amber screen, about 9 inches, and a blinking cursor.
The gf cradled my mega this weekend, and very nice it was too.
Sounds like a good idea. It should double up as a bullet proof vest for mini-me.
Finally, a phone size to your liking.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
samsung really tapped America’s ‘super size it’ obsession with “mine’s bigger than yours”, didn’t it?
No.
Maybe they should start shipping it with some of those tactical pants that Andy Ihnatko talked about a couple of years ago. Wonder if he still wears those?
Yes, he still does.
This is how Sony died. Too many models, in a confusing lineup of products.
WDSJS,,,,, Keep your product line simple and focus on great products….. OK I am paraphrasing here. I need a good Steve Jobs sayings book so I can get my quotes exact.. LOL
I will have to say that the man had his moments of real genius at times.
Jobs quote on keeping it simple:
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Jobs quote on how people don’t really know what they want until you show them:
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
No, sony died because it got into too many industries it knew nothing about and cut off all communications between them by making each it’s own independent entity under one brand ie: Sony Music, Sony entertainment, etc…)
Why not just get an LTE iPad Mini and make calls via Skype or Google voice? You’ll save on the data plan.
Why stop there? Just throw your laptop in your backpack along with a wireless headset. Make calls on Skype or eq; finally a cellphone the right size, 11″, 13″, 15″, or even 17″s! If you can’t carry it in your pants, you might as well carry it on your back. 🙂
It’s amazing that they’d make such a goof when they have that huge R&D department at 1Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
“Does this make my butt look big?”
People are finally beginning to realize that screen size does not = innovation. The Galaxy line began its decline with the S4 and continues now. Samsung will quickly retreat to the area where it can be successful: inexpensive (barely) smart phones for developing countries, and pay as you go phones for those on a very tight budget.
Best. MDN Editorial. Ever.
Bigger isn’t always better. Samsung just proved that with the ridiculous. Why anyone would want to buy this and look ridiculous trying to use it and talk on the phone with it is beyond me.
Here’s a new idea for Samsung:
double your number of phones by offering a horizontal and a vertical version for each size !
Apple’s recent dearth of new product releases is really taking its toll on Samsung’s R&D department.
It should be renamed.
Galaxy Member
Galaxy (can’t fit in my pants because it’s bigger than my ****)
Galaxy (you need two to hold it)
Galaxy (don’t rub it, or you’ll go blind)
Actually, I think they’re going after the SUV demographic. /s
you think that’s big?
what until you see the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Supra Ultra Giganta Godzilla Phone. From what I’ve heard, THAT is going to be BIG…
IT’S A BIG ASS PHONE!
I am surprised no one has made a Microsoft Big Ass Table parody on these gigant obese phones.