“Just days after Apple’s new gold iPhone 5s went on sale, Samsung has announced the new Galaxy S4 ‘Gold Edition,’ though the back of the device retains the same plastic design as other models,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“The new devices will come with a gold plastic trim on the outside, while the front glass will be available in brown or pink,” Hughes reports. “The handsets were announced on Wednesday by Samsung Gulf, the company’s Middle Eastern outfit. The advertisement from Samsung even refers to the ‘elegance’ of the new color option. When details on Apple’s gold iPhone 5s were leaked in August — almost a month ahead of the device’s announcement — the color was also described as ‘elegant.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Samsung, you need to drill more holes into the top face of your plastic flagship phone. There aren’t enough.
LOL!
You just can’t make this sh*t up!
Samsung makes it every day! Coming to a mobile carrier near you.
This could actually be damaging to their brand. Those phones are going to wear horribly.
Are they ever going to make a phone that isn’t cheap plastic? I don’t think it’s on the horizon for them. Their power will be diluted on the low end of they can’t differentiate.
Samsung, you’re pathetic. I’d be embarrassed to be you…
Shameless.
it’s just really really sad and they absolutely have no shame whatsoever. incredible actually
Worse yet, our judges don’t think the Samdung copies Apple.
Our judges and system are corrupt. This is what brought down Rome.
We are Rome.
Nobody saw this coming :/
And the market speaks. AAPL is down about 1%. Apple is doomed now or something.
AAPL is likely down this morning due to the introduction of all of the revolutionary new Kindles that will continue to allow Amazon to lose more money. I actually heard someone on CNBC declare that Bezos is the next Steve Jobs!
… Until everyone wakes up and a loud POP is heard on Wall Street. Oops. Poor investment. Making a profit really IS important! Who knew? 😆
Amazon is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Don’t be the last one holding the bag when they turn the lights out. Look at what has happened to RIMM, and they actually made money at one time.
RIMM/BlackBerry actually invented something useful, at one time.
Amazon: Retail shopping on the web. No profit.
Clue.
Yes but the amount of pumping done by WS around RIMM is very similar to what they are doing to AMZN now. Peter Misek was recommending RIMM as a buy as recently as June.
Good gawd. It is interesting to watch the process of herding and devouring, from a biological behavior point of view. Prey, meet predator.
Until they tell the world how they innovate and what products are in “pipeline” the street will continue to hammer AAPL. This is never going to happen so yes, Apple is doomed. /s
😆 😆 😆 AAPL down over gold plastic ShameScam dreck. The clueless shall SHOUT their ignorance unto the hills of the landfills! 😆 😆 😆
APPL is NOT down because of Samsung’s announcement. Please learn something about how Wall Street really makes money before posting.
Almost all my posts are sarcasm. I’d like to think that I know how the markets work having traded stocks for a living for the last 6 years but that belief would be foolish.
If anything Apple is down due to Sprint saying they are running out of new iphones. Selling them faster than you can make them is a bad thing apparently.
@ hannahjs, I did when I said that Samsung will fire up its cloning copiers.
But you are right in that I did not see them wait for the analysis of which colours sold the most, Gold and Pink!!!
Pink and gold? I wouldn’t use a toilet brush in those colors, and a toilet brush has more cachet than any Samsung phone.
Come on I cannot believe this!!! It’s like they’re making fun if themselves.
No Jack, They are making fun of Apple and the American legal system.
That appears to be EXACTLY what they are doing…
And unfortunately fools will buy this crap.
I previously wondered how long it would take shameless Samsung to throw out another piece of crap. Ugh makes me sick! No ethics and no taste.
Oh! Now that is sad.
No! No! That is Samsung innovation at it’s best! I expect nothing lest than their best and once they had something to copy, their innovative juices were pumping.
However, in the end, a gold colored turd is still just a turd. Speaking about turds, is Microsoft going to supply gold colored Windows phones and is someone spray painting that Surface 2 in gold paint too?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Too much flattery gets on your nerves.
Flattery is generally insincere.
Pathetic.
I was going to say cheap as a one-toothed crack whore but these phones might actually be worse. Gold and brown? Gold and pink? Who came up with those color combinations? A care bear?
Maybe the same people who brought us a brown Zune!!
Care Bears care!
And their turds look better than these phones.
nobody could just cant make this stuff up… samsung – the joke machine that keeps on giving.
Wow lol
What ARE all those holes for?
Maybe screw holes pulling that crap sandwich together? Someone must have decided not to screw it on the shiny gold side.
In the end, the Samsung customers were getting screwed somewhere.
You, sir, have coined a top phrase: “crap sandwich”
Made lol
One might think they are trepanning holes, but that would suggest the presence of a brain underneath…and we know that’s wrong.
… Worm borers. Rotten within.
You would think they feel ashamed . They can’t do anything original. and these really look cheesy
Haha.. Gold S4.. That’s ridiculous…
More like the ultimate oxymoron . . . .
I looked at URL — nope, not “The Onion” — checked calendar — nope not April 1st. So this is real?? OMG! Have these people no shame? Oh wait, they are innovators – I keep forgetting.
That’s funny!
… and kind of sad.
Very sad. Samsung go stand in a corner.
Samsung has to copy apple all The time!
Bwahahahahahaha!
Some people set the trend, some just blindly follow the crowd..
LMAO They truly have no shame.
Shut up and take my money!!! haha!!!!!
That color is… Fake-Gold Gold.
The beautiful gold finish on an apple iPhone 5s or the gold plastic on that crap? I’ll take the former thanks. And while I’m at it I see the slavish copiers are in full force! Now everyone is mAking a gold phone from HTC to Samhorsedung
You can TRY to polish a turd: but it’s still a Turd.
You can’t polish a turd, but you can spray it gold
You know, it would have been one thing if they would have released the gold in an S5, (still would have pretty much imitated the 5s, but..)
The fact that they released the S4, 6 months ago and now they come out with this in gold? Come on…
Maybe it will also include 64 tiny crumbs of doritos, so they can claim they have 64 bit chips too.
So clever, best snark of the week! *****
Nah, too much engineering involved for Samsung. Besides, the S4s would quickly be 2-bit as all those tiny I hips fall out of all those holes drilled in the faceplate.
Shameless and clueless all wrapped into one.
Sad. Just sad. When will they try to stand on their own.
Brown and pink? They even copy the Zune.
Come on! Should any of us really be surprised?
You CAN polish a turd, although it still looks like a turd
=:~)
So how are the Fandroids gonna spin this?
Ha ha ha ha ha lol lol lol lol lol
Ladies and gentleman, meet Microsoft 2.0
Wow. Gold plastic. Oh wow.
Yet another FAIL job of cheap ripoff ScamStung. You deserve the dire results of your self-destructive behavior. Should we laugh at you are be sad at your self-loathing? You have no self-respect, no shame, no inventiveness, no future but more of the same.
Please read: “OR be sad at your self-loathing?”
Now will they only give a couple out per store to simulate demand?
What a bunch of dorks. I bet the Samsung Brigade of iHaters will post nothing but adoration and love for Samsung and this new plastic POS! lol
Very, very sad. Samsung go stand in a corner.
Let’s stand for Apple and USA, boycott all Samsung products; phone, tv, fridge, toaster, microwaves, toothbrush, jack strap…
Let them sale their scrap in Korea where no one cares about innovation and rules…
My first instinct is to feel embarrassed for them. But you can’t empathize with that emotion for people who have no shame.
My second instinct is to hit some message boards to see how the Samsung fans actually rationalize this with “Apple didn’t invent gold! The Motorola HZ9261 way back in 2005 was gold . . . Who are the copiers now!?!”
Samsung, innovating since iPhone 1.
NEWSFLASH! Samsung continues to destroy its corporate image!
Behold! The Gilded Turd!
But the gold iPhone looked so much better in person!!!! Maybe this plastic one will too!
Sike those pics are probably photoshopped to take away as much hideousness as possible. Can’t wait to see one in the wild if it comes over this way.
Add new Gold Color is the only thing that Samsung can copy and do it by themselves. They have no real 64-bit system , they don’t even have a valid solution for device’s security. The day of Samsung and android are numbered!
Apple should do an ad making fun of the way Samesung copies them.
Like an ad with a bunch of Koreans looking at a gold iphone and panicking. Then one of them try’s to spray paint a galaxy.
“Gulf” with a Desert in the background? Gee, I wonder who they’re marketing to
Pathetic low life Samsung.
Loosing credibilty and tesprct by the miniut.
Shame less copy cats, thieves, bribers, liers, misinformer, deceivers!
Wow. Really, really pathetic. As are the consumers who fall for this blatant and unsupportable, impossible to enable unethical stealing. Not as great artists do. As parasites do.
Pink… glass? How the hell is that supposed to improve usability?
And, of course, Samsung misses the point and makes it a gaudy bright gold. Oh Samsung, your half-asses copying never ceases to entertain me.
The actual colour name selected by Samsung is Iron Pyrite
Lol, even worse. Common name for iron pyrite is Fools Gold.
Guess the new colour could be marketed as ‘Pyrite’ – otherwise known as Fool’s Gold
samsung products makes people feel second class. reminds people of being cheap and korean….
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buying samsung is giving profit to korea which hates americans.