Don't like your iPhone 4? Samsung will give you a free Galaxy S

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tatteredpotato

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Very interesting approach... Wonder what Samsung is going to do with all those iPhone 4s (or do you get to keep it, in which case double win, but I don't see how they would keep you from getting a free Galaxy S and flipping it on Ebay).
 
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ObscureCaucasian said:
Very interesting approach... Wonder what Samsung is going to do with all those iPhone 4s (or do you get to keep it, in which case double win, but I don't see how they would keep you from getting a free Galaxy S and flipping it on Ebay).
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haha that would be awesome if you didn't have to send it in, but I can't see that happening.

A smart marketing tactic by Samsung, and one that I wouldn't be surprised to see here in the US (although it seems that such a campaign would have had more effect at the height of 'antennagate' rather than now).
 
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Why would you need this in the US. There are options if you don't like your iPhone.

If you were smart, you would sell your iPhone for $800+ on eBay and buy out of your AT&T contract for $300. $300+$200=$500 leaving you with $300 in your pocket to buy a Droid X or something and go to Verizon. After the $100 rebate you would have $100 in your pocket, unless you get even more for your iPhone since I have seen them go for $1000.

Or, make life easy on yourself and simply return it to Apple/AT&T for a full refund. They extended it 30 days as of about 2 weeks ago so you still have 2 weeks left. You also get out of your contract you signed - so if you were a new customer, no harm done. If you were getting an early upgrade, get something cheap and get away from AT&T or get a different AT&T phone.

All the power is in the buyers hands with this thing, and that extends to the UK. This is marketing drivel.

Of course nobody will be returning their iPhone 4's or doing any of this simply because people aren't that unhappy with their phones. Otherwise there would have been a lot more returns already. Of course, the OP saying "if they did this in the US, that would be awesome" is completely irrelevant as I doubt he owns the iPhone 4 or he would know everything I just said. Anybody who didn't want their iPhone 4 would have returned it already.
 
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It's a limited deal, not a full promotion. Ex, they see you bitch about an iPhone and decide if they want to offer you a phone. You don't apply (except by bitching about the iPhone).
 
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Shouldn't the Galaxy be free any ways? I know when I'm at the mall the people at the Verizon & T-Mobile Kiosks are always trying to get me to sign a contract by giving me a free Android phone. Hell the Verizon one offered me 2 free Moto Droids. This is a pretty good marketing campaign I must admit.
 
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QueBert said:
Shouldn't the Galaxy be free any ways? I know when I'm at the mall the people at the Verizon & T-Mobile Kiosks are always trying to get me to sign a contract by giving me a free Android phone. Hell the Verizon one offered me 2 free Moto Droids. This is a pretty good marketing campaign I must admit.
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You know as well as I do that this is just another opportunity for the phandroid community to point and laugh at Apple's misfortune with the new iPhone. If I posted a similar link, say how the Samsung Galaxy S phones suffer from attenuation too - then it would just be trolling and "oh but iPhone 4 is a design flaw that nobody could ever live with".

Numbers like 1.7% of people returning the phone or solid facts like how people are still rushing out and buying the iPhones up as quick as they can make them - fall on deaf ears or is simply trolling. Which I'm sure is going to be the next reply to my post, of course, that I'm just a troll.
 
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You know as well as I do that this is just another opportunity for the phandroid community to point and laugh at Apple's misfortune with the new iPhone. If I posted a similar link, say how the Samsung Galaxy S phones suffer from attenuation too - then it would just be trolling and "oh but iPhone 4 is a design flaw that nobody could ever live with".

Numbers like 1.7% of people returning the phone or solid facts like how people are still rushing out and buying the iPhones up as quick as they can make them - fall on deaf ears or is simply trolling. Which I'm sure is going to be the next reply to my post, of course, that I'm just a troll.
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Er, nobody was speaking critical of the iPhone... Comments like this are what make these threads revert to rabbit fanboyism. Reading through this thread, you were the first person to troll so please take it elsewhere.
 
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ObscureCaucasian said:
Er, nobody was speaking critical of the iPhone... Comments like this are what make these threads revert to rabbit fanboyism. Reading through this thread, you were the first person to troll so please take it elsewhere.
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First off. My first post was nothing but facts and there was no trolling. It was how an American consumer would go about returning their phone. Second, it was clearly preslove and his first post that was mocking the iPhone with the stickers. Which ironically, at least in the case of the "end call here" sticker doesn't make sense. That sticker would affectivally alleviate the problem, so by applying that sticker - "end call here" sticker would no longer apply. But hey, don't let logic get in the way.

However, it was clear that the OP was the first to start it.

If they bring this to the US, it would be awesome.
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How would this be awesome in the US based on what I said, especially when he clearly doesn't own the iPhone? By him saying that, he is making it clear that he doesn't own an iPhone 4 and this is just him stirring it up. If he does own one, I apologize but he is naive. If you don't want the iPhone, return it and get what you want. Why would you settle for the POS Galaxy when you could get a phone that actually rivals the iPhone like the Droid X.
 
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AMDZen said:
First off. My first post was nothing but facts and there was no trolling. It was how an American consumer would go about returning their phone. Second, it was clearly preslove and his first post that was mocking the iPhone with the stickers. Which ironically, at least in the case of the "end call here" sticker doesn't make sense. That sticker would affectivally alleviate the problem, so by applying that sticker - "end call here" sticker would no longer apply. But hey, don't let logic get in the way.

However, it was clear that the OP was the first to start it.
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THEY ARE GIVING FREE PHONES.... Why wouldn't you want that deal. If you read the articles, Samsung does not ask for the iPhone back so it's literally a free phone.

Also I wasn't talking about your first post, just the one I quoted before. Prelove's post was a couple links that are easily ignored/overlooked so I missed them, however dropping terms like "phandroid community" is much more of a troll post than a couple of Engadget links.
 
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ObscureCaucasian said:
THEY ARE GIVING FREE PHONES.... Why wouldn't you want that deal. If you read the articles, Samsung does not ask for the iPhone back so it's literally a free phone.

Also I wasn't talking about your first post, just the one I quoted before. Prelove's post was a couple links that are easily ignored/overlooked so I missed them, however dropping terms like "phandroid community" is much more of a troll post than a couple of Engadget links.
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Yea they do rush in rather quickly to start spouting off about the iPhone whenever an article is posted. Seems like a clever little promotion to me and overall not a big deal.
 
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Like three people will benefit from this while the iPhone 4 will have sold more in first day preorders than the Galaxy S ever will.

It only shows the desperation on the side of the Android vendors.
 
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Calling Samsung or any other vendor of Android phones desperate to beat Apple is like calling HP or Acer desperate to beat Apple on the PC market.
 
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dwell said:
Like three people will benefit from this while the iPhone 4 will have sold more in first day preorders than the Galaxy S ever will.

It only shows the desperation on the side of the Android vendors.
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What in the world are you talking about? Android has been a HUGE success, "Android vendors" are certainly not desperate. You keep getting worse and worse the more popular Android phones become, it's almost like it's personal with you. There's room for both Apple and Android.
 
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dwell said:
Like three people will benefit from this while the iPhone 4 will have sold more in first day preorders than the Galaxy S ever will.

It only shows the desperation on the side of the Android vendors.
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It's really not desperation. It's a very limited program in scope and it was a marketing thing.

Guess what, it worked as we now have another thread talking about the Galaxy S.
 
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dguy6789 said:
Calling Samsung or any other vendor of Android phones desperate to beat Apple is like calling HP or Acer desperate to beat Apple on the PC market.
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HP or Acer wish they were Apple, even in just the PC market. Hmm, large marketshare with razor thin margins or small marketshare with large margins? No wonder, HP and Acer need to stuff their PCs with crapware in order to make ends meet. Kind of like Android is resorting too.
 
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Except the bloat/crap on android (at least on my EVO) was all stuff directly from Sprint. This isn't a case of Samsung or HTC loading crap as dwell implies, but instead carriers are doing this.
 
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Except the bloat/crap on android (at least on my EVO) was all stuff directly from Sprint. This isn't a case of Samsung or HTC loading crap as dwell implies, but instead carriers are doing this.
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What does it matter? In the PC case it's HP is the manufacturer and distributor, in the mobile side they are two different bodies. The net effect is the same. You get crap on your device.
 
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What does it matter? In the PC case it's HP is the manufacturer and distributor, in the mobile side they are two different bodies. The net effect is the same. You get crap on your device.
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The difference is you implied that this crapware is a play to get additional revenue per handset sale, which isn't the case since nobody is going to pay Sprint to install Sprint Racing App.
 
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dguy6789 said:
Calling Samsung or any other vendor of Android phones desperate to beat Apple is like calling HP or Acer desperate to beat Apple on the PC market.
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Are you trying to say that they aren't?

Because in the case of Apple's iPhone, they are destroying every other manufacturer in marketshare with the possible exception of RIM which will dip down before too long. Android can't compete with dozen's of phones versus 1, much less Samsung who can't even compete with the other Android competitors HTC and MoTo

Apple computers cannot claim the same thing. They're market share is still well below PC, and still below any individual PC manufacturer. Especially Dell, HP in the desktop market, and Acer is probably ahead of them in laptop market too.

iPhone is miles ahead in the Smartphone world and what you just said makes you sound ignorant.

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