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I voluntarily owned the original iPhone 3g followed by the original Galaxy S. The similarities were very shallow in practice. It did not have a dock connector,
by glennpratt 7y ago
I voluntarily owned the original iPhone 3g followed by the original Galaxy S. The similarities were very shallow in practice.
It did not have a dock connector, though the tablet did, but so did all sorts of media devices at the time.
Anytime this came up in conversation I'd hand people my Galaxy S and no one would call it a ripoff in person.
- rootusrootus 7y agoIIRC it was mostly the tablet that was a copy, not the phones.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoSo they used the same chipset, same battery, etc.. Or was it a "copy" like all media display devices follow a rectangular footprint with a frame?
- rootusrootus 7y agoIt was a design copy. More than just having a similar footprint, too. Going from memory, it was the same size, screen, bezels, home button, dock connector, charger, and came in a box that looked just like the iPad box, was advertised with pictures that were nearly identical (technically different, but same gender, same colors, same pose, etc). It was actually pretty hilarious at the time because it was so over-the-top mimicking all the way down to details that you'd think nobody would bother with. At one point there was a great web site that just put them side-by-side and showed all the detailed copying. But it's been enough years that that seems to be lost to the dustbin of history, or at least my google fu is not strong enough to easily find it. Samsung doesn't do anything like that now, they've long since found their own identify for all the Galaxy devices.