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Sadly, I don't see skinning hurting Samsung, especially since, judging by the volume of build leaks, the Galaxy S3 is very likely going to be both: 1. The firs
by fpgeek 14y ago
Sadly, I don't see skinning hurting Samsung, especially since, judging by the volume of build leaks, the Galaxy S3 is very likely going to be both:
1. The first non-Nexus phone updated to Jelly Bean.
2. The first device using a non-Nexus chipset updated to Jelly Bean.
- cageface 14y agoThe thing is, Samsung is getting a lot of other things right, so even though a lot of people feel burned by their lack of updates it hasn't tipped the balance away from them yet. But I do read a lot of complaints from users claiming they plan to buy from somebody else the next time around. I think Samsung is really nailing distribution. Here in Vietnam I see their stuff in every single phone shop but have to look a lot harder to find HTC and I can't find the Asus tablets anywhere.
- fpgeek 14y agoVery true. The competition always seems to have bigger self-inflicted wounds. For example, last year I'm pretty sure HTC and Sony hurt themselves by skimping on internal storage and Motorola had some high-profile late devices. This year I think HTC made a mistake on microSD and removable batteries in the One series, Sony launched too many devices on Gingerbread and both Motorola and Sony were too slow with their ICS updates (even though Sony probably has the best update coverage of any phone manufacturer). And so on.