Samsung Lets The World Know Its Phones Are Breakable
from the just-reminding-you dept
Psst... have you seen the video about how to easily the Samsung Ultra Edition mobile phone can break? Neither had we. In fact, there didn't seem to be much talk of it at all. But now a lot of people are going to hear about how breakable the Samsung Ultra Edition is, as the company has foolishly said it may take legal action against the creator of the video. What does Samsung think it could possibly accomplish with this? There's no way to suppress the video, now that it's been released; there's no meaningful monetary reward that it could get. There's simply no possible outcome other than alerting more people to the video and the alleged weakness of its phones. Eventually, companies will come to understand the Streisand effect, and fire the lawyers who keep encouraging them to make stupid legal decisions.
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I want to see it!
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What does Samsung thing it could possibly accompli
Really I did not know companies could "thing." (j/k we all make typos I know I will).
Really, after being an avid reader for about a year ro so, I have seen "company" after "company" (meaing the legal staff of said companies) to sue anyone for anything that has to do with their company. This does not really reflect on the company in that the company is only being represented by the lawyers who decided to sue and get some more cash from the major companies. While there is no clear chain of command for these legal departments and directing in the companies best interest. Of course anyone can argue that it is the companies fault that there is no clear statue to govern who the legal department can sure and who it cant sue.
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Re: What does Samsung thing it could possibly acco
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I dont think this is right what a tease !
JEESE ! I'm so disappointed TECH DIRT !
Now I wont know how easily Samsung Phone will break.
But on a cliff note, I had a Samsung flip phone from t-mobile a couple of years ago, it was fricking AWSOME Phone, I never had one second of problem with it.
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It's called supressing evidence
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Likewise, my friend
Techdirt won't offer the link. They don't want to sue by Samsung, that's obvious. They keep saying Samsung is stupid bababa, but they also avoid to be sued, even by that stupid company, that's for sure.
Samsung won already, no one dares even to put the link, mission completed.
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How about the Samsung Effect ?
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I want to see it!
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not exactly dirt...
Bit of a stretch, don't you think? A lot of companies "may" do a lot of things regarding trival issues around them.
It's not like the headline is "Bill Gates sues cross-dressing hooker for fraud."
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can write korean...
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GAH WHERE?
I must be able to fully research my electronics purchases
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삼송한드폰 = didn't gave me anything pretty
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well duh...
just the right pressure applied at the right place -- notice in the video ho the phone is snapped where one of its components ends -- and it all seems so easy.
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http://www.sme.sk/cdata/2879338/samsung_x820.avi"
thanks!
lol!
and now Samsung is saying that the phone was prepered so it would break easily.. what a bunch of losers!!!
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the clip
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=9049
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YouTube Clip
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Samgung - stop damaging your company image.
If you had ignored it - few would have noticed.
Now we know you try to suppress consumer iinformation.
Have you not yet learned that this is silly, and
possilby harmful to your company.
P.S I like Samsung products and think tht they are often good value for money and some are superb guality.
Focus on making good products.
P.S. 2 So the phone broke becase the girl tried to break it. It does not mean that the product is bad.
No big deal.
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That video is available now at!
you can see it... enjoy it.... prove it!
Truth cannot be denied!
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Here it is
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Funny
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