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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:12 No.33245663
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Why does every smartphone company rely on gimmicks to trick plebs into buying their phones?

Is there any smartphone maker that relies on the merits of their actual products, without resorting to gimmickry?
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:14 No.33245689
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:14 No.33245689
>>33245663 (OP)
Because niggers.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:14 No.33245700
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:14 No.33245700
Smartphones are featureless fondleslabs that are all effectively identical to retards. Numerical comparisons just make their eyes glaze over. It's all about branding and marketing.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:16 No.33245722
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:16 No.33245722
>>33245663 (OP)
No. They are all shit.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:16 No.33245726
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:16 No.33245726
ITT: why HTC will die soon
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:17 No.33245753
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:17 No.33245753
>>33245726
Shit hardware, shit device support, shit bloated UI?
Oh no wait, /g/ will blame it on a little 'beatsaudio' branding...
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:18 No.33245762
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:18 No.33245762
And what do you, Supreme Emperor of Deciding, determine is a gimmick compared to actual merit?
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:18 No.33245775
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:18 No.33245775
>>33245753
Because they suck ass at marketing, yes.

Deal with it.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:21 No.33245819
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:21 No.33245819
>>33245726
Haha my HTC 8X has the beats logo on the back, although at least it's not in red.

Would be a fantastic phone if it didn't randomly turn off at least once per day, but I can't honestly recommend it because of that limitation.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:22 No.33245825
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:22 No.33245825
>>33245775
I'm sure having a device life of a few months, so many different phones no one knows which to get, and more 'we want to be Apple' UI and aesthetics than even Samsung has nothing to do with it.
Motorola is re-branding and defragmenting device lines for no reason whatsoever.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:24 No.33245859
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:24 No.33245859
>>33245825
Seriously. The One is the most-iphone-looking non-iphone to ever exist. They even copied those silly diamond-cut edges of the 5. Yet HTC gets a pass mainly because everyone feels sorry for them.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:26 No.33245892
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:26 No.33245892
>>33245859
Fandroids have never really had a nice-looking phone made of quality materials like the HTC One, so it's understandable why everyone would fawn over it, regardless of the fact that it looks like an iPhone.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:26 No.33245901
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:26 No.33245901
>>33245663 (OP)
>without resorting to gimmickry?

Nexus devices
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:27 No.33245914
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:27 No.33245914
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>>33245663 (OP)
niggers love beats
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:27 No.33245923
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:27 No.33245923
>>33245819
You've tried updating, right? I've heard of people having that problem but I've never run into it, then again I updated the moment I pulled it out of the box.
>>33245663 (OP)
>beets by dr. pepper
You know, as far as I can tell, it only makes the sound louder, lowers the mid range and increases the low and high. It sounds like ass with every headphone I've tried it with. Also includes the display models of beets and monster cables headphones in airports. Thank god it comes turned off by default, now if only I could disable the notification that it's off every time I plug in headphones.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:28 No.33245930
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:28 No.33245930
Because sales
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:28 No.33245942
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:28 No.33245942
>>33245901
>Nexus 4
>hurrrr glass back!!!!!!

>Galaxy Nexus
>durrrrr face unlock!!!!!!!!

>not gimmicks
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:29 No.33245957
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:29 No.33245957
>>33245663 (OP)
>Why does every smartphone company rely on gimmicks to trick plebs into buying their phones?

so that they can trick plebs into buying their phones and thus increase marketshare and profits.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:29 No.33245965
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:29 No.33245965
>>33245942

How is having a glass back a gimmick?

Face unlock is part of the core OS, aka every phone has it, you mongoloid.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:32 No.33246003
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:32 No.33246003
>>33245901
I love my Galaxy Nexus, but the build quality is terrible... Maybe the Nexus 4 is better, I wouldn't know, Google screwed over half their consumer base by not even trying to make it available on CDMA networks.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:34 No.33246046
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:34 No.33246046
>>33245965
Glass back was a gimmick. Google went to LG and said "make your Optimus G more premium-feeling" and LG responded by sticking a glass panel on the back ala the iPhone when even Apple realized that was retarded with the iP5.

Face unlock was and is a gimmick. Why did Google even implement it with its glaring security issues? You can fucking unlock it with a picture. Nobody even uses it precisely because it's a gimmick.
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Anonymous
04/22/13(Mon)20:37 No.33246082
Anonymous 04/22/13(Mon)20:37 No.33246082
>>33245923
They did seem to push a new update recently. I just installed it. Hopefully that will solve the issue.
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