THATS the iPhone killer? My grandmothers rotary phone looks better than that piece of s***.

Jarod, just listen to yourself. Are you such a chronic Apple apologist, or are you just so devoid of any idea of style that you have to refer to the phone as a "piece of s***" without even having tried one? On paper, and in the pix it looks like there's no way that will trump the iPhone, but it's not a piece of s*** now, is it? For a start, it's not bad looking and being a Samsung it'll be pretty well made and reliable. It's got a better camera than that of the iPhone and it also has removable storage, so for some people I would imagine it'll be a great bit of kit. Your kind of childish reaction is exactly the sort of thing that gives Apple enthusiasts the kind of rose tinted image that we seem to have. Grow up, FFS.

what do you know? Maybe his grandmother has a very nice rotary phone.

maybe he's a princess and his grandma was a queen and maybe her rotary phone was diamond-crusted and made of platinum, gold and titanium and the ear + mouth pieces were 10" diamond-crusted spinners and maybe it had technology from venus and every time she got a phone maybe it kicked out hundred dollar bills and diamonds

It would be nice to see a picture of it actually working.

Hey, competition is good. At least the model wasn't totally ripped off of the iPhone like that other phone you posted about today.

but hardly iconic... especially since the strongest design elements mentioned (black bordered by polished metal) have already become iconic of the iPhone.

It's well made and well thought out, but it's not an iPhone-killer.

Seems to me that if all these products are rushing to describe themselves as "iPhone-killers", they've already pretty much lost the game. They might be better at some things, or even better at all things, but they've basically ceded the top of the mountain to the iPhone by constantly comparing themselves to it, both in marketing and in design language.

Basically, they've admitted that the iPhone *is* iconic, and has already permanently altered how we think of cell phone design. Now all they can do is try to evolve that basic design further.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear people describing these as "the Armani iPhone" or "the Prada iPhone". It must drive them nuts, just like Canon reps go berserk when you call their copiers "xerox machines".

It is a great device. No doubt, it will join Prada phone and perhaps the RAZR phones as one of the most successful cellphones in history (not counting iPhone, of course).

Having said all that, it is still just a Samsung. Just like all non-iPods that compete against each other for the remainder of the market share, so will this Samsung soon compete for the remainder of the cellphone market share, leaving iPhone to freely charge ahead, head and shoulders above the rest.

For some reason, these companies continue to forget one of the top five rules for a product success: the NAME. Notice how RAZR became the wildest cellphone success before the iPhone? It had a meaningful name. The N95, the W800i (or W700i, or T610, or all those four-digit Nokias, etc) carry instantly forgettable names:

"Is that the new CH-W3476S?" "No, it is the CH-X7756R!" "Oh, cool! Wow! My sister has a similar one; hers is CH-Y3376R, but with more memory..."

Very simple and very effective. Which is why Apple's products are now:

iPhone iPod (shuffle, nano, touch, classic) iMac MacBook etc, etc, etc...

Is that this phone may/may not be Mac-compat. And even if it is, I doubt it has the tight integration that the iPhone enjoys with a Mac (or a PC, for that matter). I, for one, love how the iPhone acts as sort of a 'laptop on the go.' (I say this because I actually had my PowerBook down for three days with a burned-out DC-In Board, and the iPhone, plus my crappy work Compaq, helped me make it through). Competitors can try to kill off the iPhone (and iPod) to their hearts' content, but until they somehow unlock the magic that is the integration, I think all of these competitors are in for dull earnings. And Vasic is right about the name! "Is that the new Ch-xx"? - classic! -dcw