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Fantastic article in Vanity Fair

Quick summary : The lawyers won, everybody else lost.

Love the story about a Samsung staff member actually eating incriminating documents when the patent infringement investigators turned up at the door.

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Mon May 05, 2014 9:33 pm
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That was a really good read.

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That was interesting, thanks.

It seems patent infringement and sharp practise is a way of life at Samsung. I seriously doubt their new legal compliance division is anything more than lip service.

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all I know is that I had a Samsung phone and it was sh*t


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all I know is that I had a Samsung phone and it was sh*t


I know a lot of people who've had that experience, me included. A girl I know recently went for the LG Flex so I'll be interested to hear about it.

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I had a samdung phone in 2005, first and last, the UI made it an absolute dog of a phone. Perhaps Android will make current samsungs better, but I won't be finding out.

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I had a samdung phone in 2005, first and last, the UI made it an absolute dog of a phone. Perhaps Android will make current samsungs better, but I won't be finding out.


I got my Samsung phone and weeks later found out that newer version of Android would not be available to it. So had a brick of a phone for 2 years, thankfully I also had a workphone at the time.


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You mean it suddenly stopped working?

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big_D wrote:
You mean it suddenly stopped working?
Hahaha I thought exactly the same Dave. (8+D

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big_D wrote:
You mean it suddenly stopped working?
Hahaha I thought exactly the same Dave. (8+D

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pretty much. It seized up all the time, would turn off during phone calls, absolute nightmare!


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I'm still using my only ever Samsung phone after 2 years and I love it.

Ultimately the lawyers winning is the relevant comment. The rest of us are merely pawns in this whole thing </Bratty>


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