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Meatywsg
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Galaxy Note II 7.0, by far the best choice I ever made when replacing my iphone 4. It's light years ahead on smart functionality, it's Siri equivalent actually works and works well, and music or videos, a simple drag and drop from my PC, no dicking about in iTunes converting files and all that rubbish.
Anyone want to buy a 2nd hand iPad3, 16GB wifi ? Its 2.5mths old with genuine apple case, box, receipt, warranty...(PM me) I want the Samsung Tab 10.1 now...I was introduced to the smart phone by Apple, my first being the 3G, then the 3GS, then the 4, and loved it all to death, but I foolishly followed for too long, I wish i'd changed to Samsung sooner.
Apple will always have its place, its die hard fans etc, but the ipad mini is totally overpriced. Tides are changing. Before you buy the i5, just have a play with a samsung SIII or Note2, different worlds.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 3:15 am on Nov. 2, 2012
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localguy
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Quote: from Meatywsg on 3:15 pm on Nov. 2, 2012
Apple will always have its place, its die hard fans etc, but the ipad mini is totally overpriced. Tides are changing.
So true. Apple certainly beat the initial round of 10 inch iPad competitors (Motorola Xoom, HP Touchpad, etc.), who had less features yet the same price. Meanwhile, Apple left the door open in the 7 inch area and now arrive late to the party with the overpriced, underspec Mini iPad. Apple iOS is certainly fine, but frankly I think Android (I use Jelly Bean and iOS) has overtaken it. Tides are changing indeed, hopefully Apple can recognize that and bring a response.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 4:10 am on Nov. 2, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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(rolls eyes)
So, lacking the ability to address facts, all you have left now is plain old trolling?
That's sad. Predictable, but sad.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:55 am on Nov. 2, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Yep, localguy and meatywsg - those iPad minis are a veritable flop for Apple. A fiasco even:
http://9to5mac.com/2012/11/02/initial-ipad-mini-stock-selling-out-at-various-apple-stores-around-the-world/
Must really suck TO BE WRONG. AGAIN!
Initial iPad mini stock selling out at various Apple Stores around the world
iPad mini officially went on sale at 8 a.m. this morning and reports are already starting to flow in that many Apple Stores have sold out of initial stock. Topeka Capital’s Brian White released a note to clients this morning (via BusinessInsider) that noted all models of iPad mini sold out in just over two hours at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue New York City store. Before today’s launch, shipment dates for Apple’s online pre-orders of the device had been pushed back, while shipment dates for pre-ordered LTE models of the device were recently removed.
Now reports indicate stores in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada, and many other states from Alabama to Hawaii have sold out of initial supplies.
It’s unclear just how much stock Apple had delivered to its various stores and resellers, but we noted earlier today that lines were much smaller than usual at many locations. The lines were most likely due to the fact today’s launch included just the Wi-Fi-only model, but it looks like Apple is still not able to meet demand in many locations. Some stores were rumored to get about 100 units, as noted in the tweet above, while we heard bigger stores received as many as 300.
It’s also not yet clear if supply of the new iPad mini will be held back by similar manufacturing troubles and supply constraints of which Apple is now experiencing with iPhone 5 and the new iMacs leading into the holidays.
Judging by the collection of tweets that we put together below, Apple is quickly selling out of initial iPad mini stock in many locations around the globe. Most stores are not expecting additional shipments today.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 12:14 am on Nov. 4, 2012
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Meatywsg
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Of course for every pro-apple article, there is an anti-apple article, but don't take it all so personally DD, because its not, people are just stating their opinions based on their personal experiences, its nothing to do with loving or hating either you or Apple.
Your persistent arguments are akin to some posters disliking the service of a provider at Mango's, but you trying to tell everyone she's the best thing to ever be born.....its all just personal opinion.
'Uncool' Samsung outsells Apple
Published: 4/11/2012 at 08:47 PM
Online news: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/319530/uncool-samsung-muscles-ahead-of-apple
Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as "cool" as bitter rival Apple's, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market.
This file photo shows an Apple's iPhone 4S and a Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphones. Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as "cool" as bitter rival Apple's, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market.
The South Korean giant first took Apple's smartphone top spot in the third quarter of 2011, racking up a 20 percent slice of worldwide sales, compared to Apple's 14.5 percent, according to telecom research firm IDC.
Jump ahead a year to the just-finished third quarter of 2012 and Samsung's share has surged to 31.3 percent, with Apple on 15 percent.
Popular perceptions of the two companies -- currently locked in a series of patent infringement lawsuits in 10 countries -- could hardly be more different.
Apple is seen as the supreme innovator, single-handedly creating or re-inventing entire markets with a small number of imaginative, stylish products that inspire quasi-religious devotion among those who can afford them.
Samsung, by contrast, is the corporate behemoth that picks up ideas, refines them with extraordinary efficiency and packages them in a wide product range that covers both low- and high-end users.
The hysteria that surrounds most Apple launches is testament to the expectations it generates as a product and design pioneer, a role Samsung has never particularly aspired to.
Ironically, Apple's design muscle saw it lose one of its patent fights with Samsung when a British judge ruled in July that Samsung's Galaxy tablet was not "cool" enough to be confused with Apple's iPad.
However, Apple has been forced to adapt in the face of Samsung's rise. On Friday it released the iPad mini -- a scaled-down version of its beloved tablet computer -- but it failed to generate the same excitement as previous launches.
Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs had once derided the whole concept of small tablets, saying they should be packaged with sandpaper, "so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size".
In a reversal, the iPad mini saw Apple following Samsung into a segment the South Korean firm had already entered earlier this year with the 7-inch version of its Galaxy Tab 2.
But in general, Apple has been the pioneer and Samsung has played catch-up. Nevertheless, Samsung has shown itself to be unbeatable when it comes to gathering its vast resources behind a full-frontal assault on new markets.
"The copycat label still sticks to Samsung whether it likes it or not, but there's still a great business in that," said senior IDC research analyst Kevin Restivo.
"Being a fast follower can be a path to number one, and Samsung is a case study for that," Restivo told AFP.
Most analysts point to two key factors behind Samsung's success in the hugely competitive smartphone market -- its embrace of Google's Android operating system and its low- to high-end marketing strategy.
By adopting the popular Android platform and concentrating solely on hardware, Samsung was able to leapfrog smartphone makers such as Nokia and Blackberry-maker RIM who stuck with their own operating systems.
"Once it commandeered the Android battleship and got it pointed in the right direction, it made real dents in the opposition," Restivo said.
Its marketing strategy, meanwhile, has been to put up a high-end flagship model -- the Samsung Galaxy S series -- to challenge the iPhone while pumping out other more affordable models, especially in markets like Brazil and China.
"The Galaxy S series is really just the tip of the iceberg for Samsung, which makes a huge number of lesser-known, lower-priced smartphones," said Greg Roh, an analyst at HMC Investment Security.
"Globally, there are not a whole lot of consumers who can actually afford iPhones, so Samsung is catering to a far wider range of consumers than Apple and has the market share to prove it," Roh said.
Samsung deploys a shotgun strategy, scattering the market with new phones being released -- or older ones being refreshed -- every six to nine months to continually push up its unit volume.
Apple, meanwhile, has stuck to rolling out one high-end smartphone device a year with a far higher profit margin than Samsung's product range.
Although the South Korean firm has gobbled up market share, Apple still leads its rival in terms of overall profitability in the smartphone sector.
Looking forward, James Song, a technology analyst at Daewoo Securities, believes it is the California-based company that will have to change course.
"I think Apple will soon be forced to roll out mid- or low-priced gadgets in order to survive," Song said.
"The current market landscape is that Apple has a market share of, say, 20 percent with a (profit) margin of 40 percent, whereas Samsung has a market share of 40 percent with a margin of 20 percent.
"Which one will survive in the end? Definitely the latter," he said, noting that Apple component suppliers were already demanding higher prices that would impact profit margins.
Underscoring its commitment to variety, Samsung announced Friday that global sales of its scaled-up smartphone, the Galaxy Note II, had topped three million since its debut in late September.
The main issue for Samsung, according to both Song and Restivo, is how it handles its future relations with Google, given its dependency on the Android platform.
Google's recent acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility was seen by many as the start of a trend that would see power in the smartphone market shift from hardware to software companies.
"Samsung's strength is still largely confined to hardware, and it really needs to develop its software capability given Apple and Google's control in that area," Song said.
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Posted on: 8:52 pm on Nov. 4, 2012
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BKKdreaming
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I must be Tri-polar
an Apple 1 iPad, A Samsung 7 inch tab T849 ( anyone know how to get the phone part to work ? ) and an old Motorola flip phone that I can drop a few times a week and not have to replace it for $100s of $$$$$$$ each time 
Where is the Tri-corder I ordered from the back of the Star Wars Cartoon mag ?
BK
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Posted on: 9:45 pm on Nov. 4, 2012
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bkkz
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iPad mini will be out next month.
Apple’s iPad mini will be available in Thailand early next month, according to the Big Three private mobile phone operators - Advanced Info Service, Dtac and True Move.
The smaller, cheaper counterpart to Apple's large iPad will cost 11,200 baht for 16 gigabytes, 14,200 baht for 32 gigabytes and 17,200 baht for 64 gigabytes for a WiFi-only model.
For the iPad mini with Wi-Fi+Cellular will retail for 20,500 baht for 16 gigabytes, 23,500 baht for 32 gigabytes and 26,500 baht for 64 gigabytes.
The new 4th generation iPad can now be purchased only on the AppleStore Thailand. It costs 20,500 baht for a 16 gigabytes Wi-Fi+Cellular model, 23,500 baht for 32 gigabytes and 26,500 baht for 64 gigabytes. The price for the new iPad (3rd generation) has dropped by 3,000 baht, now valued at between 18,900 and 24,9000 baht.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/319837/ipad-mini-available-early-next-month
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Posted on: 6:10 pm on Nov. 6, 2012
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DaffyDuck
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Good info. Thanks BK.
Nice to see that meatywsg still can't pay attention.
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:06 pm on Nov. 6, 2012
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