Nokia trolling Samsung’s rumoured Billion dollar’s worth of nickel coin filled trucks
Game on. Nokia’s getting more and more fiesty with Samsung and has posted a lighthearted picture above.
You may have heard false rumours of Samsung supposedly trolling Apple by sending off their patent-infringement payment of 1 Billion dollars in a fleet of trucks filled with nickel coins.
With Samsung taking a bit of the limelight for launching the first WP8 devices, Nokia is keen to assert its position as the only WP manufacturer that matters (it’s the only one really trying).
Is it a little too much? I’m all for twitter banter, and the back and forth teasing, but this might come off a little too strong for some. Or is Nokia finally ready to be bold and aggressive in the tough war of smartphones? Each move seems to be promising something big. I hope Nokia delivers. Please. No anticlimax.
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Did anyone catch on Engadget how Samsung made a logo that’s a little familiar for their “Smart Lounge”
I did, it was really funny (link below). But in all honesty, the font is Samsung’s corporate font, and the use of the wifi bars is rather obvious. However the tent in cyan instead of Samsung’s typical dark blue is what made it look like a total ripoff!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/30/visualized-samsungs-eerily-familiar-ifa-smart-lounge/
That’s funny, I didn’t know about the colors. Those guys are shameless!!
They should just start making Louis Vuitton bags.
+9
Hahahaha fake Louis Vuitton bags, that would be so Samsung
The way they’re dropping these hints is as though they’re about to drop a bomb. Similar to how they dropped the 41mp bomb.
I don’t think there will be any bombs of that magnitude this time. Some form of PV yes (its a bomb, but not quite the 41mp bomb
), beyond that “just” couple of other solid products.
That’s what I was initially thinking too…but with all this smack talk that they’re dishing out, they need to deliver, or it’s all going to blow up in their face.
it might blow up, but I am almost certain that it is indeed just smack. hopefully someone up top puts the PR guys under control a bit.
They will drop Superhydrophobic coating, augmented reality glasses (http://www.vuzix.com/site/_news/2011_News/Vuzix-Secures-License-to-See-Through-Optics-Technology-from-Nokia.pdf), graphene sensors for the phone’s camera, and some flexibility goodness.
Oh, this was just the things hiding in the Nokia Research chambers, nevermind…
If all these phones have the coating, that would be a big enough bomb for me. On top of PureView and Rich Recording, they can bring the nano coating as well and all in under a year. Put all that R&D money to use.
Not looking for Vuzix glasses though, those are scheduled for 2013.
Maybe there is something to the exclusivity rumours, and Nokia will launch these devices in september already. That would be a decent bomb
Yes
Yeah, I think this is enough of Samsung-baiting. And they better deliver after all this hype.
Hhaha I saw it on facebook but didn’t get it till now, I was like WTF? Truck of coins or a Lumia?
Truck of coins so that I can buy the Lumia.
This is rude indeed.
Nokia is on fire, I like it.
Crossing fingers for sep.5th.
I hope samsung copy the swipe to their android phones. it is useless at nokia
Do you not think that they’re already working on it?
For another round of patent spat on American soil?
Sammie copies everything because they can’t…except cheap plastic look. They have mastered that.
LOL I hope Samsung continues to copy, because it would be suicide for them in the US. Apple and Nokia would hit them extremely hard if Samsung continued its copying ways.
patented at nokia – eu courts will back up nokia anyday. Sammy – just imitate, never innovate.
nexus(nokia) returning to smartphones market again!!!
I think Nokia is doing the right things. It understands what it needs. People’s attention!
While I’d personally take the billion in nickels over the Lumia, its a funny lighthearted kind of trolling that’s not too serious. As long as its an every blue moon type of occurrence.
Nokia is really bold now which leads me to hope that they really have something different and something big dying to be unveiled on September 5th! I just hope the magnitude of the disruption they’re going to show us would be at least as powerful as the 808 PureView’s announcement.
Nokia now has the confidence of a woman wearing her first $285,000 Dior ballgown.
I am now 100% certain the images aren’t fake. Look how the truck have red and purple colours. Not magenta as Nokias previous colours. Same as in the image of the 820! This can not be a coincidence.
This bullying is not good for Nokia. It is not the true characteristic of a leader. Instead of all their big talk that is happening lately, I would rather much prefer they make themselves heard by their work. Fingers crossed for 5th Sept. That day is “Teacher’s Day” in India. Let’s see what does Nokia teach.
On that note, I wont be surprised if Nokia introduces a 41MP PV in the upcoming Lumia’s. There is no reason why a 41MP sensor can’t be introduced, if 21MP (“rumoured” PV lite) can be. The camera processor is a separate chip from the main processor anyways.
Also, I am guessing they might introduce a keyboard variant as well. After the Dell one, there is officially no Windows Phone in the market with a keyboard. So, they can sell a few in that category. The successor to E6 is already long due now.
“On that note, I wont be surprised if Nokia introduces a 41MP PV in the upcoming Lumia’s. There is no reason why a 41MP sensor can’t be introduced, ”
have fun trying to get two processors to talk to each other in real time on MinWin.
Until you can get a 41MP single chip solution; pureview pro won’t happen on lumia.
YES! Nokia is being so bold and aggressive with Samsung, they’re giving Samsung a taste of their own medicine! Those arrogant Koreans are getting some karma now. Samsung has been extremely arrogant over the last few years, and all reasonable people knew that their arrogant ways weren’t going to last. Finally we see some justice against Samsung.
I know some Nokia fans might not like this, but as already mentioned by some here already, this is important for Nokia because it gets Nokia ATTENTION. Hype, attention, something to get people talking … this is exactly what Nokia needs.
Also because Samsung’s reputation now is weaker due to the Apple court ruling, this is the perfect time for Nokia to be aggressive. Nokia needs to take this opportunity and push hard in the market while Samsung’s and Android’s reputation has been weakened.
Hah! What weakened reputation?
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_loses_its_patent_lawsuit_against_samsung_in_japan_-news-4728.php
After all its globally well known that US Courts aren’t the most reliable when it comes to justiceship.
What weakened reputation? Lol the jury ruled Samsung must pay over a BILLION dollars, it’s been news everywhere. The overseas lawsuits are small news, Apple won some, lost some. In this US lawsuit the jury ruled that Samsung copied almost everything that Apple accused it of copying. The judge can triple the damages if she chooses because Samsung copied willfully and on purpose according to the jury verdict. The law allows the judge to triple the damages. I don’t even live in the US and I know how big this is. A lot of my friends are talking about this, and some of them are not even techies and they don’t follow court cases that often.
Samsung stock a few days ago had the biggest drop in 4 years. Samsung lost over 12 billion market value on the stock market over the last few days. For investors their reputation has been weakened, and Korean news outlets are reporting that Samsung is very concerned that they’ve been branded a copycat in the international media.
Keep on lauding such perverted brutality sunny boy.
At this rate we’ll soon find ourselves paying even for patented hair styles, tattoos and whatnot!
I bet the next they’ll go after agricultural industries for growing a fruit that terribly resembles an Apple, their registered trademark logo.
When this happens then the day won’t be far when you’re going get taxed over inhaling O2.
No room to breath. None to innovate. No humanity!
Welcome to the dark age of modern slavery!
See you there Nigger and, ironically, you won’t be needing any black!
it feels like nokia is on a war campaign,
they better deliver or else it will be a HUGE letdown
go nokia FTKill
http://wmpoweruser.com/no-more-renders-real-pictures-of-the-nokia-arrow-leak-looks-pretty-good/
The real deal!
today i saw something that annoyed me.i was viewing a cellphone brochure from a network provider and EVERY samsung in there had this huge star emblem thingy on it that said “worlds number 1 mobile manufacturer” bleh and if thats nt bad enough in the middle is a page advertising the s3 with a chick about to throw a cellphone (something resembling a 5110) and the catch phrase says “throw away your old technology”…while in the background i had my friend talking crap saying that the iphone is by far better than the s3..ignorant fool..point is i miss the days where i bought every flagship nokia that was released,and being head of my friend pack.nokia is only but a memory now..whatever they have in store i sure hope its as great as they portray it and that they reclaim the no.1 spot
+1
obv i have a preference for the one billion united states dollars in nickels
Is that an indication that a new design is coming?
Looks more like a friendly jab compared to trolling if you ask me.
And let’s be honest here, since when was the last time Samsung advertised in a non-insulting way? Their Samsung Street Challenge videos insulted not only Apple but also the people using their products.
sammy
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