Not Even Android Fans Will Defend Samsung’s Latest Galaxy Note Spot [Video]

(8:24 am PDT, Feb 23rd 2012)

Not Even Android Fans Will Defend Samsung’s Latest Galaxy Note Spot [Video]

We all love a good fight around here and we even have a recurring Friday Night Fights where we pit features of iOS vs Android, but this latest video by Samsung is just so asinine that not even us Android fans will defend it. To further promote their Galaxy Note, Samsung has decided to embarrass themselves by “going to the streets” to try and convince people how awesome the S-pen functionality is by challenging an obviously clueless iPhone user to perform the same mundane tasks as a seasoned (trained & scripted) Note user.

Whether or not the iPhone user in this video is a paid actor or not doesn’t really matter, it’s clear she is tech-challenged and doesn’t even know how to use her iPhone. The tasks in Samsung’s challenge can be performed with an iPhone and perhaps next time Samsung will be brave enough to challenge a member of our excellent staff over at Cult of Mac, as I’m sure they would have no problem completing such tasks. Shameful advertising Samsung, just shameful.

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  • http://www.devchimp.com/ Kyle Reddoch

    Looks like Samsung is desperate if you ask me. I can do all of that stuff on my iPhone. Plus, my iPhone doesn’t take up my entire pants pocket when in it.

  • http://twitter.com/HBlakeH Blake Beavers

    Maybe they should get someone who knows how to actually use an iPhone to compete in this…

  • iMatt

    This is just horrible advertising. If she doesn’t know how to get walking directions on her iPhone she is either completely retarded, or was paid to look dumb by Sammy. They also make it look like the Note can do the first challenge without downloading any apps. I kind of doubt that. 

  • http://twitter.com/LBORIA Luis Boria

    This is sad…. I feel for the chic who really didn’t know there’s tons of apps that will allow you to perform the same task and function. Screen Capture been around since the first iPhone geesh…..

  • http://twitter.com/boostedlex BOOSTEDLEX

    Get that tech-challenged girl out of there, give me that iPhone and I’ll put the smack down on that samsung galaxy note.

  • Prof. Peabody

    One clued out woman doesn’t mean the iPhone “can’t do that.”  
    In fact the iPhone can do all of those things.  

    There are at least a dozen apps for iPhone that can do that “put your head on a basketball player” trick and what’s more iCard which would have mailed a paper copy of it right to the person’s door.  

    A simple screen shot of map directions would have answered the second challenge and again there are at least a dozen apps that would have let her scribble all over the screen grab.

  • GregsTechBlog

    I wonder how many times the iPhone user showed up the guy using the Galaxy Note.
    Seriously, Samsung. Pick a flagship device that isn’t a joke.

  • Killer_Kadoogan

    I think you overestimate the fandroids if you think they wouldn’t defend the video. Reality is rarely a consideration when one is overly invested in a product or brand (yes I would include some Apple users in that).

  • http://twitter.com/corbinfawver corbin jay fawver

    screw you samsung your phones are hideous and made from cheap materials. people dont buy there phones for the apps they buy them for the quality and the maker of the phone. people buy the iphone because the simply love apple

  • marioyohanes

    Apple should start thanking Samsung for keep promoting iPhone 4S on their commercials… LOL…

    By doing such shame, Apple will get free advertising from Samsung…

  • http://twitter.com/jonathann92 Jonathan

    this is absolutely horrible. First of all this looks like really bad acting and Second how often are u going to send birthday texts or edit power points on your phone? If I wanted to edit a power point I would go on my computer.  this is very shameful.

  • http://twitter.com/PDXGREG PDXGREG

    Samsung hates black people. It’s clear. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Patrick-M-Phillips/1591990393 Patrick M Phillips

      EXACTLY what I was thinking. Like, hey, watch the white tech-savy hipsters outsmart a dumb black chick. Great advertising Samsung 

  • Alfred2612

    Challenge 1: Many image editors in the App store allow you to do that.
    Challenge 2: Google maps > Directions > Screen grab > Send in e-mail
    Challenge 3: Apple Keynote for iOS in the App store. Not powerpoint admittedly.

    It’s kinda stretching things a little to say Samsung’s offering is better because of these software tasks. I mean, even something as fundamental as the web browser in Android has had big problems. How about improving all these basic things before worrying about editing a powerpoint presentation?

    • SamuelBrock

      Challenge 3: Keynote can import and export as powerpoint. And its a helluva lot better app to edit the powerpoint in.

      This is just sad. A phucken phablet shouldn’t even be compared to an iPhone in the first place. Number 1, the iPhone is going to own it anyways in terms of function and form and number 2, the iPad would be sinful to compare it to. It’s in a category of its own, in either case failing to live up to other android phones and the iPhone because its so ugly near your head and it doesn’t even have ICS, or tablets because it’s small and just as expensive. 

      The Galaxy Note can be summed up like this: Woohooo!! A stylus! oh wait, that’s not new. Woohoo! A stylus slot built into the phone! OMG! Freedom!

      Get a Galaxy Nexus. Or an iPhone, (Or an iPad) whichever suits you best.

  • Jaime Rivera

    iPhones can do all that, and better. The user they got from the streets just did not know that. She would not be able to do that with the Android phone either. She would have to be trained to do it with either phone, so it’s not fair. A fair representation would be to get two tech savvy users of their respective phones and have them complete the same task. Of course, Samsung won’t do that because they know the outcome.

  • http://www.cleancutmedia.com/ Clean Cut Media

    samsung didn’t really think this through.. you know what will happen?

    a bunch of youtube videos from apple fans are going to pop up in mock of this video or doing it in the reverse.  these days, a video that is easily duplicated and slightly controversial is going to be result in replicas modified to fit whatever people want to say.

  • bondr006

    The only thing that Samsung proved in this video is that they could find a clueless iPhone user. I’m guessing it would take even less time to find a clueless android user. The iPhone can easily do all those things and more…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/florian.vanderbeke Florian Vanderbeke

    what a dumb effin b***

  • Shaunathan Sprocket

    Oh look, cult of mac is posting cult of android articles again..  In an effort to avoid our users rather than address their needs, let’s just link it directly to the cult of android site, forcing them to come there and give us traffic!!

    Please stop posting cult of android articles on cult of mac.  Thank you (returns to the sane side of the blog.)

    • CodyHotard

      Thank you…I thought I was the only one who noticed this!

  • pdm777

    You can do those things with an iPhone and WITHOUT a stylus…with only your finger, which you NEVER lose, or misplace. And it fits in your pocket and you don’t look like some dork with a Phablet 

    • GrzegorzWidla

      How the hell can Apple or anti-stylus people think their opinion would be treated seriously if they use misplaced stylus as an argument is beyond me. 
      How clumsy are you to forget to put it in the device after you finish using it? Seriously? Are you 5?

      • Jurassic

        OK, we get it, you never lost a stylus.

        This isn’t true for most people who have lost at least one stylus, when tablets had stylii in the “old days”. 

        Yes, the Newtons and the Palm devices from the 1990′s did have a slot to keep the stylus, just like the “new” Galaxy Note. But that didn’t stop people from losing their stylus!

      • pdm777

        Im not 5 because I live in reality…Im not sure what the color of the sky is in your world, but did you EVER use a stylus device? They do come out, they do fall out and they do get lost..THIS IS REALITY!  Im sorry you don’t live in reality and perhaps based upon your argument you should just stick with a etch-a-scetch and a flip phone.  I bet I could do more with one hand and my iPhone than you can with that enormously huge Samsung device.  I thought texting and driving was bad…now were are going to have people texting and stylusing.

      • CodyHotard

        “Duh, I need a pen to work my phone.”
        In the words of Jobs, ”Once you put a stylus in the equation, you’ve already failed. I have ten styli right here on my hands.”

  • http://twitter.com/bradenbest Braden Bunce

    I think they have summed up most iPhone users here. People buy the iPhone for its image. Majority of people I have talked to don’t know just how powerful their phone is. Buy a phone you know how to operate, not for the status associated with it! #applefanboys

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Bauer/100000889062343 Sean Bauer

      So, if they buy an Android they magically become a tech guru?

      Most studies I’ve read conclude iOS is easier to use for the “average” person.

    • Matt_in_NC

      I hope it makes you feel good to believe that.  You should really give an iPhone a fair try.  You might actually find that once you get past your preconceptions they are pretty nice.  I have tried out some Android devices.   I can see why you might like them.  I just wish people in general didn’t feel like the item they have chosen not to purchase must therefore be a horrible thing and anyone who uses it must be stupid.  That just is not the case.  iPhones are good.  Android phones are good.  They’re just different.  It’s very good that there is a choice. 

  • mitchell goudie

    She shouldn’t be jealous, but she should be upset, they just made a false commercial.

  • http://twitter.com/33VA Aaron Priies

    You know what the iPhone woman can do that the samsung guy can’t? Put their phone in their pocket…

  • MacGoo

    This is their tactic? Misinformation about their competitors? Pitting an obviously tech-savvy hipster against a clueless passerby who probably doesn’t even know which iPhone she has? 

    Something tells me even SAMSUNG is having trouble finding good real-world use-cases for that stylus.

  • erics72

    LOL!  What a bunch of losers.  Um…Samsung, I can do all that with my iPhone. And I have a stylus pen too.   And I’ll even do one better and make a gretting card video to send off, complete with sound effects and music, and time lapse shit.  Can you you do that?  lol

  • erics72

    Why not.  Apple users have just as much to chime in on this article.  After all, the iPhone is being pitted against a competitor.  Afraid what we have to say, that will make Samsung or Android look stupid?  Oops…too late.  lol

  • http://ridwan326.tumblr.com Ridwan

    Dumbest ad is in the history of ads!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ckaushakis Cory James

    How do you spell P-A-I-D  A-C-T-O-R-S?!

  • http://twitter.com/CuT_tHa_ShIt Clyde Butler

    next test: put your phone in your pocket

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/4MEYMJBPD45BC4FTWHA5LSNOH4 MOTOWN

    horrible seriously. i would be embarrased if i owned a samsung.  its like your favorite actor doing something really dumb on tv its embarrassing.  these droid people need to focus on the smoothness and how everything incorporates with its own os systems. not focusing on a stupid crop tool to compare with apple. oh I’m sorry theres to many of them and you are stuck with that one device.  its nice to have everything flow so smoothly from device to device i buy something on phone then its at home on my computer also on my pad. its unreal that people don’t realize that shit.  everyone leaches off apple its unbelievable.  and people still don’t get it.  samsung is like a sucker punch that completely missed.     

  • http://twitter.com/Manny1314 Manuel Antonio rosas

    iPhone has the Keynote app to make power points. Greeting cards for birthday cards, and map sharing to give someone directions. If i really wanted a stylus i’d go buy one. 

  • http://www.sk1wbw.wordpress.com Wayne Williams

     I couldn’t even watch past 10 seconds.  This is so staged it’s pathetic.

  • Adams Immersive

    Very annoying, but still a good ad: it shows that while some people think there are a ton of really great, powerful, easy graphics and photo apps for iPhone, there are in reality none. And while people think the selection of top-quality apps on Android is limited, in fact there IS one (cutting out a face after being coached is proof enough). Additionally, the Samsung task needs a stylus, as all graphics apps should, rather than making a wide selection of styluses optional as Apple has done. What use is the iPhone 4’s amazing camera quality if the iPhone has no photo-editing apps?

    So—a very powerful message. Those who are tired of over-portable devices will be pleased that not only can they get a much larger phone (albeit without the iPhone’s retina screen quality) but one which has photo-editing apps available! I’m glad Apple offers iTunes refunds on request, because I’ve payed upwards of $2 for a selection of awesome graphics tools on my iPhone 4, and now I realize I was duped!

    Next, I expect Samsung to inform me that GarageBand doesn’t exist, and that only Samsung users can create music on the go. My next phone might just be a Samsung! Plus, unlike most other Android phones, my new Samsung will look comfortably similar to Apple’s styling, by some freak coincidence.

  • rapid rapi

    IT SUCKS

  • Tiago Costa

    OMFG… If you go to the app store you can find apps for doing more than that guy did!! People are so dumb, That they don´t search!!! Please android phone are no andicap with the software and that slowlinees on the phone i think the droid user suicidle percentage must be so high cuz of the slowliness!!

  • Slurpy2k11

    No disrespect here (I own both a GN and a 4S) but I’m sure there’s a million apps to accomplish both the tasks shown on an iPhone, in much less convoluted ways. The stylus is useful for some VERY specific niche tasks and situations, but I just can’t see it as a selling point for most people, especially on a sub-tablet device. It’s more cumbersome than anything. Samsung should stop focusing on APple so much in their ads, I honestly don’t think it’s a good marketing strategy for them. Especially when the ads are so tacky, staged, and insulting. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/adeel.sumbal Adeel Sumbal

    my iPhone can do that all of that… but instead they chose some chick who only bought the iPhone cause of angry birds..

    • abc905

      and they chose the guy who supposedly quit samsung “a few hours” before the ad was filmed, then got hired back right after.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/GJNQPCKMIFRGOQQOFDDCRDHVHA iceweasel69

    1. A very tech savvy guy is operating the Samsung Galaxy Note – level the playing field Samsung and choose a tech savy chick next time to operate the iPhone.
    2. All devices are as smart/useful as the user.

  • Jonathan Wong

    Uh actually a lot of Android fans do support the add and some claim it is superior to the Super Bowl ad. 

    For the most part, I think this ad is claiming the Note’s superiority to teh iPhone out of the box without regard to apps because, obviously, people can make apps to do anything anotehr system can do sometime or the other. So in this sense, its not like this ad is lying.

    Though, in terms of screensize, the Note is nicer for more in depth note taking for those who do it often. The iPhone, more for general smart phone use and not to be used in the same way as the Note to teh same degree. So frankly, the devices ought to be categorized in seperate classes of devices rather then compared

    • abc905

      its not lying, but don’t you agree its lying by omission? who knew the lady had no apps on her phone, and that she obviously was either chosen because of her iOS stupidity and/or was paid to pretend to be.

      • Jonathan Wong

        Yep.  It’s deception by omission.

  • bhorozal

    Smart user and dumb user test…

  • CodyHotard

    This is ridiculous.  The chick doesn’t know how to work her Maps app? Hint: it’s the icon that looks like a map.  This is just really sad.  

    • abc905

      in the second challenge she could’ve done just as well as the guy (or even better) by searching directions and taking a screenshot. but considering how pathetic the challenge is in the first place, might as well throw all sense out the window and pretend the iPhone is a Nokia 1100.

  • abc905

    “HAHAHA! MY PHONE CAN’T DO THAT! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT! NOR CAN I DOWNLOAD APPS! HAHAHA!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/sevangrim Evan Lee Battle

    lol “here we are in Harold Square going out of our way to deliberately show case the small number of semi-pointless things our phone can do that the Iphone cant. We have here our trained actress who we’ve instructed to use words like frustrated and depressing when referring to her own phone.”
      seriously? the stylus died a long time ago, and your trying to bring it back by pointing out that you cant trace too good without one? This really was shamless and stupid. I really loved that commercial where the people in line outside the apple store got all jealous (and i love my iphone 4 to death, but that was hilarious) but this is a shame. lol

    • Superior Android

      “semi-pointless things our phone can do that the iPhone cant”

      - like NOT loose your data (pictures, music, & apps) if you sync with a new computer

      - like have Bluetooth that actually works, not like the iPhone that cant even send a file from one iDevice to another via Bluetooth.

      - like NOT have to delete or remove content from your phone or buy a new device if you run out of storage space for all your data.

      - like awesome integration of 3rd party apps.

      - like actually having the ability to do something as simple as upload a photo from your gallery to Facebook !!!!!!

      - like being able to add content to your phone from ANY source YOU want.

      - like being able to download a file AND browse your device to actually use the file you just downloaded.

      - like playing flash (yeah, flash–used by millions of websites)

      - like having widgets which can display information such as emails, tweets, messages and much more without having to even launch an app !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      - like having FASTER processors, BETTER sound, EXPANSION slots, and LARGER screens and dozens and dozens of devices to choose from to suit YOUR needs.

      - like having 4G speeds !!!!

      - like having NFC chips

      - like having multitasking !!!! 5 years later and the iPhone still cant multitask !!!

      the list of semi-pointless things Android can do that iOS/iPhone cannot do is long and endless–and that’s why millions of iPhone users jailbreak their iDevices……so they function more like Android.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=566115167 Andrew Wood

    Now see if you can 
    dial a number with a cup of coffee in one hand.iPhone (y)Galaxy Note (caution!  Contents are hot!)

    • Superior Android

      No, you cant dial a number with one hand and hold a cup of coffee with the other–but rememer, the Galaxy note was NOT designed for one handed use. 

      the note is in a class all by itself, it’s totally new and one of the many advanategs Android has over iOS–there’s something new to look forward to every month !!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KS4Q4C5NHPA5NJ3R5REGJO6V6U Pawel

    So next time, use a real iPhone user, instead of some of the street food stamp collector. There is nothing more on Samsung, that I can’t do on iPhone, but you have to know how to use your phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/snappermorgan Snapper Morgan

      Real nice, asshole. Street food stamp collector? Do us a favor and try not to be such a racist prick. Jesus. I guess even the nerd community has its own hillbillies. 

    • Superior Android

       food stamp?  wow, its amazing how hateful people can be at the mere site of a black person.

      Id bet cash money that she’s more educated, has more money and more personal and professional success you’ll ever have you pathetic low life meth-junkie

  • Albert Gomez

    I don’t find it shameful at all. Samsung chose the perfect example of the average iPhone user.

  • Jynto

    As an Android (and Samsung) user I am embarrassed. Samsung cannot make good software to save their
    lives, so they show us three Gimmicks instead, alongside some truly
    terrible acting.They should have showed the guy changing the Note’s battery. That is a true advantage that Android has over iPhone, and about 9001 times more useful
    than photoshopping my face onto a celebrity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1675007178 Mišeno Parčo Parák

    lols… this samsung is fail.. :D

  • dzankizakon

    Some moron from Samsung marketing paid some other moron from an ad agency to come up with some s#it that shows SGN to be better than iPhone. So they thought for about a minute, got the equipment and shot the thing in 15 minutes. Done. Next. There’s bills to be paid, who cares if the ad was idiotic, made Samsung look like amateurs or made no impact whatsoever. They’ll think longer and harder for the next ad. Sure they will.

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