I think the non LTE will be slightly cheaper.. I might be wrong though

Vertu cannot compare la, that's luxury.

The design/material is very subjective though.
Eg. I personally would prefer an aluminum macbook rather than plastic for that premium price, while some just doesn't care.

too early to tell about the Exynos 5. it should not be that bad, i like the A15 core and implementation of big.LITTLE power saving A7 core.

samsung did well with S2 - Exynos 4210 was ahead of its time.
s3 - Exyno 4412. sorry, i still think this is a rip-off. being forced into the market to milk the popularity of S2 when Exynos 5 is still not ready.

let's hope sammy make a come back with Exynos 5. they can do it if they spend less $ on advertisement and gimmick tech and push for some real advancement.

Actually they can't stop spending, otherwise the sheeple press will bleat the praises of Holy Fruit loudly. So Samsung needs to go on both the Tech front and the Marketing front. Drowns out some of the "baa baa".

my battery get 4.2v during charging. s3 really sux! i5 > s3
i mau LTE. if PR win i tell to LKS that bp need LTE & UNIFI!

This post has been edited by ngkhanmein: Mar 21 2013, 10:50 PM

http://press.ihs.com/press-release/design-...uppli-virtual-t

Samsung Galaxy S4 has an estimated total production cost of $244 (RM762)

inb4
selling sgs4 for under rm1k
said no samsung ever.

That is just the cost of the materials used to build the S4.

Tax? Shipping? Branding? Marketing? All those you didn't take into consideration?

S4 has a higher BOM than the iPhone 5 and yet, the iPhone 5 is much more pricier than the S4.

inb4
people asking Apple to sell their iPhones at 1k.
said no person ever.

This post has been edited by LordDenning: Mar 21 2013, 11:15 PM

if sell around that price this world is going crazy ~.~

^impossible lo.. m'sia popular on wat stuff? our local car sell cheaper at pakistan 53% lower! eg: myvi 48k after deduct 25+k nia! mch AP de $ all dunno telan at whr.

let samsung earn b lah.. many yrs ago they rugi like shit when nokia conquered whole universe.

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/page...wn-Reveals.aspx
iPong 5 has an estimated total production cost of $199 (RM620)

Marketing no need money? Staff no need paid? Factory build by god? Shipping FOC? Research also did by volunteer?

Yalo!

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Mar 21 2013, 11:31 PM

Exactly, Great explanation, thank you

I know my English is bad, and not good at explaining, some ppl just taking it too serious

I did say they arent good at making smooth official ROMs, the phones are good, it can be better, don't have to flame me

In fact, I got s3 and note 2, they are great, fast, smooth, but can be better, I'm just telling what I thought about it.

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 22 2013, 12:38 AM

Fuuu, My got both versions. Hence it answers why Samsung is so famous here

Sg must be really jelly

If Samsung releases Exynos source codes to developers, CM and AOSP will be the king of the king.
CM and AOKP developers are good, just that they don't have the right tool to begin with, hence no smooth Samsung ROMs.

Dude, Andrewtst's English is fair (to be polite) but he does get his point across usually. At least he managed to explain it in simple terms. I gave you the link so you can try harder.

At any rate, even he is saying the lack of "smoothness" is negligible, and all phones suffer from this at one time or another. I remember going "wow" when I got my Note 2 compared to the lag on my Note 1, so I see nothing to complain about the current generation of Samsung high end phones.

everywhere u go, u see everyone holding s4 then

no man.. thanks to Andrewtst's explanation, nothing wrong with him and he's really polite


the "flame" i mean is like someone here seems starting dislike me to share my thoughts on samsung phone software here

yeah,
If I wasn't wrong, I read the article somewhere before
CM team who were doing samsung phones have given up on samsung phones due to lack of support from offcial developers, got tons of troublesome problem on the hardware, like BT and WiFi,
and they told users who want modding and custom roms to avoid exynos devices

if samsung give proper support to xda developers, samsung android devices will be epic

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 22 2013, 11:39 AM

this is the link: http://www.androidcentral.com/cm-developer...y-s4-should-you

It would be great if samsung release their exynos sources. But the thing is most user dun use custom rom let alone convert to aosp/aokp. So the custom rom community is only a small portion of their income. In the end they would have weigh whatever secret they are protecting is worth more than getting slightly more users (from the custom rom society). Its just business.