Fundamentally right....I should be brand agnostic. ...

Only things missing would be case and rom variety.

What new s-pen function?

The current s-pen can already make air gestures. ..and I don't think it will ever be usable on the xzu screen.

3 more hours.

Streaming link in post 1.

Yeah done...just managed to sit down at a desktop.

UPDATE

The counter, as of NOW, is showing 2 hours to go???? Something is happening 30 minutes earlier?

Time as of this post is 22:30 MYT...this means something is going to show at 00:30.

This post has been edited by joytest: Sep 4 2013, 10:29 PM

Bikini models splashing water around???? Nothing innovative there is it?

Yeah, if you are referring to the attachable lenses QX100 or something, yeah that will be nice.

No seriously I don't have an issue with hardware per se. I have issues with false and misleading marketing messages, and artificial constraints on hardware capability.

But again, I have no expectations of current mobile technology, as nothing more than incremental improvements.

Sony event is over. From comments on the Z1 thread, even the media response is lukewarm. I watched it too....expecting a standing ovation when the Z1 was whipped out....but just silence.....

Seriously folks, even the Note 3 is going to be incremental. I want a larger screen, and maybe the Alcatel Hero could fit the bill too.....since it has an active digitizer.

The rest of the week will be informative and the blogosphere will be full of IFA buzz, so we can read and be informed.

1.5 more hours to go. Could it be some pre-event looping preview?

So un_id I agree the XZU is still a good choice, and if you pair it with the QX lens, it should be a great movie/pic creation device.

Of course it should also make most other phones an excellent movie/pic creation device.

Z1 was never in for me, coz the screen is too small

This is my first Samsung event hehe.

His presentation skills may have been the best ever, but I have issues with the way the content was skewed, that's why the rational press called it the Reality Distortion Field.

Yes

IMHO and as I've also stated from post 1 onwards, do not expect anything. It's getting pretty much like a new notebook launch every quarter....just a spec bump, and probably more cloud and social media tie in.

People who've never gotten a Note before may benefit, and those from Note 1 will also benefit. Note 2 users will only see an incremental upgrade, except that now with the increased RAM, some creative virtualization may be usable....

Yeah, this is the first time I'm watching a Samsung event. I didn't watch any of the previous ones.

Well of course, Google is about the devs and what you can build with their ecosystem. The fruitco, while its founder was alive, was the epitome of hyperbole during its events.

I think what you really mean is that the best showmanship was Jobs, not his company.

Samsung pays with a huge event budget, like the S4 do....

Sony........ ????

Don't think so, since this is held at a purpose-built event location, not a place like Times Square.

By Xirality, from the Z1 thread....nice explanatory video.




And the prelim music has started playing on the Samsung channel. Nice and soothing upbeat classical style music.

Probably they couldn't work out the shit in time.