Samsung Inadvertently Used iPhone To Tweet Galaxy S21 and S21+ Promo

Samsung committed a tech faux earlier this week when it issued a promotional tweet from an iPhone, the flagship handset made by a smartphone market arch rival. "With #SamsungUnpacked drawing closer, we're working hard to bring you some exciting news. Which field of innovation and advancement are you hoping to see us reveal?" Samsung asks in the tweet.

Not the first time

[kot-begemot-uk]

This is being done by a marketing agency and you can bet that the marketing agency just got sacked.

This is what happened the previous time. This is a regular occurrence. A marketing droid (or shall we say imbecile) sh*ts where he/she eats. News at 10.

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[alvinrod]

It's also beyond stupid. This is Kardashian-level shit as applied to technology. What kind of vapid non-story will we turn into a Slashdot article next?

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[laktech]

I wouldn't have seen the ad unless they did this. So. I dunno, maybe not as dumb as you think.

Re:Not the first time

[kot-begemot-uk]

Statement of the fact - the previous one that did it got sacked by Samsung.

I can bet that this will happen this time too.

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[michelcolman]

I didn't even know S21 and S21+ existed. Now I do.

Plenty of ad companies around, so they can burn a few and probably give them some cash in roundabout ways, for the service of getting media attention by "screwing up".

Not saying it definitely happened, but I wouldn't put it past them.

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[thegarbz]

SamsungMobileUS has nearly 5 million twitter followers. No one cares if you saw this. Samsung has already been in the tech news once today. This wasn't some big brain move, this was a declaration of intent to terminate a work contract :-)

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[BeerFartMoron]

What kind of vapid non-story will we turn into a Slashdot article next?

"Trump claims Etch A Sketch hacked after 'Big Tiddie Goth GF' image seen in background of latest DeepFake video from White House"?

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[geekmux]

This is being done by a marketing agency and you can bet that the marketing agency just got sacked.

And I'll believe that when I see it this time around.

Sad part about 21st Century marketing whores; they'll stoop to ridiculous levels to garner attention. What you see as a mistake I see as nothing more than a publicity stunt. Certainly draws attention to the next Samsung event.

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[Pascoea]

Nobody outside of the tech circles likely even notices, or even gives a shit. I'd be voting that it's screw up instead of a well thought out ploy. Marketing weenies aren't that smart.

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[raorajesh]

Well, you are talking about it ... and so are many others.

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[Pascoea]

On Slashdot. You know, a site in the tech circle. Talking about an article on another techy website, Apple Insider. If this was intended as some viral marketing effort it failed miserably.

Re:Not the first time

[DontBeAMoran]

This is being done by a marketing agency and you can bet that the marketing agency just got sacked.

We apologize again for the fault in the marketing delivery. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

Re:Not the first time

[cayenne8]

We apologize again for the fault in the marketing delivery. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

A Moose once bit my sister...

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[damien_kane]

A Moose once bit my sister...

She turned me into a newt!

(I got better...)

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[Mean Variance]

A Moose once bit my sister...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush

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[jellomizer]

I haven't ever seen a vendor or an employee getting fired for making a stupid but innocent mistake.
In the long run, this probably wouldn't be a major problem with Samsung. Or even in the short term. It is akin to a middle school student Farting in the middle of class. It is embarrassing for the student, they get picked on for the day or so. But they don't get kicked out of their friend group, or even get into any long term issues. Assuming they don't do anything to exaggerate it.

Getting a replacement em

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[MBGMorden]

Yeah I don't get the curved glass bit either. My phone is a Galaxy S10e because it had plenty of power (ram, cpu, storage), but still had a regularly shaped and modestly sized screen.

I want a fast phone, but I don't know why the cell phone companies are under the impression that I want to walk around with an iPad mini in my pocket.

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[raorajesh]

Try an S20+, I got one last year. It's not as expensive as S20, at least wasn't when I bought it.

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[xaosflux]

Not quite -- take a look at the Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro

which "will provide a minimum of two years of market availability from launch and three years of security updates to ensure business continuity"

For a mid-level device, this is a good "news for nerds" type device for this, plus removable battery!

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[bill_mcgonigle]

Nice find. This would make a good LineageOS target if more people knew about it.

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[AvitarX]

I've seen plenty of Samsung phones in use that cost more than an iPhone.

Not as many as I've seen iPhones, but cost is clearly not the only factor. The Samsung flagships usually cost more than an iPhone.

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[fermion]

Yes, and the Dodge Ram Trx is $95,000 compared to a Tesla at nearly a third of the cost. It does not mean the people donâ(TM)t buy a Dodge Ram because they tend to be cheaper

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[MBGMorden]

Nah - there are iPhones at many different price levels. If you're buying an Android flagship new trust me, you can get a pretty spiffy model of iPhone. Maybe not the best available, but you can get a nice one.

Some people just prefer Android, either for specific reasons that are important to them or just because that's what they've always used and they don't want to learn a different phone.

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[cusco]

I just dislike the ridiculous conventions that Apple uses, some of their decisions just don't make any sense at all but seem to be etched in stone anyway. (The Mac is the same way.)

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[UnknowingFool]

Buying a flagship Android phone is only slightly cheaper than a flagship iPhone right now. I think the last generation, the flagship Samsung was slightly more expensive.

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[account_deleted]

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Re:Just being honest

[xwin]

If you can afford an IPhone, that is what you buy.

I don't know how this is "insightful". Lots of people who can afford iPhone don't buy one. I can afford iPhone many times over but I hate walled garden and lack of options. I want a phone with a features that iPhone does not offer and I don't want to be a part of the walled garden. Android works just fine for me and many people. In fact many more people have Android than iPhone, according to the statistics.
Even inside Apple, where iPhone is given free to pretty much everyone, I knew people who used Android phones as their main phone, while using iPhone as a company phone.
In my current company, where iPhone is given free as a company phone and you have to pay for Android, I know number of people who opted to pay (including myself). Price has some influence but it is not the only defining factor.

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[cayenne8]

I want a phone with a features that iPhone does not offer

I hear this reason stated quite often.

Just asking an honest question, what features do you get with the Samsung that you cannot get with the iPhone?

I"m genuinely curious.

I pretty much use my phone just for communicating....voice, text and emails...I reference the web from time to time, and I use the camera.

And that's really basically all I use a phone for.

What more do you use yours for and what features does yours have that mine doesn't?

I'm cu

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[fermion]

One legacy feature is two physical SIM slots. This, again, is important for people in developing countries or people who travel to such places. The iPhone has an eSim and a physical SIM. In the US this is enough as I run my US phone on the eSIM and the other on a physical SIM

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[cayenne8]

One legacy feature is two physical SIM slots. This, again, is important for people in developing countries or people who travel to such places. The iPhone has an eSim and a physical SIM. In the US this is enough as I run my US phone on the eSIM and the other on a physical SIM

Thanks for the reply.

I'm in the US and I"m trying to figure out what the use case for having more than one sim is...?

Can you please elaborate why you'd want/need multiple SIM card slots?

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[khchung]

I'm in the US and I"m trying to figure out what the use case for having more than one sim is...?

Can you please elaborate why you'd want/need multiple SIM card slots?

If you travel, you would want the 2nd SIM slot for the SIM either purchased in overseas airport upon arrival for local mobile data, or some travel SIM that offers fixed priced (often quite cheap) data roaming in many countries around the world. That way, you can still receive roaming SMS or calls from your primary phone number if you wish/need to, or turn it off if not.

With a rechargeable travelling SIM, you don't have to swap SIM ever again when travelling. You just disable the primary SIM when travellin

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[freedizzle]

My phone has an excellent physical keyboard, it is good enough that I can touch type at a reasonable speed on it (cosmo communicator) - no iphone has that. Plus I have a linux shell at my disposal, a fully rooted system (e.g. I can use a hosts file-based ad blocker to block ads for the entire system), I can backup/flash my entire phone image myself, loading apps from the open-source marketplace FDroid is very easy... etc.

Actually, I've never even considered owning an iphone, due to the walled garden aspe

Re: Just being honest

[aRTeeNLCH]

Just for those who don't know, without root you can use blokada, which you can find on F-Droid, to do the host file thing. It sets itself up like a VPN, then just redirects everything on the block list to localhost or so. NetGuard is also nice, to avoid apps from going out on WiFi or data connections.

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[freedizzle]

Oh nice, that is an excellent tip! (sometimes there are reasons why you might not want to root your device)

Re: Just being honest

[aRTeeNLCH]

2 physical SIM slots. We live in Switzerland, not part of the EU that has outlawed roaming, so the penalty for denying 3 calls whilst just across the border in Germany was over 10 USD...! One SIM with the right inland options and on the net where family call for free, the other for abroad situations, prepaid but with free incoming calls abroad in the surrounding European countries (and then some). A headphone jack. Custom ROMs like LineageOS, that enables a Galaxy S4 (2013) to run on Android 10 with all s

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[lessSockMorePuppet]

Lolwut?

I can afford an iPhone, but have zero desire to "own" such a locked down device that can't even run an alternative browser. No thank you. Apple gear is crap.

I've been very happy with Samsung flagship phones until they removed the headphone jack and now the SD card. Now I'm buying their cheaper mid-range phones that are more featureful.

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[Falos]

>>If you can afford an IPhone, that is what you buy.

Reminds me of "you're in tech, why don't you use $service?

"Because I'm in tech"

I can afford to control my own digital possessions

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[UnknowingFool]

At $800 and $1000, the Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 plus respectively are not that much cheaper than the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max at $999 and $1099.

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[thegarbz]

At $800 and $1000, the Samsung Galaxy S21 and S21 plus respectively are not that much cheaper than the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max at $999 and $1099.

And if you're rich and just want to masturbate over expensive things, why would you buy a cheap crappy iPhone when 12 Pro Max when you can show off your Galaxy Z Fold2 for twice the price and mock all those lower class poor people buying Apple.

Honestly I think we should call the GP an ambulance. He's displaying signs of a stroke.

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[HetMes]

Almost correct. If you're kinda poor, you buy an iphone because you want people to think you can afford it. I bet you have an iphone.

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[Tough Love]

If you value brandname over utility, you're ok with credit card debt, you don't mind being not being able to interface with 80% of other phone users, and you can handle the stigma, you buy an Apple product. Otherwise you go with the penguin like 80% of the world.

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[thegarbz]

If you can afford an IPhone, that is what you buy.

Not sure about you but I need a phone not a status symbol and as such I shop on pros and cons not on some wanky "if you have the money you buy an iPhone". You're on Slashdot. This isn't Legally Blonde (I have sisters), and you're not some 15 year old rich teenage girl desperate to show off to your friends. Please at least pretend you have a brain when spending money.

This is why the bus stops in developing countries are covered with ads for Galaxy phones

The fact that Samsung sells smartphones for the equivalent of $70 is why there are ads all over bus stops in developing worlds. None of which h

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[An0nYm0u5c0wArD]

I can afford to buy your weight in iPhones, yet I will never own one because they are complete shit that requires me to ask Apple permission to install apps.

Apple is for braindead morons who don't know any better.

simple solution

[BLToday]

Why doesn't Samsung give all their marketing people Samsung phones for work? Don't let them post from their personal phones.

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[WankerWeasel]

Having directed social media programs for Fortune 50 companies in the past, you don't normally ever post from a phone or the official app (which they would have had to do in order to have this show). You'd use a social media management app to post, which would use the Twitter posting API and would show the apps name, not the device, as it does when using the official app.

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[Solandri]

Why? People seem to be interpreting this as "if the phone were good, the people marketing it would be using it instead of its primary competitor." I interpret it as "Samsung does not force its employees to use its products." Which I think is a far more wholesome message from a company than feigned 100% product obedience. People are different, and lots of different people will work at the same company, including people who like iPhones working for Samsung, and people who like Android phones working for Apple

Re:simple solution

[paulpach]

Why? People seem to be interpreting this as "if the phone were good, the people marketing it would be using it instead of its primary competitor."

This is the marketing department. Their job is quite literally to convince people to buy Samsung phones instead of iPhones.
By using an iPhone to send this tweet, they demonstrate with actions that they don't really believe their own marketing. It directly undermines their credibility.

If you can't see why this is an embarrassment, I wouldn't suggest marketing as a career choice.

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[thegarbz]

Embarrassment yes, but as for not believing in their product... this is marketing we're talking about. It was almost certainly a 3rd party marketing firm staffed with marketing people who come up with pie in the sky ideas for influencing and consumer engaging and can't see the literal problems in front of them.

Embarrassing, and no doubt someone just got themselves fired. ... Just like last time, and 330 times before that [zdnet.com].

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[thegarbz]

Why doesn't Samsung give all their marketing people Samsung phones for work? Don't let them post from their personal phones.

What makes you think these are Samsung's marketing people? I'll bet you a bitcoin they are outsourced. (That much money?, yeah because this isn't the first time this has happened and the previous company this was outsourced to it was fired as well).

Normal,

[denisbergeron]

I even switch from a Galaxy Note 8 to an Iphone 7 this month.

You had one job.

[Forty Two Tenfold]

ONE!

But why?

[Anachronous Coward]

Why does Twitter need to reveal the client application and/or device that uploaded the data -- I mean "tweet" (ugh)? That seems to me a useless and irrelevant bit of information.

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[zenlessyank]

Apparently not.

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[cusco]

That seems to me a useless and irrelevant application .

FTFY

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[jellomizer]

My thoughts exactly. I can see Twitter logging this internally, in case there is some problem. But really why tell it to the public, that you are using an iPhone, Android, PC. All you do, is keep yourself open for a flame war about your mobile device, which would distract from you actual content.

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[Xylantiel]

Yeah, why is a good question. You don't even have to use a twitter app to post on twitter. There's an API.

D'Oh! Reminds me of Blackberry

[mccrew]

This reminds me when Blackberry hired Alicia Keys as some made up title like VP of Creative Strategy, or some other BS like that. Her first tweet went out extolling how great Blackberry is, and at the bottom the tag line said "Sent from Twitter App on iPhone". Oops!

But everyone is talking about the phone now.....

[SlashDotCanSuckMy777]

Some great free advertising.

"...field of innovation and advancement..."

[worldofsimulacra]

For starters I'd like to see real world, open source, Big Tech R&D mashups a la Tik-Tok duets. This iGalaxy subLinkdReddit toaster multimedia Hallucinogram was FaceTweeted transdermally on a SpaceYepple Smartfridge.

Sent from...

[dohzer]

god that "sent from my iPhone" stuff is tacky as hell. Cringe, cringe, cringe!

Galaxy S21 Marketing Slogan

[Macdude]

The Galaxy S21's new Marketing Slogan is:

"Almost good enough for Samsung to use".