Samsung Newspaper Ad Takes Playful Swipe At Apple’s Signal Issues
It’s not often rival manufacturers get the opportunity to really hit Apple where it hurts.
After the Cupertino-based company came clean with its signal problems, mobile giants RIM and now Samsung have jumped at the chance to showcase how little problem their handsets have obtaining a decent signal.
Samsung has taken out the following ad out in the Metro newspaper, spotted by @jmcomms who uploaded the picture to Twitpic:
Simple yet effective. Nice move Samsung.
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NICE.
Clever
Nice move on there part& I hope other handset makers do the same
I don’t get it.
How is that a ad against Apple? The iPhone 4 gets five bars when reception is good as well.