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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 move on there part& I hope other handset makers do the same

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    I don’t get it.
    How is that a ad against Apple? The iPhone 4 gets five bars when reception is good as well.

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