{"id":6042,"date":"2012-01-16T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2012-01-16T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:25:12","slug":"samsung-windows-phones-look-too-much-like-samsung-android-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/samsung-windows-phones-look-too-much-like-samsung-android-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Windows Phones look too much like Samsung Android Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got to love the alleged view of the UK mobile networks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Citing an &#8220;extremely reliable&#8221; source, [<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.professeurthibault.fr%2Fnews-1115-avenir-samsung-focuss-europe.html&amp;act=url\">Professeur Thibault<\/a>] first goes on to address the absence of a Focus S equivalent in Europe which is apparently due to <strong>carriers&#8217; unwillingness to stock a device that looks so similar to the Galaxy S II<\/strong>.\u00a0If there were ever a good incentive to\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0be lazy with design for Samsung, that would be it&#8230;and it really does look to have gotten to them. The source goes on to say the leading OEM is ready to release new models\u00a0this year for Europe and that, &#8220;they should be beautiful&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My emphasis, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphonedaily.com\/2012\/01\/does-samsung-have-new-fleet-of-windows.html\">Windows Phone Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got to love the alleged view of the UK mobile networks: \u00a0Citing an &#8220;extremely reliable&#8221; source, [Professeur Thibault] first goes on to address the absence of a Focus S equivalent in Europe which is apparently due to carriers&#8217; unwillingness to stock a device that looks so similar to the Galaxy S II.\u00a0If there were ever a good incentive to\u00a0not\u00a0be lazy with design for Samsung, that would be it&#8230;and it really does look to have gotten to them. The source goes on to say the leading OEM is ready to release new models\u00a0this year for Europe and that, &#8220;they should be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25,2245],"tags":[2217,2586,3506,2512,281,3507,2246],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-windows-phone","tag-android","tag-clone","tag-focus","tag-galaxy","tag-samsung","tag-uk-network","tag-windows-phone-2","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1zs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}