 The Samsung G800 comes in as the company’s new flagship, designed to clash with the Nokia N95. And there is more than one reason to believe that it actually is.
For instance, the Samsung G600, which was Samsung’s first handset to pack a 5 Mpix camera with even more modest dimensions, wasn’t crowned the range’s undisputed flagship. Ridiculous as it is, the Samsung G600 will be extremely popular in terms of sales, while from the company’s POV the G800 will always be the flagship. The reason, in my opinion, is that the Samsung G800 can actually be positioned for the same price point as the Nokia N95. Samsung didn’t have a product in this segment, although they had never expected it to be a wild success. Sort of ‘premium class’ from Samsung.
it took the G800 a long while to get to the market, since its development was initiated back in 2006. Over this time span, its design saw a number of shape changes, the materials it was made of got replaced and its looks was revised a couple of times. Few know that at the same time the company had had a bunch of models in the works, destined to struggle against the Nokia N95, however by September 2007 the Nokia N95 was such an outrageous success that struggling against it made sense no longer. Even though these days the company’s representatives may deny any sort of connection between these devices, there are still too many facts pointing at the original rivalry – display diagonal and so on. Regrettably, G810 hasn’t made it – it was a more diminutive version if the G800 packing WiFi and a couple of software tweaks. Technically, the company has chosen to lay the first bricks for the success of the offerings to come and give up on battling against the Nokia N95. |
