Comments on: Samsung Vibrant Commercial Lands Promoting Avatar/Super AMOLED Screen

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:18:20 +0000

I got it for $150 on launch date.
Ask them to transfer you to customer loyalty and just use whatever bargaining skills you have :-)

By: Notag1

Notag1 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:37:22 +0000

T-Mobile may not spend a lot on commercial advertising, but why should they when the manufacturers are doing it for them ;)

By: marcus

marcus — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:47:12 +0000

be polite but persistent. costco has a $99 deal and now so does amazon. for various reasons i was unable to take advantage of the costco deal, but customer service made my desired line fully upgrade eligible and notated in my account that they would price match. one short drive to a corporate store later, i had a $99 vibrant & all upgrade fees waved. t-mo is awesome! i’ve had the dubious honor of dealing with both verizon (worst customer service EVER) & att (OK but price/coverage issues) in the past – i will never leave t-mo. always quick to answer questions, adjust charges, & make you feel like a valued customer.

By: ItsMichaelNotMike

ItsMichaelNotMike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:57:35 +0000

Sidenote: Here is what I posted on Samsung’s YouTube video:

“Hey Samsung, correct the title of this video: It’s “commercial” not “commerical.” LOL.

I have the Vibrant and have also visited your website for the phone. This YouTube title is consistent with the huge number of typos in the Vibrant manuals and on the website.

Better fire whoever is converting Korean to English and hire someone who knows how to spell.”

By: soniccool

soniccool — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:44:46 +0000

I returned my vibrant, i think it was a just a vibrant issue i had, i got an exchange hopefully this one is better =)

By: B-Mobile

B-Mobile — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:12 +0000

i have to agree with you C-Los, the battery is night and day to my G1 shoot for the first time in 24 months i went to sleep without having to put my phone on the charger. and the facebook/twitter sync issue seems to be working now. GPS even seems to want to work properly not regretting euthanizing my G1

By: ItsMichaelNotMike

ItsMichaelNotMike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:09:23 +0000

And it’s really a cool effect when the camera zooms out to show the people in the theater and the screen are in your hand and to where it morphs into a phone.

I wonder if the commercial is from Samsung’s house, T-Mobile’s or if it’s a joint effort.

It certainly is out of character with those crappy myTouch commercials, playing pantywaist “it’s OK to be a gentle man” music in the background (however, having a tattooed philander in the shot was an edgy twist).

By: ItsMichaelNotMike

ItsMichaelNotMike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:43 +0000

This is a great spot because it competes very well against the Verizon commercials. It emphasizes the most compelling reason to get a Vibrant, if that reason floats your boat, GRAPHICS.

Those who have criticized T-Mobile’s marketing should step back and look at the bigger picture here, literally.

T-Mobile is the only carrier giving people free blockbuster movies with the phones. With the HD2 we got the two Transformer movies, and with the Vibrant, Avatar (one of the highest, if not the highest, grossing movies of all time).

When you think of how many millions of people saw and liked those movies, these titles on a T-Mobile phone: 1) gets those viewers’ attention; and 2) may motivates many people to get the phone simply for that reason, especially the fence sitters and people out of contract with other carriers.

Not much attention has been given to this marketing gimmick, but I think it’s amazing (and a good call). I am curious how much this costs T-Mobile to include blockbuster movies on phones it sells. I would think licensing is at least $5 per phone.

Sidenote: I’d love to have negotiated the licensing contracts between T-Mobile and “James Cameron.” But I would have been a lousy negotiator for T-Mobile. First thing I’d do is send an e-mail to temperamental James saying: “Come on Jim, a $10 license? How about $1, it’s not like you need the money Mr. $5.7 billion gross, you skinflint sum beech. You ain’t king of the world, you know.”

By: ItsMichaelNotMike

ItsMichaelNotMike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Interesting point.

I have not seen AT&T’s commercial, but I suspect that what AT&T says is that “the Samsung Galaxy S” is the only phone with a SAMOLED display, which would be an accurate statement.

Or it could have been “Samsung, the only phone with SAMOLED…” Also accurate.

But if AT&T said “The Captivate… the only phone with SAMOLED” that would be inaccurate; however AT&T could escape legal jeopardy by simply saying that what they meant was that the Captivate is the only phone in its lineup that has SAMOLED.

In the end, however, I doubt anyone will get too upset about that.

By: tipsofme

tipsofme — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:48:24 +0000

Very nice. I would just like to thank Samsung for doing T-Mobile’s job because with out This ad, there wouldn’t be one at all.