Samsung Offers Free Galaxy S Smartphone to Fight iPhone

In order to compete with Apple's iPhone, Samsung began to distribute Galaxy S smartphone with Android 2.1 operating system to users for free through Twitter and Facebook.

Apple "antenna" incident caused The injury to the user caused by Apple's "antenna door" incident is a great opportunity for Samsung, Samsung's marketing subtext this time is: "If you are dissatisfied with iPhone, Samsung is your best choice!"

Through Twitter and Facebook, Samsung is giving cell phone users the Samsung Galaxy S as a gift. Samsung said that most of the people who received the Galaxy S are those report iPhone existing signal reception problems. This is why Samsung made an respond to Apple long after Apple's Steve Jobs announced Samsung and other brands smartphones (including Samsung) also exist signal reception problems.

There are signs indicates that Samsung started to release Galaxy S which is based on Android operating system from Wednesday. Samsung's present object it selected is not "a part of users who report iPhone's signal reception problem", but some influential people in digital field selected by them carefully.

Internet marketing and development company Distilled's co-director Will Critchlow may be the first person to get Samsung's presented phone together with a handwritten greeting notes.

"I asked my fans Which mobile phone will I get in the Twitter, a few fans gave me back some links, I replied to one of them. It looks exactly like that Samsung selected that mode." Keliqilao said. "This is an effective way to promote this phone. But will this encourage my fans to buy it? Believe that it will ultimately depend on the product quality."

Keliqilao who has already had iPhone 3G said that he felt Galaxy S is not bad, this is his first experience of Google Android operating system.

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