he is taking a poll @TmoNews twitter page to see if they should run the story. tweet to him and say YES...maybe i was wrong, maybe they are journalists after all.
What Poll ? He had the information provided to him DAYS ago. Even DroidDog John when presented with the information at the same time took long enough to get it put out there.
Not to chatter OFF, but it was 4 ( or was it 5 ) of us in the #behold_II channel on IRC that first night that he notified us of what he'd heard, and we all discussed it. Eugene was with us for a while ( though justifiably, a bit ticked off ). I went to youtube, found the four videos, plus the video of the Omnia II where the same spokes-mouthpiece hawked that handset, posted the different links to them.....at the same time, a few of the others were trying to see how far up the tech support chain they could get.
I then looked up who the owners of phones-online.net were, and it turned out to be some folks out of China that remarket cell phones of different brands. Then I dropped a note to the domain owner of "phone-online.net" to see if we could get some independent corroboration of where those video's provenance's came from ( some folks had questioned if Samsung had even made the Behold II's videos ). No response thus far from that inquiry.
So if any news outlet ( and those two WEREN'T the only ones that got the word put out to them last week ) took it's sweet time getting the word out, it's because they might not want to nibble at the hand that feeds them. Remember that they all are probably SALIVATING at getting their hands on a Galaxy S for an extended period of time ( and possibly that new "Vegas" phone that's supposedly coming to AT&T that the ROM get leaked from ).
If anyone wonders......this is xencoder from AndroidSpin. 'nuff said. Eugene got us the word, we took it and ran with it. If the bloggers are finally catching up, great, took'm long enough.
And to those who might say that Samsung might be able to squirm around this, it all boils down to perception. The iPhone intro next month will garner A LOT of publicity, other handset manufacturers will want as little negative press, as possible, to begin with.
A petition is good, but a call to your State Attornies office could be even more meaningful. We shouldn't have to start a class action ( I had been for it, but now not so much ), because if enough state attornies get contacted, then it gets a little more involved to ignore. Especially in those states that have laws about verbal contracts being legally binding. What's more, it could be said that the fact that they pulled advertising material to avert ( notice that there are still 3....yes...three...other Behold II marketing videos up on YouTube through phones-online.net ) they pulled the ONE(!) video that reflected negatively upon them.
Seriously, why pull the ONE video, why not pull all ? If someone were to back me up as a reporter or correspondent for their site, I'd be willing to actually call up the folks at phones-online.net in China ( the guy has an english name of Kevin, registered ) and for the record ask why the video was removed. And regardless of the outcome, put out a news item that they can publish about the subject. The next step being to contact Samsung Mobile PR for comment about the comments from the folks in China and/or whomever at YouTube can corroborate if any written reason was provided for the removal of the original video.
Yeah, I've got that much Chutzpah built up at this point, that I'd love to do it, just to hear what they have to say for themselves.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just trying to get a little bit of the record straight and history to this story. Keep up the good work guys !
Eugene is the MAN.
we have proof!
