Samsung Moment slider coming to Sprint, packing Android (update: official, $179)
By Nilay Patel 
posted Oct 7th 2009 1:57PM
posted Oct 7th 2009 1:57PM
Update: Oop -- Sprint just posted its PR ahead of the event as well, along with a pre-registration page. Yep, the Moment is indeed the InstinctQ. Pricing will be $179 on a two-year contract after $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in rebate when it launches November 1. Oh, and there's no TouchWiz here after all -- that's another hyped manufacturer UI shelved in favor of "With Google" branding. Interesting.
Samsung Telecommunications America Showcases Portfolio of Mobile Phones Featuring Ultra-Brilliant AMOLED Screen Technology
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 Booth #635 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. 2, and a global leader in mobile phone display technology, has expanded its mobile phone portfolio of touchscreen phones that feature the ultra-brilliant Samsung AMOLED screen. With the addition of the Samsung Behold® II and Samsung Moment™ to its portfolio which includes the Samsung Impression™ and Samsung Rogue™ announced earlier this year, Samsung Mobile is a leader in providing clearer and brighter screen technology. Samsung's revolutionary AMOLED technology provides screens with higher resolution that result in best-in-class screen clarity both indoors and in daylight. The AMOLED screens give users an enhanced mobile experience by providing true color and higher contrast ratio for a bright and vivid screen at any angle, perfect for viewing high resolution video and photos and browsing the Internet. In addition to providing crystal-clear resolution, the AMOLED screen creates a thinner mobile phone form factor and consumes less battery power.
"Samsung Mobile's AMOLED screens are a differentiator in our mobile phones that we're proud to continue featuring in our U.S. portfolio," said Omar Khan, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Samsung Mobile. "The bright, vivid colors and thinner form factor take the user's mobile experience to the next level."
The Samsung Moment integrates the open and innovative Android platform with Google complete with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube as well as the thousands of applications built on the Android platform. The Moment is the first Sprint device to include a brilliant 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and is designed with a tactile QWERTY keyboard that slides out horizontally and a virtual QWERTY keypad for versatile text messaging and email access. Device navigation is simple thanks to an optical joystick located just below the expansive display.
Powered by an 800 Mhz processor, the Samsung Moment is one of the fastest available in the market and features WiFi capability, integrated GPS navigation, 3.2 megapixel camera and camcorder and stereo Bluetooth® technology.
Samsung Behold II is a full touchscreen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance with Samsung's next generation TouchWiz™ user interface that provides one-touch access to a user's favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
Available exclusively from T-Mobile USA later this year, the WiFi-enabled Behold II also allows access to corporate email through Exchange ActiveSync and personal email, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5-megapixel camera, visual voicemail, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1 wireless technology. The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket.
The Samsung Impression, available exclusively through AT&T, was the first commercially available mobile phone in the U.S. to feature an AMOLED screen. The Impression's advanced touchscreen is paired with a full QWERTY keyboard in a slim, metallic blue slider form factor for quick and easy messaging. The Impression includes a 3.0 megapixel camcorder-capable camera, 3.2-inch screen and full Web browser.
See all of Samsung's mobile phones featuring AMOLED technology on display at CTIA IT & Entertainment 2009 at the Samsung booth, #635 in the San Diego Convention Center. For additional information, product photos and videos, please visit www.samsung.com/newsroom.
CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2009 Booth #635 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile)1, the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. 2, and a global leader in mobile phone display technology, has expanded its mobile phone portfolio of touchscreen phones that feature the ultra-brilliant Samsung AMOLED screen. With the addition of the Samsung Behold® II and Samsung Moment™ to its portfolio which includes the Samsung Impression™ and Samsung Rogue™ announced earlier this year, Samsung Mobile is a leader in providing clearer and brighter screen technology. Samsung's revolutionary AMOLED technology provides screens with higher resolution that result in best-in-class screen clarity both indoors and in daylight. The AMOLED screens give users an enhanced mobile experience by providing true color and higher contrast ratio for a bright and vivid screen at any angle, perfect for viewing high resolution video and photos and browsing the Internet. In addition to providing crystal-clear resolution, the AMOLED screen creates a thinner mobile phone form factor and consumes less battery power.
"Samsung Mobile's AMOLED screens are a differentiator in our mobile phones that we're proud to continue featuring in our U.S. portfolio," said Omar Khan, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Samsung Mobile. "The bright, vivid colors and thinner form factor take the user's mobile experience to the next level."
The Samsung Moment integrates the open and innovative Android platform with Google complete with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube as well as the thousands of applications built on the Android platform. The Moment is the first Sprint device to include a brilliant 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and is designed with a tactile QWERTY keyboard that slides out horizontally and a virtual QWERTY keypad for versatile text messaging and email access. Device navigation is simple thanks to an optical joystick located just below the expansive display.
Powered by an 800 Mhz processor, the Samsung Moment is one of the fastest available in the market and features WiFi capability, integrated GPS navigation, 3.2 megapixel camera and camcorder and stereo Bluetooth® technology.
Samsung Behold II is a full touchscreen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance with Samsung's next generation TouchWiz™ user interface that provides one-touch access to a user's favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
Available exclusively from T-Mobile USA later this year, the WiFi-enabled Behold II also allows access to corporate email through Exchange ActiveSync and personal email, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5-megapixel camera, visual voicemail, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1 wireless technology. The Samsung Rogue is a sleek messaging phone with a full touch display that provides an optimized messaging experience with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket.
The Samsung Impression, available exclusively through AT&T, was the first commercially available mobile phone in the U.S. to feature an AMOLED screen. The Impression's advanced touchscreen is paired with a full QWERTY keyboard in a slim, metallic blue slider form factor for quick and easy messaging. The Impression includes a 3.0 megapixel camcorder-capable camera, 3.2-inch screen and full Web browser.
See all of Samsung's mobile phones featuring AMOLED technology on display at CTIA IT & Entertainment 2009 at the Samsung booth, #635 in the San Diego Convention Center. For additional information, product photos and videos, please visit www.samsung.com/newsroom.
This phone was previously called the Samsung InstinctQ (M900.) They are one in the same, wait for pics and you will see. Should be launching in November.
Did you see that? They just used what you said without giving
credit. Shame Engadget!
The original post was:
Samsung just accidentally leaked a Sprint-bound Android QWERTY slider
called the Moment in an otherwise totally boring press release about
its OLED handset lineup -- it'll have an 800MHz processor, TouchWIz,
a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, optical trackpad and a 3.2 megapixel camera
Ha, dude -- this post was updated as fast as I could type. Trust me, I didn't have time to glance at comments first.
Eh, wasn't really looking for credit Nilay, its all good. Nice to see an Android device on a faster processor, I bet Sense would be awesome on this were it an HTC phone.
Multi-touch?
Wish HTC would use OLED screens. The HTC Touch HD 2 in an OLED screen would look great.
The TouchHD2 with its 4,3" capacitive beauty is just fine the way it is and in exactly 22 days will end up in my waiting pocket.
I had decided to keep my HTC Hero anyway because android+ Sense UI is just too much fun to use, (although on October 30 ,the date when my TouchHD2 should be delivered, I'll put my N97 and My TouchHD on Craigslist), but if Samsung or Moto (Sholes?) or HTC are going to release an Android phone with a bigger screen, a full qwerty and a faster processor and maybe the possibility of flashing SenseUI, I may decide to pension my beloved Hero too.
Yessssssssss! Been waiting on this (since I think this and the "Instinct Q" are one in the same)!
This might be the phone to get me off Windows Mobile. I'm willing to believe, Sprint. Just sell it to me for a decent price.
Ditto. My Moto Q9c needs a replacement, and this may be the phone that hits all the sweet spots-- unless they pull a "touch pro 2" on the pricing.
All I need for Android is:
Full QWERTY (Check)
Browser with Flash Player (Check - Flash 10.1 is coming to Android)
PlayForSure (not yet :( )
I know may be mad at PlayForSure, but I just love using them subscription services like Rhapsody and Napster. I don't mind paying $10 a month to get premium unlimited music downloads. All I ask Android is that. PlayForSure and syncing with Napster or Rhapsody.
3.5 mm jack - Does the Moment has it?
I think 800 MHz per minute is good enough for Android.
Good price - Checked.
PlaysForSure? On an Android phone? I don't think there's ever going to be a DRM system on this OS.
Yes it has 3.5mm jack.
"800MHz per minute" what?
Isn't this old news?
Looks Cheap. Can't match the sexiness of HTC's phones.
Ah, yes. Nothing could match the style of the HTC Dream.
http://i34.tinypic.com/wgp100.jpg
I, for one, love the Dream's design. It's different and functional looking.
I have one myself. It's functional, yes, but it could do with a little bit of flair. I have no right to complain about style in electronics though, since I bought an HTC Dream and a Dell Vostro 1500.
Now the hand wringing begins... HTC's Hero or hold off for Samsung's Moment. I guess it depends how fast they bring it to market. I could wait a few weeks, though if they say something like, "by the end of the year", who knows. Decisions, decisions...
It's obvious why they aren't calling this the InstinctQ - Sprint has finally realized that the public image of the Instinct is that it's a flaming bag of dogshit (which it is), so they are trying to step aside from that with the Android phone. Better to start fresh with a new brand name than try to trade on the heavily-tarnished Instinct brand.
I think it's more of a "We're going to have 5 Instincts at the same time, wtf" then anything else. In the tech world the Instinct sucked, but to many consumers they loved it. It was a very successful phone for Sprint and Samsung and people forget that.
The Instinct did what it was supposed to do. I really like mine, and while I wish there were apps for it, it is a pretty decent phone. For pure utility and price, it was a good unit, and since that was all I was looking for it beat the iPhone (plus I got TV, that keeps me entertained on long trips). The browser is now fixed with Opera, so that is a huge improvement, but yeah, it lacked any real expansion. The Android OS would be a god send on the instinct platform and as far as I am concerned a lot sexier than the HTC lineup.
I guess the bottom line is that consumers liked the phone even if we found faults with it. They should have kept the name branding and worked on marketing the improvements such as the web browser and new app store.
Yep. 2010 looks to be the year of android, '11 the year of WM7
A co-worker attended the Sprint Productivity Now conference in PHX a couple of weeks ago. He some hands on time with the M900 and he said the screen is ubersexy. The Sammy rep told him end of Oct/beginning of Nov as a release date
Wow HTC Touch HD2, Hero or This little number...things are getting crazy.... i remember last Dec it seemed like the i-phone was the only choice out there....things are lookin up in the mobile market....
P.S Still kinda wanna import the European Hero
The co worker would be me. Its build quality is good and it sounded good, and it is super sexy that screen...man that screen. The rep that had it there said no later than the end of nov but he thinks end of oct early nov. hell it just passed fcc like 3 days before the confrence.
It will be released Oct 11, same day as the Hero and a couple other phones and remakes
@Hannah
The Samsung Intrepid (Ace II) will be launching on Oct 11th: http://newsreleases.Sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1339138
The Samsung Moment Oct-Nov.
Official Sprint press release: http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1339737&highlight=
The Samsung Moment has been on Sprints rebate sheet for a while: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/09/04/samsung-intrepid-ace-ii-and-moment-headed-to-sprint/
I believe the Moment is launching at the end of Oct, beginning of Nov at the latest.
I have to see a better picture for this phone, and hope that HTC Sense could be ported to this device.
What's the screen resolution? Capacitive or resistive?
800 MHz, OMAP or Tegra?
This could blow my Touch Pro 2 out of the water and free me from WM prison.
Wonder if it has a digital compass as well....
I can confirm capacitive
I'm not up on Samsung phones. What's the consensus on TouchWiz? The videos I've seen make it look a bit laggy but those were older phones. Is it a decent skin for Android?
it was as fast if not faster than sense ui.
I wish it wasn't so ugly and juvenile looking. Some metal brushed keys like the TP2 has would have been nicer.
Still looking forward to getting my Hero this week!
It's all about the Motorola Dext.
Oops i messed up Nov 1st
SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO SERO
IS DEAD
pay to play.
if its samsung touchwiz over android that picture looks like an innacurrate depiction of what the screen is supposed to look like ive had the samsung behold 2 for tmobile n it looks different if it werent for the icons n notification bar u would think its actually just touchwiz pass on this go for the hero instead samsungs take on android hasnt really impressed yet cuz touchwiz sucks
I'm probably the only one who likes vanilla android. I'm disappointed to see this phone has Touchwiz. Same goes with Sense. These skins were only necessary because of WM 6.1 not being finger friendly. Really no need for a flashy UI on android. Its elegant and simple enough.
Its also concerning because now we have to wait for HTC or Samsung for updates instead of from Google. Where is 1.6 on HTC sense? What happens when 2.0 comes around. How long will HTC take to incorporate it into sense? And any way to run plain ole android on theses phones?
I'm also a fan of vanilla android, which is why if I get this phone I'll load it up with something similar to what I have on my g1.
800Mhz? AMOLED? Keyboard? Root it and put in a nice lean, fast Android build and this a WINNER. This may very well be the upgrade from my G1 that I've been looking for.
ROOT it and put a senseUI on it
there.. fixed that for you
; )
I've got an HTC Touch, and I've ran various builds, including the Hero's SenseUI ROM. SenseUI eats battery life and provides little benefit over a normal collection of widgets available from the marketplace. There are free Android Home Screen replacements that are on par, but don't require waiting for HTC to provide updates (which is all that SenseUI is, you can disable it and have a vanilla Android home screen on the Hero).
This is a really enticing phone. My HTC Touch has a ~450Mhz processor in it, and "lean" builds of Android still tend to lag and stall fairly often. The Hero only has a ~550Mhz processor, and I'm not sure that's enough. However, I've always been happy with HTC build quality, and battery life has been as expected.
This or the Hero? This has a better processor and the hardware keyboard.
On the other hand the HTC android skin seems to be pretty good.
I am with you, i want the HTC flavor of Android with this phone! All the reviews of the Hero have said that its super pretty but not powerful enough to support its GUI.
Confirmed for Nov. 1:
http://now.sprint.com/android/moment/?id9=vanity:moment
Damn you, T-Mobile!
Then again, looking closer, that's incredibly awkward placing of the space bar... might kill the whole experience.
This is Android's year. New phones poping out. Let's see how this turns to be :)
Wow, it ended up being REALLY nice.
This is the best looking Android phone so far imo.
I need to hold myself back until I can get everything I want.
Android
1Ghz Processor
AMOLED
3.2" < Screen < 3.6"
Capacitive
Multi-touch
Slide-out QWERTY
Top Battery Life (1500mAh?)
3.5mm headphone
All the basic links:
3G/4G
WiFi
Bluetooth
5MP or Greater Camera w/auto-foucus/flash
Video Recording
64GB MicroSD slot(that I don't have to remove the battery to replace)
And of course all the other normal abilities as far as media formats, messaging etc...
Is this really too much to ask??
This phone is soooo close!
Will it be multitouch????!!
I don't want to have to root it.
I'm with you. Bored with my iPhone but if I'm going to make a switch I need my qualifications covered. Let's start at that just good enough to cut it but not great 3.2 inch screen.
All these Android phones are just good enough. The style, the processor, the screen size or screen type, etc. I need a killer AAA Android phone. It doesn't exist yet.
Yes.
Don't ya want to make phone calls with it too?
And by the time the manufactures give us what we *WANT*, we'll be too damn old to use 'em!
phone calls would be part of the "etc" part I guess
You're right though. I'll probably be able to skype all my calls by the time my demands are met.
SUCH a good year to be due a new phone
is the screen capacitive or not?
i hope it is.
It is
Nice work. So, for those playing at home, adding up the announced Android Phones for each Carrier that's:
1. T-Mobile: 4
2. Sprint: 2
3. Verizon + At&t= 0
And don't bring up the Sholes, either. No price/date means no phone.
But..Verizon showed 2 phones...!!!!!
dang the next few weeks are gonna be exciting!
Here's a video of the device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_9FYa6MdCg&feature=player_embedded
Video says not available on SERO
Sprint: Move the space bar to the correct position or I'm not buying the phone.
looks like you're not going to buy it then since it's less than a month away from release.
requires everything plan with data. sorry SERO peeps, u gotta switch to play.
WTF!!! You need to get an EVERYTHING PLAN, that sucks!!!
Chill out dude- it's the same thing with all their smartphones:
you have to get and everything DATA plan i.e. the ones that start at $69/mo. You're not going to get a highend smartphone for less $ anywhere else.
The specs are posted over here:
http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-samsung-moment-announced-amoled-android-smartphone-0759564/
For size comparison purposes:
Sprint HTC Hero
4.46 x 2.22 x 0.54 inches; weight 4.5 oz.
Samsung Moment
4.6 x 2.34 x 0.63 inches; weight 5.67 oz.
Seems pretty slim considering the inclusion of the slide-out qwerty keyboard. Gotta check this out in person though.
"The Moment has a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen" This decided for me that I won't be getting this phone! :( resolution is what I won't settle on.
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Why is no one else excited that this phone has an 800Mhz processor and a FULL PHYSICAL QWERTY??? THANK GOD! I'm so sick of HTC and their Qualcomm 528MHz processor. I tried the MyTouch 3G just to get an idea of what to expect when the Sprint Hero came out. LAG CENTRAL! I couldn't stand it. I finished my trial early (10 days instead of 20 days) and returned for a full refund. Clearly the memory and processor were deficient.
But my hatred for Apple and AT&T and my lust for an Android phone based on the sheer number of apps had me thinking I'd probably bend and get the Sprint Hero, but hold on to my Palm Pre in case the apps started flooding through all of the sudden (yeah like that's going to happen). But now just the fact that I can retain a FULL PHYSICAL QWERTY and have a faster processor....I'm sold! Still not giving up my Palm Pre just yet since it really is the closest experience to an iPhone experience (less the 2 billion apps).
Anyone know how much memory this thing will have?
PS: I'm also really happy they kept their crappy looking TouchWiz interface. That thing looked hiddeous. Visual Voicemail YES! But no multitouch? :( I guess I couldn't have it all.
why would you want to have an iphone experience? that phone sucks
You should be able to disable the touchwiz BS. The "default" Google Experience still lives in the background. I got the Hero last week and don't care for HTC's "Sense" UI - it's slow and drains the battery. You can disable in the application settings area and the phone defaults back to "vanilla" Android - much better! I can only assume this will be true for every Android phone. Although I don't know for sure.
Fast processor, energy saving touch screen display, Google native apps and full QWERTY! Wow.
Only thing I wonder, does the 800MHz processor finally takes care of the lag issues seen on the HTC Hero. It seems that while the Hero's firmware update improved the performance, reviewers keep noticing a bit of lag. And if the lag is due to the CPU, then the Samsung is the way to go. But could the bottleneck be elsewhere? (memory, OS, etc)
Kinda curious that all this makers are ditching their own themes for the standard Google Theme. Wonder if its Google asking them to do something a bit more uniform and then letting users have the choice of using the theme offered by the maker?
Google after all probably doesn't want to make all Android phones so different that going from one to the other would be a hard transition.
ON a different note. I wonder if the OLED helps them keep it thinner...and not a brick like the G1 was. Cause I didn't mind the keyboard but the thickness really sucked.
I like this phone a lot. Planned on getting the hero and using the Amy mobile plan. And ditching my 3gs, it's the only thing in sprints line up that's close to the iPhone. I will save $80 a month with sprint. The only thing about the MOMENT is the AMOLED screen and the 800mhz processor. I could do with out the key board. I hope it can get an onscreen key board and is multi touch. If I can port the sense ui to this then I'm sold over. I'll just buy the hero and then take it back when this comes out.
Good point, Gavin! I was thinking I'd hold off on getting the Hero, but you're right. Sprint gives you 30 days to test out the phone. I guess Hero plans are back on (in a few days).
Minus $35 restocking fee, right? Trying to decide whether to stay with Touch Pro2 or this.
$35 small price to pay to make sure I get the best phone that suits my needs. Plus I could get $35 begging outside of an mcdonalds, not that that's what I do. Lol.
No, there's no restocking fee. During the first 30 days, you can exchange it for any other device (assuming you haven't trashed the original one). I think they only allow you to do so twice, though maybe three is the limit. I've done this in the past with my Diamond.
On second thought, maybe there is a restocking fee, but only if you're returning the phone and not getting a different one. If you're simply exchanging one phone for another, no restocking fee.
Exchange policy from http://www.sprint.com/landings/returns/
* You get one exchange per 30-day period. Please note that an exchange does not extend the 30-day period.
* If your device has been activated, there is a $35 restocking fee for all exchanges due at the time of the exchange (Per Hawaii state law, this does not apply Hawaii residents).
is the optical trackpad the same type on the non trackball blackberries?
so anyone know if its possible to root the Sense UI onto the Moment?
I may have found my new phone.
Looks like my Samsung Exclaim, but, you know, Googlier. And with a touchscreen. And no dual slider.
Scratch that, it looks nothing like my phone.
I wish I could get one without data, the WiFi would be good enough for me, and I'd rather not switch plans right now cuz the family plan I'm on is the best possible deal for me.
What I want to know is, how does the performance of the Samsung S3C6410 compair to the TI OMAP OMAP3430. According to the spec sheets the OMAP3430 (the processor in the Sholes) is based on a ARM Cortex A8 -- and the Samsung S3C6410 is based on ARM 1176 -- two very different processors. It may turn out the S3C6410 is actually slower than the OMAP3430, despite it's higher CPU clock. I would love to see some benchmarks and real-world performance tests between these two devices -- honestly, the better performing chip is going to be the deciding factor for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
According to this table, the arm 1176 is an old generation processor. Same one as in the iphone first gen and tegra apx 2500. I suppose that is why the nvidia chipset wasn't successful as phone manufacturers knew cortex a8 and especially cortex a9 (out of order execution like on modern x86 cpus) are coming.
But are you sure this 800mhz processor is a arm 1176 ? When looking at the frequency i would have guessed cortex a8 ...
Vincent,
Based on the information from Samsung, It seems that is it an ARM 1176JZF-S. It leaves to me beleive the higher clock may be less revlivant when compared to the OMAP34xx chips.
http://www.winmobiletech.com/022008Barcelona/1024/19022008355.jpg
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=229&partnum=S3C6410
Is that an optical trackpad? It looked like one on earlier pics but now it just looks like a button.
I think the trackball/pad is required on an android phone interface but not sure having never owned one, but pad > ball.
I would give android a try... it's just hard for me to get over the built-in tethering WinMo phones give you.
So basically this will require an EP while the Hero will not.
Better hardware vs keep SERO... hmm...
hero requires everything data plan too
You are correct, this poses no threat to the iPhone. Those going Android require a much more robust and unrestricted OS on their smartphone. Apple hasn't delivered that. The iPhone is what it is and it's good at what it does do. But it isn't a threat to Android OS based phones. Now run along and teabag Mr. Jobs. :)
And just like that you are doomed to eternal grayness