NvyUs | # 2691 | 2011-05-25, 01:31 | Report

its probably a wind up, don't listen lol

gerbick | # 2692 | 2011-05-25, 01:32 | Report

Panasonic has 100k+ more employees worldwide. Samsung has a lot of reach, Panasonic is also huge... bigger actually.

daperl | # 2693 | 2011-05-25, 01:37 | Report

http://www.flickr.com/photos/general...n/photostream/

nwerneck | # 2694 | 2011-05-25, 01:46 | Report

The big thing arrived, for everyone in the conference, but it has windows on them!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/qole2/5756974520/

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gerbick | # 2695 | 2011-05-25, 01:47 | Report

And what does Arek mean?

hawaii | # 2696 | 2011-05-25, 02:20 | Report

Arek is h0pbeat's name - and that is his N900.

We're just having fun with you lunatics

slaapliedje | # 2697 | 2011-05-25, 02:27 | Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7zfnbdyAW8

To quote Jeff Spicoli.

"You dick!"

slaapliedje

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EIPI | # 2698 | 2011-05-25, 02:29 | Report

I'd double-thank hawaii if I could. As well as the old-timer maemo-ites who conspired to put up the twitter-ruse I couldn't believe some random picture of Arek holding a device is the source of this much speculation. Lie dormant till June...

gryedouge | # 2699 | 2011-05-25, 02:32 | Report

LOL! you just made all the TMO conspiracy theorists and crackpot posters very happy!!

jakiman | # 2700 | 2011-05-25, 02:41 | Report

(bit off topic but just to clear this up)
But bigger than Samsung??? Yeah right.
Seems no one really knows how big Samsung is. =P

I wasn't just talking about Samsung Electronics division. (which is just a portion of Samsung) But even if we are talking about that division alone, according to Forbes report, in 2010, Samsung Electronics was ranked 55th and Panasonic is 444th (In 2009, Samsung Electronics was 47th and Panasonic was 89th) (Samsung Electronics division alone is worth more than 3x of Panasonic now)

But as I said, "Electronics" is just a portion of what Samsung does. (They do ships (2nd largest ship maker in the world such as oil tankers), Cars, Aviation, Engineering, Theme Parks, Hotels, IT Services (Called "SDS" which is bigger than Accenture), Insurance, Banks, Sports teams and about 20+ more stuff)

Quoting the wiki here - "In 2006, Samsung Group would have been the 35th largest economy in the world if ranked, larger than that of Argentina." (that's 5 years ago. It's obviously much bigger now as Samsung Electronics alone more than doubled in size/value between 2009/2010)

Anyways, I was actually interested in what Samsung was going to do with Bada OS. It's been very quiet. I was looking forward to see Bada 2.0 and seeing what they did with it. Considering they are full on using Android now in every mobile device they make, seems they gave up on it and it became the Maemo/Meego of Nokia.

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