Comments on: iSource Holiday Contests: Winner-a-Day Giveaway, Day 11

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:25:58 +0000

Darn my comment didn’t post earlier before I headed to school. 🙁

Anyways, I would’ve made it all about the wait that everyone went through about the iphone 5. And emphasis everyone hoping for a bigger screen, a different design, and all the other rumors the people wanted. And then finish the ad with “the phone you want is already here…the samsung galaxy s2” 😀

By: BaldyPal

BaldyPal — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:50 +0000

In reply to PatrickJ. Wow! Totally missed that one. I guess we are guilty of following the pack. After I read the first few comments which were about phones i totally forgot it was supposed to be about users. I'll see you tomorrow!

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:56:28 +0000

OK – Simon, Paula, J-Lo, Nichole and your esteemed iSource judges have done some lengthy judging and picked today’s winner. Before revealing the winner, I should mention one quick thing on these contests: pay close attention to the challenge we set out for you. Many of you today did not follow it – you talked about iPhone features and specs vs. Galaxy. But we asked you to name the one character trait about iPhone users you would poke fun at. So very few entries were even passed through to the second round of judging.

Anyway, our winner today is:

April Johnson.

Congrats April! And please keep an eye on your Inbox and spam folders – as I’ll be emailing you very soon to ask for your shipping details.

By: Brandon Bethea

Brandon Bethea — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:00:10 +0000

I would make fun of Apple’s Siri assistant, as this seems to be a big focus right now. The Samsung Galaxy S II could ask questions and get humorous responses, such as “How long is the line at the Apple store?” Siri replies “3 days, 2 hours, and 11 minutes, good thing you bought THIS phone” or “When will the new Apple iPhone come out?” Siri replies with “Magic 8 Ball” answers, “The outlook does not look good.”

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:59:14 +0000

I would have a business person have to make an important call to his boss but never get the call across because of the dropped calls he had by blocking the antennas on the side of the iPhone.

By: april johnson

april johnson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:56:16 +0000

I would poke fun at how iphone users just seem to deal with bad battery life and phone reception.

Here is my commercial:

A few hipster friends are taking a hike in the woods on a beautiful trail. They are using their iphone to take pics, tweet, text, use GPS, etc… Then one of them decides to make a call… Dang… no reception!
One friend asks “Dude, are you holding it right?”

With horror, each one watches as their battery life drains and soon no one has a working iphone anymore.

They panic big time!!! “Oh my god we are in the woods and no one will find us” they all scream.

Then a couple passes them on the trail carrying a Samsung Galaxy S II and they all breath a sigh of relief and “ooh and ah” over the working Samsung phone.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:54:14 +0000

One character trait of iphone users that I would make fun of in the next Samsung ad for the Galaxy S II would be that ihpone users are too absorbed in Siri. I can picture them saying every type of question to Siri. So in the next ad, Siri would slowly become sassy and suggest to the iphone user to throw away the iphone and get the Galazy S II.

By: ZacharyH

ZacharyH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:48:16 +0000

In reply to BaldyPal. Winner. This made me laugh xD

By: Larry W.

Larry W. — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:12:29 +0000

I would have a guy bragging about the 4.7″ screen vs the 3.5″ screen with various scenes of someone having to zoom all the time whilt the Galaxy users ‘just works’ and he’s using Flash to boot.

You could end it with the iPhone user asking Siri how to get a bigger screen and her directing him to the local AT&T store (or what ever carrier.)

By: ricardo_c

ricardo_c — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:12:51 +0000

The whole iSheep mentality would probalby be the best trait to make fun of. Show all kinds of different people with android phones, each enjoying their phones, meanwhile you have a group of iPhone users all dresses the same and sort of zombie looking who together say “I want an iPhone!”

By: BaldyPal

BaldyPal — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:05:04 +0000

I would have to brag about the huge screen size on the Galaxy S II. In comparison to the iPhone which never changes in screen size, the SII dwarfs the iPhone. My commercial would feature someone with large hands. Someone like Jaws from 007 or Andre the Giant or even Big Foot. This character is trying to touch a small icon but can’t quite get it and selects the wrong thing evertime and gets frustrated. Eventually throws the phone. Then he picks up a Samsung Galaxy S II which has a ginormous 4.3 inch super AMOLED screen and is happy because his big thumbs hit the icon dead on everytime.

By: Maria P.

Maria P. — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:57:02 +0000

I would simply make fun of the “air of Apple-ness superiority” we have. You KNOW what I mean, ApplePals. In the ad, I’m picturing a person discussing the Galaxy to an apple. Samsung would show/discuss a great feature of the Galaxy and the apple would smirk: “But, I am an Apple.” The ad would end with the spokesperson taking a bite out of the apple and commenting “Wow – that’s one sour apple!”

By: Katie L

Katie L — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:45:37 +0000

I would have the ad about the customizing ability of the Galaxy S II vs. the iPhone. You would have the animations/shortcuts for keystrokes (wifi/3g/4g/bluetooth)/notifications shown on the Galaxy and iPhone. It would start off the iPhone user about to get onto a plane and needing to get into airplane mode. It shows him having to go into settings to turn it off while the Galaxy user just hits the shortcut on his home screen. While on the plane it shows off the larger screen through videos. Next it would show him getting off the plane and trying to connect to a bluetooth device (earpiece maybe?). The iPhone user again has to go into his setting to try to find what he wants and then connect where the galaxy user just simply presses the key for bluetooth and voila. The commercial would accent the ability to easily access those abilities/the galaxies excellent ability to customize home screens (showing backgrounds/apps moving/etc.) I know i’ve had problems with bluetooth connections on my iphone, so I would put some emphasis in that.

By: Cade wall

Cade wall — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:42:42 +0000

I would make fun of iPhones not having adobe flash player. It would have people with the s2 watching some kind of news video or streaming web cast and the iPhone users trying to and being frustrated because they cant. S2 user “the iPhone doesn’t have flash?”
iPhone user “no. I can never watch the good stuff and it makes me mad!! Can I see yours?”
S2 user “haha….. No the at&t store is over there. Go get one.”
iPhone user “I think I will. I might finally be happy with a phone!!”

By: Mikey Moe

Mikey Moe — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:32:04 +0000

making fun of how the iPhone appearance never changes…

I would have a close up, side by side, comparison of how the two phones look (shape and screen) while on separate turn tables with the caption “2012” or “2011” (and have a crowd of people around the iPhone). Then go to a similar scene of the two phone, while having the iPhone look identical to the previous scene but have then have Samsung phone look like an out of this would futuristic awesome design with the caption “2020” on the TV screen (or something in the near future)…..then go back to the original scene but zoom out and show a banner over the Samsung phone “Start of the Revolution”….

Option 2: same concept but go year by year with the iPhone never changing and the Samsung getting better and better and every year the crowd gets smaller around the iPhone and greater around the Samsung…but still have the banner saying “Start of the Revolution”

By: ZacharyH

ZacharyH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:17:31 +0000

Woopsies. Misread. I would make fun of the fact that Siri is still in the beta stages and it was still released. I would also point out the fact that it doesn’t even works sometimes. Pointing these things out feels like a sin. My commercial would consist of an iPhone user and a Samsung Galaxy S II user. The Samsung user would challenge the iPhone user to a speed test and the iPhone user would use Siri but Siri would end up having the error message of failing to retrieve. End.

By: MikeCTZA

MikeCTZA — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:09:15 +0000

I’d have to make fun of how the iPhone lock screen is so bare and can’t by default (without JailBreak tweaks, this is one of the reasons I used to Jailbreak my iPhone) can do nothing more than show the some basic notification center odds and ends.
What I would point out is how the Galaxy S II can do a lot more just by looking at it. I’d probably do something set at say a snow lodge with people on the slopes with their gloves on and it is too cold to remove them and how they can just look at the phone and get a decent amount of info without even unlocking.

By: Tanny

Tanny — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:57:38 +0000

I think one thing I’ve (as an iPhone user) been made fun of is how the home screen and the apps screens are organised (in the sense that, unlike Android phones) I cannot manipulate and re-organize/customize the homescreen based on what apps/widgets I can put on there. So the ad could show an iPhone user saying how he/she is busy bragging about his/her awesome display background and how cool it is to customize the background and shows off his/her impressive looking background. Then the Samsung user passes by and says ” pfft you think that’s cool?” and shows his/her phone and how he/she can add all sorts of widgets and apps to his home screen and how interactive the home screen and background look. Then the iPhone users do their typical “what’s that what’s that??!?!” and one of them goes “ugh…it’s a Samsung”.

By: ZacharyH

ZacharyH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:44:58 +0000

Personally, I would take a stab at how they released a white Galaxy S II. They’re copying the company they mock.