Sanyo MM-5600
5600 not released yet and already winning awards....
btw, I hear Maximum PC is giving ATI an award for the best newest video card! WOW! yeah, it's not even out yet, not in production, not anything, it has 512mb of memory and is 3 months away from being released, nobody has used it, tested it, played with it, put it to stress tests, basically nobody can say they've experienced it, b...
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Its like the Academy Awards a movie/phone doesn't have to make a ton of money to be great. And the critics and their ilk get to screen/test out movies before the public. Think about it the 8100 is the best selling phone in Sprint history, did it win a whole lot of awards, no.
Secondly, this post isn't even in a common, easy to find place, as if Sprint was saying to the whole world please see how great our phone is. Its more for the people who are interested in this kind of stuff. It amazes that people will find any excuse t...
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The award is presented by DIMA based on a comprehensive evaluation by a blue-ribbon panel of digital imaging editors and writers
as you see there are a group of editors/writers who haven't used the phone either. Technically the phone is on the website, with an availability date. Don't vid cards get reviewed or rewards before they are released to the public(to use your analogy)? Of course they do, every single new card/chip release is like that. This is a marketing gimmick pure and simple. It is there simply to say, hey look! our phone has an award..... For those who know what the award really is, they will glance over it and just move on. for those who don't understand,...
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Yeah, it's just a marketing gimmick, but for those who aren't duped into such gimmicks so easily they will see past the marketing gimmick
actually this is exactly what I was meaning. If you understand the way things work, you won't care about it. If you do care about it, then you are either being fooled into thinking this award matters, or think others are being fooled in the same manner(I am pretty sure everyone here isn't being fooled). accept it for what it is, and lets...
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