Even before the Galaxy S IV was announced, HTC was on Twitter readily talking smack about the impending Galaxy S IV announcement. HTC’s first jab at Samsung started with the retweet of Yves Le Jan’s now infamous “Toys R Us” tweet:
Samsung are due to announce their latest phone to be sold exclusively in Toys 'R Us today. Want a real phone? Get the @htc #HTCOne #LRT—
Yves (@Hawk1902) March 14, 2013
As soon as the actual phone was announced, the floodgates opened and HTC decided to pull an all-nighter by tweeting anything negative it could about the device.
The next big thing is not made of plastic. It’s the premium all-metal – The new HTC One http://t.co/0JE3QTEdwK—
HTC India (@HTC_IN) March 15, 2013
So…how off-Broadway is this production? #theNextBigFlop #HTCOne—
HTC (@htc) March 14, 2013
But HTC didn’t just stop at Twitter to spread the hate. In an interview with BusinessInsider, HTC’s President Mike Woodward had some harsh words for Samsung. When asked about his thoughts on the Galaxy S IV, Woodward said, “It feels very iterative. It looks a lot like the Galaxy S III…We were pleased to see no innovation in the design itself.”
HTC seems to be very glad about the Galaxy S IV’s plastic design, as one of the main selling points of the new HTC One phone is its all aluminum chassis.
@htc Ok, #HTCOne it is!! What a terrible design of the Samsung galaxy S4… Same as the S3! HTC knows how to design beatiful phones!—
James Loos (@JamessLoos) March 14, 2013
While HTC seems to be cooling off its Twitter account, expect to hear more rhetoric from HTC as the Galaxy S IV starts to become available to the public.
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