Samsung takes i780 to retail in Europe

Let's try to get past the fact that Samsung ended a sentence with a preposition for just a moment, if you will, and turn our collective attention to the real headline here: the SGH-i780 Windows Mobile 6 Professional handset. True, it's been official for quite some time now, but it seems that the phone's just now getting its proper European launch with support from Orange and Telefonica along with an unlocked, unsubsidized version that should be turning up in retailers across the continent for something in the range of €549 (about $805). A little steep, perhaps, but considering the HSDPA, 320 x 320 square display, WiFi, and "optical joystick" for navigation, we'll cut it just a little slack. That grammatically problematic sentence, though -- well, that's another matter altogether.

[Via the::unwired]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 9:53AM]

Speaking of grammatically incorrect, there's another mistake: "...the phone's just now getting its [not it's] proper..." Cheers, grammar geek.

[Chris Posted Feb 19th 2008 10:47AM]

Oh man, the sweet, sweet irony. I deserved that. Thanks for the correction.

Chris

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2008 5:01AM]

If we're going to nit-pick, "its" is actually the correct modern spelling when using the possessive form of "it", whereas "it's" is best applied when contracting "it is", ergo no mistake. (Source: Macquarie Dictionary)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 10:50AM]

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, in response to a staffer who pointed out a sentence that WC had ended with a preposition: "That is the kind of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put."

In the modern era, at the end of sentences prepositions fine are; like Yoda otherwise you sound. ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 12:49PM]

English is not my native language, but how would you else put it?

"Imagine a mirror with which you can make calls"?

To my ears, Samsung's way of putting it sounds more fluent...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 5:33PM]

MTM, it sounds more fluent as it is more widely used, hence you are (we all are) more familiar with that sentence structure. However, the correct one is the one you mentioned (Imagine a mirror with which you can make calls) or morphing the sentence to something like "Imagine a mirror you can also use to make calls". The problem the Samsung's approach becomes more apparent when you add more things to what you can do with the mirror (Imagine a mirror you can also use to make calls, text your friends, browse the Internet while playing PacMan with). You get the gist.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2008 4:13AM]

Razor1973, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 6:56PM]

Any chance the 3G chip includes some States-side magic? Will we see this over here?