Matrix: Reloaded Cell Phone

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<div class="IPBDescription">Yep, It's a Real Product</div> Samsung nabbed a nifty product endorsement, and is actually selling the SPH-N270 cell phone used by the rebels in <i>The Animatrix</i>, <i>The Matrix: Reloaded</i>, and <i>The Matrix: Revolutions</i>. In addition to looking so damn cool, it's also a fully functional, color display-equipped digital phone. <a href='http://www.samsung.com/Products/MobilePhone/CDMA/MobilePhone_CDMA_SPH_N270_ac.htm' target='_blank'>Check it out.</a>
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    Nah. It looks like a cheesy rip off. I'd rather go for a phone sold on its features and quality, not its likeness to a movie prop.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <img src='http://www.samsung.com/Products/MobilePhone/CDMA/images/matrix_03.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Looks like a Lightsaber. :P
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--MedHead+Jun 20 2003, 10:59 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Jun 20 2003, 10:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Nah. It looks like a cheesy rip off. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then why not they just sue Samsung? I'm sure they've bought the rights and if anything it's offical.
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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--JediYoshi+Jun 21 2003, 06:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (JediYoshi @ Jun 21 2003, 06:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--MedHead+Jun 20 2003, 10:59 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Jun 20 2003, 10:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Nah. It looks like a cheesy rip off. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then why not they just sue Samsung? I'm sure they've bought the rights and if anything it's offical. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not a cheesy ripoff. Not only do they have the rights to the phone in the film, but they also have a sweepstakes and seperate, flash-based site just for the phone. Plus it's just so darn <i>cool</i>.
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    What you say? Playmates bought the rights to the Star Trek toy line, yet they couldn't ever get it looking right. What's your point? The fact remains, it looks similar to the phone in the Matrix, but its not exact. Therefore, it looks like a cheesy rip off of the actual phone in the Matrix. Why dis so hard to undastand?
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    Because the word you're looking for is cheap <i>imitation</i>.
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    I prefer rip off.
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  • NarfwakNarfwak Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5258Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Playtest Lead, Forum Moderators, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Gold, Reinforced - Diamond, Reinforced - Shadow, Subnautica PT Lead, NS2 Community Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin--MedHead+Jun 21 2003, 06:08 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Jun 21 2003, 06:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I prefer rip off. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not a ripoff or an imitation. If you would actually look at some of the material, you would notice that Samsung was hired to design the phone for the movie. So if anything, the movie is ripping off Samsung.

    Companies do the same thing for the Bond movies; instead of just coming up with some absurd contraption, many of the gadgets used by Bond are desgined and created as functional devices.

    Nubcaek.
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    IMO, imitation means a copy of something trying to be something else.

    Rip off meaning a copy of something being like something else yet not saying that it is.
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    Good grief people, get off my back! I think that this phone is exploiting the fandom of the Matrix. I think it is <b>ripping off</b> people by enticing them to buy a phone that has only one merit: it looks like a movie prop. Man, you guys get into semantics waaay to easily. Need to take a valium or something.
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  • SaltySalty Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6970Members
    It looks like an electric razor to me.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Oh god that's ridiculous.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    I don't like the keys, they look too cheesy, but if the phone has some wheight to it, there is a potential for high Chick Magnet Factor. My friend works at a cell phone place, so hopefully he can get one of these babies so I can check it out <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Mr_HeadcrabMr_Headcrab Squee&#33;~ Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9392Members, Constellation
    Well, i like it, its really odd, and better than the 6 year old one i got....
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  • AgentOrangeAgentOrange Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9244Members
    It looks totaly whack. I wouldn't be caught dead using that tacky thing <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> but it's not ripping anything off, so, yeah!
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  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    ewww

    dont like it
    looks too chunky and cumbersome
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  • LucidRealityLucidReality Join Date: 2003-02-13 Member: 13496Members
    How the heck do you get 2 pages of typing over a PHONE!?!?!?!?!?!

    i would use it simply cause i have 0 cellphones.
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited June 2003
    dont u think samsung has given away prototype concepts for the movie like nokia in the 1rst one?
    bringing that handy into the movie was the best promotion they could get... lol.. maybe samsung have paid for that... the one in the movie was a fuctional design concept prototype, the actual handy you could buy is the final product with all improovements... it would be way to expensive to develop a high techy functional handy just for a movie... samsung pays half of the price of the matrix production would cost, only to get a functional prototype... i think thats a bit much for a movie company only to build such a little detail for their movie
    the nokia handy in the first part was also only a prototype... the final version looked just a lil bit different.. and most ppls buyed it because they have seen it in the movie <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    from the samsung site:

    Behold the Samsung SPH-N270, the mobile phone which was specially produced as the messenger for heroes & heroines that need to cross over time and space in movie ?MATRIX; RELOADED?. It has a futuristic pop up design fully outfitted with the spirit of a three-dimensional world. Another masterpiece made by Samsung. SPH-N270, The Matrix Phone is now open to you!


    and yeah,thats buisness strategy.. all for the money.. samsung sells their handy with the matrix license and a stupid matrix tv commercial..and the matrix doods gettin a unique,never seen before handy for their movie... it even got a matrix screensaver build in
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  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I just want the phone design from the first Matrix. Oh my.
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited June 2003
    <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> hmm... that was a 8110 ..
    the 7110 was similar.. i think it even got more features.. and the display is way bigger
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited June 2003
    the cellphone was labeled 8110...
    that was a rush to the handyshops <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> nokia 8110? whuts that?
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    edited June 2003
    "8110i"... i dunno when or where this one comed out.. never seen one before in real life..
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