Android Phones
Rumor: Samsung Bigfoot is the everchanging phone
June 11, 2009 | by Andrew Kameka
Samsung
Bigfoot is a mythical creature, but the “Bigfoot” Android phone is more like X-Men’s Mystique: just when you think you know her, it turns out that the blue vixen can look completely different.
The Bigfoot, first thought to be a Motorola redo of the G1 or a Samsung product for T-Mobile, has recently been reported to be a Samsung phone with G1-like phone with a similar chin, OS, and slide-out keyboard. According to Boy Genius Report, this is the “Bigfoot” phone that’s supposed to come to T-Mobile soon.
I’m a little confused about this, however. The rendering makes it seem like the Bigfoot packs a chin that HTC has slated for its Android phones. Why would Samsung adopt something from another company that serves no function and actually isn’t a great design feature?
Secondly, there’s no call, home, back, or end call buttons. I was under the impression that Android devices, at least the phones, needed non-touchscreen buttons. How are apps and functions that respond to those four buttons going to operate? Will there be a touchscreen option or will that scroll-wheel-button hybrid render that moot? If this really is the Bigfoot, it will be interesting to see how Samsung handles that issue.
there is plenty of space around the "d-pad" that can be used for light up touch based "buttons" that will act as the home, menu, etc. The General Mobile DTS1 has similar style buttons, and everyone thought when the pics were first leaked it couldn't be an Android phone because you couldn't see any buttons, that obviously turned out wrong. Samsung has been known to use that style of hidden "buttons" before. There are some other things that do make me curious though, I agree the chin doesn't make sense, and the fact that the left speaker on the slide is better focused then the one on the right, while the keyboard keeps constant focus through out screams photoshop. But there have been photoshopped pics that ended up turning into real devices (could be a early design thrown together in photoshop but still a real phone).
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