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Reports from the field (Best Buy)

Started Dec 16, 2013 | Discussions thread
Eijun Regular Member • Posts: 121
Re: Reports from the field (Best Buy)

shademaster wrote:

Went to BestBuy yesterday. Nice Samsung setup with galaxy S4, galaxy camera, AND NX300. There were a couple of Samsung guys on the floor. They didn't know a whole lot about NX300, but they knew the major talking points (mainly: "big sensor", "wifi connectivity"). Couldn't evaluate responsiveness, since they must have had an ancient memory card. after a 3RAW burst in high-speed mode, it wouldn't take a photo for 10 seconds. There was no "processing", but it's still useless if it takes 10 seconds to take another photo. I hope this is just a slow memory card issue.

The rep. told me that he got training last week for Galaxy NX; which means they will have these on the floor soon (they don't train these guys for nothing). When I told him the current MSRP, he said "no way!". Leads me to believe there will be a major price cut and advertising/distribution push post-christmas.

For all the nay-sayers, re-read the press release about merging camera with phone divisions… it talks a lot about advertising and distribution. There was only NEX and NX at BestBuy. At costco there was Canon/Nikon (DSLR and J3) and Samsung (NX2000). What people don't get: camera shops are dead (unless you are in NYC and can go to B&H). I have a feeling that Sony and Samsung will rule this thing in a few years time; for better or worse.

Think cell phones and solid state drives.

Thoughts?

What Samsung needs to do is not release a camera every year, but every other year and not all 3 of them at the same time. And I still dont get the point of the NXxxxx line.

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