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HTC's Chief Innovator: 'The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed'

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TheSonOfKrypton
07/14/09

In reply to HTC's Chief Innovator: 'The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed'
Hey Nutbastard: Isn't this what we're were talking about the other day (just now, with another company)? I love how they all compare their products to the iPhone. That's right idiots, just keep bringing the iPhone up....that'll get your phone to #1 lusted after device REAL quick.
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SysRq
07/14/09

@TheSonOfKrypton: Yeah, you would think other companies would just shut up about the iPhone before they get branded as just iPhone clones. (I know better than to say an Android phone is trying to be like the iPhone.)
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Ehrich Blackhound
07/14/09

In reply to HTC's Chief Innovator: 'The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed'
Wait a minute. Teflon is the NON-STICK stuff on my cookware at home (and in my bloodstream), right? Just sayin' is all.
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tande04
07/14/09

@Ehrich Blackhound: Which is what you want when you want a phone that doesn't attract oil and finger prints.

The material itself isn't slick, it just doesn't form bonds like other material which is why food, water, oil, and fingerprints don't stick. Its not actually slick to hold onto.
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ludwigk
07/14/09

@tande04: Incorrect. Teflon is indeed slick precisely because it doesn't form bonds. The strong carbon-flourine bonds in the polytetraflouroethylene is what provides non-stick properties on a microscopic scale, which translates into slickness on a macroscopic scale. Teflon is in fact so good at this that it has one of the lowest coefficients of friction of any material known to man. It is used as a solid lubricant in some machine/industrial applications.

For the HTC guy to call the iPhone slippery when his phone is coated in Teflon is indeed ironic, particularly because it is those non-stick properties that drove them to use the material in the first place. What it actually does is prevents oil from sticking to the phone, reducing the slipperyness of the surface+oil. The iPhone, being less slippery, becomes more slippery over time with your grubby handprints

I'm assuming that the HTC also overcomes this by having a textured surface that Teflon is deposited on, which allows the phone to have some grip, as opposed to the sheer curves of the iPhone's much less slippery, but harder to hold on to, exterior.
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SkippyTheMarine
07/14/09

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If what my mom says is true, and if what Horace says is true, then if I swallow an iPhone, then will a new iPhone grow in my stomach?
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dingus
07/14/09

@SkippyTheMarine: Ah, it makes sense now!

1) Eat iPhone.

2) Poop out two iPhones.

3) Profit!
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SysRq
07/14/09

@dingus: What sucks is that you can't do that with the iPod Shuffle. After all, we are not to eat iPod Shuffle.
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OMG! Ponies!
07/14/09

In reply to HTC's Chief Innovator: 'The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed'
Yeah, but watermelon seeds are wicked fun. I like to set them aside in my cheeks while eating watermelon and then, once I've got a whole bunch, run around yelling "Look at me! I'm a Spitfire!" spitting them at people while making airplane noises.

I haven't been to a company picnic in years.
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jibbly
07/14/09

@OMG! Ponies!: When/if I am invited over to a religious family's Thanksgiving dinner and asked to say grace before the meal, I shall recite this comment with complete sincerity and end it with a solemn "AMEN".
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Nick
07/14/09

@OMG! Ponies!: i did not know you were a ventriloquist. you, sir, are a man of many hats. and a yarmulke.
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newtype
07/14/09

@OMG! Ponies!:

Wow-You're funny-Not

In other news, I like that HTC is really trying to push the design and functionality of their devices forward; in a time where most companies are in a down-turn with taking chances, HTC is their to pick up the slack.

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tande04
07/14/09

@newtype2011: You know that replying to a stared commenter doesn't automatically make yours show up too.

Though I'm sure you'll get a reply from at least one due to your completely out of place comment that could of been completely on its own without the lame attempt to get noticed.
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@newtype2011: Hey, when something is off topic, keep it that way. Also, Giz, I didn't mean to approve his comment. I guess since I approved tande04's, it approved his also. ) :
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tande04
07/14/09

In reply to HTC's Chief Innovator: 'The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed'
The obvious answer is square watermelons.
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Gizmodelphia
07/14/09

@tande04:

they have those already

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tande04
07/14/09

@Gizmodelphia: Of course they do, it was the obvious answer.

Other shapes are less obvious
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@Gizmodelphia: OMG Freaking awesome.
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gadam07
07/14/09

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Wait, what about watermelons? I fail to grasp the connection.

Oh, he said "slippery like a watermelon seed" in the interview. That makes more sense.

What still doesn't make sense to me is this: to make the HTC Hero less slippery, they cover it with the substance with the lowest coefficient of friction on earth. What?
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USB_Humping_Dog
07/14/09

@gadam07: You failed to grasp it? Perhaps the connection slipped through your consciousness.
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gadam07
07/14/09

@USB_Humping_Dog: Well said. I definitely did not intend to set myself up for that.
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jibbly
07/14/09

@USB_Humping_Dog: That's because it's made of watermelon seeds.
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