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Finally. After months and months of hype, speculation, gossip and rumor, it's finally official: The Samsung Galaxy S IV has been released. Or, at least, it kind of feels like it has.
The announcement of a March 14 release date (congratulations to those of you who won your office pools) for the Galaxy S IV seems to have taken a lot of the wind out of the hype machine's sails, which is curious, on its face - we don't know anything more than we already did about the device's looks or capabilities, so why the apparent ebbing of interest?
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Truthfully, I don't know the answer to that, but assuming this is a real phenomenon, it demonstrates how smart Apple is for coming up with this pattern in the first place - rumors + hype + only giving a couple weeks of lead time before release = gigantic amounts of news coverage, some of the...