LeBron James Freaked Out Over His Samsung Sponsored Galaxy Note Failure

[RedRound2]

It’s not the first time that it has happened, but that doesn’t make it any less humorous when a celebrity’s smartphone endorsement backfires. After all, we all like it when giants fall, do we not?

The latest celebrity to fall foul of their paid-for endorsements is basketball superstar LeBron James, who’s known for his affiliation with Samsung and its Galaxy Note smartphones.

 

According to his tweet, which has now been taken offline:

 

 

Unfortunately, it seems that James forgot that Samsung pays him to use that very phone and, understandably, the company probably wouldn’t take too kindly to having its dirty laundry aired in public. James has since pulled the tweet, but not before it got a good number of retweets and was immortalized in screenshot form by just about everyone that saw it. Whoopise.

 

But that’s not where the fun ends; HTC’s USA arm made good use of this situation and tweeted this Internet winning gem out:

 

 

Here’s hoping that, for his sake at least, Samsung somehow misses the whole debacle. Or his management team can smooth it over!

Either way, it didn’t take long for HTC to jump on the situation by posting a tweet of its own suggesting that perhaps the best player in the world should have the best smartphone in the world – presumably suggesting one of its own devices would have fared better.

Which may or may not be true!

 

Source: http://www.redmondpie.com/lebron-james-freaked-out-over-his-samsung-sponsored-galaxy-note-failure/

 

 

[AmateurPCGuy]

Good... let the company wars begin...

[Excon]

Thats hilarious. I hope HTC steals him from Samsung

[qwertywarrior]

ehh wait

 

ive never ever heard any one who had such an issue

 

a samsung phone that would  erase everything THEN restart ?

[Coombzy]

HTC will probably never get that deal now Samsung have way to much money and probably just doubled the endorsement amount.

[Admire]

Sorry, but this isn't even funny. Its just massively unproffesionel. He gets paid A LOT of money by samsung and he trashes them on twitter for something he probably did himself.

[Admire]

ehh wait

 

ive never ever heard any one who had such an issue

 

a samsung phone that would  erase everything THEN restart ?

 

He did it himself by mistake and then blamed samsung.

[RedRound2]

He did it himself by mistake and then blamed samsung.

 

It's not his fault. He might not be a tech savvy like us who knows everything about android or touchwiz. He represents the general consumers. Whatever happened to his Note 3 could also happen to any other general consumer who are btw responsible for atleast 80% of the sales

[Admire]

It's not his fault. He might not be a tech savvy like us who knows everything about android or touchwiz. He represents the general consumers. Whatever happened to his Note 3 could also happen to any other general consumer who are btw responsible for atleast 80% of the sales

 

Maybe, but that still does not excuse him screwing his sponsor who paid him tons of money. He isn't a reviewer who is supposed to tell os the truth. He is a paid advertiser.

[Paralectic]

GG SamDJUNG :')

[minimalist]

Maybe, but that still does not excuse him screwing his sponsor who paid him tons of money. He isn't a reviewer who is supposed to tell os the truth. He is a paid advertiser.

So you work for samsung or something? If not, who cares if he's paid by them to make commercials. A phone that easily erases everything is unacceptable, even if it's "his fault."

[Fetzie]

Who, exactly, is he? I've heard his name in conjuction with American sports, but since I have no interest in them I don't know who the guy is.

 

 

A phone that can easily perform a factory reset (implying it happened spontaneously or by accident) is useless. Nowadays you lose a lot more than your collection of phones numbers of easy lays when your phone is factory reset (like emails, music, photographs and documents).

[LifesCompanion]

[djdanster]

Who, exactly, is he? I've heard his name in conjuction with American sports, but since I have no interest in them I don't know who the guy is.

Basket Ball player.

[qwertywarrior]

It's not his fault. He might not be a tech savvy like us who knows everything about android or touchwiz. He represents the general consumers. Whatever happened to his Note 3 could also happen to any other general consumer who are btw responsible for atleast 80% of the sales

it takes multiple steps to do what he did

if you have  5th grade English skills then this wouldnt happen

[RedRound2]

it takes multiple steps to do what he did

if you have  5th grade English skills then this wouldnt happen

 

There are tons of other ways a android phone could reset itself. Maybe it might be a malware or something. I don't think anyone's stupid enough to actually go and click 'factory reset' for fun, especially when it gives you many warning before restart

[Admire]

So you work for samsung or something? If not, who cares if he's paid by them to make commercials. A phone that easily erases everything is unacceptable, even if it's "his fault."

 

Ehh, no, I don't work for Samsung at all. I don't work anywhere near the tech industry. But I think Samsung and their lawyers care. He is in breach of contract.

 

You only have one tweet from him, but that is apparently the same as divine scripture....."A phone that easily erases everything is unacceptable, even if it's "his fault.""

 

So factory resets should be made illegal?

[Admire]

There are tons of other ways a android phone could reset itself. Maybe it might be a malware or something. I don't think anyone's stupid enough to actually go and click 'factory reset' for fun, especially when it gives you many warning before restart

 

Yes they are. The are always people stupid enough to do ANYTHING!

 

Just ask anybody who has worked in an ER. Human stupidity has zero limits

[NickTheMajin]

Who, exactly, is he? I've heard his name in conjuction with American sports, but since I have no interest in them I don't know who the guy is.

 

 

A phone that can easily perform a factory reset (implying it happened spontaneously or by accident) is useless. Nowadays you lose a lot more than your collection of phones numbers of easy lays when your phone is factory reset (like emails, music, photographs and documents).

The best basketball player in the world at the moment. Arguably better than Jordan in his prime.

[FrankGrimes]

The best basketball player in the world at the moment. Arguably better than Jordan in his prime.

[minimalist]

Ehh, no, I don't work for Samsung at all. I don't work anywhere near the tech industry. But I think Samsung and their lawyers care. He is in breach of contract.

 

You only have one tweet from him, but that is apparently the same as divine scripture....."A phone that easily erases everything is unacceptable, even if it's "his fault.""

 

So factory resets should be made illegal?

You read his contract? Tell us more about it since you know the details of it.

Factory resets shouldn't happen on accident.

[Admire]

You read his contract? Tell us more about it since you know the details of it.

Factory resets shouldn't happen on accident.

 

 

LoL, its standard practice with such contracts...And you also don't know what happened except that he blames samsung.

[WolfDeville]

I think I laughed way more than I should have at that pic HTC posted hahahaha

[minimalist]

LoL, its standard practice with such contracts...And you also don't know what happened except that he blames samsung.

 

 

 

He blamed Samsung?  Show me where.  He also said nothing defamatory.  So it's not standard practice.  You're really swinging for the fences though.  Keep going.  This is fun.

 

Oh, and if you're going to call someone unprofessional, at least learn how to spell the word.

[LAwLz]

Fun fact: The steps to factory reset a phone are fairly similar on most Android devices. It is just as "easy" to factory reset a HTC or Motorola phone as it is to factor reset a Samsung phone.

If he did a factory reset then it's his own damn fault and anyone who says anything different also implies that other manufacturers should change how to do a factor reset as well. If someone happened out of his control then Samsung is to blame.