> It contrasts this with the ease with which Samsung could put its phones in blockbusters like The Matrix.<p>> By Samsung I guess they meant Nokia.<p>No, they probably meant Samsung. Specifically they meant this phone, made for use in the later Matrix movies:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SPH-N270" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SPH-N270</a><p>Quote: <i>"The design crew of the Matrix worked closely with Samsung to develop a phone whose features and release date would coincide with the movie."</i><p>Now, granted, it was kind of a crappy phone, but at least it <i>existed</i>; the key feature of the Nokia used in the first movie was a spring-loaded mechanism which didn't actually exist at the time.