Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+

Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by willtim on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:43PM (#16461064)

Personally I prefer Samsung's OS to stock Google. Most bad behaviour and bloat comes from third party Android apps and Samsung includes better tools to detect battery drain and deny apps background processing. They also provide other features not found on Google phones, such as Knox Secure Folder (and Google were late to the party with split-screen and a file manager).

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by sundvor on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:09PM (#16461162)

Thanks, I'm with you on this. I have the S8+ and I greatly prefer their UX to the stock Android; iirc, certain things like screen brightness controls and volume control have been ahead of stock also. Battery life is awesome also.

S9 looks awesome, a notable refinement over the S8. Stereo speakers and that camera! Let's not forget Samsung retaining the headphone jack either, a major win for those who prefer quality non wireless headphones. Having said that, I wonder if APTX-HD is supported by the S9 now.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by wtvanhest on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:30PM (#16461272)

Off topic, but do you (or anyone else) have a great recomendation for non wireless headphones?

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by mmel on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:45PM (#16462187)

https://pastebin.com/CCQCUv5e

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by isolli on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:04AM (#16464498)

I understand neutral and V-shaped, but what is warm sound?

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by thewizardofaus on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:52PM (#16461387)

Audio technica ath-m50x

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by sundvor on Sunday February 25, 2018 @05:27PM (#16461567)

We just sold ours; they are good, although somewhat bass heavy. Overall a great package for the price.

I find headphones a very personal thing... Being an Audio Technica fanboy I have ANC9 for work (relatively fantastic audio quality/office sound cancelling, with Soundblaster E5), ADG1X for gaming + MSR7NC for music at home (on Soundblaster ZXR) - the latter being an indulgence so that I could have a pair of closed sets whilst working if noisy in the house, with a tiny amount of noise cancelling. Different qualities for different uses.

For the go I have the IM02s, but tips aren't the best so I'm currently using the AKGs that came with the S8+ (with Comply foam tips) - they work quite well.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by swah on Monday February 26, 2018 @07:14AM (#16464744)

What about the issue with being able to read notifications?

I'm planning to buy an S8+ or similar soon, since its so much cheaper than Google Pixel, which isn't really officially sold here in Brazil (I loved my Nexus 5 though).

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by sundvor on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:21AM (#16471461)

What issue? You can customise notifications to your delight.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by swah on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:25AM (#16472547)

OP mentions: " The Android notifications are broken in favor of small things that do not allow you to read the message from Whatsapp or Telegram or whatever, and so forth.".

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by sundvor on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:38PM (#16477640)

Ah thanks, sorry - I don't use either of those, but notifications work just fine for me with Slack, Hangouts, normal messages and all. You can customise notifications and where they may appear on a per application basis.

Mine's on Android 7.0. Samsung aren't too keen on pushing out updates in Australia in a rush; the telcos (Telstra) take their own sweet time too. That's where Apple has them soundly beat. Although, having said that, given last year's update history, perhaps Samsung's model is better after all - I rarely get breaking changes pushed down.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by ClassyJacket on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:15PM (#16461193)

Also Samsung has the one handed mode which saves my ass when I'm standing on a train (1h a day) or lying in bed.

Plus they have dark mode for all their stock apps!

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by benatkin on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:54PM (#16461403)

I prefer Huawei's EMUI to stock Android. It sounds like I would also prefer Samsung's UI.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by tluyben2 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:00PM (#16463001)

Ha! I thought I was the only person on earth. At least +1. We both might be crazy though.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by pjmlp on Monday February 26, 2018 @02:57AM (#16463850)

We three. I cannot stand the default Android UI.

I will take Samsung, Huawei or LG interface changes over the defaults.

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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by bestnameever on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:58PM (#16461983)

the worse part of samsung's OS is the homescreen IMO, luckily, you can swap it out with something else but I imagine most users do not really know this.

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