We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration

Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by csomar on Thursday May 23, 2024 @11:08PM (#40462454)

Samsung is the perfect example (and failure?) that advertising and lobbying works. They have the worst product I've ever tried and always come with an annoying catch (ie: computer screen with special adapter). But they are huge (and growing). They advertise aggressively and they integrate themselves with local suppliers like nobody else.

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Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by Roark66 on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:24AM (#40464692)

Worse product? What other android phones do you mean? Sony? I used to buy Sony long time ago and I did like it, but around the time of Galaxy S8 I switched when my Xperia 3 unglued by itself in my pocket. None of my Samsung phones experienced any such failures. All were cheaper than equivalent Sony products.

And I wasn't very gentle with them. All my phones have huge gauges in their metal casings after years of use and I replaced them only after I broke the screen after few years.

Also, I've been using the hardware to it's limit with gaming, GearVR and own apps (running RealESRGAN directly on a Samsung s8 for example).

So hardware wise I'm very happy with Samsung(except part availability). Software - wise the preloaded apps are not bad. I've never used Bixby, but I do use the gallery and the video editor all the time(including slomo and super slomo) . Whenever I use a different android phone I miss these and more feature.

Also I have lots of sideloaded apps from the net and others such as a full blown Linux OS app running real python scripts etc.Once upon a time I tried apple. All the limitations made me dislike it a lot.

So what else is there better than samsung in android? Google? I never tried their phones because of the prices.

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Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by hot_gril on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:32PM (#40468431)

Worse than iPhone and Pixel I guess. Yeah they cost more, but it's like a Honda vs a Hyundai, you get what you pay for.

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Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by achow on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:39AM (#40466171)

Rocking Galaxy S20 for last 4 years.

Once lens fogged up after a beach trip. The device was out of warranty. Service center swapped the back plate with a new one for equivalent of ~$10.

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Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by Xeamek on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:29PM (#40469672)

There are a lot of valid cricotisms, but claiming Samsung products are 'the worse' is just....

To much.

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