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Re:iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 ... by recursive on Thursday January 29, 2026 @04:37PM (#46816988)
The last Samsung phone I owned had a hardware button for launching Bixby. I've never wanted to use Bixby in my life. To this day I have no interest in learning what it actually does. You could not change the function of this button. It was just a button that I would press accidentally that would begin the apparently laborious process of starting up Bixby.

I'll probably never buy another Samsung.

Edit: Just thought of another one. I remember reading the news about how Android SMS was getting upgraded to have emojis or reactions or something. I don't remember the details. But it didn't work on my phone. A year later, I realized it was because I was using the Samsung messages app, instead of the Google one. I didn't even realize it.

Re:iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 ... by aceazzameen on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:28PM (#46827192)
I had a phone with a Bixby button too. I remapped it to other apps, and never used Bixby. I wish phones had more hardware buttons again.
Re:iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 ... by recursive on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:45PM (#46827410)
The one I had didn't have any obvious way to remap the button. Across several years of ownership, I probably spent a total of an hour looking for such a capability. Certainly more than I did investigating what "Bixby" is.

Now I have a ulefone, a budget brand with no particular name recognition. It has a button in the same place, with an easy way to map it. And it cost a quarter of the Samsung. shrug