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I've had so many issues with Samsung devices. I had the original Galaxy, the GPS didn't work. At all. It was a minor scandal at the time. I also owned a Galax

by mevile 7y ago

I've had so many issues with Samsung devices. I had the original Galaxy, the GPS didn't work. At all. It was a minor scandal at the time. I also owned a Galaxy S3, S5, S7 Edge and the S8 Edge. I have had phones freeze when trying to answer a call. After an Android version upgrade, the phones usually got much slower, much worse performance. You know I don't really remember all the issues, but I remember that each time I upgraded to the next version I was hoping some horrible thing I was dealing with would be fixed in the next version only for the next version to have it's own horrible problem. I eventually gave up and switched to LG. I owned an LGv30 and LGv40 and now I'm using the OnePlus 7 Pro.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> I have had phones freeze when trying to answer a call. After an Android version upgrade, the phones usually got much slower, much worse performance. Interesting. Because of those exact issues I abandoned LG and my wife abandoned Huawei, and we both run on Samsung flagships, on which we never had that happen. I wonder if anyone ever published a root-cause analysis of problems like "otherwise seemingly stable Android freezes when trying to answer a call". It's a ridiculous thing to happen to a smartphone, and yet it keeps happening. I don't want to criticize too much as it's not as if I could write a better OS myself, but God I miss the old feature-phone experience, with soft-realtime OSes that had more-less stable delays on everything, so you could quickly learn to operate it without looking, as you knew how long doing any given thing would take.
- lagadu 7y ago
  It's ok to criticize them heavily: they're multi-billion dollar companies, you're the client and "As a user I want to use my phone to receive calls" is one of the most essential use cases.

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I've had so many issues with Samsung devices. I had the original Galaxy, the GPS didn't work. At all. It was a minor scandal at the time. I also owned a Galax

by mevile 7y ago

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> I have had phones freeze when trying to answer a call. After an Android version upgrade, the phones usually got much slower, much worse performance. Interesting. Because of those exact issues I abandoned LG and my wife abandoned Huawei, and we both run on Samsung flagships, on which we never had that happen. I wonder if anyone ever published a root-cause analysis of problems like "otherwise seemingly stable Android freezes when trying to answer a call". It's a ridiculous thing to happen to a smartphone, and yet it keeps happening. I don't want to criticize too much as it's not as if I could write a better OS myself, but God I miss the old feature-phone experience, with soft-realtime OSes that had more-less stable delays on everything, so you could quickly learn to operate it without looking, as you knew how long doing any given thing would take.
- lagadu 7y ago
  It's ok to criticize them heavily: they're multi-billion dollar companies, you're the client and "As a user I want to use my phone to receive calls" is one of the most essential use cases.