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> I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on. Samsung phones work well, they have one of
by perryizgr8 6y ago
> I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.
Samsung phones work well, they have one of the best cameras, the best screens, the best batteries, usually the most features. LG phones are famous for boot-looping.
> different (shitty) UI
It is a matter of opinion. I much prefer Samsung's UI over the garbage that is google's, and even slightly better than iphone.
> Samsung versions of all the core Google apps (but worse)
Every Samsung app that replaces a google app is 2x better. The browser is faster, better than chrome. The contacts app is so much better. The dialer is like 10 years ahead. Gallery is at least 10x faster and less buggier than google photos. I always try to delete as much google bloatware from my phone as possible, and use the samsung apps.
> the stupid bottom button placement
What button? There are no buttons on Samsung phones for the past 3-4 years. The navbar is fully customizable (unlike google), and hidable.
> non-remappable Bixby button
Similar to the non-remappable squeeze button on pixels and siri button on iphones?? And the bixby button is remappable with an app nowadays.
> aggressively killing apps for power management
Samsung is hardly the worst offender here. And I can't blame them for trying to fix the clusterfuck that google has created with android.
> Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances?
I can't speak for others, but your "annoyances" are useful features for me. The alarm app turns on my bedroom lights in the morning automatically. Bixby routines automatically cranks the brightness and enables auto rotate when I play a video. Samsung health auto-tracks my sleeping schedule and tells me which apps are keeping me awake. Samsung browser blocks all ads and has an automatic dark mode for every website. Samsung pay lets me pay with my phone at any credit card terminal, not just the ones with NFC.
- m-ee 6y agoI’ve owned 5 iPhones so far and never seen this Siri button.
- perryizgr8 6y agoIt's on the right side. Hold it and it will start siri.
- philliphaydon 6y agoThe on off button? Doesn’t do anything when I hold it down.
- mrweasel 6y agoEven if it did that is an extremely deliberate press, it’s not a button you randomly push.
- perryizgr8 6y agoWell Samsung has the exact same setup. So why blame them when you give a pass to apple?
- m-ee 6y agoSamsung does not have the same setup. They added a separate button mapped exclusively to this feature. The iphone has an alternate mapping most aren't even aware of for a multifunctional button
- perryizgr8 6y agoYou are misinformed. It works exactly identically as it does on iPhone.
- m-ee 6y agoSamsung added a separate hardware button for Bixby, Apple did not. That is not identical. The only buttons on the iPhone are power, volume, and the silent switch. There is no separate Siri button. I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with here?
- perryizgr8 6y agoThere is no separate Bixby button either on Samsung phones. It is a side button that locks unlocks the phone and activates Bixby when held. It is identical to how it works on iPhones.
- philliphaydon 6y agoI don’t think he ever owned an iPhone. Lol
- Aloha 6y agoApple has never had a dedicated Siri button. Also, it's a phone dialer - like the functionality of a phone dialer has been well defined since the early 2000's (also having used PalmOS, webOS, Windows Mobile 6 and 7, Early Android, and iOS from 2012 on I've never desired additional functionality here), so like what makes a phone dialer "like 10 years ahead"? - I'm not trying to snark, it's a genuine question.
- batiudrami 6y agoFor a long time stock android didn't have T9 contact searching from the dialer (and, astonishingly, iOS still doesn't), something present since the Galaxy S1.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoWhy would you need T9 on a touch screen? You can just display a full keyboard. That was the defining aspect of the keynote that launched the first iPhone, even. There's nothing "astonishing" about it.
- sanxiyn 6y agoFor many people T9 is faster than QWERTY keyboard.
- batiudrami 6y agoBecause the T9 keyboard is already displayed, and the full keyboard isn't. It is a very fast way to search through your contacts directly from the dialier when I want to call someone, which is the primary use case of the dialer (calling someone already in my contacts).
- kiwijamo 6y agoThis is the first time I've heard of T9 being used since we moved on from the old Nokia phones that pioneered T9! Bring back fond memories of my Nokia 3310 and 8210. But yeah it's odd to see T9 in the context of a touchscreen phone...