ignoring everything else, I would just say get the most expensive S series phone that is the right “size” for your hands, and your budget. Any S series phone will do, just don’t touch the budget phones or the FE phones. S24, S23, S22. All are fine phones. No need to bet. You’ll get the same Samsung experience as the S8, just better and faster.
Repeat, do not touch the budget phones, do not touch the FE phones, and you will be fine.
Predicted by whom? The same experts that predicted that Trump would retain his presidency?
Mid-range IS a lower range. It’s not the lowest end, but any device in the range is still a lower-end device.
After all, there IS only 1 flagship in a fleet of ships. The S series used to be called a flagship series, but nowadays, everyone knows that the Ultra and the other S series phones have a feature disparity. Can one call the S series flagship phones when they don’t have all the bells and whistles, surely not.
S7> 865 5G+ chipset 8 GB RAM, S7 FE> 778G chipset 4GB RAM
S7 FE is definitely a lower end device.
Sure there’s also the A series that’s lower, but it doesn’t change the fact that the FE series of devices are considered lower end devices provided as copium for those who cannot afford the high end ones.
on paper it may not seem to compare, but in real life use I find the Xiaomi phone better to use. They have a different approach to how they use the inner/outer screens, but once you understand how it works, it’s fine. And I have been a almost Samsung flagship phone only user for the last 13+ years.
Samsung has close to 0 hardware improvements over the many years. Finally allowing the screen to close after 5 years - something to be proud of?
Screen crease still so obvious compared to other phones that has almost no crease for the last 2 years - something to be proud of?
Defending Samsung for this is like defending mediocrity. I really miss the days when I get a Samsung phone and I’m proud that I’m having the latest/best. Nowadays, getting the Fold/flip it’s 100% certain that it’s outdated compared to others on the market.
Wait till you see foldable phones from other manufacturers.
The Xiaomi foldable is the smaller, slimmer, thinner than my S23 Ultra (in a case) when folded, with almost a similar sized screen. It opens up to a tablet screen that has practically NO crease (see to believe)
Samsung is just lazy to innovate.
For devices below 6gb of ram, RAM Plus should help.
At 4GB your device would go into swapping, and that is even more computationally expensive than RAM Plus.
That’s not true.
I cannot think of any pros of activating it.
The only pros of deactivating it is your phone will be a lot faster. There won’t be a lof of battery difference, but I suppose if a task without RAM plus takes you 10 seconds vs 20 seconds with RAM Plus, I guess you get “extra battery life” using girl maths?
Honestly, I doubt you will notice much difference. The upgrades had been minimal over the years, and there’s not much that your S10e can’t do that the S23e can, IF you have been using the S10e all these years and not found any issues or limits with it.
You should post it on the your country’s Samsung facebook page. The PR team gets things fixed faster than the service side.
This is really shitty service. US I presume?
Mine was probably government/bank mandated for all mobile payments, including apple pay. $100 only when first launched in 2016, then revised to 300, or 500.
Not sure about now, but I’m not going to shame myself at a high-end boutique again. Will just try gpay is need to. 🤣
how much burn in protection does this give?
How often are you going to leave your screen at your homescreen for 8 hours at a time? You’ll have to deliberately disable the screensaver AND the lock screen to force a burn-in.
If you want to do something that the manufacturer did not create the phone to do, and you break it, it’s not really the manufacturer’s problem is it?
This is not a PSA, it’s creating misunderstanding and confusion.
So we have established that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
It’s reliable. It works. Personally I don’t find gPay secure enough for me to to use as a default NFC app, but that’s me.
I was buying something at a Hermes shop and didn’t bring my physical credit card. Samsung pay limits each transaction to $500 (iirc) on the phone, and the transactions couldn’t go through. I was on the verge of asking them to break it up into many $500 transactions, then I tried gpay and realised that there was no limit. I think I paid for the relatively large purchase without needing any authentication like a fingerprint on a unlocked screen. Just tap and paid. It was convenient, but…
Good thing about Android is the amt of choice. When I was in Paris for a few months last year, I set the “IDF Mobilities” + “Ticket sans contact” apps on my phone for transit purposes, worked fine together with gPay and Samsung Pay on my phone, all at the same time.
Ran around northern and western Europe with gpay and Samsung pay too, installed like over 10 different apps (every country has their own transit apps etc), all were fine too.
Hmmm well I’ve never had “bugs” in my S series phones so far for the last 12 years… not sure which “bugs” you’re talking about. I did a quick search, and haven’t found any notable “bugs” noted in the last few years.
Lots of people with individual issues that they blame on a bug. People even blame hardware failures like the screen green line issue on software updates. A lot of “bugs” are simply quirks of individual users rather than actual bugs.
Perhaps you can share some bugs that you’re talking about, listing out the few bugs they brought in the last few months? listing out 6 for the last 3 months should be simple, assuming at least 2 per month? I take it that you’re not making things up?
30% of the touted of the pixel phones are touted as “coming soon”… and STILL coming soon a few months after launch. That’s what I mean by Google not selling complete phones. Not to mention, basic software bugs where people can’t answer calls, has wifi/bluetooth connetivity issues, unable to complete basic phone setup, home button not working, excessive tracking/battery drain - Most pixel phones have hundreds of outstanding bugs unfixed after years.
By and large as of now, Samsung S series phones are “complete phones” - they are sold with all the promised features actually working (rather than google phones that promise 10 features, but 5 of them in the coming months).
For the past 10 years I’ve never had hiccups where the phone becomes unusable or needs a software update. Typical software update is disappointing - you can’t tell what changed on the phone after the update till you read the changelog.
All banking apps and payment apps work fine, except for this irritating habit of every banking /payment app trying to take over your NFC default.
If you stick with Samsung Pay, IMHO it’s faster and better than Apple Pay. For things like transit, you don’t even need to unlock your phone or log in to any apps.
It’s a deal as long as you enjoy using the phone. I paid full price for my ultra phones and I enjoy every minute of using them - great deal for me.
Yes you can easily change your MAC address on the phone, but only valid until reboot.
That said, authentication services authenticate your MAC address to ensure that it’s the authorised device logging in. If your PS5 is not authenticated, you change your phone to your PS5 MAC will result in your phone not being authenticated?
Chances are, it’s a sign of some sort of hacking to the network and both MAC address may be banned.
Good luck, try it out and let us know.
Also, when you’re free, do enlighten us how you got into the predicament. - it doesn’t make sense.
My Samsung phones can get a broken phone screen fixed within 4 hours in my country, and Samsung even provides a replacement phone in the mean time. Pixel takes a couple of weeks with no replacement phones provided.
Nvm that with Pixels phones you can’t turn off any of tracking because it’s built into all parts of the phone. Or the battery is just piss poor. Or the screen is just lousy. Or that you will get blinded by the fingerprint sensor if you try to unlock the phone in the night because it’ll light up being optical.