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Well iPhone ads use DSLR lens in front of the iPhone. A bit closer to reality, but net effects are the same, fake advertising. This is not to excuse Samsung, it's just to remember that most of the companies does that and all should be mentioned, not just one.
Samsung just isn’t a company you can trust. Period. The only consumer product they make that’s even half decent are their SSDs and even those are starting to lose to competitors. Their TVs alone have had so many instances of them injecting ads into the ui, to spying on what you watch in plex, and many more. Last thing I’d want from Samsung is a phone.
Well iPhone ads use DSLR lens in front of the iPhone. A bit closer to reality, but net effects are the same, fake advertising. This is not to excuse Samsung, it's just to remember that most of the companies does that and all should be mentioned, not just one.
If you go on the iPhone pages of the Apple website you can clearly see the same artifacting, noise patterns, and lens distortion from both the native iPhone sensor and native wide angle and portrait lenses.
I am 100% positive they did not use lens attachments in those photos. Also, the lens adapters don’t make the photo quality “better.” They just have the ability to modify the focal length.
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Actually the Samsung dryers use some material in the drum that react over time and eventually fail. There was a good rundown by someone with the knowhow to explain why they fail. If I can find the video I'll link it. Different video than I saw, but same explanation: https://youtu.be/0uDQaHiEfbA?t=29
This is classic galvanic corrosion. The manufacturing engineer in me understands why they made this choice, but the materials engineer in me is surprised they did. (And, yes, I own a Samsung washer). If you want to learn more about the electrochemistry here, Google "Pourbaix Diagram"
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I guess the smart features don't add a huge amount to the purchase price but it would be nice not to have to pay for a bunch of features I don't need. No TV tuner, no WiFi, no ethernet, no loudspeakers. Just a great quality display with a few HDMIs please.
I think that’s called a computer monitor
It wasn't until everything went flat screen where "TVs", computer monitors, video monitors became so interchangeable. However, there's really not many 72" computer monitors to fill up the space in my living room.
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Well, did Samsung promise this notification feature in their marketing campaign? I considered buying one for this exact feature, but decided not to buy it after TMobile sales folks confirmed that notification worked with Samsung apps only. I don't think however Samsung deliberately misled or lied. Now that isn't to say Samsung support is wonderful -- I personally wouldn't recommend buying anything other than TVs from…
> Well, did Samsung promise this notification feature in their marketing campaign? Nope - but it's something I would expect any smartwatch to do. It's just a dark pattern and they don't GAF for any actual use-case. > I don't think however Samsung deliberately misled Yea this is where we disagree. It's a dark pattern to force users to use their ecosystem fully. What about my corp. Outlook, HipChat, G-suite products, e…
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I keep hoping someone will kickstart a display company that sells just really amazing displays and none of the “smart” garbage. I read that some manufacturers even serve up ads in their latest smart UIs. That’s infuriating!
Have you looked at Monoprice's stuff? They sell displays using the same panels as some of the nice name brand stuff, and I'd personally be surprised if they packaged the same BS into their house brand displays.
Well iPhone ads use DSLR lens in front of the iPhone. A bit closer to reality, but net effects are the same, fake advertising. This is not to excuse Samsung, it's just to remember that most of the companies does that and all should be mentioned, not just one.
http://time.com/4921227/time-magazine-covers-shot-on-iphone/
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I think that’s called a computer monitor
I know why you're getting down voted, but you're not exactly wrong. There used to be TVs and video monitors, and then there were computer monitors. They were all CRTs. The computer monitors were way more expensive than TVs partly due to being progressive scan vs interlaced. Televisions had low resolution and included things like speakers and tuners. Video monitors could be had with much higher resolution for post/bro…