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Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by zgk7iqea »

boterock wrote: post #77
TetOn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the "back" function with or without the presence of a "back" arrow at the top-left corner.

but now they added this task switcher to iPad which also appears when dragging from the left edge, and now going back is like rolling a dice. you don't know how how to go back without triggering the task switcher so it ends up taking multiple attempts to go back without the OS consuming the input

you can disable stage manager. i believe it is off by default

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by cornedor »

NexusGS wrote: post #43

Thanks Samsung, that is a great reminder for all iOS users that they still get the best experience in the market (not to mention privacy)!

In the "settings app" they show of a few features. For some reason they decided that one of those great features is a mallware scanner...

I don't think this site will be very convincing, there are a lot of glitchy animations and unresponsive areas that look as if they should be working.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by Lalabadie »

Yizahi wrote: post #75
elboru wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I don’t get it, I used to be an android user since the first Galaxy S up until the Galaxy S7, I’m really sensitive to slow devices, so as soon as my androids got a little slow (usually after a big update) I switched to the new shiny one. Then I got tired of buying flashy and expensive phones that lasted 2.5 years so I give the iPhone X a try. It’s 2023 and I still use the same phone I still get updates and what…

My iPhone 4S and iPad 2 were destroyed in performance after update from iOS6 to iOS7 (and helpfully without possibility of downgrade, thanks Apple), plus a lot of apps were deprecated in that update due to some API changes or whatever. That's just adding more data points to the legend of "perfect updates on the iPhones". My Samsung phone is 3 years old, it got 3 major updates over these years, and last update was 29/…

I don't think a three-year support period is the argument you are making it out to be.

As a side-note, you've used your comment to remember some Apple devices from 13 years ago and compared them to an Android device bought in 2020.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by quenix »

chickenimprint wrote: post #59
password54321 wrote: post #28

Felt like I jumped into 2008. After all these years they have failed to get rid of that cheap Android look.

Honestly, the post-iOS 7 look looks much, much cheaper. I've always wondered how Johnny Ive got away with icons that look like they were designed in 5 minutes with GIMP. Everything is just a disgusting gradient weirdly cut off by the squircle like a "Download now" scam ad on a shady late 2000s piracy website. Not to speak of the icons that have zero consistency. They don't have the same margins, elements, styles, deg…

Shows how subjective taste is. I like the settings & health icons.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by doix »

saiya-jin wrote: post #47
sintezcs wrote: post #22

I’ve just tried it, and looks like I’m never going to buy Samsung instead of my iPhone :)

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Funny that you pick on the hardware. I'd use an Apple phone if it could run Android, the hardware is the only positive thing I say about Apple stuff. My girlfriend has an iPhone 14 Pro Max and camera/microphone are good and and the lidar stuff is pretty cool.

The software is completely and utterly unusable for me. It reminds me of when I used to help my grandparents with technology, except now I am the grandparent. Nothing works like I'd expect and I just find it frustrating.

There are Android phones in a similar price range and I'm not really tempted to buy any of them. I would buy an iPhone running Android though.

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by codetrotter »

iamwpj wrote: post #80
codetrotter wrote: post #27

Here is a screen recording showing what that web app looks like on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16.2 https://video.nstr.no/w/4uYSJs2a4iMb8R9XBZufn2

Just watching the incessant popups was frustrating.

In their defence most of the popups are in response to tapping things, but in the video that is less apparent :p

Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone

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Post by trimbo »

codetrotter wrote: post #27

Here is a screen recording showing what that web app looks like on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16.2 https://video.nstr.no/w/4uYSJs2a4iMb8R9XBZufn2

There are dozens here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=try+galaxy

From this search I also learned this used to be called "iTest" 2 years ago.

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