Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
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Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
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Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#2Yeah, watch out for those nosy people looking over your shoulder at your phone, they're spying on you.
Please ignore all the data mining we're doing on your phone and please don't make us continually harass you first thing in the morning every morning to accept new terms and conditions. (For what it's worth, my Fold 7 harasses me to accept two sets of updates to terms and conditions first thing in the morning every morning)
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#3> it doesn't dramatically reduce screen brightness or image quality.
AFAIK it significantly decreases the brightness. Jerry Rig Everything demonstrates this here - https://youtu.be/TRW4W7KkJXs?t=32
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#4> it doesn't dramatically reduce screen brightness or image quality. AFAIK it significantly decreases the brightness. Jerry Rig Everything demonstrates this here - https://youtu.be/TRW4W7KkJXs?t=32
significantly and dramatically are two different things. I was sceptic when buying it but have no problem using the display with privacy screen on, and dont see that much difference in brightness, even in direct sunlight, fwiw.
Bonus with it on you can stretch your battery life, only half the pixels actually active saves quite some battery, who knew!
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#5Yeah, watch out for those nosy people looking over your shoulder at your phone, they're spying on you. Please ignore all the data mining we're doing on your phone and please don't make us continually harass you first thing in the morning every morning to accept new terms and conditions. (For what it's worth, my Fold 7 harasses me to accept two sets of updates to terms and conditions first thing in the morning every m…
Two problems can be concerning at the same time!
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#6Yeah, watch out for those nosy people looking over your shoulder at your phone, they're spying on you. Please ignore all the data mining we're doing on your phone and please don't make us continually harass you first thing in the morning every morning to accept new terms and conditions. (For what it's worth, my Fold 7 harasses me to accept two sets of updates to terms and conditions first thing in the morning every m…
Remove your Samsung account.
It is needed for a bunch of things including all bixby stuff (which is admittedly starting to get useful) but those constant ToS updates can drive a man mad.
If any Samsung employees are reading this: whoever is pushing those ToS changes is probably a on Apples payroll ;)
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#7This phone costs 1700 euros here... 1700 (Netherlands)! That is the price of a gaming laptop!
Everything has become so incredibly expensive it just isn't fun to buy anything anymore.
My iPhone 11's FaceID broke a few weeks ago and despite that I think I will just stick with it with today's phone prices.
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#8This phone costs 1700 euros here... 1700 (Netherlands)! That is the price of a gaming laptop! Everything has become so incredibly expensive it just isn't fun to buy anything anymore. My iPhone 11's FaceID broke a few weeks ago and despite that I think I will just stick with it with today's phone prices.
> 1700 euros
Right, thats the top specced 1TB version isnt it?
Amazon Germany has the basic 256g version for 1200€
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#9> it doesn't dramatically reduce screen brightness or image quality. AFAIK it significantly decreases the brightness. Jerry Rig Everything demonstrates this here - https://youtu.be/TRW4W7KkJXs?t=32
significantly and dramatically are two different things. I was sceptic when buying it but have no problem using the display with privacy screen on, and dont see that much difference in brightness, even in direct sunlight, fwiw. Bonus with it on you can stretch your battery life, only half the pixels actually active saves quite some battery, who knew!
You’re paying more for less brightness.
Re: Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
#10Yeah, watch out for those nosy people looking over your shoulder at your phone, they're spying on you. Please ignore all the data mining we're doing on your phone and please don't make us continually harass you first thing in the morning every morning to accept new terms and conditions. (For what it's worth, my Fold 7 harasses me to accept two sets of updates to terms and conditions first thing in the morning every m…
Remove your Samsung account. It is needed for a bunch of things including all bixby stuff (which is admittedly starting to get useful) but those constant ToS updates can drive a man mad. If any Samsung employees are reading this: whoever is pushing those ToS changes is probably a on Apples payroll ;)
If I sign out, samsung nukes step tracking and basically neuters my watch's health metrics.