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The S3 browser had an undelatable bookmark for Pizza Hut
Are you sure that wasn't a carrier thing? I had an S3 and don't recall that bookmark.
I am sure it was. The point is that Samsung didn't stop them.
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#142Looks great but no way am I going to go back to Samsung now I have a Nexus 6P. In the past the Nexus phones have always been kinda "nice but not great" but the 6P is easily one of best phones you can buy. The camera is top-notch, the screen is stunning, performance is awesome and battery life is incredible. And stock Android is bliss. I can't really fault it :)
Until they do swappable batteries and SD card support, I cannot care less.
Also with their episode with TI, I do not trust Google to be any different from Android OEM in terms of guaranteeing updates.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#143Still happy with my S3 and feel I'm not missing any key features. The more generations go on you realize just how incremental the phone upgrades have gotten for quite some time now.
The S3 feels like the "core 2 duo" of smartphones. Clearly not as fast as new phones, but still good enough.
Same here, specially since there are hardly any NDK changes since Android 4.3, so not much to wish for in newer Android versions.
Of course it would be nice if Samsung at least cared to provide security updates.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#144Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
After having had iPhones and Samsung S-series since they came on the market, I bought a Huawei P8 Max last week in some outlet in Thailand. The software is great; I want to break my S6 in half when I touch it. The phone is excellent too; it's fast and, as I am a freak when it comes to battery life, it fixes all my power issues. With the MS foldable mobile keyboard I can do almost everything on this thing. It weighs more than most phones but compared to carrying my laptop + batteries + power cable this is very light.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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What exactly is so bad about their software?
Ignoring the fact that it's ugly as sin and they bundle hundreds of useless apps which are cannot be removed which can cause weird breakages when disabled, the problem is that despite the fact that on paper their hardware should crush every other phone on the market they somehow manage to make the phones UI slower than a budget phone running stock (or near stock) Android. To be fair, that hardware shines when Android…
Samsung's software has also had security problems in the past. Only the bare minimum was done to avoid exploitation. Issues are likely to remain.
Their modifications are also a large source of their delay to update to new Android versions. It's somewhat ironic that many users buy their hardware despite their software modifications.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#146Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
I have a S6E as a corporate issued phone.
It's a brick. A paperweight. Crap. Unusable. The software is so bad, it hurts. It has flaws all over the place. I hate it so much, I'm trying to revive a 5 year old device with a dead battery right now.
That completely ignores
- that the "Edge" feature is so useless, utterly useless. Slightly shiny. So pointless.
- that this manufacturer doesn't give a shit about being open, probably is the worst in that regard. Forget about using the hardware with decent software - you are stuck with their stuff
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#147Looks great but no way am I going to go back to Samsung now I have a Nexus 6P. In the past the Nexus phones have always been kinda "nice but not great" but the 6P is easily one of best phones you can buy. The camera is top-notch, the screen is stunning, performance is awesome and battery life is incredible. And stock Android is bliss. I can't really fault it :)
If only they made them in non-huge size.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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As I described in another comment, that item in my menu was missing so I had to follow a series of very weird steps until it appeared.
Your carrier can disable it, maybe that's what happened?
Then ios should communicate this with me instead of just hiding the feature.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
#149Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung. Their awful software combined with their pathologi…
What exactly is so bad about their software?
The most annoying things for me:
- a shitload of unwanted stuff (Samsung Services, Samsung Applications) that randomly update themselves
- The 'resize window' feature. If you've seen people using a Note you might've noticed that they had two apps open at the same time for example. The rather small (this is a 'pro', btw) S6E has the same feature, but it is pointless. Worse, I constantly, daily, activate it in error. Right handed, swipe with the thumb to open the notifications. This always ends up (try it) being a diagonal swipe for me, from top-right to bottom-left. Diagonal swipes like that activate the 'shrink current window' feature.
See http://imgur.com/SROLT6M for the result.
Re: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge
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I've been considering a... is it the "5x", now? Mid-range price. The camera is supposed to be excellent. Somewhat more pocketable. And, being on Verizon, my understanding is that I can pop in the micro-SIM from my 2013 Moto X and it will "just work", despite Verizon not officially supporting the 5x. For that is a primary concern of mine. Due to circumstances, I'm kind of stuck with Verizon (in the U.S.). But I will n…
I have a Nexus 6P and got my wife a Nexus 5X thinking it would be a smaller version of basically the same thing. The 6P has been nice, but the 5X has all sorts of issues with bad performance. For example, opening the camera will often freeze the phone for 10-20 seconds. Google still hasn't fixed this after 4 months [1]. It frustrated my wife enough that we sold it and got a used Galaxy S6 instead. It worked a lot bet…
> the 5x has all sorts of issues with bad performance
I have a Nexus 5x and so far its performance has been absolutely fine for me. Opening the camera app has never produced a 10-20 second freeze.
I have seen some things online suggesting that the Snapchat app may be responsible for some 5x performance problems. Did your wife's 5x have Snapchat installed, by any chance?