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I am pleased the Note is back, but at least the prices being asked in New Zealand are just crazy. It is selling for 14% more than a M1 MacBook Air.
Phones have gotten so expensive I don't dare to not have mine wrapped in some protective case. Doesn't help that my current phone is really slippery. I never get to enjoy the "mm thickness saved" the companies brag about, so why bother.
Just gravity-checked my Note10+ getting out of a van on pavement.
No worries.
Moving into a new handset is far less of an ordeal than in the past.
Unfortunately, no mention of any new Dex mode improvements. Dex mode is the desktop mode of Samsung phones. Connect it to a monitor via USB-C and you'll have a full desktop experience. Samsung has been improving Dex mode steadily since the S8 (maybe earlier?), it's already gotten pretty good and deserves more attention. I really hope 4K video output is now supported. That would make it a viable replacement for my wor…
But also speaking for myself it's like a fantasy situation (I always have access to a desktop/laptop). Unless it is really the only computer device you have which would be cool if it can indeed do everything... maybe with cloud gaming and virtualization/I guess ssh'ing into boxes is good enough.
I am pleased the Note is back, but at least the prices being asked in New Zealand are just crazy. It is selling for 14% more than a M1 MacBook Air.
It's insane. I just got my self a new PC with top of the line specs (without a new GFX card, getting that when prices come down) for around 2k that will last me 10 years. But a phone I purchase for almost the same price will last me maybe 2-3 years until the battery is toast and I start having software issues. People justify it by the fact that you use your phone all day, ever day but I would say I use my PC way more…
In any case, it’s apples to oranges. I can use any old junker for a desktop but a high end phone still means very practical things like longer battery life, longer support assurances, and maybe a handful of exclusives (Dex, full galaxy watch support, uwb tags, etc). The average person is far more likely to notice the difference between a cheap and expensive phone compared to a cheap and expensive computer. Samsung charges what it does because they can because they’re aware that Apple is the only company that offers the whole “package” the way they do and they’re just as expensive.
More and more people switch to midrange and budget phones every year all the same.
How thoroughly unremarkable. Is there much groundbreaking advancement in smartphones anymore, or is it all just iteration band consolidation? I don't see what this has, beyond standard iterative improvement and a mix of Note and Galaxy features.
I think it's ok that some products mature and the evolution of the form factor gradually slows down. Remember when Apple tried to make a slight change to macbooks and introduced touchbars? Some things are almost better untouched. If you want a totally different form factor, you are welcome to try out Samsung's foldable phone. They are quite impressive.
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That should be about €1170 which seems in line with prices in the EU (for the 128GB model). The 1TB model is listed at €1700. Needless to say: I won't buy.
Back in the "old" days (a couple of years ago) you could buy the base model and insert the 1tb MicroSD card from your old phone into the new one.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S5 a very long time ago and the expandability was very impressive. You could plug in headphones, a microSD card and get new batteries for it. The only real thing I didn't like about it was Samsung's TouchWiz skin, however I am sure that could have been fixed with an alternative ROM, especially given the popularity of the device.
It's a real shame that companies are tying perfectly working phones to old degrading technology.
Smartphones are so boring in 2022. Even iPhones. I have my iPhone XR since 3.5 years and I don't need to change it at least for a couple of years, if the battery stays alive
Most features are often not worth it, even. FaceId? With fingerprint sensor I could have the phone opened on the way out of my pocket, now I gotta stare blankly at the screen for a second before I can use it. Twice the resolution? I couldn't see a pixel on the previous generation, now you just use twice the amount of gpu and battery to render some animation. Less screen bezel? Thanks, now I accidentally touch the edg…
I think we're slowly getting back to normality with this though. The peak of thinness for Apple was the iPhone 6, and that was a disaster. It was a great example of too thin. Now I believe they have gone back to the thicker iPhone 5 aesthetic, with a bigger battery and a more solid design.
I’m really impressed at how much junk companies are blattantly getting away, with nobody caring, if that was a 800$ phone I wouldn’t be writing this, but… that price… my note 3 is awesome, if only it could shoot in the dark…
Hopefully some camera apps will catch up to this phone and go raw and bypass all of that AI pixel forgery while keeping anything actually useful in there. I’d rather have a blurry pixel than extreme wobbling layered with compression artifacts because of poor AI replacement or scaling implementation.
The scrolling on the page is so bad. Not only it is highjacked and much slower than my normal schrolling, but halfway through the page the scrolling changes speed and accelerates... Seriously wtf
I am pleased the Note is back, but at least the prices being asked in New Zealand are just crazy. It is selling for 14% more than a M1 MacBook Air.
It's insane. I just got my self a new PC with top of the line specs (without a new GFX card, getting that when prices come down) for around 2k that will last me 10 years. But a phone I purchase for almost the same price will last me maybe 2-3 years until the battery is toast and I start having software issues. People justify it by the fact that you use your phone all day, ever day but I would say I use my PC way more…