I have the Note 3 now and I'm already missing iPhones. I'm not sure that I will get the 5.5 inch iPhone 6 because it does get annoying at times to have such a large screen while doing one handed operations so I want to check out the 4.7 inch iPhone. I will check out the 5.5 inch one as well just to be sure. It is nice having such a large screen for videos and games but I miss being able to do one handed operations more easily.
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Big screen lovers .... Note 4 or (Rumored) 5.5-inch iPhone 6?
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What I mean is ..... Do you use share contacts, calendar appointments, notes, and etc through Samsung, or do you just use Google for that like most android users?
Alot of my note taking is through Samsung yes
Calendar wise I use a separate app for that. As s planner isn't as easy to use on nova
Even though I love my stylus on my Note 3 I think I may be veered back to Apple and grab it's phablet. I can't even root my Note 3 so it loses a lot of functionality. I get sick of Androids constant loose ends and lack of a real personal assistant. I also think Apples hardware is going to blow away anything Samsung puts out. Plus iOS8 really impressed me with the level of polish, that's on top of what I thought was already pretty polished.
I'll be honest, until the Tizen thread, I didn't think anyone was actual in the "Samsung ecosystem"
Same old half assed solution..how about I say no to all that bloat and things that even nova can't hide, like notification cenfer and settings apps and more.
Exactly...running another launcher over TW is like putting a fresh coat of paint on a dilapidated house, just covers up all of the other problems. And on top of that, as good as Nova is (my preferred launcher as well), it still requires resources to run, something generally in short supply on Samsung devices.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
The touchwiz launcher app is unloaded when you use another launcher.
It also doesn't cover the inconsistencies like some things have the black/holo theme, but others have a blinding white theme. It's really jarring moving from one to the other at times and unprofessional and unpolished IMO.
while this is true there are other touchwiz components running aside from the launcher. easiest way to see this is the large difference in free ram between touchwiz and google edition S4
for example at the moment, after a couple days uptime, I'm sitting at 780mb currently used out of 2 gigs. I believe touchwiz is always using over 1 gig, ~1.3gigs in use after a fresh boot or somewhereabouts
after a fresh boot on 4.4.3 kit kat is using less than 600mb RAM on my GE S4, of course this depends on what other 3rd party apps you have installed that run continuously (and autostart on boot)
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Looks like Samsung has finally done it....
They become so much like Apple, they get bashed as much as Apple! haha...
Someone should've told them - "be careful what you wish for".
They become so much like Apple, they get bashed as much as Apple! haha...
Someone should've told them - "be careful what you wish for".
True. But those have nothing to do with the launcher itself.
It is a bit of confusion here whether touchwiz is just the launcher or is the entire samsung firmware excluding the core android components.
who cares about the bloatware. the Note 3 is fast even with it. you can change up the notification center more than on any other device too. you can hide apps too. again, it's all configurable.
yes, note 3 with 3 gb ram is largely unaffected
2GB on the S5 exhibits signs of app unloading, during multitasking, due to ram constraints though
I have no idea why Sammy wouldn't put 3-4gb memory on board. RAM Is cheap these days.
Yup, you're right there so for the sake of argument it's more of a resource swap (don't have a Note 3 or GS5 to compare RAM usage using Nova vs just TW). But as others have pointed out, It doesn't do anything to resolve the other elements of TW that are gobbling up resources, nor change anything beyond the home screens. Compare running Nova on stock, an M8 running Sense, and a GS5 running TouchWiz and which device do you think is using the most resources?
If TW was just a launcher, all elements of it would disappear when I switch to Nova or any other launcher--clearly that isn't the case.
could always use an extra gig
hopefully apple learns that lesson too.. 1gb ram in 2014
I have no doubt they move to 2 GB this year.....look at the all the iPhone releases:
iPhone & iPhone 3G at 128 MB RAM
iPhone 3GS at 256 MB RAM
iPhone 4 & 4S at 512 MB RAM
iPhone 5 & 5S/5C at 1 GB RAM
The Extra ram is needed one a bigger device. The Extra bloat isn't an issue on the note than it is compares to say the S line
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Why is that then?
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Why is that then?
Maybe the 4.7 will stay at 1gb and the 5.5 will be 2gb? I wouldn't put it past Apple to do that since they do so with starting specs of Macbooks.
ugh that would make me want to puke
larger should not mean higher end IMO, but I'm biased becuase I would prefer the smaller
need to chime in here......when you change the launcher from Tw to ...well anything. It does not eliminate TW. But then it does not USE it either. So resources used by TW are freed up......
TW is just not as optimized as Sense is......but they both do the job rather nicely. Samsung should have put 3GB of ram in the S5......ram is really inexpensive. IMHO....Going forward I think 2 or 3 Gb of ram should be the standard for flagship phones.
I doubt it - the iPad mini and Air give us a hint at what Apple sees a smaller and larger device relationship looking like.
The larger device simply offers a larger screen and slightly higher clocked CPU. Otherwise, they are the same device. I wouldn't see any reason for Apple to change that especially since the lack of a great 4" device on Android means Apple can continue to dominate the under 4.5" space while at the same time offering the larger display for those who want it.
No compromises under the hood for either.