I have an old iPad Air 2nd Generation running iOS 15.2.1. That's more than 5 years for sure, as it was launched on October 2014.
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Four Takeaways From Samsung's Galaxy S22 Event for Apple Users
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Absolutely incredible devices. If I was in the market for a slab device, nothing better than the S22 Ultra, aka, Note line of phones. Nothing even comes close to Samsung's displays; every other OEM is just customer, waiting to see what they can put in their own phones. It's a joke. Going forward, my money stays with foldables. I can't wait for the Flip4 and Fold4.
with how apple has held back iPadOS from being more like macOS to maintain the difference both feature and even performace wise I dont see anything close to something like Dex, hell even there Phones can do dex with a bluetooth cable and exterior display wireless or wired
Samsung Tablets for long time have been viable and even a new version of Android 12 is coming out called 12L aimed at large screens so the gap is shortening quickly
Yeah very frustrating for Apple to intentionally hold back the iPad form being something much more. The M1 feels wasted, however, the RAM increase on my 2021 was immediately noticeable for my use case.
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Vendors invested $ so they could separate you from your coins by selling their overpriced 6E wares.
Show me a use case that justifies overpaying for a 6E router/AP, which are north of $500 USD and you will be replacing when 7 hits the market.
Vendors invested $ so they could separate you from your coins by selling their overpriced 6E wares.
Show me a use case that justifies overpaying for a 6E router/AP, which are north of $500 USD and you will be replacing when 7 hits the market.
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Just noticed the Samsung software update guarantee of just 4 years for select products only…I literally have a 1st Gen iPad Pro 12.9 from 2015 that my daughters use, and it’s still quick, still getting updates, and I imagine that I’ll be able to download iOS 16 this year as well. 7 Years of updates 😵💫
Sad but true. The lack of tablet-specific apps is why I won't consider a Surface or Tab.
lets wait for the real world use...for me words or marketing from the company itself these days means nothing
yeah performance wise iPad line baffles me sometimes, the mini which is 2nd most powerful is the worst for productivy due to size, air is behind with a14 but more exspensive but bigger screen makes it more useful with keyboard support, then you got the base ipad with a13 while slowest isnt too behind the air but is still great as big screen and keyboard
all starting at 64gb which for me is too low as if I go on a roadtrip I could fill that up easy with movies and music
with Samsung tablets they feel like when they wanted to do productive work on them they went full out
Think it’s a plastic back btwI think the standard s22 looks great with those symmetrical bezels and the centered hole punch. I am tempted to get one
only thing I liked was the OLED on the tablet, enough of this mini LED crap and trying to avoid paying out for OLED all the time ffs.
also, how many f@#king times do they want to shove the word INNOVATING/INNOVATION/INNOVATIVE/INNOVATES down our throats, it was cringe And pathetic.
I also expect the iPhone 14 pro lens to look like the ultras lens, not flush but not a massive bump anymore.
Lot of people are interested despite what you think
A use case for home, no not really.... for enterprise - YES this will make a big difference since most companies are going wifi only offices etc and wifi 6E will make big improvements on those use cases.
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I interpreted MayaUser as saying 'What's the point in covering this? Whoever was interested in Samsung Devices [short pause for emphasis][confused face with shrug] already saw the event.'
Not saying they watched the event themselves.
Weird. I watched the same thing and thought to myself that this was the same as we have seen from Apple.
If it's the same, people will say it's boring.
If it's similar, people will say it's copycatting.
At the end of the day, it's a phone. (and more!)
At least they didn't say that it has totally revolutionized the way we think about... oh wait, I guess they did. Marketing speak is all the same anyway...
Wifi7 won't hit the market for another few years. 6E does have value. One could say the same thing about buying any model of anything, in this iterative generational technology hamster wheel life we live in.
AMOLED and 120mz screens on the low-model phones beat the pixels count anyday.
Everyone made a huge fuss about "Retina" and resolution obfuscation, but the point is about the quality of the display not the pixel count.
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Haven’t seen any huge major app for my iPad Pro either… developers are not as interested in iPads as they are in iPhones.
End result is we have better hardware but still missing lots of apps.
$800 to $1200 phone I just want a phone that's wider than my current Pixel 4A. I'll check later on this year for discounts on the Pixel 6/Pro.
I just want a phone that's wider than my current Pixel 4A. I'll check later on this year for discounts on the Pixel 6/Pro.There seems to be an impression that Android tablets are dead. I don't think so. They definitely pale in comparison to iPads, but they're still getting solid solid sales. I'd say "they're the iPod Touches of Samsung", but they're still more prominent than that. FWIW, I still use my iPod Touch 5 as a glorified flashlight and calculator
Samsung did one good thing here: they put the front facing camera on one of the landscape sides.
It's glass. Explicitly said so during the event. Uses some sort of Gorilla Glass exclusive to Samsung.