OK show me 3 distinct videos where Samsung's recent Iris scanners(and I do mean the Iris Scanner specifically) were "fooled by a picture". I bet on deleting my forum account that you can't.
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Hands-On With Samsung's New Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Watch
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We need some sort of dex mode to dock the phone. Mobiles will one day replace desktops. https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/09/samsung-galaxy-note-9-dex/
Saturation has been adjustable on galaxy smartphones since the galaxy s4. There is a basic mode which gives the screen a natural tone.
It can be fooled quite easily, even by non relatives...
https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/...si-10a53b32-9a7b-11e8-b29e-fbb2c6c2bbaf.shtml
I prefer the term “desktop alternative” rather than “desktop replacement”. As in, the value proposition of mobile devices should be in letting you do things differently (and consequently, better) than how it was done on a PC, not by trying to ape it altogether.
The iPhone X is a mid range phone for $1000, that’s the difference
Less memory, less storage, smaller lower res screen, no S pen, no expandable storage, no headphone jack, bigger battery.....etc
Not saying any of that necessarily makes for a better phone, but at least with the Note 9, you know you are, at least on the hardware front getting plenty for your money.
Still don’t get why it needs so much power. Is android demanding a lot? Still wouldn’t buy because of android and the lack of updates in about a year or 2. Not worth it.
If you don’t have a desktop then it can be a desktop replacement depending on what you want to do on a computer. Just like how the iPad can be a laptop replacement depending on what your computing needs are.
Can someone please educate me on how different Android phones using the same Snapdragon 845 chip can have different benchmark scores?
Just saw today the One Plus 6, which seems an excellent phone all round for the money has higher geekbench scores than this new Note 9, which is a bit embarrassing seeing as the Note is twice the price.
I'm not saying the Note is not better in almost all departments than the One Plus 6. It should be, as I said it's twice the price. However they both use the same Chipset, so how come the OnePlus is faster?
Is it simply down to the added customization that Samsung adds, which places extra background? loading on the system in general and causes things to run slower?
I'm genuinely interested and would love to know why.
Just saw today the One Plus 6, which seems an excellent phone all round for the money has higher geekbench scores than this new Note 9, which is a bit embarrassing seeing as the Note is twice the price.
I'm not saying the Note is not better in almost all departments than the One Plus 6. It should be, as I said it's twice the price. However they both use the same Chipset, so how come the OnePlus is faster?
Is it simply down to the added customization that Samsung adds, which places extra background? loading on the system in general and causes things to run slower?
I'm genuinely interested and would love to know why.
LoL I generally feel like I'm surrounded by 7 year olds on this thread.
It crazy how many users here try to contradict me while outright misinterpreting why I wrote, being misinform about the things they claim to show I'm wrong or simply not understanding the things they are talking about(confusing iris scanning with facial recognition being very common) and so on.
The reaction I've got for posting a link to Samsung's website(with the intent to prove that iris scanning can be used for mobile payments, it can even be user with Knox as well which I bet most apple fans here don't know what it is) is quite telling and shows how good the compressions skills of some users is on this forum.
I think it’s because of the skin. Whatever skin is on the phone can make it run slower or faster.
Yeah some users can be as bitter as they want but the Note 9 is at the top of the food chain when it comes to hardware and software features. The Note 9 is very very expensive(too expensive I might add) but at least you get 128gb base and any other feature you can think of. It is a true power house and it's not more expensive than the smaller and more bare bones iphone x.
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Because Geekbench is a very consistent test. Even if you run it on the same phone multiple times you rarely get the same scores, at most you can hope for small differences in scores.
Yea, luckily it is. And like 100 million other people. Gee, it’s weird but last I looked the iPhone X with the so called death notch was outselling every other device on the market in many territories globally. Duh.
You just contradicted yourself there. What’s the point of better paper specs if they don’t make for a better phone?
I am reminded of the time when the A7 chip was universally ridiculed for having just 2 cores, until anandtech broke down why having two faster cores was better in a smartphone than 4 slower and more power-hungry ones.
Specs are the means, user experience is the end.
With the iPhone, what I am paying for isn’t just raw specs in a vacuum, but for Apple’s expertise in integrating all these hardware, software and services together into a cohesive whole. In a way that the competition never could.
Rattle off that long laundry list of hardware specs all you want. It will make no difference in the end.
The main reason I prefer an iPad is because it is better at doing the things I do on it relative to a laptop (and even desktop). Where “better” refers to factors such as portability, ease of use, and intuitiveness which can be hard to quantify, but are legitimate advantages nevertheless.
If the iPad can replace my laptop, then it’s because the laptop was never an ideal fit for my computing needs to begin with. And this works because the iPad doesn’t try too hard to be a laptop replacement in the first place.
If there are people here using Dex in innovative ways, or have seen it in use, I would like to hear of them. Because as far as I can see, it’s dead in the water.
Having way less features and lower specs but the same price doesn't make a phone better either.
I think some people are finding it useful but it will never gain traction in the same way as an iPad. It’s quite a niche product. Probably more relevant for people who can’t afford to have a mobile phone and a computer and so use their mobile phone as their only computer.
I prefer my iPad to my laptop because like you said it’s portable and easy to use. However I still like my MBA.
iPhone X does not distort the view. It does cover a bit but there is difference between distroting and covering. And Galaxy phones do distort the view on both sides.
There is a good reason why no other major company have followed that silly curved edge design. It may look cool but I don't think it serves no purpose and it can be distracting.
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You are mistaken. If you're comparing specs for specs, then the iPhone X has been proven faster than this brand new Note 9:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/galaxy-note-9-benchmarks,news-27773.html
Even Samsung admits it when it doesn't allow it to secure Samsung Pay and requires their "S
That's BS.
Everyone knows the trick.
Face ID ré-learns a person's face after failing to recognize the face and the user inputting the unlock code.
After a couple of manual unlocks, it starts opening with other faces.
And after Anandtech did what you said Apple went ahead and switched to the other side (i.e. increased the number of cores and started using big-little architecture). So it looks like Anandtech (and you) was wrong.
I and that's why you hear the reviewers complaining about the distortion right?
And Raymond from displaymate found the distortion so bad that he made then the best phone displays at the time of release, successively....