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Hands-On With Samsung's New S20 Ultra: Is It Worth $1400?
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yup ... you can say what you want but at the end ... takes long ... but apple delivers value, recently again.
apple pay ... finally in europe is really great, as is apple signin, etc... samsung often comes with some overspeced but under fine crafted features. their hardware for itself is kind of superior but what helps an edgeless screen if you always have wrong palm inputs just to mention an example for my point.
I did this awhile ago to the note 10+ , I use dex every day as a desktop and I have no issues with it. I will get the ultra s20 16gb ram. I only have one device for a tablet , phone , computer. works great for me.
I spend my whole day programming on a computer. dex is refreshing simplicity to me....
This Samsung is junk. All they did was plop a bunch of high-spec parts into a poorly-designed, laughably priced rectangle that doesn't work due to all those software bugs. Apple, please don't do this to the iPhone.
no laptop should be worth 4000$
no desktop should be worth 6000$
no wheels should cost 400$
Probably true. But what telephones are you talking about? Calling these devices $1400 telephones is like calling a car a $35,000 air conditioner.
And a teaching point about “worth.” Worth is what the market says it is. If people buy it, that’s what it’s worth. There is no intrinsic value.
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Samsung give people the option of using relatively low cost micoSD cards to increase internal storage.
They are within striking distance only under good lighting conditions, where the SNR is so high that it masks the shot noise. Once the light drops it's not even close.
I can take pictures at 12800 ISO on my Pentax K-P that are perfectly usable. I cannot on my iPhone and due to quantum efficiency will never be able to get anywhere near that.
Still the same terrible Android UI 🤷♂️. 8K is usable by what percentage of the population? Cool features but unnecessary.
That’s because there are no idiotic fanboys making excuses for overpriced tv sets.
No smartphone is worth $1400 imo. No matter how you define what a phone is, the answer is still no... and the definition doesn't need to change btw. Smartphone implies everything you listed. Everything you listed can be done, and done well, on devices that cost far less than even a thousand dollars. Whether you wan't iOS or Android there is no need to spend that type of money to get great cameras, navigation, music, and media player that fits in your pocket.
Huh? Seriously? Are you really suggesting Apple was not aware of large displays and that they could be used in a phone?
Apple brought large display/OLED phones to market when manufacturing factors made sense; ie display panel cost being low enough, adequate reliability, display supply availability in huge volumes on short notice, etc.
No doubt there were a few dozen prototypes of phones with large/OLED displays in Apple's labs before the 6+ was introduced.
It honestly doesn't matter for the majority of consumers, people buy based on their OS preference. iPhone's will always sell more because of the consistency across all price points. It may be a good phone, but nothing is going to change the fact that iPhone will sell better.
No one ever pays ‘full retail’ for a smart phone. Think about’ it for a second, you have trade-ins/promotions/store incentives that generally lower the price of a smart phone.
How many consumers/people do you know that actually goes to a phone retailer and pays full price? [Rhetorical] I doubt you know anyone that does that, because consumers realize that there’s other ways to achieve the phone at a lower price point with the considerations I mentioned above.
Sorry? Calm down about what? You gonna get pissy too because someone else actually has a different preference than you?
Remind you, this is not a phone. Its a micro pocket pc, internet communicator, music player, storage device and high quality camera. It also happens to having calling features and function as a phone.
It's interesting how we've gotten to this point where handheld devices sell for prices that were once considered to be premium in the laptop and desktop computer categories. Also interesting that we're not hearing the same level of abject hatred towards Samsung, from the PC crowd that used to rail on Apple for the high price of their laptops.
I assume a good number of the old guard PC crowd, who would never be seen using an Apple product, are current Android users, because of course they have to use whatever isn't Apple.
I get that for some people, their handheld device is their computer, but Samsung's race to lead in bleeding edge specifications is exactly what the old PC makers used to do and look where that got them.
I assume a good number of the old guard PC crowd, who would never be seen using an Apple product, are current Android users, because of course they have to use whatever isn't Apple.
I get that for some people, their handheld device is their computer, but Samsung's race to lead in bleeding edge specifications is exactly what the old PC makers used to do and look where that got them.
Every year, since the original iPhone, I pay full price for a new iPhone via the apple store on-line. About half the time I pay full price for two such phones.
No. If they were still doing it then yes.
Lots of companies do things like that, say one thing and then change their mind.
Have you NEVER changed your mind, (that was a rhetorical question)?