I take issue with a few items here. Their last few phones resembling other phones is pretty much the industry standard. These are slabs and there's only so much you can do with the form factor. In my previous post I stated straight up people are trying waaaaay too hard insisting the OP5 looks like the iPHone 7 Plus. It most certainly does not. I have both and honestly if you can't tell them apart I'd suggest that person has suffered a head injury. As for the invite system, that was probably due to making a marketing event out of limited stock. Google used to roll out its newest features or products via an invite system too. I agree that the 3T was a shady thing to do so close to the 3, though. Labeling themselves a flagship killer? Seriously? That's a negative? That's just marketing. That's not a serious complaint, not even a little. (How many times has the phrase "iPhone killer" been used in the last ten years?)
Sorry, I don't agree that they've been some aggressively shady company. I think Sammy's behavior with the Note 7 is the single most egregious things one of these OEM's have attempted. Yet everyone likes the S8's, so all is forgiven. Which is to my point: I think most of the angst is over people simply not liking this phone and projecting all of this nonsense on to the company. Oh, they're slow with updates? Again: industry standard. Android OEM's suck on ice with updates, with a couple of exceptions.
On that note, I shall be returning mine. I don't see a fix to the wifi and I'm not going to play Russian Roulette with an exchange since I can't just walk into a store and take care of it.
Oh, incidentally, you can certainly file this into your "OP is shady" folder: they won't take back accessories unless they've been unopened. THAT is straight up BS. Good thing I didn't open mine. They even wanted pics of them in their sealed boxes before issuing the RMA!
