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Samsung Bashes iPhone Battery Life, Calls Users 'Wall Huggers' in New Galaxy S5 Ad
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We don't know what the battery life will be but we know it won't be replaceable. At some point, it will run out and you'll have to find a wall to hug.
Both OSes have their benefits. I like both. But I do prefer the convenience of a replaceable battery.
Finally a sensible post. Replaceable be good but we iPhone users are not wall hungers, despite the dark side fanboi comments. They all have their tick boxes , choose what suits
iPhone all the way 
Sad part is, the iPhone battery life isn't that bad. Who needs promotion when Samsung does Apple's promotion for them?
You must be kidding. If you keep iPhone on Airplane Mode, then you get a little extra battery life. I would love to have extra batteries that I could swap out, rather than these external chargers I have to carry around.
Same thing goes with the Mac Book Pros.
I live in Africa, and don't always have electricity available. Sometimes dealing with Apple's rigidity on lack of interchangeable batteries is frustrating.
Portable computers and mobile phones should be portable. I would buy extra batteries and a solar charger for them. (For when there was sun.)
Except simply using screen size as a measure of power efficiency is useless when you aren't considering resolution as well....got it?
Why not just buy a solar charger?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr...ger+usb&ie=UTF8&qid=1404732726&rnid=419152031
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Samsung should worry about trying to come up with ONE product that isn't an exact clone of something somebody has already done before they worry about bashing other products.
Does anybody really even care about Samsung at this point, anyway?
Pathetic company.
Does anybody really even care about Samsung at this point, anyway?
Pathetic company.
But the difference is minute. You can only see it if you directly compare it to a phone running stock Android, which has a lot less stuff installed and going on the background than TouchWiz. Are you seriously saying a .1 millisecond lag in opening an app is a dealbreaker for you?
Caring about insignificant "lag" isn't something the average consumer will do either.
What build did you run? The nightlies are often buggy because, well, they're nightlies, but the milestone builds are usually pretty solid. I run nightlies on my S4 and even those are mostly solid.
First of all, I am not a Sammy fanboy, I got the S4 because it was the best phone around when I wanted an upgrade. I wanted the Nexus 5 really but it wasn't going to be released for another few months. So S4 with CyanogenMod it was.
But more to the point: Hey guess what? Initial releases have bugs! Who would have guessed? When the first iPhone came out, everything ran as root and there was no app store. Therefore, even though updates have fixed both of those things, the iPhone is crap! I'm just using your own logic here.
On a different token: battery life on a cell phone becomes again more important, especially for travelers. I hope Jony Ives obsession with thinness -over practicality- won't get iPhone 6 users stranded in future - or the airports need to install more sockets, so smartphone users can charge their batteries before the flight:
Article link here
The TSA are idiots, I think this is something we can agree on
Hmmm...thinking about it...even though any background activity is very limited on the iphone (and i am not even taliking about safari not being able to hold two websites in memory) it still does not have good battery life.
Considering the rumors of a thinner iphone 6 I dare say this is a big missed opportunity to finaly get a competitive battery size...
A pathetic company that is a vital supplier to many key components to your precious iPhone.
Wouldn't you carry the spare batteries anyway? PLus they were never meant to be hauled naked, which will eventually result in additional wear on their thin bodies.
I'll have to keep that one for my own place:
I live in Canada, and don't always have Internet access available. Sometimes dealing with Apple's rigidity on lack of internal storage is frustrating.
Most of the time performance of these chargers doesn't match the power drain of a typical smartphone. It would be like 6 hours of full sun to charge the battery to 10%.
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Not here... I have 4G running, stream, make calls, play games and use them constantly. The iPhone still outlives my Samsung by hours.
I'm not defensive, I haven't even watched it. I have Tivo, it's the 21st century, you know.
Grow up, maybe you'll begin to understand human thought processes.
I went from a iPhone 4 to a iPhone 5 in 2012. My iPhone 5 has terrible battery life and I have even turned off stuff in iOS 7 (when it especially got bad).
My wife has a iPhone 5 issued from her workplace. Same thing, terrible battery life.
I know a few people with the Galaxy 5 and they have much better battery life.
My wife has a iPhone 5 issued from her workplace. Same thing, terrible battery life.
I know a few people with the Galaxy 5 and they have much better battery life.
Exactly, we've all seen it and/or experienced it ourselves.
Funny thing is, the ad was made just a wee bit too early.
Imagine an update to it because of the new security rules where devices MUST turn on to be carried on board.
They could've had both "wall huggers" AND "gave up their phone to a TSA bin" types.
Heavy? That statement is just ridiculous. If you can't lift 5 pounds then there's something wrong. My mother's tiny Pomeranian weighs more. Outdated technology? Yeah, who the hell needs Blu-Ray? It's only state-of-the-art (with 4K BD discs coming soon, the format isn't going away contrary to the nonsensical things you would have me believe) and while Pros would like to burn their discs and not have to carry around a bulky external drive to do so, they don't matter because they're not the unwashed masses! But hey! What's important in life is TEXTING. Text while you drive! Other people don't matter. You are the center of the Universe and "most" people (meaning today's youth since older people don't matter, of course) ENJOY texting while driving ( http://www.textinganddrivingsafety.com/texting-and-driving-stats/ )and why should some small thing like other people's lives matter to someone that is clearly only interested in what they want?
Maybe the entire computer is unnecessary since I doubt you know what a computer is actually normally used for and probably only use it to do social media anyway. I think you'd be happier with an iPhone. WTF would you want to carry around a bulky 3 pound monolith when you can carry around a 4 ounce texting machine?
It's a good thing companies like Samsung exist because they DO get it, which probably explains why Android now controls over 80% of the market and is still growing while Apple's share keeps dropping and is already below 20% and when it hits 10% the developers will start fleeing in droves just like in the 1990s with the Mac. And THEN it's only a matter of time before Apple is right back where it started before the return of Steve Jobs. Sadly, Steve won't be around to save Apple this time.
Catering to a single demographic is a good way to lose the market in the long run (and Apple's NEW market is the people that buy overpriced underwhelming BEATS headphones). Apple obviously thinks if it ditches all its Halo (Pro) software it'll be OK because only a small percentage of users are power users and/or professionals. Create computers for the unwashed MASSES, but PRICE them for the Elite (that statement alone describes Beats headphones to a "T"). THAT is what will kill Apple in the long run. If they want to serve the Elite, then they better get back to making Elite computers like they did in 2008. If they're going to make TOYS, then they better drop the price to $300 like all the other TOY MAKERS out there because without good software and proper hardware, Apple is little more than a gadget maker these days. Instead of a professional workstation with the things the Pros actually NEED, let's make an R2D2 trash can instead and price it out of the stratosphere so even the people that it does appeal to (which is not most professionals many of which already fled to Windows since Apple didn't bother with the Mac Pro for several years at a time) won't buy it because they can't afford it working at jobs that pay little more than minimum wage. That way few buy them and we can then write that computer out of the lineup as well. Go crApple go!
Truth
I've got a 5s, my wife has a Galaxy S4. Mine consistently outlasts hers for battery life.
I've got a 5s, my wife has a Galaxy S4. Mine consistently outlasts hers for battery life.
Or you use the external battery or battery case you're carrying. Don't like carrying an extra thingy? Well you still would be if you were carrying a spare battery to swap in (though admittedly one is larger than the other).
I guess I don't know the full application of this rule, but most iPhones will show the "empty battery" symbol on the screen long after they have shut down iOS due to low battery. That may suffice as the device "turning on".
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I think you have gone off the deep end. I didn't say a thing about texting. I share your viewpoint about the selfishness that many young people have these days. I never said old people didn't matter, I said people need to evolve with technology. The 2008 MBP my be better to YOU for YOUR needs and that's fine.
But if you set up a table on the corner of a busy street in Manhattan and you have a 2008 MBP next to a 2013 MBP and you ask random people to play with them and select which is better, I guarantee MOST people would pick the machine that is lighter, has a better display, and is noticeably faster in performing tasks and that is the 2013. Apple is not going to keep making heavier machines with features that many users no longer need just to appease a few old school users. Just like any company they are here to make a profit while still pleasing the majority of their customers. They are accomplishing that. They don't mind losing the "hardcore computer users" like you for people like me who are perfectly fine using this "toy." They understand the future of consumers and what they want. The retina MBP was the best notebook I demoed period. I could have got a 2012 classic MBP but it is full of features that are quickly becoming obsolete. It has nothing to do with not being able to pick up a 5lb notebook. It has everything to do with how much easier it is to pull out and use a 3lb notebook in a classroom, in an airport, or even on your lap at home. It makes a big difference and it is much more important than having features that many users will never use.
At the end of the day, you aren't changing your mind and neither am I. You value certain features you use and I value, lightness, portability, a far better display, better battery life, etc. Me saying that the majority of users also prefer these things, therefore Apple goes in that direction makes no difference to you since to you it is a toy. If we look forward, all notebooks will eventually be toys. I am not sure what you will do then. There is a more efficient way to do most anything that these legacy features do. Example: A co-worker came to me and had been given an audio DVD of 5 books that she wanted to listen to in her car. The content totaled almost 4 gigs of data. She wanted me to put it on a cd so she could listen to it in her car. Do you know how many cd's it would take to hold 4 gigs of audio? I converted the audio to mp3, dropped it into her iTunes and within 10 minutes it was all on her iPhone. She can now listen to that audio anywhere without having to carry around CD's. Did I need an optical drive to pull the data? Yes but I just used one from my work computer. It was the first time in years I even used an optical drive. I converted all of my CD's to digital MP3's years ago. This is the future. It has nothing to do with being a toy and everything to do with being more efficient.
Samsung does not "get it" any more than anyone else does. Their devices are creaky plastic with enough frustrating bloatware to completely ruin the user experience. Yes you can remove their batteries, you can also order a replacement back after the plastic tabs break off of the original cheap plastic back. Witnessed this too many times to count working in a service center.
I more or less agree that Beats are a bit overrated. I've tried them and while they sound good, they are a bit over priced for what they are. Apple purchasing Beats however was a great idea. I was standing in Best Buy a couple of months ago looking at Mac's and there were about 15 people standing around the Mac display while there were crickets at the Window's displays. There were two young boys (couldn't have been more than 7 or 8 years old) that were arguing over who was going to get their pair of Beats first. When I was 7 or 8, I was playing baseball outside, I didn't know what a computer even was.
It's a different game today, Apple has understood marketing for years now. They place their products in the most popular movies and shows, they design for the "unwashed masses" because it is a smart business model. The future of technology is thin, light, fast, efficient and great looking to boot. In my opinion, Apple makes everything in one. A second to none user experience that is also very appealing to the "unwashed masses." If you think having a non removable battery or not including legacy features in their notebooks will hurt their sales, you aren't understanding who the future consumers are.
So yes, they are most definitely designing for the worthless, disgusting degenerates that we call the youth.(Note the sarcasm) The thing is, I can accomplish everything and more on these toy machines generally faster and more efficiently than I could on an older machine. And the youth, well they vote with their wallets or their parents wallets and they won't stand for anything that isn't the absolute most thin, light, and fastest option available and they shouldn't have to just so a few old schoolers can hold on to the past.
Sad part is, the iPhone battery life isn't that bad. Who needs promotion when Samsung does Apple's promotion for them?
My iPhone 5 lost 30% battery on my 45 minute commute in to work this morning while I was listening to a downloaded podcast and nothing else.
Yeah, it's amazing :|
Not normal at all. I was streaming Spotify for a solid hour commute this morning and lost 6 percent.
This article:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/06/ch...will-now-block-dead-devices-at-some-airports/
Asks the same question:
"Questions left unanswered: Will the TSA have back-up chargers to test the most popular devices? How dead is dead? Does getting it to flash the “Your phone is too damned dead to turn on” icon count?? Forgetting your charger at home just became a lot more annoying."
It also means a lot more wall and power station huggers at airports!