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Samsung Debuts Galaxy S10 and S10+, Along With Premium S10 5G and Lower-Cost S10e

mattster16 said:
Battery power share, so you can extremely inefficiently share power with a friend. Drain your battery 20% to give 5% to a friend! This is one of those impractical gimmicky features Samsung loves to throw into their phones - there always has to be one....
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Or you can use your brain and don't see it as a gimmick.
-Charging wireless headphones in their case...
-Helping a friend out with 0% batterylife
-future accessoires
-...

I think these phones are a big leap forward in the smartphone industry. It have been a while since i said this
 
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Guys - no need for a pissing contest. If you are happy with your buying decisions, others can be too. Not everyone has the same expectations from their phones.
And it's also ok to like a brand or feel good with a device just because it gives you a good fuzzy feeling.
 
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here some pics
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torana355 said:
Then i'm not sure why you made a comment about the RAM management on iOS being "better" then on android as its not a straightforward comparison, One of them uses more ram as it is needed for TRUE multitasking. The other simply saves the state of an App in ram and compresses it so less RAM is needed at the cost of not being able to multitask.
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Because ram management was discussed. People need to open their apps quickly and get back to where they were. A more efficient ram management system allows for this and for more apps.
Having apps running in the background is a different topic entirely. And I would say less useful on a phone. Though very different on a desktop. I'm not sure why I need apps on my phone to be actively running in the background at all times. I just want my app to quickly launch and return to me to where I was.
 
apolloa said:
Nope, sorry, I know it’s difficult to hear from me, but IMO Samsung has just looked at Apple’s business strategy and gone hey, that’s great let’s copy it..

So far as I know at launch Samsung has never had a Galaxy S model of the usual size flagship version, the plus size flagship version, and a new size cheaper cut down version with lower res screen, less RAM but same SOC.
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There's no difficulty in what you're saying. There's plenty wrong, everything actually, but nothing difficult.
Samsung has always had special variants of their products, from the Galaxy S line on down. Just to be similar to what they did today, look at the S4. Sammy had the reg 5", the S4 mini 4.3", the S4 Zoom with the built in camera, and the Active. They even take that philosophy downstream in their product line. Their A, Y, and J series phones have the same good, better, best line up. Good, better, best. That's what we're discussing by the way. Hardly a philosophy started with Apple.
 
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bbeagle said:
Typical Samsung fan argument.

Software and Hardware go together to form either product. I've used Samsung phones with more RAM, and they do not increase usability over an iPhone. Samsung's software is so unoptimized that it needs the extra RAM to try to match 1/2 the RAM in the iPhone.
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except i dont use samsungs. I use OnePlus which runs pretty damn close to stock android. its great. Whats nice is to see somebody besides Apple forcing Samsung to innovate. Even the S9 had less-than-adequate RAM. The success of OnePlus outside the united states has forced Samsung to compete in new and more useful ways.

In fact, I specifically left iOS for OnePlus because at the time they were putting way more RAM in their phones than anyone else. I don't even remember what its like to get frustrated with my phone anymore, whereas my final days with iOS was a near-constant frustration.
 
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BasicGreatGuy said:
With so many people around here complaining about iPhone pricing, it will be interesting to see if the gnashing of teeth decibel level is just as loud for Samsung pricing.
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Most people on this board don't buy Samsung devices so they won't care or be as passionate about it. Samsung prices does not really affect their future spending or budgeting plans.
 
archer75 said:
I've always thought torrent or running a server on a phone is beyond stupid. I can't imaging a single good reason to ever do that on a phone. Seriously?!

https://www.androidpit.com/android-vs-ios-ram-management

https://www.cultofmac.com/303223/ios-twice-memory-efficient-android-heres/

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Not sure if it was this one instant or not. However, at work I had a teacher that needed to upload a large video to Onedrive. I had to not only keep Onedrive open, but the screen on. Once the screen went off the upload froze and wouldn't resume. I was reminded why I hate iPhones sometimes lol.

I don't see that as something being out of the ordinary. With android, I have selected over 100 files and clicked upload to onedrive and went on with my day doing other things on my phone while it uploads in the background.

It could be a one off issue, really not sure.
 
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69Mustang said:
There's nothing difficulty in what you're saying. There's plenty wrong, everything actually, but nothing difficult.
Samsung has always had special variants of their products, from the Galaxy S line on down. Just to be similar to what they did today, look at the S4. Sammy had the reg 5", the S4 mini 4.3", the S4 Zoom with the built in camera, and the Active. They even take that philosophy downstream in their product line. Their A, Y, and J series phones have the same good, better, best line up. Good, better, best. That's what we're discussing by the way. Hardly a philosophy started with Apple.
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Maybe but those decides I feel we’re not available at launch or announced the same time as the premium versions, sorry but this time it really seems like they’ve copied Apples strategy.
 
archer75 said:
Because ram management was discussed. People need to open their apps quickly and get back to where they were. A more efficient ram management system allows for this and for more apps.
Having apps running in the background is a different topic entirely. And I would say less useful on a phone. Though very different on a desktop. I'm not sure why I need apps on my phone to be actively running in the background at all times. I just want my app to quickly launch and return to me to where I was.
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Having the apps uncompressed in RAM is the most efficient way to access them quickly, uncompressing them adds an extra step and is actually less efficient. The ONLY advantage to the way Apple handles RAM is less RAM is used, but like i said with 8GB of RAM standard on the S10 it's a redundant point. Apple's way of handling RAM was useful 5 years ago when phones only had 2GB or ram, in 2019 its an archaic system.
 
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scgf said:
If I could use a Samsung phone without having to give Google permission to use all my data I would. I would be quite happy just using all the Samsung services - but it just can't be done. A Google account is required to even get past the initial setup. Nobody is talking about that BIG disadvantage of using Android - Google.
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You could say the same about Apple?
It can't use anything else than apple music on the homepod? I cant get past the initial setup with spotify...
 
archer75 said:
I don't think you comprehended anything I wrote. I never said anyone was a Samsung fan(you're thinking of someone else). Nor did I say, in my post you quoted, that apps aren't suspended. In fact I said their state is saved. I never said anything about their functionality in that state.
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yes, I am sorry. I confused you with somebody else. Sorry.
 
tjedora said:
I think Samsung should've put more cameras into it.
The whole things looks to be stuffed with tech and from my personal experience with Samsung all of it will only work half decent due to mediocre software implementation. But the hardware itself seems impressive.
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I think that argument used to be more valid back during earlier generations of Touch Wiz, but now that they've moved onto One UI I think it is as closely to being on par with the Apple OS experience as it's ever been, and surely better in some ways (file management).
 
Zwhaler said:
I think that argument used to be more valid back during earlier generations of Touch Wiz, but now that they've moved onto One UI I think it is as closely to being on par with the Apple OS experience as it's ever been, and surely better in some ways (file management).
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When did this release? The last I used was an S8 which still had touchwiz.
 
LeeW said:
Problem is, you can't change the fact it's just another Android phone.
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I've been feeling that way about Apple for awhile now, though. Since after the iPhone 6S, there haven't been that many changes to being just "another iPhone". Even with the X, unless Apple makes a noticeable change to the upcoming 2019 iPhone, it's going to be just another iPhone... again.
 
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tjedora said:
When did this release? The last I used was an S8 which still had touchwiz.
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S8 never had touchwiz..it had the Samsung Experience UX......which is why most people started to enjoy Samsung's software although I never had issues with Touchwiz like others often say. Touchwiz is the reason why both iOS and android have some of its main features...everyone should be thanking Touchwiz for the value it brought to both of the major mobile OS's. Touchwiz still does more than iOS...and thats a shame.
 
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