No the extra ram is for DeX, you know that thing that allows you to use your phone like a desktop computer.
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Samsung Debuts New Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Watch, Wireless Charger Duo, and Galaxy Home Smart Speaker
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Note users are pretty loyal to the Note (see all the Note 7 users who held on to their FIRE HAZARD even though they were being recalled).
Nothing else is quite like it in the Android world. Unfortunately, that is a very small audience. I wouldn't use another Android device besides the Note series.
I use the pen pretty much everyday.
From cropping and editing photos to taking quick notes.
I also like it for annotating a screenshot.
It's faster for me to simply pop out the pen and start writing (no need to unlock the phone).
Nearing perfection each iteration. I have Note 8 don't see the need for upgrade. Great phone though. It gets price reduced in my place, better wait for few months. Don't need to rush first.
I hate to admit it, but my 256 GB iPhone is filling up (I got the warning from the OS). In my case photos constitute the largest chunk (incl. 36 MP images synced via Photos on the Mac). Does the iPhone get raw files via iCloud Photo Library if they in the Mac Photos library?
Just a slap in the face for those who kept claiming Samsung copies Apple all the time. Samsung should patent the notchless design and the headphone jack.I guess that's one reason not buy it.
At this point it’s difficult to tell the iPhone X apart from all the clones with notches while Samsung is setting themselves apart
I guess Apple is all about compromise... battery vs thinness, no Touch ID, no headphone jack, etc
Personally I won’t compromise.
Face ID is better than Touch ID, wait couple of years every phone will have Face ID in place of Touch ID, they are waiting for technology to become cheaper, let Apple make it cheaper by paying $$$, then other will follow.I guess Apple is all about compromise... battery vs thinness, no Touch ID, no headphone jack, etc
Personally I won’t compromise.
It’s not the same. Connecting your iPhone to your TV is just mirroring what’s on the screen to a larger display.
DeX is an entirely different interface and uses apps which are optimised for a larger display. You can have multiple windows open at the same time and you can also use an external keyboard and mouse so it’s likw a real desktop experience.
Or Retina Display as in the human eye cannot discern more than 350 pixels per inch lol. I remember that like yesterday and think FOS (full of shiiizzznit).
Unless Dex and Samsung fully support your choice of Linux in Dex what’s the point? More local storage which will be lost in the event of sever phone damage? Samsung has a goal to maintain thei MicroSD/Transflash business by flaunting this off.
No mention in this article what OS the watch is using. Google isn’t doing much or staying any noise on WearOS. Let’s see how much this gets third party support.
Many others have implemented a snitch or retracted front selfie camera.
I think HTC was the first combining a tablet sized phone with fold out keyboard to touch type on with smartphone windows OS. And with a windows XP.
They can't definitely sell for that price. Don't worry they will drop the price sooner. Though Samsung Note 8/9 indeed offers more for that price than iPhones (spec to spec comparison).
In my place I am heading that Note 9 (128 GB) going to be priced lower than Note 8(that to it was 64 GB) by clearly $70-$80 lesser!
Cheaper because they don't pay any royalties to any other company for using their technology, like Samsung, LG, HTC pays Microsoft for using their technology in Android phones.
After Google's Pixel Leak (and if that's real) then it's looking like a Samsung for me in the future, which is something I thought I'd not say. But there you go.
I stopped owning iPhones because I no longer appreciate the design language, and the Pixel 2 XL is and awesome phone and camera. But the potential notch on the new Pixel Phone is possibly the ugliest implementation of a modern 'feature' that I don't like anyway.
And here's Samsung with 2 high end phones with elegant and well designed handsets. The camera is as good as you can get, give or take, and you're good to go.
Point is; I can't be the only one. I know I'm not a unique case, which is to say a stalwart Apple consumer type person who now has very few Apple devices after previously owning around 4 at any given time. I still use Mac desktop and laptop computers, but that's a 60% reduction in owning Apple Mobile devices. My life hasn't deteriorated either. I simply have more choice now and get the same amount of things done, just on Android phones and so on.
Don't get me wrong - I have respect for Apple products as a whole, but to me there has been a sea change in my opinion. Apple no longer make the best products, nor do they have the best cloud services either. I'd be alll over it if they did, but they don't. The world has changed in that regard.
I stopped owning iPhones because I no longer appreciate the design language, and the Pixel 2 XL is and awesome phone and camera. But the potential notch on the new Pixel Phone is possibly the ugliest implementation of a modern 'feature' that I don't like anyway.
And here's Samsung with 2 high end phones with elegant and well designed handsets. The camera is as good as you can get, give or take, and you're good to go.
Point is; I can't be the only one. I know I'm not a unique case, which is to say a stalwart Apple consumer type person who now has very few Apple devices after previously owning around 4 at any given time. I still use Mac desktop and laptop computers, but that's a 60% reduction in owning Apple Mobile devices. My life hasn't deteriorated either. I simply have more choice now and get the same amount of things done, just on Android phones and so on.
Don't get me wrong - I have respect for Apple products as a whole, but to me there has been a sea change in my opinion. Apple no longer make the best products, nor do they have the best cloud services either. I'd be alll over it if they did, but they don't. The world has changed in that regard.
They managed to copy apple’s “pricing”.
That’s the problem with true innovation, everybody copies it.
What's so great about iOS? Genuinely?
Having switched to Android, I can tell you that the best thing about iOS is the App Store when compared to Android. Sure, Android is fairly fragmented and that can be frustrating, but there are frustrating things about iOS too, and I find they kind of cancel each other out.
You should try it.