Why? It seems like a bigger upgrade than they usually get away with.
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Samsung Unveils Galaxy S8 and S8+ With Iris and Facial Recognition, No Home Button
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Why? It seems like a bigger upgrade than they usually get away with.
That's it! I'm convinced! I'm switching to a Galaxy phone.
The 6S is faster than most Android flagships.
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Doh I was hoping for a higher resolution screen for VR. Well I guess its a wait to 2018 to see if they make the jump to a 4K screen (or maybe high refresh rate ?).
What is it you are specifically worried about? It helps if you migrate things like contacts and calendar to google. I did that many years ago. Gooogle works with iOS and Android too.
Pictures and video should work exactly like they do now; your Mac should see it as a camera. Beyond that I would need to know what your needs are. Granted I am not an expert, but I have had an Android device for my work phone for a few years now.
makes the size of the 7 plus look embarrassing next to the S8 plus
Maybe the size, but certainly not the design, the back of that thing is a mess.
Yes Messages with iMessage and SMS integration is a must feature. Doesn't Samsung have any app for Mac OS X that can provide similar feature?
The current apps on App Store which I would need to rebuy is one time expense. Handsoff for apps, I don't really use and the call quality is quite poor on Mac OS X.
Like Apple has iTunes on windows so that Windows users can use iPhone, doesn't Samsung has Mac OS apps to provide integration or they assume that their customer base is only using Windows or Linux?
In benchmarks thats great. I have a nexus 5x as my work phone and I can get everything I need done in the same amount of time. That phone didn't even launch the way most falgships do; with the top of the line hardware. It benchmarksembarassingly poorly when compared to everything else released that year, and some even before it.
My point was, the 7 even stomps the 6s on paper. In practice? Not so much. Not anywhere near like they used to year after year. Performance versus real world performance (sending off a text, loading emails, setting appointments, looking at a clandar, etc.) are very different things. I am talking from my end user perspective.
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You will not get imessage. You just won't. You will have to send things as SMS. I don't see this is a terrible thing, but some might. Aside from photo quality, your sms should look exactly like your imessages would.
There isn;t a specific samsung app for osx or windows, but that being an issue depends on what you are specifically wanting. I hav not used itunes since OTA updates were available on iOS because I find iTunes to be a means of solving a problem that doesn't exist; I have always been quite capable of file management and syncing is just a PITA. Music and movie files are a simple drag and drop on android, as is everything else really.
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Totally agree about the bezels. Accidental presses and glare from the curved screen are enough to make me hate this design.
Moving the fingerprint reader/home-button to the rear are, IMO, ridiculous ideas. I never put my finger on the rear of the phone unless I am talking on it. During normal use I hold it on the edges with the rear of the phone resting on my palm. Obviously, the combination of curved screen, and reader on the back will make for some ugly cases - if they can even pull it off.
It seems like most of the comments I have read here are focused on the looks of the phone, and I don't understand sacrificing usability for looks. The curved screen (glare, glare, glare), and the rear fingerprint reader make this a swing and a miss (for me). I just recently played with a curved screen phone, and hated it.
From a "beauty" perspective, this phone knocks it out of the park.
I buy my phone based on usability first, and looks second. I'm hoping that Apple does not copy this design from Samsung.
You would think that and I'm hoping there is, but in my mind I'm picturing Tim's smug grin when he introduces the best iPhone ever...the 7s and nothing else. There will definitely be a reckoning if that happens this year.
I thought the same about a fingerprint reader on the back of a phone until I tried it (Nexys 5x). It really isn't bad. They do make cases for othe "edge to edge" devices, so I don't imagine that would be an issue. There are actually cases you can look at right now (I just saw a best buy ad). Speck candyshell, and some others. Reviewers are aying that the endge to edge aspect is less of a problem than i was with previous models in terms of accidetnal presses. I couldn't say, I haven't used one at all, even of the older variety. With tech, tough, I usually find that things I expect to be issues almost never are, and then things I never would've thought of creep up lol.
Raise the price by several hundred dollars, sandbox it with IOS and slap an Apple logo on it. Remove some key features so people continue to argue if Apple is right or not. Done.
That's certainly cool... but I'm wondering who will actually go for it.
Assuming you have a monitor, keyboard and mouse on your desk already... that means there's already a working computer hooked to it. So what happens to it?
Is your Android phone really going to replace that computer?
I wish HTC or one of the other manufacturers would come out with something like this, I refuse to purchase Samsung on principle. I'm pretty sure the iPhone 8 is going to be pretty awesome, though.
Rumours suggest that there's a pretty big redesign coming this year.
Rumours suggest that there's a pretty big redesign coming this year.
You're right, iPhone puts any Android to shame for technically illiterate people. When anyone over 50 asks me what phone to get my answer is iPhone 100% of the time. It's fool proof.
Looks nice. I'd consider it if I wasn't so heavily (and happily) sunk in the Apple environment (iPhone, iPad, iMac, Watch, Airpods, Apple Pay, which works great). But everything works well as is, so I'll stick with what I have and wait for the next iPhone. The big turnoff for me with the S8 is Android. Played with it a few times and just didn't like it enough to want to stick with it.
I think it will. Unified device is the future. For now having a monitor implies you already have a computer, but in the future people would just get a "phone" and a display with a mouse if they need a home computer experience.
Samsung is following Microsoft here and it's impressive what they just did with Android. Unified OS is better (as Microsoft does with its Windows), so I'm wondering what will be an Apple's reply. If they go Samsung way, stretching iOS to the big screen then that may become a mess, confusing to users, developers and it will cut Mac sales. But it doesn't look like they are going to unify iOS and OS X into a single system either, like Microsoft does. Certainly they wouldn't be able to marry two operating systems elegantly while Cook is in charge.
Millions of people had those problems. Look up Apple class actions.
I have owned, interacted with or managed hundreds of Apple devices since 1999.
Is your sample size limited to 4 or 5 toys you have bought yourself in the last 18 months?
I said nothing positive about Samsung and ma unqualified to comment on that brand.
Really? The design is all Samsung's, they've been doing the curved screen for awhile and slimming the bezels isn't an Apple idea. Apple hasn't done anything innovating in terms of design in a long time but suddenly Samsung is copying a phone that hasn't even been made yet. Wow.
Nexus 5X. I don't believe you. You don't care about performance. That's fine.
Eventually, I am sure it could. But prob not for you. But for MY sister it could. She bought a full laptop last year, but she really only needs the power of a chromebook. If they sell laptops that are all battery and a slot for the phone I think she would be all set. I could also see this working well for computer labs that want a cheap way to add more desk stations. It will never be a game station, nor will it replace a pro device.
That's not the real issue though. The issue is getting people used to thinking that it is a computer. It's do able, but I think they should have launched this over a 3 year period. I also think they should have teamed up with Apple to set a standard for connectivity. Let the hardware that connects to the keyboard and mouse be universal, and they can battle it out with the OS.
Also, the dock is stupid. They should have made the option of using the phone as the mouse with a single wire that splits to accept the keyboard, monitor, and a USB 3.1/C. Said wire should also be included in box. It's a cool feature, but first you have to get the solution popular enought that corps like Dell, HP, and LG want to add the feature to their hardware.
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