Ringtones are easy to import using itunes. There are some things I miss from Android like Zedge to get custom ringtones/background images (directly from the app) and real widgets. It is a small price to pay with the imessage syncing on all apple products and IOS being so stable. My android phones always crashed and rebooted the device. On my IOS devices, the app may crash (rarely if ever). My Samsung Note 2 always got hot, so hot it felt like it was burning my leg in my pants pocket... anyways, there are definitely trade-offs for switching, but Apple does make much better devices IMHO.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 Expected to Debut at Upcoming August 23 Event
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Ringtones are easy to import using itunes. There are some things I miss from Android like Zedge to get custom ringtones/background images (directly from the app) and real widgets. It is a small price to pay with the imessage syncing on all apple products and IOS being so stable. My android phones always crashed and rebooted the device. On my IOS devices, the app may crash (rarely if ever). My Samsung Note 2 always got hot, so hot it felt like it was burning my leg in my pants pocket... anyways, there are definitely trade-offs for switching, but Apple does make much better devices IMHO.
What's the point of a 6.3" phone when the S8+ is 6.2".
The Note is really necessary for that extra 0.1"?
The Note is really necessary for that extra 0.1"?
Then don't buy any modern phone, they all have instances of exploding.....of course in general I don't hold the phone to my ear that often,it is very rare to actually talk on the phone after all, but on those occasions that I do, I usually use Bluetooth or speakerphone.
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No, the note is necessary for the SPEN, not sure why they want to add the extra 0.1", but my guess is it may be a way of making the battery have more space to really prevent any issues.
Whichever ever agency came up with "Do bigger things" should be promptly fired. Awful.
LOL, I have the exact opposite, I find the iPhone reboots constantly, is hard to use, the syncing never works properly (by the way, I sync on my Android phone with no problems using mySMS), the list goes on and on. I love on Android that I can use an app to create a ringtone from any music that is on my phone, I can even use music that is in my Google Music or Amazon Music accounts as well as several other sources without even needing to download the songs.
It is easy and simple and much easier than on the iPhone.
And read my post I never said Apple "Apple wasn't innovating or inventing new things" Just pointing out what Apple is actually doing.
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1. There will still be the non 8/Anniversary phones.
2. The iMac Pro is a niche market product. But it's powerful and some people will like it in an all-in-one enclosure.
3. The HomePod is NOT an amazon competitor. It's a good speaker that will have Amazon Echo capabilities. We don't even have any details on the product.
See the trend here (cough, cough, cough).
Geez, people are a lot touchier about Samsung products than I expected. I was just voicing my honest concern about any Samsung phone, now that they have damaged their brand image as a result of the exploding phones recall.
I know many people who will no longer buy Samsung phones, not because they are Apple Fan boys or because they hate android, but because of the simple fact that some consumers don’t feel safe buying a product from a brand that had a huge recall because of their phones would explode.
You may know many people who no longer buy Samsung phones, but Samsung phones still outsell Apple phones. You can say profit etc etc but people still but more Samsung phones. And Apple hasn't caught up with Samsung.
I switched to an S7 Edge last year after having iPhones since the original (which I sold on eBay for £200!). Never looked back.
I don't understand how S8 is out of the box, curved screen, finger print sensor on the back, long elongated phone (Strange screen Aspect Ratio), and those corners/rounded screen (Hope Apple doesn't do this if they go full screen).
Only thing Apple is falling behind is OLED Display.
Problem for Apple in switching to OLED is there is no manufacturing capacity available to make enough OLED displays.
Unlike other companies Apple makes 2 models & sells a lot of them, Samsung is using OLED display only in few models not all the models they make.
All other hardware Apple is still ahead of their competition.
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Is the concern with cost or innovation ?
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I live in Bay Area, i don't see people using iPhones, iPhones sales have dropped like crazy, they sell few thousand iPhones each year now, Apple is almost about close down.
I can't wait for this device.
My Note5 is due replacement now but I'll be holding on a little longer until this comes out.
iOS 11 is not enough for me to go back to Apple, although I have the otion (work phone).
Too many limitations/restrictions in both hardware and software.
It would actually be painful, frustrating, and far too annoying for me to have to use an iPhone; like trying to use a one-button mouse again after having multi-touch and multiple-button mice.
My Note5 is due replacement now but I'll be holding on a little longer until this comes out.
iOS 11 is not enough for me to go back to Apple, although I have the otion (work phone).
Too many limitations/restrictions in both hardware and software.
It would actually be painful, frustrating, and far too annoying for me to have to use an iPhone; like trying to use a one-button mouse again after having multi-touch and multiple-button mice.
And the only company making billions and billions from their phones, macs, watches, pods and ecosystem related products. But let the diehard fans fight the diehard fans.
Even I'm interested in what is being announced/released.
The unwashed masses? Do you know how much these will cost? If there was ever a candidate for a hoi polloi phone, we all know which phone it would be...
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Wow, you really are all over the place. Have you learned how to build an argument!
Samsung sells more of the crap tier phones, no question; and so what?
Caught up in what sense? What the hell are you even arguing.
That a bigger screen is somehow a massive tech advance despite Samsung being behind
in 10 different other aspects on their high end phones and selling less of them?
I'm sure Huyndai sells more car than Mercedes but nobody's saying they have caught up with them cause that would make no logical sense. They're not in the same market segment.
Apple doesn't give a crap if it sells less of those phones at the bottom end, so again what the are you even arguing.
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Right... Proof please buddy. Cause I'm telling you right now I think you're a liar.
Since only 15% of phone buyers in the world buy iPhone, maybe a large portion of them are already your so called loyal die hard apple fans who find more value in a phone costing > $1000 that can't do more than a $600 S8 or <$500 Chinese flagships.
No wonder they stand in queue for days to buy one. Apple is laughing all the way to the banks happily milking billions off these diehards every year.
Why do you care how people choose to spend their money? That's really a puzzler especially commenting in a thread about the note 8. These people buy the best for them and it seems you aren't able to change their minds with posted hyperbole.
This. Not to mention at my job one of my iPhone demos also suffered burn in. And that's an LCD panel. But like you said, those demo phones are running on the highest brightness and usually a static image for 24/7. Not exactly common usageDon't judge the demo phones. Sometimes the Demo Mode gets stuck displaying something static 24/7. Burn-in on today's AMOLED displays is something extremely rare, unless you keep your phone display on 24/7 on a static image at a high brightness for multiple days. Apple has nothing to worry about.
[doublepost=1500694677][/doublepost]Good for Samsung. The Note should be a solid device. Ha and of course the apple faithful would pull out the saved "note 7 exploding" jokes. It's almost as if the iPhone has never exploded or bent or been killed by crazy iOS happenings
Isn't OnePlus currently in the news for their phones being unable to dial 911?
More isn't always better, especially when I am not necessarily getting more of what I want, but instead being saddled with more issues that I need to contend with.
My iPhone just got iOS 10.3.3. It pairs to my Apple Watch, easily the best wearable in the market right now, and my Airpods. iOS 11 will bring ARkit. It integrates with all my other Apple products seamlessly.
Where's the android equivalent again?
Don't worry about us. I am a happy user of Apple products and see myself continuing to use Apple products for a good long time to come.
It never fails to amuse me. I have no issues with what phones other people choose to use, yet other people seem to have loads of issues with my choice of smartphone.
Insecure much?