Samsung's Galaxy S9 Called 'Worthy Rival' to iPhone X as Reviews Hit

[MacknTosh]

I was in a Samsung store a few months ago and looked at the S8.

Look was all I could do as I had no idea how to do anything with Android.....am I now a relic?

 

[AlphaGuitarist]

For the past 3-4yrs this seems to be an industry issue across all manufacturers of Android smartphones. I see only Sony as the sole exception, directly or through their ASOP former developer registration (open to the public). I’ve seen an example of 1-3mths top for Sony releasing new Android updates for older phones that can support it 1yr+ open Googles official release of the kernel/OS.



“Hi I’m Chucky, wanna plaaaaaaay?!”

HTC is doing a pretty good job with updates as well. Unfortunately, their customer service is tanking and I don’t see them staying in business much longer.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

What has me sick is the constant mindless Apple staff cheerleading at their WWDCs and Special Events over the last 7yrs.

For example Phil announces Face ID at the iPhone X announcement and all you hear is who’s and woohoo and yeah’s and nobody but Apple staff knows the the HELL that was on announcement day! Like let the technology speak for itself and let the terms of marketing junk be explained first at the very least. Better yet let the attendees validate the surprise of the product and services on their own.

I’m so sick of this “Applaus” response that was so ancient like such lights on Zenith studio TV’s on broadcast TV.

The original iPhone wowed the crowd at WEDC because it was a valid surprising and overwhelmingly incredible product launch. Makes you think how well the iPhone X would have sold without all the staff cheerleading.

Would it bother you to know that they use an applause track? That those applauding and whooping it up were hired to do that? That the 'audience' is also applauding? I don't know what the issue is. They are 'company people', and are applauding for 'the team'. I'm sure that if you worked for a company with a culture like Apple supposedly still has, you would be cheering too.

They know what the warts are on the new product and updates probably better than you, so them applauding and carrying on does seem a little disingenuous, but the unveiling is 'marketing', pure marketing.

If they came out and said that the Homepod, for example, was a product with 'a lot of promise', but not quite ready for battle with the other 'smart speakers', what kind of product announcement would they be having? This is Apple, remember. The Chosen Company, to many people. They HAVE to hype the new stuff. They are, or were, the Wonka of the tech industry.

 

[4jasontv]

I didn't say it wasn't as think as an X. But it's still considered thin. Hence, Apple can do the same.

Sure, it's "thin", but we are talking about a species who, at 4 AM in the dark, can tell the difference between holding one or two coffee filters. A 10% increase in size on a mobile device is very noticeable.

 

[GadgetBen]

These reviewers have clearly sucked off an Asian

 

[MacsRuleOthersDrool]

No, I didn't really say you couldn't run a SSH client on an iPhone.

Then what was it in your example that you were at least implying that you couldn't do, or that would be more difficult to do, on an iPhone? Because it sure sounded like you were describing a simple ssh session with your Raspberry Pi.
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The problem with iOS is if he puts the active SSH session in the background for longer than 3 minutes to do something else, you know, like browsing a web site, catching up on email, referencing a document, etc. the SSH session gets killed. One killed session is an annoyance so imagine most people typically have several ongoing sessions. Mosh really isn't an answer since it's an extra layer of cost+complexity or if it's an external service that violates policy. It's an iOS design handicap to favor higher profit from getting away with less DRAM, smaller battery, etc. Android doesn't have that handicap and Samsung even does one better with split screen multitasking on Galaxy phones since like 2012 that iPhones have yet to get in 2018. Even a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero has better background multitasking than a $1K iPhone.

Keeping an ssh session alive in today's iPhones is a trivial drain on system resources.

Terminus now uses the trick of using Location Services to get around the 3 minute backgrounding restriction.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/termius/id549039908?mt=8

Split screen on a phone-sized screen is nothing more than a cruel joke. iOS supports split-screen on the iPad, where it makes sense.

iOS is Unix. Multitasking is baked-into the kernel. So what are you talking abouit?

 

[DeepIn2U]

Would it bother you to know that they use an applause track? That those applauding and whooping it up were hired to do that? That the 'audience' is also applauding? I don't know what the issue is. They are 'company people', and are applauding for 'the team'. I'm sure that if you worked for a company with a culture like Apple supposedly still has, you would be cheering too.

They know what the warts are on the new product and updates probably better than you, so them applauding and carrying on does seem a little disingenuous, but the unveiling is 'marketing', pure marketing.

If they came out and said that the Homepod, for example, was a product with 'a lot of promise', but not quite ready for battle with the other 'smart speakers', what kind of product announcement would they be having? This is Apple, remember. The Chosen Company, to many people. They HAVE to hype the new stuff. They are, or were, the Wonka of the tech industry.

Well written and very true. Personally I’d just applaud a new presentation with a company I work at.

All I’m asking for is honesty and let the real outside audience (non paid) be the judge of praise beyond a simple applause (clapping) for product launches. That said now with steve Jobs Theatre I don’t any new presentation will go the way I hope.
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HTC is doing a pretty good job with updates as well. Unfortunately, their customer service is tanking and I don’t see them staying in business much longer.

Just remember their no longer HTC their Google.

Pretty said really. They’ve gone from an OEM for various providers in the Microsoft heyday era of smartphones to the prime of Android devices to a 3rd heat runner to now being gobbled up as if they where just another OEM (for Googles Picel hardware). They’ve had a very long run that I think only Samsung and Sony (with Ericsson partnership years) have matched as long in this industry.

 

[Klyster]

These reviewers have clearly sucked off an Asian

What does that even mean?

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Would it bother you to know that they use an applause track? That those applauding and whooping it up were hired to do that? That the 'audience' is also applauding? I don't know what the issue is. They are 'company people', and are applauding for 'the team'. I'm sure that if you worked for a company with a culture like Apple supposedly still has, you would be cheering too.

No. This is a nauseous American thing with all the fake enthusiasm. Like the "have a nice day" insincerity. I worked for an American multinational and all us Brits when on business trips to trade shows etc would just cringe at these antics.

Edit: Canadian colleagues cringed along with us

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

No. This is a nauseous American thing with all the fake enthusiasm. Like the "have a nice day" insincerity. I worked for an American multinational and all us Brits when on business trips to trade shows etc would just cringe at these antics.

Edit: Canadian colleagues cringed along with us

I constantly piss of people by responding to their inane question. The real untold, and known, part of that 'have a nice day' is 'I really don't care, go away'. And many Americans think Brits are rude.

 

[jasvncnt]

Nevermind

 

[jasvncnt]

Nobody makes better-looking phones than Samsung.

******** no one is happy with the fingerprint on the backside!

I like fingerprints on my backside

 

[Mago]

Samsung is doing good and actually is the iPhone X which is no worthy rival to the S9/S9+

Few thinks little named:

1. DEX not just allow to run Android Apps on a external screen as a desktop, also allows fully virtualize complete linux deskto distributions.
2. The cameras, far superior, period.
3. You can combine Iris and fingerprint scanner to unlock your device having a double ckeck, this is noe possible on iOS, and for those concerned is much safer than face ID.
4. 6GB Ram, Apps switch quicly than in iOS (after initial load), you can brows thousands Instangram Histories before your phone takes a pause to clean memory garbage and continue,
5. VR/AR/3-D Glasses gives IMMERSIVE VR.AR experience unmatched by iOS.

Ecosystem?

• There still nothing like continuity in Android/Windows and Android/macOS but in Android/Linux continuity is an old trick, KDE users masters it, ahh and there is no continuitu in iOS/Windows (windows is where most people use to work for money, and the most computer owned by someone that owns an iPhone)
  
• iPad/Tablets ? who cares on tablets since the Phablet took it over, Apple iPad Pro efforts didtn stop the iPad steady decline, with the time will be (or now is) relegated to niche device.
• Voice Assistant? HomePod is a Joke, even Google Assistant while much better stablished than HomePod is no rival to Alexa.
• Desktops/Laptops? I use a Mac since I'm a developer but else I'll get a chromebook or a linux workstation, macOS statate (specially about security and sts api adoption) is lamentable, Macbook keyboards are the lest reliable part in years, and the current macs are the computers with shorter lifespan arround all the industry: blame soldered ssd/ram and problematic buterfly kbd.