Tizen or Android

[gotluck]

switch to different android device for me

i will only buy google edition samsung

if I wanted to deal with knox I would just buy an iphone, no touchwiz for me either Im assuming performance would be similar on tizen

 

[Vegastouch]

Yeah but I have a hard time believing users will simply give up the Play store for S beam.

Why not? They gave up iTunes app store for the Playstore way back then and they gave up the playstore for the Windows 8 store. Samsungs app store is better than Microsofts.

 

[AustinIllini]

Why not? They gave up iTunes app store for the Playstore way back then and they gave up the playstore for the Windows 8 store. Samsungs app store is better than Microsofts.

I have never seen an app worth using from Samsung. I could be wrong of course, but Android just seems to have a stranglehold on the open OS market.

Ask webOS users about it. I'm sure they would be happy to tell you about it.

 

[Vegastouch]

I'd rather stick with iOS. Tizen just doesn't have the broad base that iOS and Android currently have, and doesn't have enough benefit to outweigh that lack of support. I cannot stand Samsung. I really haven't seen Samsung smartphones do anything truly revolutionary. My ancient iPhone 4S could take my heart rate just as well using a free app from the app store, I don't see what is so innovative about their new S5, asides from the fact that it looks like Samsung got a great deal on the same material used to make golf balls.

Ill assume you dont have one to know what it has.

 

[AustinIllini]

Tizen or Android

Ill assume you dont have one to know what it has.

He's right though. There's nothing revolutionary about the GS5. Samsung makes terrible bloatware and pretends its innovative, when in actuality, vanilla android does everything better.

 

[Vegastouch]

I have never seen an app worth using from Samsung. I could be wrong of course, but Android just seems to have a stranglehold on the open OS market.

Ask webOS users about it. I'm sure they would be happy to tell you about it.

Have you ever had a Samsung Galaxy phone registered with Samsung? In anycase, you might find some things useful in here.

http://apps.samsung.com/mars/main/getMain.as?COUNTRY_CODE=USA

 

[AustinIllini]

Have you ever had a Samsung Galaxy phone registered with Samsung? In anycase, you might find some things useful in here.



http://apps.samsung.com/mars/main/getMain.as?COUNTRY_CODE=USA

I've had the S4 and S3. In both cases, the samsung apps collected virtual dust in my app drawer.

 

[Vegastouch]

He's right though. There's nothing revolutionary about the GS5. Samsung makes terrible bloatware and pretends its innovative, when in actuality, vanilla android does everything better.

Revolutionary , ...maybe not but they have some cool features. Great camera with way many more features than any other, the UV blaster is nice, even the heart rate thing where you put your finger on it.

I dont have a S5 so i dont know everything that is on it. There isnt a whole lot innovation going on anywhere lately, phonewise. The only thing i dont like about Samsungs phones is the bloatware. Id rather have it than the iPhone but thats me.

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I've had the S4 and S3. In both cases, the samsung apps collected virtual dust in my app drawer.

OK, but i bet you never saw that store either. Im not interested in Tizen but if i were,all the bacsic apps we have today and many more are in there, and the point was you said you never saw any apps worthwhile and im sure you have many apps on whatever phone you have that are in that store.

 

[AustinIllini]

Revolutionary , ...maybe not but they have some cool features. Great camera with way many more features than any other, the UV blaster is nice, even the heart rate thing where you put your finger on it.

I dont have a S5 so i dont know everything that is on it. There isnt a whole lot innovation going on anywhere lately, phonewise. The only thing i dont like about Samsungs phones is the bloatware. Id rather have it than the iPhone but thats me.

This is something we can agree on.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Samsung has a app store and has for a long while so i doubt that will be an issue.

Yea but it's based on Android apps, and at the moment their app store sucks. Most would not want to wait for their favorite apps to be written for Tizen natively. And there is no question about it, it will be a wait.

 

[AxoNeuron]

Ill assume you dont have one to know what it has.

I actually bought the GS4 for 2 days. Then I returned it. I couldn't stand it. It was horribly laggy compared to iOS, and a lot of the apps I use were either non existent on Android or were far inferior than their respective iOS implementations. It's a shame, I really looked the size and shape of the phone. But colors on the AMOLED display are WAY off, and no amount of color calibration worked, it was always incorrect, and I need accurate color reproduction even on a mobile device for photography.

Also, the sheer amount of useless bloatware was stunning. They use super fast processors on the galaxy S phones but then they bog them back down with all of the completely unnecessary buggy junk. The amount of lagginess on the galaxy phones with touch wiz is simply unacceptable on a supposedly premium device.

There are many reasons to love the galaxy s phones, but don't pretend that Samsung is doing any serious innovation. They use outright lies in order to boost their numbers in processor benchmarks - that is an indisputable fact. I don't like them as a company, as a corporation they don't show much responsibility.

PS - I am in Vegas as well.

 

[0000757]

I'm actually liking the new design of TouchWiz on the GS5/Z.

If I had to use a Tizen phone, as long as all my apps are there then sure. Otherwise i'd be apprehensive if it had a limited app store.

 

[AxoNeuron]

Revolutionary , ...maybe not but they have some cool features. Great camera with way many more features than any other, the UV blaster is nice, even the heart rate thing where you put your finger on it.

My iPhone 4 did that. In 2010. It's not even innovative, yet Samsung pushes it in every advertisement. In fact, they didn't even implement it very well and it produces some pretty inconsistent results.

 

[mib1800]

I actually bought the GS4 for 2 days. Then I returned it. I couldn't stand it. It was horribly laggy compared to iOS, and a lot of the apps I use were either non existent on Android or were far inferior than their respective iOS implementations. It's a shame, I really looked the size and shape of the phone. But colors on the AMOLED display are WAY off, and no amount of color calibration worked, it was always incorrect, and I need accurate color reproduction even on a mobile device for photography.

Also, the sheer amount of useless bloatware was stunning. They use super fast processors on the galaxy S phones but then they bog them back down with all of the completely unnecessary buggy junk. The amount of lagginess on the galaxy phones with touch wiz is simply unacceptable on a supposedly premium device.

There are many reasons to love the galaxy s phones, but don't pretend that Samsung is doing any serious innovation. They use outright lies in order to boost their numbers in processor benchmarks - that is an indisputable fact. I don't like them as a company, as a corporation they don't show much responsibility.

PS - I am in Vegas as well.

Did you just copy paste this from somewhere? So amateurish.