Lemdro.id

22 points

1 year ago

The gouging is insane. £300+ for a tablet keyboard case for the s9 ultra.

I got one free as a preorder for the s8 ultra. No chance I am paying that much for a keyboard.

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Sheltac@lemmy.world

7 points

1 year ago

Even my iPad keyboard (the folio from Apple) “only” cost like £180. Samsung’s going nuts.

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2 points

1 year ago

But don’t Samsung at least throw in the spen?

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dgilluly@lemmy.world

3 points

1 year ago

Samsung isn’t on planet earth with their prices. I was avoiding them anyway because I believe TouchWiz is an inferior interface than stock Android. Just way too much bloat.

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2 points

1 year ago

Bloat is negligible. In fact it is their software that keeps me stuck with samsung. Its a total superior hardware and software experience.

Just wished they hadn’t gone down the Apple courage route and bumped the price and pimped the features.

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dgilluly@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

You’re the only one I’ve heard of who was happy with it. One of the guys I worked with, traded a new at the time Galaxy S-series phone back into his carrier to exchange for an iPhone because it was very laggy. After seeing one in action I didn’t blame him. It was laggier than my cheap Moto G series, which had a lot less processing power and slower storage. And this was back in 2017, so not too awfully long ago. But maybe things have changed since then.

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1 point

1 year ago

2017 was a long time ago.

Like with everything you need to invest time to learn the features. If you just want a phone with basic capabilities then you are better off getting other brands.

The spen itself is packed with so many features but rarely does anyone bother learning them. Samsung have developed a powerhouse for productivity and unfortunately that means I’m stuck with them because nothing else compares.

Everyone is on their own journey and I agree that it is not for everyone.

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dgilluly@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

Part of my job still is to help people connect their work email to their personal smartphones, if they want to. Many buy Samsungs because their carrier’s store still sells them up front compared to other brands of Android. Though it’s mostly A-series phones.

The problem with it is that Samsung doesn’t put the access to the features in convenient or intuitive locations so many users just get used to not using them anyway. The only feature, I as a Pixel user envy over Samsung is the right side menu thing. But anyone with iPhone experience or experience using an Android that has gesture nav enabled by default, wouldn’t think to try it even with the spen because that is the gesture to go back.

Ofc Pixels can do multitask yet many don’t realize that because you have to click the app icons at the top of the recent apps screen to access the menu for it. So I guess I don’t have room to talk about that aspect as a Pixel user.

But Bixby? I honestly think it’s a waste of resources for Samsung when they could have just used Google Assistant like other brands. I mean Bixby is okay but still lacks in some areas, but Samsung invested a lot of resources and effort into it just to come up with something that barely keeps up with Google’s Assistant.

Also I’m not a huge fan of their app drawer still. I guess I’m more of a “I just want to see an alphabetical list of all apps” on the app drawer type of person.

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