Comment on What android phones do you recommend and why?

• nerdschleife@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Severe inconsistent quality issues in both software and hardware, treating their customers as beta testers, random motherboards dying, etc.

  They are still riding the ‘flagship killer’ wave, but they are just as overpriced as Samsung, while offering unfinished products.

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  • Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nailed it

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• Klystron@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve bought Samsung for the past 5 years now and have never had an issue with bloat if you buy from Samsung. If you’re buying it from a carrier then yeah there’s probably a ton of crap preloaded. Imo Samsung just offers too much of a complete package to pass up. Pixel is good but hardware leaves some to be desired. The cute software quirks just don’t make it up for me.

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  • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imo Samsung just offers too much of a complete package to pass up.

    That’s basically the exact reason I refuse to buy a Samsung, haha. They’re positioning themselves to be the Apple of Androids, offering exclusives to bring people into their ecosystem and making it hard to leave. Down to petty things like swapping the back/menu keys so just using a different brand of phone feels uncomfortable.

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    • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Samsung has let you swap the back and menu keys for years.

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      • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But they default to the opposite of standard Android, for the explicit purpose of making other phones feel unfamiliar to the majority of their userbase that doesn’t switch them.

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• Resistentialism@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honest question. Where is all this bloat stuff coming from for Samsung?

  Like, I genuinely haven’t noticed any software that I didn’t want installed. Sure, there are a few pieces that I’ve kept but don’t use, but nearly all of it can be uninstalled unless it’s stuff that’s actually needed.

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  • berg@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Experience, to be fair though I last owned one 3+ years ago and that one was 3 ish years old.

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    • Resistentialism@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t manage it in an argumentative way. Sorry. I’ve seen quite a few comments about that. But I haven’t noticed it, so I’m trying to see if it’s like a provider issue or a country thing. Or just whatever.

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      • berg@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ahh, I only meant to say that I might be living in the past. I thought the bloatware came from Samsung since what I heard on the street matched my experience. Maybe it’s time to borrow that hatchet though.

        To be fair it wasn’t a big issue. It was just like five apps that I were stuck with. But back in the days with less memory overall it really grinded my gears. These days I’m not sure I’d even notice.

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