Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
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Dex mode is the desktop mode of Samsung phones. Connect it to a monitor via USB-C and you'll have a full desktop experience. Samsung has been improving Dex mode steadily since the S8 (maybe earlier?), it's already gotten pretty good and deserves more attention.
I really hope 4K video output is now supported. That would make it a viable replacement for my work laptop.
But also speaking for myself it's like a fantasy situation (I always have access to a desktop/laptop). Unless it is really the only computer device you have which would be cool if it can indeed do everything... maybe with cloud gaming and virtualization/I guess ssh'ing into boxes is good enough.
If Samsung fixes anti-aliasing and let you customise a few more things it could very easily replace a computer for workflows that do most of their processing in a server farm.
People justify it by the fact that you use your phone all day, ever day but I would say I use my PC way more than my phone.
In any case, it’s apples to oranges. I can use any old junker for a desktop but a high end phone still means very practical things like longer battery life, longer support assurances, and maybe a handful of exclusives (Dex, full galaxy watch support, uwb tags, etc). The average person is far more likely to notice the difference between a cheap and expensive phone compared to a cheap and expensive computer. Samsung charges what it does because they can because they’re aware that Apple is the only company that offers the whole “package” the way they do and they’re just as expensive.
More and more people switch to midrange and budget phones every year all the same.
The Note 10 was released in August 2019. By Apple standards getting a major OS upgrade at this point is nothing exceptional however in the Android world it's a stand out - and is also proof of Samsung's claim.
(Lenovo let me limit the max charge % many a year ago on my X1 Carbon, I've been wondering why phone manufacturers have lagged behind on this. Here is locked to 85% vs Lenovo's more flexible configuration).
Just gravity-checked my Note10+ getting out of a van on pavement.
No worries.
Needless to say: I won't buy.
I had a Samsung Galaxy S5 a very long time ago and the expandability was very impressive. You could plug in headphones, a microSD card and get new batteries for it. The only real thing I didn't like about it was Samsung's TouchWiz skin, however I am sure that could have been fixed with an alternative ROM, especially given the popularity of the device.
It's a real shame that companies are tying perfectly working phones to old degrading technology.
I think we're slowly getting back to normality with this though. The peak of thinness for Apple was the iPhone 6, and that was a disaster. It was a great example of too thin. Now I believe they have gone back to the thicker iPhone 5 aesthetic, with a bigger battery and a more solid design.
Not so boring, will my modem work today? Maybe
Having some feature you wouldn't have broken, is it better or worse than not having it?
My S21 plus keep changing my default browser back to whatever the hell is Samsung Internet every hour. My iphone doesn't even have a browser alternative, only "skins"
> keep changing my default browser back to whatever the hell is Samsung Internet every hour
Yeah stuff like that drives me nuts too. Particularly it's the permissions stuff, I buy hey Samsung ear buds and I have to accept like 11 different permissions to use them.
And for the cheaper devices they're purposely loaded with garbage or you can't swipe these certain notifications... ads built into your voicemail program.
My main phone right now is a $300 Motorola Android phone it does all I need 1080p screen, 4GB ram. I personally can't justify buying a phone like this that costs as much as a nice laptop/desktop. But I also spent over $1K on a remote controlled composite glider so I guess every body has their poison.
It's wildly unpopular on here: but if one wants something amazing then one has to also support broad and fast protection for innovation (which also is something that benefits small innovators.) That includes not acting as cheerleaders for brands that copy IP while positioning themselves as price saviours for the common-folk. Without coincidence this is an opportunity that Samsung has exploited in numerous electronics categories: copy fast and drag out the relief process to either sink the innovator or until a point where the relief isn't meaningful.
Copies and near-copies from discounter brands leads to the rise of business models that runs the clock on consumers and only provides minimal revisions; i.e just enough progress to avoid disruption, leading to products that year-on-year seem like the same thing.
That is how it should be.
Maybe there are a few Chinese ones, but I think even all of those dropped the headphone jack plus their availability varies depending on where you are.
I wonder how long Samsung can keep charging these prices though. They seem to be running headfirst into a brick wall of diminishing returns.
This unit looks to be a slight size/weight increase.
Probably order All The Things on a Black Friday deal, or so.
Lenses are round for functional design reasons. You don't shout at an incoming storm, you seek shelter - that's just how it is.
(Polestar's website is the same - overly complicated with folding animations and really busy elements that load belatedly, it really put me off the car.)
The phone is interesting, but I'm struggling to see the value proposition for myself. The S21U is a solid unit, so I'll hang on to it for another year at least.
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When will we have sane and intelligent people behind the design of a modern mobile OS at Google? Sorry to be so critical, but I've been a loyal Android user since its first device and I'm getting tired of waiting for the basics to become available. It's not getting better, just new problems keep piling up on top of the old ones!
in 2020, I have a nearly $1,500 device, which still cannot last a day and I still have to keep monitoring the battery level! And I almost do not use my phone - I just sits in my pocket 99% of the time!
Moving into a new handset is far less of an ordeal than in the past.
I’m really impressed at how much junk companies are blattantly getting away, with nobody caring, if that was a 800$ phone I wouldn’t be writing this, but… that price… my note 3 is awesome, if only it could shoot in the dark…
Hopefully some camera apps will catch up to this phone and go raw and bypass all of that AI pixel forgery while keeping anything actually useful in there. I’d rather have a blurry pixel than extreme wobbling layered with compression artifacts because of poor AI replacement or scaling implementation.
Is there much groundbreaking advancement in smartphones anymore, or is it all just iteration band consolidation?
I don't see what this has, beyond standard iterative improvement and a mix of Note and Galaxy features.
If you want a totally different form factor, you are welcome to try out Samsung's foldable phone. They are quite impressive.
The second reason is probably one of the (my opinion) greatest features that any phone has had: The translation feature of the S-Pen. If you interact with foreign languages (on your phone) which you aren't familiar with - the translate feature of the S-Pen is fantastic.
How it works is you hover the stylus over the foreign word, a little bubble appears on the screen with the original text and translated text. This feature is application independent and the text can be formatted in almost any way - for example exist within a photograph.
On iOS you would need to highlight and copy the next, switch to a translation application, paste it in, then go back to the original application. And this is assuming you can even copy the text, if you can't you need to take a screenshot of the picture, then use the new iOS OCR features - it's a real pain if you want to translate more then once screen.
I am happy to see the S-Pen back and I will consider the Samsung Galaxy again in the future.
I had little success in the following apps testing with both pictures and text where I could: LINE, Daily Chinese, HelloPanda, Firefox (works on text that can be highed only and some images but doesn't work on video thumbnails for example), Mail - doesn't work on text that can't be highed.
Safari works on some images and text that can be hilighted but not on text that can't be hilighted.
Let me know if there is something I'm doing wrong, I'm desperate to get this working better.
The regular S22, which is the smallest one, has a 6.1" screen.
Even for the Galaxy Note, the last version with a close-to or sub 6" screen was the Note 7 from back in 2016, 6 years ago.
On top of that, Apple's rumoured to drop the iPhone mini for the next version.
Only techies with a lot of devices (since they already have a laptop or several, a tablet, etc) seem to want small phones.
for all intents and purposes, the CPU in your old S20 is more than capable of handling basically any daily mobile task.
the A11 in my iPhone X (2017!) was more than enough, and didn't skip a beat, even with intense usage like playing games or streaming multimedia content over LTE. i only had to upgrade to a 12 mini the other day because the my X got so beat up over the years, and it would've cost more to repair than to just replace the thing.
i love my new phone, but does it really do anything my old one couldn't? the camera, screen, design are definitely better... but other than that...
and the 12 mini is already a year and a half old! i got it used, and i couldn't possibly distinguish this from a brand new flagship phone, in terms of performance.
smartphone manufacturers can't rely on consumers needing to upgrade bi-annually to continue using their phone in an optimal way. so they need to change their economics to keep making a profit.