Anyone have the same phone?
Any thoughts?
My wife got them to replace our iPhones to save on bills after hearing some friends rave about those Samsung phones.
To put it mildly, they are the worse phones we ever had. If I wasn't pulling a double shift workload last fall, I would have returned them immediately.
They are hard to use. The keyboard is impossible to use. I keep having to reset after using certain apps. And I absolutely hate the curved screen as it is hard to avoid accidently activate an app or other features.
It makes me miss my sidekick 3 from 12 years ago. I can't wait until we can upgrade to iPhones.
Smartphone keyboards are naff to begin with. Much to my horror I also saw a smartphone edition of movie scripting software, which had me breaking out in fits of laughter over the sheer lack of health ergonomics for a basic setup. Get a real keyboard and real monitor and then maybe...
Which apps are forcing you to reset?!
How often do you check for software updates? What carrier are you on, some dispatch updates slower than others.
A case protector negates the rounded screen's foibles (as well as the gimmicky nature of curved screens in general) but don't several iPhone models have rounded screens too? What sort of difference would make glass to theirs any less slippery OOTB?
The S9 has a halfway decent camera, the Note9 even more so. The latter also has a stylus that doubles as a remote shutter. It's quite useful in a number of situations, actually... Apple has a stylus as well, called "Pencil" I believe. Dunno how extensive its usage is...
How can anyone not adore "live wallpaper", animated backgrounds that even include patterns changing on sounds the phone is processing (like a "music visualization" app)?
I liked my S9 on day one, except I missed having a stylus and that larger battery and 1mm screen height addition come in handy, so I sold it and am re-standardizing on the Galaxy Note. I used to be an iOS fanboy but the 3GS
still didn't have preemptive multitasking and limited user customization. It was laughable. Fast forward something like a decade, a friend showed off his iPhone X. Looked pretty. But not as good regarding usability quality, hated that notch thing at the top, different swipe actions to bring up menus... it's just as klutzy, user un-friendly, and still limited in utilitarian functionality. But to be fair, that lack of complete multitasking is a reason why iPhones have better battery life. They're a lot more locked down but at the expense of customer freedoms OOTB.
Also, no supplementary storage slot as well, it's a lot easier and less time-consuming to move the MicroSD card from the old phone to the new one without all the hoops and hurdles of being locked in. And, really, Apple calls theirs a "pencil"? Has Apple's marketing term lost their creative way with verbiage like "stylus"? Then again, it's contagious, with Samsung its "S-Pen" but that still has a more comparative flair than "pencil" ever could.
