What do y'all think of Samsung?

[ramjithunder24]

Back in the mid 2010s, Samsung and Apple were the duopoly of the phones and tablets market.

Now I wanna get the community's opinion on this again.

Comment below what you think of Samsung –their phones and their overall brand image, and why you think that way (eg, too expensive, Google's gotten better).

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Think they dropped the ball on 870 evo's.

 

[Palladium]

Samsung phones would have beaten senseless by Huawei by now if not for the sanctions.

 

[P4-630]

I have only used Samsung phones since 2010, now still using a Galaxy S7 and I won't change that anytime soon...

Storage in my computers , all Samsung.
If I need more storage in the near future I might try Seagate for reliability:

This 1TB Seagate NVMe , 1800 TBW

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[thunderingroar]

Overall brand image:

-Good phones, very cringe marketing in general, they ll make fun of apple for doing something and then follow their steps next year. Same how they marketed against LGs OLED TVs for years and literally had commercials about risks of burn in but now they re also starting to make OLEDs.

-Afaik They make the best phone screens and even supply screens for iphones. They have really good screens even for midrange A models with 90Hz refresh rate
-Desktop SSDs are very good but recently they dabbled in the "silent controller swap" shenanigans with 970 evo plus, which admittedly didnt impact performance that much but silently doing it is kinda scummy.
-Monitors generally have really good panels for the price point but ive heard that their QC is trash and some of their HDR monitors had firmware issues
-Their TVs are pretty good
-Their sillicon is alright, worse but also cheaper than TSMC
-Samsung Bdie is pretty much the best DDR4 chip, aside from maybe micron revB if aiming for high density, in DDR5 race they re trailing behind hynix

 

[The red spirit]

Undisputed Android leaders for decade. There's no other as well balanced phone maker as them.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Love they're hardware, don't like the phone UI though, enough to pick pixel too.

 

[dgianstefani]

Changing android UI is piss easy, you can do it through the play store. Lmao, choosing a pixel over superior hardware due to not bothering to replace a launcher...

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Changing android UI is piss easy, you can do it through the play store. Lmao, choosing a pixel over superior hardware due to not bothering to replace a launcher...

I disagree, I had a Samsung the bloat also killed it, I tried Google UI on it ,better, but I'll stick on pixel thanks.

 

[GerKNG]

they went from a great brand with top notch stuff to overpriced proprietary garbage (imo on the way to get worse than apple)
our fridge is fine tho...

 

[dgianstefani]

Dealing with bloat is also extremely easy to do.

 

[Space Lynx]

Back in the mid 2010s, Samsung and Apple were the duopoly of the phones and tablets market.

Now I wanna get the community's opinion on this again.

Comment below what you think of Samsung –their phones and their overall brand image, and why you think that way (eg, too expensive, Google's gotten better).

overrated, the samsung galaxy store, bixby, and bunch of first party samsung data collecting apps are installed unremovable... i find it really annoying to be honest.

I'm hoping to sell my current Samsung Galaxy A53 5G at some point when the iphone 14 comes out. not a fan of Apple at all, but at least it will be clean of bloat. I mainly just need it for calls, pictures, etc. all basic stuff. so i really have no need for anything special. and the iphone 14 should last me a good 5 years.

 

[dgianstefani]

You can remove any bloat app simply by plugging it into a computer and using commands.

 

[maxfly]

I truly despise Samsungs shitty TV's. Every one of the 3 I've bought in the last five years is either dead from faulty components (sure I can repair them but who wants to mess with cracking a LCD TV open?) or in the case of our 55in the screen is separating in two different areas...haha yeah that is actually a thing. It was news to me until I saw it with my own two eyes.
Fridge is a trooper, knocking furiously on wood. Please don't die.
Wife likes her phone.
Ssd lineup is solid for the most part.
B-die are the most fun by far ddr4 to tweak.
Only Samsung monitor I've had was a 22in a million years ago that I don't remember anything about other than It worked when I gave it away.
The brand as a whole? Mmmm I'd say I'm borderline hatred

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Dealing with bloat is also extremely easy to do.

Alright FFS I'll go out now and spend two to three times the amount on a samy just to keep you happy!.

I don't want to, have to, I don't Now, so there's that.

You crack on G ,you love samy have at it.

 

[Ruru]

Depends. I use iPhone but I like my Samsung microwave oven, vacuum cleaner and dumb TV.

 

[R-T-B]

You can remove any bloat app simply by plugging it into a computer and using commands.

*if you have root access, which not everyone does.

Many carrier bundled apps are intentionally not removable without that.

 

[P4-630]

I remember my old Galaxy S4 trying to install/updating a Polish newspaper app everytime I used internet.
I do not live in Poland and can't read Polish...

 

[Shrek]

I like Samsung RAM

 

[freeagent]

The Samsung screen on my XS Max looks great, I like their ram too, and I have one of their monitors that is about 10 or 12 years old now.. it’s “ok”. Also have one of their little 128GB thumb drives that is fast as.. heck.

 

[MarsM4N]

Only Samsung pieces I bought till now are HDD's & SSD's. Their HDD's where rock solid & super silent. Made me quite sad when they stopped production. Their external & internal SSD's are also top notch, and good price/performance. Would pick them over any other brand (exept if there is a other reliable drive with way better performance in town).

Haven't bought any Samsung monitors or TV's, because I just can't stand their visual design choices. They always look totally "outdated".

I would totally buy a Samsung phone, if it would run on iOS and not Google OS. Period.

For appliances there are better options out there. Bosch, Miele or Dyson is where I throw my money at.

 

[Shrek]

The Samsung BAR Plus thumb drive is really something; weighty, tough, fast and not so expensive.

I have got round to testing brand new thumb drives for bad sectors; a brand-new gorilla drive failed, the BAR passed.

 

[Calenhad]

Samsung phones are bloated pos. Great hardware. But the built-in apps, you need root to remove, can diaf.

Storage devices are great. Sd cards, usb stick and internal.

Gaming monitors are 95% great. Having the broken DP sleep timer is annoying. Windows loses multi-monitor config on every (re)boot.

Samsung memory components are great. But not their retail sticks. They are economy class.

Their TVs got to much bloat as well. But better than the phones.

They make numerous good hardware components. Like tv/monitor panels. Memory as mentioned above.

All this imho of course.

 

[dgianstefani]

You can remove bloat without root using adb.

 

[eidairaman1]

No longer a Fan of Samsung, Moved to Motorolla, many features on S line are on this Moto G Power, but for 5-7x less.

Samsung appliance are garbage for sure.

Their evo line of drives have been troublesome since the 830/40 line